Online Wars

Sat, 2007-09-29 16:31 by James Sinnamon

This page, contains links to various online forum discussion is which contributors to this site have been engaged. The value of the Internet as exemplified by online forum discussion is that contradictory arguments can so easily be juxtaposed and checked against the evidence. For anyone with an open mind, arriving at conclusions, as to where right and wrong lies in a given controversies of which she/she can be confident, is made much easier.


Margo Kingston's webdiary

Is it reactionary to oppose immigration? by Tim Murray Director of Immigration Watch Canada, (published 19 Dec 2007, 69 comments as of 24 Dec 2007). Also published on this site.

Online Opinion articles and associated forums

Securing the future of Australian manufacturing (10 Apr 08) forum

Tet lives on - forty years later by John Passant 11 Feb 2008 forum

An article, sympathetic to the Vietnamese independence fighters who launched the Tet Offensive on 30 Jan 1968, draws the ire of an assortment of right-wing posters. Daggett's initial contribution begins:

Rhian wrote: "... the Vietnamese government ... is a vile and repressive regime ..."

Whatever can be critically said of the current Vietnamese Government's human rights record, it would have to be far better than that of the previous unelected 1 US backed dictatorship which, with the help of the US and, to our own eternal shame, Australia, murdered possibly millions2 of its own defenceless citizens and combatants  ...

Population is not a front page issue by Valerie Yule 17 Dec 2007 forum

Why the Ruddslide? (7 Dec 2007) forum

Housing affordability squeezed by speculators (30 Nov 2007) forum

They're not really that poor (1 Nov 2007) - Peter Saunders of the Australian 'free market' think tank the Centre for Independent Studies argues that the extent of poverty in Australia is overstated. forum

Privileged 'whites' by Jennifer Clark (8 Oct 2007) forum

Can Labor bring about a just society? (24 Sep 2007) forum

Living standards and our material prosperity (6 Sep 2007) forum

Dictatorial conduct (21 Aug 2007) forum

Leaky asylum boats and the Federal Election (28 Sep 07) forum

Online Opinion forum

Skills shortage imported workers vs local (19 Sep 2007)

Can Australia ever be self-reliant for national defence? 26 Jul 2007 - 26 Aug 2007)

Don't let Peter Beattie save John Howard's political hide (8 Aug 2007)

On John Quiggin's blog (johnquiggin.com)

NSW electricity privatisation - a quick look (12 Dec 2007 - 15 Dec 2007)

A defence of the Cuban Revolution (14 Dec 2006 - 30 Dec 2006)

Larvatus Prodeo (larvatusprodeo.net)

Immigration (30 Dec 2006)

Jeff Richards Web Diary (jeffrichards.blogspot.com)

Note: Jeff Richards Web Diary has been discontinued and removed from the Internet. See blog entry "The demise of an Australian Marxist blog site" for further comment.

Australian Marxist blogger Jeff Richards, whilst offering many incisive observations about the state of Australian and world politics, shows little grasp of that most fundamental of all questions confronting humankind, that is, the excessive demands placed upon our global life support system by the demands of a growing world human population, now at 6.5 billion. As an example see his article The Climate Crises and Socialism. which completely fails to grasp the issue.

The Climate Crises and Socialism. (11 Feb 08). Comments including from Peter Salonius Canadian research scientist amd contributor to Culture Change can be found here.

Footnotes

1. Had elections been held in 1956 as agreed to at the 1954 Peace accords, the Communists would have easily won in both the North and the South, even according to Richard Casey Australia's foreign minister at the time.

2. Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Casualties) cites sources which reveal "that 5.1 million people died during Hanoi's conflict with the United States" which is even more horrific than the 2 million figure given by John Passant.

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