Online Wars

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

by Tim Murray Director of , (published 19 Dec 2007, as of 24 Dec 2007). Also on this site.

Online Opinion and associated

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by 11 Feb 2008

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. 's begins:

Rhian : "... 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 millions">2 of its own defenceless citizens and combatants  

by 17 Dec 2007

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(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.

by Jennifer Clark (8 Oct 2007)

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Online Opinion

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On John Quiggin's blog ()

-202841">NSW electricity privatisation - a quick look (12 Dec 2007 - 15 Dec 2007)

-103920">A defence of the Cuban Revolution (14 Dec 2006 - 30 Dec 2006)

Larvatus Prodeo ()

-274845">Immigration (30 Dec 2006)

" id="JeffRichards">Jeff Richards Web Diary ()

Note: Jeff Richards Web Diary has been discontinued and removed from the Internet. See blog entry 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 which completely fails to grasp the issue.

(11 Feb 08). Comments including from Peter Salonius Canadian research scientist amd contributor to can be found .


Footnotes

" id="olw_fn1">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.

" id="olw_fn2">2. Wikipedia () 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 by John Passant.

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