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For an alternative analysis, which unfortuately the article below largely ignores (and while mentioned, does not provide the correct link) can be found at http://links.org.au/node/155 (The left and UN military intervention in East Timor). --- In greenleft_discuss...@yahoogroups.com, "Tom O'Lincoln" <suar...@...> wrote: > > http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/mi/2/2.htm > > Marxist Interventions is an Australian on-line journal. The articles in this > issue focus on major controversies within and beyond the Australian left. > > Few issues have challenged the Australian left as much as the Howard > Government's 1999 military intervention in East Timor. Contrary to the > common view that the intervention was a humanitarian action forced on a > reluctant government by popular pressure, Sam Pietsch analyses it as an > imperialist use of military power to secure longstanding strategic interests > of the Australian state. The intervention also enabled the Howard Government > to increase military spending and act more aggressively to assert imperial ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
