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the word is spiky

Posted by kerrb at 2007-02-13 05:25 AM

http://gecon.yale.edu/world_big.swfVery cool animation showing the variation in economic activity around a rotating globe. Economic variation is repre ...

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post-capitalism

Posted by DavidMc at 2006-10-10 10:43 PM

I got this message from quicksilverhg:Could
you start a new thread so that we can discuss the "post-capitalism"
theory that many of you have been es ...

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at 2007-02-07 06:03 PM

My father has worked hard all his life. He owes more money now than he did twenty years ago. You may think he let his wants get in the way ...

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After the US elections

Posted by arthur at 2006-11-05 05:02 PM

An interesting hint that the Baker commission report may recommend movement on Palestine after the elections.
That could be a fascinating twist given ...

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at 2007-02-06 03:36 PM

Owenss: If you decide to ignore this post I wont be offended or attempt to use your non response against you I am happy to accept that you ...

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Announcing the publication of "Bright Future"

Posted by keza at 2007-01-29 05:20 PM

David McMullen - a LastSuperpower contributor - has just published a book!
It is called Bright Future: Abundance and Progress in the 21st centu ...

at 2007-02-02 01:44 PM

"From outside the box, a positive vision for the planet". This is the heading given to a review of David McMullen's 'Bright Future' book in today ...

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An entire article attacking us at Larvatus Prodeo. Excellent!

Posted by youngmarxist at 2007-01-15 05:56 AM

Well, our attempt at debating at Larvatus Prodeo has provoked an entire article attacking us. Excellent publicity, as LP tends to have readers from ma ...

at 2007-02-01 03:51 AM

Steve, I added a moderator's comment to Anita's post which should answer your question. (I must have been writing it at the same time as you posted yo ...

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Delusional Hedgehogs

Posted by arthur at 2007-01-24 08:27 AM

This wapo op-ed Our Delusional Hedgehog by Harold Myerson strikes me as going to the heart of contradictions in current US declaratory and ...

at 2007-01-25 10:49 PM

Arthur's 16 point Israel/US/Hezbollah/Lebanon analysis is just about the best I've read. I agree with it all, except for a quibble with point 9. ...

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Trackbacks

Posted by arthur at 2007-01-19 02:12 PM

This item by Charles Krauthammer at wapo is puzzling. I cannot make out whether he's lost it or is just part of the pressure of threatening Shia to en ...

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Progressives should unite against criminals who bomb Iraqi universities

Posted by youngmarxist at 2007-01-18 08:06 PM

Patrickm has written an article for Last Superpower about the recent bombing of a Baghdad university. It starts: I want to propose that we engag ...

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creating reality or reality based?

Posted by kerrb at 2007-01-05 03:40 PM

The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the
reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe
that solutions emerge ...

at 2007-01-14 09:50 AM

(Thanks for the update, Bill. I was close to finishing this yesterday but wanted some time to review it today before I posted it. More to ...

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Quiksilverhg's accusation: LastSuperpower Anti-Semitic?

Posted by youngmarxist at 2007-01-13 04:25 PM

reposted by youngmarxist to this new thread:quiksilverhg said: As far as Last Superpower being pro-Israel...it sure doesn't seem like
it to me. ...

at 2007-01-14 06:05 AM

quiksilverhg, I read the statement you made, that I have quoted below, as a thinly-veilled accusation of anti-Semitism, especially since we were the o ...

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Iraqi Voting Disrupts News Reports of Bombings

Posted by AlbertLanger at 2005-01-30 09:59 PM

The title says it all
But for a thousand words there's a lovely picture
Hak Mao has also produced a brilliant "Give fascism the finger" logo which has ...

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at 2007-01-13 04:31 PM

Comments about Israel moved to new thread: Quiksilverhg's accusation - is LastSuperpower antisemitic? ...

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China

Posted by keza at 2006-06-10 05:56 AM

There's some recent interesting material on the current situation in China on the Monthly Review website. Below are direct links to 2 articles which I ...

at 2007-01-13 05:02 AM

Here is information about William Hinton's final book THROUGH A
GLASS DARKLY
American Views of the Chinese Revolution
http://www.monthlyreview.or ...

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Bush's Address to the Nation

Posted by youngmarxist at 2007-01-10 06:47 PM

Link to transcript is here ...

at 2007-01-12 04:58 PM

arthur said:Symbolic resolutions denouncing the surge while voting the funds for it
are unlikely to placate the Democrat base and will convey t ...

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Kevin Rudd's religious thinking

Posted by kerrb at 2007-01-08 08:50 PM

Great to see that Pamela Bone, is still making courageous calls, despite serious illness, this time about religion in general and Kevin Rudd's religio ...

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'Surge' debate at Larvatus Prodeo

Posted by youngmarxist at 2007-01-07 08:37 PM

Anyone who wants to try debating the issue of the propsed 'surge' of troops in Iraq should head over to Larvatus Prodeo: today has their third post in ...

at 2007-01-08 12:58 AM

Interesting thread. Glad to see you are actively debating where people are (understandably) unaware that there is any left supporting the Iraq war. ...

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draining the swamps in 2007

Posted by keza at 2007-01-01 04:05 PM

This is a new thread to which I will soon repost some off-topic material that is currently tacked on to the end of the thread about oil (T ...

at 2007-01-01 10:55 PM

Steve Owens (owenss) wrote:
Yes bpors we need to move on
bpors you dont seem to understand something very fundamental

The main contribu ...

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Mao the monster - gimme a break!

Posted by byork at 2005-06-08 11:59 PM

There's a new book out attacking Mao. Yes, he's a 'monster'.
I don't regard 'Maoist' as an adequate description of my politics but I do know that Ma ...

at 2006-12-29 10:55 PM

Hi CB (copywriter)Don't forget to check out the topic Remembering Mao Tse tung and also the China folder. ...

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The property question

Posted by arthur at 2006-12-05 09:55 PM

The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) has just released a study on the World Distribution of Ho ...

at 2006-12-26 08:09 AM

Fascinating article. Clearly does raise the property question and in circles with opposite views on other themes.
Author has interesting bio
PS Am loo ...

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Justice for Mulrunji - Aboriginal man killed by policeman, but public prosecutor won't press charges

Posted by youngmarxist at 2006-12-20 05:25 PM

Have been busy hitting the books as advised, and also covering the Mulrunji issue here in Queensland.BACKGROUND: On November 19 2004, Palm Island resi ...

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Mine your own business

Posted by byork at 2006-12-13 05:18 PM

Interesting new documentary film doing the rounds by Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney. They were interviewed on ABC Radio's Counterpoint. Trans ...

at 2006-12-16 09:49 AM

I'm having difficulty understanding this post.

It starts off mentioning: the current mood of the times in the Beltway, which are about as dazed and ...

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