December 2009
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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,...