Australia still remains a part of the English empire and, more importantly, is still a country blindly following the world powers. ... We blindly followed into unpopular wars merely because the US told us to, first Vietnam and now Iraq, supposedly because of weapons of mass destruction, which have yet to be discovered, and then because the Iraqi people needed liberation. ... The US has shown a willingness to control Australia when it manipulated political events through the CIA in the Menzies era to ensure that the right people were elected. ... Pilger devotes two chapters, The Struggl...

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By the beginning 20th century with the effects of industrialization and common usage of communication devices and transportation becoming faster and more comfortable economy started to play the most important role in a state's political policies. ... Equally Asia has been struck by fundamental changes: from the imperial China to the communist China, the Vietnam war, the Korean war, the independence of India, the Iran Iraq war, the Gulf war, etc. Economy plays the most important role or is the main criteria in a country's prestige and power; economically strong states started to have ...

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