December 2010
1 post
COMING SOON
Well, coming the start of 2011, thisispolitical will actually go somewhere, moving from a purely personal blog, into something with more. I have found a few people willing to write for it and their political views do not necessarily echo mine. There will be no editing, censoring or any real guidelines to their posts, it’s just what they want to write. Also, I (and the others), will try and...
January 2010
5 posts
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“If you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views...”
– Noam Chomsky, from the documentary “Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media”.
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“Everything has been globalised, except our consent. Democracy alone has been...”
– George Monbiot, from the book “The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order”.
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“Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the...”
– Arundhati Roy, from the speech “Come September”.
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“Buy my soda!” said the Moose Diarrhea Salesman. And we did. We all did....”
– Jello Biafra, from the spoken word album “Beyond the Valley of the Gift Police”.
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“We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away....”
– Bill Maher, from the television show “Politically Incorrect”.
December 2009
7 posts
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“AMERICA’S ECONOMY IS FASCIST. LULZ.”
– Ilana Sivachenko, from the question, “Is there anything you would like to say for my blog?” (Actually, those weren’t my exact words, as I can’t remember what I said). You can find her blog here.
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“The climate-change deniers are rapidly ending up with as much intellectual...”
– Johann Hari, from the article “The shame of the climate change deniers” on his blog.
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“We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by...”
– Howard Zinn, from the article “The Old Way of Thinking” in The Progressive Magazine.
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“…the Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political...”
– Ralph Nader on the 2000 Presidential election of the United States of America. He stood as the Green Party nominee.
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“Yet how brutal and destructive that counter-revolution proved to be, as whole...”
– New Statesman’s view of Thatcherism, read the article here.
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“One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is...”
– Noam Chomsky, from the book “Deterring Democracy”.
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THIS IS POLITICAL HISTORY: YOM KIPPUR WAR 1973
By Alexander Ward. This was originally written for a school history journal. Unfortunately, I missed the deadline, so I will post it here. It is perhaps not the most exciting of pieces, but I hope you will find it interesting anyway. Bare in mind it was written for a school aged audience, so perhaps may appear a little simple in parts. It was originally written in October and November.
Some,...
November 2009
1 post
WELCOME
This blog will be of interest to anyone who is interested in US, UK or Middle Eastern politics, as well as some political history. Some will be simply links to other sites, others will be opinions, The Guardian has a page on it’s website called “comment is free”, I intend to keep this site like that. Reblog wherever you want to. All of the posts written by myself will be licensed...