Main Forum Archive — LastSuperpower

to each according to their greed

Posted by kerrb at 2007-12-27 10:52 PM

to each according to their greed by Brendan ONeill, editor of SpikedBrendan ONeill provides a broad brush sketch of the Marxist position in favour of ...

at 2008-01-02 09:30 PM

Bill,
I can understand why you'd like this artice from "spiked",( see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiked_(magazine). Brendon O'Neill and his c ...

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Iraq war was to shake up middle east...

Posted by arthur at 2006-02-25 07:15 AM

The CIA official responsible for coordinating pre-war intelligence assessments about Iraq has confirmed the lastsuperpower analysis at the time of the ...

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at 2007-12-12 12:16 AM

Going back to Arthur's original post in this thread, I thought this report in the Gulf News of an address made by Iraq's national security advisor, Dr ...

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As we sleep through yet another election?

Posted by keza at 2007-11-06 09:24 PM

A Federal Election is about to take place in Australia... but I'm having difficulty paying any real attention to it, knowing as I do that either Kevin ...

at 2007-12-07 04:43 PM

dalek:Bill, I was reporting the words of others " According to them the child abuse stuff is a massive beat-up. This is not to say that it is not pres ...

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A goat for Xmas

Posted by DavidMc at 2007-11-29 11:31 PM

If Xmas wasn't bad enough, we now have the opportunity to patronize poor people and feel superior at the same time. Here is some ammunition if you run ...

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Iraq: the good oil

Posted by byork at 2006-12-01 11:32 AM

I'm moving my post of yesterday from 'Iraqi voting disrupts news reports of bomibings' to this new thread which I'm calling 'Iraq: the good oil'. I'm ...

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at 2007-11-09 12:52 AM

November 9, 2007.I am suspending this thread for the time being. It is now a read-only thread. Due to the clumsiness of our current forum ...

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Bourgeois democracy and class dictatorship

Posted by arthur at 2007-10-12 06:41 PM

In another thread Sydneyguy15 raises the question:How does your analysis of bourgois style democracy fit in with the marxist concept of class dictator ...

at 2007-11-06 08:18 PM

I think just using dogma and religiously opposing opposing imperialism as the 3 blind mice do here stems from a lack of vision or understanding of the ...

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Mark Daily: Why I Joined

Posted by kerrb at 2007-02-16 08:59 PM

On Jan. 15, Mark Daily, US Army, and three others were killed when a roadside bomb detonated beneath his vehicle in Mosul.Here is a reprint of his rea ...

at 2007-10-20 10:45 PM

Your cause of sorrow
Must not be measured by his worth, for then
It hath no end.Christopher Hitchens, on discovering that Mark Daily had been influe ...

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A more appropriate place

Posted by arthur at 2007-10-10 07:45 PM

keza:This site was not supposed to be just a forum. The
problems you are trying to deal with will not be solved by creating
threads within the forum ...

at 2007-10-10 09:35 PM

The following is a post from Arthur that originally appeared in the "Iraq Developments" thread:_______________________________________________________ ...

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We're banned in China, apparently

Posted by youngmarxist at 2007-09-23 10:33 PM

According to greatfirewallofchina.org this site is banned in China.Their About page says:We’ve opened a website in China and route your url request on ...

at 2007-10-07 10:38 PM

It would not surprise me in the least if the fascist Chinese Government had banned the Last Superpower Website. The heirs of Deng want to intellectual ...

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Who do we dislike more, the ALP or the Greens?

Posted by youngmarxist at 2007-09-24 10:30 PM

There's a state by-election coming up in my seat of Brisbane Central soon, caused by the retirement of Premier Peter Beattie.Neither the Liberal Party ...

at 2007-10-07 10:36 PM

There is absolutely no difference between the Greens and the Labour party. Both represent the elitist ruling classes and therefore both attempt to cou ...

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white guilt (Shelby Steele)

Posted by kerrb at 2007-09-30 06:05 PM

White guilt makes our Third World
enemies into colored victims, people whose problems--even the tyrannies
they live under--were created by the histo ...

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at 2007-10-07 05:23 PM

dalek:Bill, Both Condilissa Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell are on the public record as suporting "Affirmative Action". See for a 2003 r ...

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Dialectics

Posted by Anonymous User at 2004-12-09 11:52 PM

January 7 2006: accidentally brought back to page 1 of the forum (yet again) this time due to a minor edit...decided to leave it here instead of ...

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at 2007-10-04 06:47 AM

Some principles (selected quotes) about dialectics from mao's "On Contradiction"DialecticsThe fundamental cause of the development
of a thing is not ...

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Staying in a good yet unruly mood

Posted by keza at 2007-08-08 04:24 PM

This is a new thread where people can post links to fun/ uplifting/ clever/irreverant - or even just plain silly stuff. The only criterion is th ...

at 2007-10-03 07:01 AM

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Draining the Swamps

Posted by keza at 2004-12-09 05:51 AM

Patrick has referred to "draining the swamps" several times in his recent messages - I was thinking that this expression ma ...

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at 2007-09-28 03:45 AM

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/pdf/sep06/Iraq_Sep06_rpt.pdf
This opinion poll is worth reading and I'm posting up the link , not because ...

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One Hundred Thousand March in Yangon (Rangoon), Troops On The Move.

Posted by youngmarxist at 2007-09-25 07:17 AM

The Associated Press reports, via NDTV.com: Five truckloads of soldiers were seen heading
downtown in Myanmar's largest city Tuesday soon after tens ...

at 2007-09-27 01:37 AM

Patrick's take on the Burmese situation appears to be confirmed by Reuters - the regime confirms that one person is dead after riot police used "warni ...

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wealth: the richest 10 percent

Posted by kerrb at 2007-09-20 07:24 PM

Graph from tuttle's blog and is explained by:The chart shows the share of the richest 10 percent of the American
population in total income – an indi ...

at 2007-09-26 07:09 AM

YM wrote (about Postman):I'm relying on ... an interview that Postman did with the Civic Arts Review on "Television and the Public Decline of Pu ...

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Iraqi cartoons

Posted by kerrb at 2005-12-27 09:16 PM

http://cartoonbox.slate.com/index/ ...

at 2007-09-26 12:50 AM

Cyberman's link to other people's defeatist cartoons deleted - YM. ...

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Capital reviewed

Posted by kerrb at 2005-06-08 10:36 AM

Great review of Marx's Capital by Francis Wheen published at Norm's blog. Here is an extract but don't miss reading the whole thing:

Since the Cold ...

at 2007-09-23 02:41 AM

Why if we truly have free enterprise am I not allowed to play around with ledgers and write numbers on them? (Where did the first banknote come from a ...

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Prostitutes - Pity or Solidarity?

Posted by youngmarxist at 2007-07-15 02:26 PM

There is an article by Tawfiq Chahboune at the Socialist Unity blog from the UK, partly about the recently-released diaries of Alastair Campbell, a fo ...

at 2007-09-15 05:11 AM

No worries about being late, Louisefeminista, we pick up old topics here all the time. Thanks for dropping in to the thread.I was wondering if your po ...

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Hamas and Egypt

Posted by arthur at 2006-01-26 04:08 PM

Its still early days but from commentary I've seen so far things are looking pretty good following the Hamas victory in Palestinian elections.

Wors ...

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at 2007-09-02 12:00 AM

Posted by bpors at 2006-02-03 04:48 PM

"Actually Arthur, it is a prediction.
True, Iran has been on America's radar. But so has North Korea ...

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