And the Soviets funneled to their favorite parties money too. But that European politicians lobbied to the US to choose a certain policy towards Europ...
How could I, because Marshall Plan or even the ECSC isn't the EU. You wrote EU so I couldn't know you were referring to Stalin. Indeed, again a chap w...
Reports of the Afghan president resigning and the Taleban's Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar to replace him. (Not yet confirmed and likely this isn't the ca...
The possibility of diseases (viruses etc) coming from extra-terrestrial origins might be true. It is interesting. Little hard to prove that yet, I sup...
Of course, but notice that this was a game play that basically they couldn't avoid. When Libyans (or possibly Libyans) exploded a bomb in a Berlin dis...
But it has 26 references, so it has to be true (science), right? Ah, the formidable strength of open research and not having peer review (or something...
Simply put it, the US (and many in the West) has even a more obscure line of thinking than the famous "Domino Theory" (which was the reason for the US...
As on another thread I commented, Al Gore would have done the same thing as Bush and gone into Afghanistan. There would be no Iraq, but still. Might h...
They are destroying all artifacts with US logos and such. Anticipating that the victorious Taliban would parade them around just like with the America...
Apple actually is a perfect example. If you recall, Jobs got fired and then went on to create other companies. And then got back to Apple. The story o...
The Saur revolution cannot be said to have resulted in a greater degree of civil freedoms. Especially when it ended up with the Soviet Union having to...
As both Mazar-i-Sharif and now Jalalabad have fallen, it's now only Kabul, basically. Done deal, collapse is inevitable and rapid. The fall of Saigon ...
I think a very important issue is just how those operations within Central Asia played out. (Btw, in reality Finnish troops left Afghanistan just last...
Ok, your response above was good and I got it. We avoided here stupid misunderstandings and bickering. (We will leave that to the future issues and to...
IF THEY WERE FINLAND, NOT THE US!!! Remember you are talking about a small country with 5+ million people who know that their country is quite expenda...
Have people noticed the similarity of the collapse of the Afghan government and the Afghan National Army (ANA) and the rapid conquest of the Taliban t...
I think that the Taliban was purely a Pakistani thing to counter the anarchy after the Pro-Soviet regime of Najibullah had fallen. Why would China ste...
This doesn't make sense. I assume you mean here that the shareholders aren't in charge of corporations. The ordinary argument goes that as the shareho...
No, I don't think that Finnish politicians are better or would perform better than Americans or vice versa. When you start having a group of people mo...
All workers joining in the overall running of the company has it simple limits, as has been said here. An organization with over 10 000 workers has to...
Except the small cabal of Islamist fundamentalists who wanted for the US to get involved in wars. It was evidently clear when they declared that "kill...
The extraordinary, or "larger than life" politician is simply the person who can make decisions when there isn't the obvious road map to be taken or c...
Just think about it. Look at the following video below. It is the famous time when George Bush visited the Twin Towers site, ground zero, after 9/11. ...
It's a huge part where the profits do go. And that is a problem, because they aren't invested. More than a half trillion dollars annually in recent ye...
You know, Xtrix, I'm not a great fan of labour unions. I don't even belong to one (which was looked with much resentment in one academic workplace). Y...
Democracy to work sets actually high standards to the people. Well, what is so wrong with a having a company where the workers own the shares of the c...
And you really think that is the silver bullet? At least here there are. I think many of these issues seem to be basic issues that ought to be covered...
Why? What do you mean by "you are bound to only have a few people who truly understand the democratic process"??? At least we agree on this. Good to b...
Ummm....that you have a career ahead of you obviously means that you don't need a safety net for so long? For crying out loud, how difficult is it for...
How about treating the whole thing as you did treat the previous World Trade Center bombers? To make it a police matter. To get finally the FBI hunt t...
This is so true. Current administrations cannot avoid the utterly fucked up situations that the previous ones have put them. What seldom is talked is ...
Did you even read what I said? Basically it's about making every decision collectively...or having the ordinary system where somebody in the organizat...
Actually, yes. If everything would have to be decided that way. And I think many organizations, not just corporations, are indeed accustomed to make a...
And take it up to 10 000, 100 000 and million, then again you have different mechanics taking over. Representation becomes the norm and organized repr...
There are simply practical reasons why we have formed our organizations to have leaders. If you then say, "Nope, from now on the leaders and managers ...
Especially in Sweden there is a thing they cherish and it's "företagsdemokrati" implemented also in the workforce rather than just taking note of stak...
Remember what the first policy was when the US invaded Afghanistan: It wasn't there for nation building. It was there only to get Osama bin Laden (who...
Now that the second and the third largest city has fallen and both the US and UK are sending troops to evacuate their embassies, the case seems to be ...
That's unlikely. The Chinese are fine with just putting their own muslims, the Uyghurs in concentration camps. And there are high mountains between Af...
Russia has been having joint military excersizes in Tajikistan near the Afghan border. They are worried about the Taliban spreading to the Cental Asia...
I was indeed too! If we want to continue, then I guess another thread may be more correct. Still climate change is worth a thread...even if one has sa...
Of course. Something as important as Marxism ought to be naturally taught in an university. And the assistant professor was a Marxist, actually. He ma...
Actually, there is a "libertarian" left. They are the social democrats, parties like the Labour party in the UK. And they have been very successful po...
Actually I was taught Marxist economics in the University. Along with mainstream economics, perhaps I should add. But I guess you never did visited Ea...
Just as I can explain the success of the "Mujahideen" when the Najibullah regime collapsed in Afghanistan. In the end they did take Kabul. When a gove...
I have no problem with that. Besides, people contradicting themselves isn't anything new. Yet if people start saying that Marxism-Leninism wasn't soci...
Ok, I think just first we have to think who we are talking about when we talk about "the students", "The Taliban". Because in truth I don't think ther...
I think you are living proof of how shallow and nonexistent historical knowledge is and how people pick just what they want to hear. Because I don't t...
Russia rejected the EU as undemocratic? ? ? When? Who? Must have been Vlad who has said that. Yeah, he's so worried about democracy. By whom? The Rock...
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