It's time to become truly independent

July 21, 2025

John Menadue’s excellent article sums it up very well. I’d just add that the US likes to parrot its commitment to democracy. Fact is it doesn’t give a rats about democracy and never has. Not only with the numerous ‘regime changes’ Mr Menadue refers to but some specifics would include destroying Iranian democracy in 1953 by overthrowing their government (with the UK) for oil, egging on the Hungarians endlessly in 1956, promising them the world when they overthrew the Soviet puppet government, letting them rot. Numerous incursions into the affairs of South American countries and even in their own country, voter suppression, gerrymandering (a unique US invention), the 3/5ths compromise, etc. etc. I never met you Mr Menadue, but my father did, in his later years in Qantas & he was both impressed and disappointed. Disappointed because he was about to retire and finally along comes a CEO saying all the things he’d been saying for 25 or so years!! Good fortune to you sir, you are a beacon of sanity in a sea of sycophants who are selling us out just as they did by running off into Britain’s military disasters before the rise of the US.