A few more articles on this:
- https://newmatilda.com/2020/06/02/john-pilger-on-the-forgotten-coup-against-the-most-loyal-ally/
- https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/remembering-november-11-1975-pine-gap-cia-and-coup-remove-whitlam
- https://jacobin.com/2021/06/gough-whitlam-australian-labor-party-right-wing-coup-john-kerr
- https://workersbushtelegraph.com.au/2019/02/08/the-cia-pine-gap-and-the-coup-that-removed-the-whitlam-government/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHMa-Ba-2Mo
Fuck, I thought we didn’t do that to white people
when you realize racism is nothing but a distraction, you will understand the world better.
I mean … racism is very real. Calling it nothing but a distraction tells me you are not a person of color.
It exists, yes. But using its existence as having any shielding qualities against the desires of global Capitalism, or the police-state that enforces those desires is the worst kind of naivety. Racism is merely a tool, it can and will be discarded when convenient. When you are analyzing the actions of nation-states it is actually harmful to view those action through the lens of racism, the racial lens becomes thought-terminating, discouraging any further analysis. A distraction.
For example, assuming that the US only coups non-white countries, in addition to being an extremely racist notion in itself, leads to the following absurd world-views.
Why did the CIA overthrow an Australian Prime minister? Because the CIA is so racist that they don’t see Australians as white. Why was America in Vietnam? America is just so racist that they wanted to kill a bunch of Vietnamese people for no other reason.
You probably killed Olof Palme, the prime minister of Sweden.