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I don't wish to sound naive here, but I have been wondering how important this story is in terms of its impact on the class struggle and world politics? I would be very interested to hear comrades opinions on this. The Angry Arab has opined that Lebanese and Middle East politics have been altered fundamentally. By way of contrast the single mention of Australia so far has resulted in a front page endorsement of Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd by the Australian's foreign Editor. Rudd threats against China have endeared him to the Murdoch camp it would seem. Whether further leaks will do some damage remains of course to be seen. So far, if I am right, the leaks show a world dominated by America and with non-American politicians engaged a a variety of grovelling and ass-kissing gestures. Granted some granted have been pretending to independence. These revelations are hardly surprising, but is there something I am not getting here? For me the only surprise is that things have turned out as bad as we said they were. Still what we are possibly seeing is yet another moment in the seemingly endless series of crisss of the liberal world view. Tedious as it is to see liberals trying and generally succeeding in not awakening to the true nature of the world, the leaks might yet prove a leak too far. comradely Gary ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
