Excuse me? Where on earth does this bizarre statement come from? Roosevelt
WAS imperialist, born and bred. I can't believe you meant to write this on
our list. Just say it ain't so!
What do you mean "our list". That is a - dare I say it, imperialist -
comment if ever I heard one. It's my
While we are on this thread, by the way, talking about East Timor
imperialism, the UN and all that stuff, let us cast our minds back to 1974
and 1975, when the Portugese coup led to the rapid decolonisation of East
Timor, a brief civil war and thye emergence of Fretelin as the dominant
power. The
A pretty useless document, Bob. Yeah, Australia is a minor imperialist
nation state. Yeah, we're a paternalistic bunch, with some racism in our
soul. Yeah, we check with Uncle Sam first. Yeah, Aboriginal Australians
have been hideously treated. And, no, the executive levels of our union
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A pretty useless document, Bob. Yeah, Australia is a minor imperialist
nation state.
All this talk about the UN being an imperialist organisation seems to
ignore much of the history of how the UN was set up - largely by the
winners of World War Two, who were determined, especially Roosevelt, to
make sure that imperialism, would vanish from the world. To this end the US
