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Favourite political websites
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I thought it might be interesting if we shared some of our favourite political / news websites. Sometimes I fall into the trap of looking for and reading stuff which I know I'm gonna agree with, which only reinforces my prejudices, and I don't learn anything new. So maybe you can all broaden my mind by putting me onto some good sites. Here are some of the sites I'm enjoying at the moment...
http://www.theecologist.org
http://www.monbiot.com
http://www.la-articles.org.uk
http://www.thebirdman.org
http://www.antiwar.com
http://www.neoconswatch.blogspot.com
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
http://www.thirdway.org
http://www.libertarian.co.uk
http://www.theecologist.org
http://www.monbiot.com
http://www.la-articles.org.uk
http://www.thebirdman.org
http://www.antiwar.com
http://www.neoconswatch.blogspot.com
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
http://www.thirdway.org
http://www.libertarian.co.uk
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That figures. I thought you might be one of that lot.
Fash cunt.
Methinks you apply that moniker too offhandedly without examining what they purport to truly represent. I myself am pleasantly intrigued by their stand on various issues, having actually not heard of them prior to this thread.
http://www.globalpolicy.org/ngos/role/globdem/globgov/2002/0430steal.htm
Or perhaps the party has grown beyond any narrow perspective which Mr. Harrington, as a lone individual, might be capable of imposing upon it?
http://www.redpepper.org.uk/cularch/xdkgreen.html
Taking your citation into account, I can acknowledge that certainly more scrutiny would be required to arrive at any objective assessment of their actual positions on the issues. Nevertheless (and whilst on many issues I do concur with the analyses put forth by globalpolicy.org), I am inclined to suspect a certain degree of subscription to the present status quo of western (especially US) corporate hegemony over the international political arena in terms both political and economic.
Without having delved into the why's and whatfor's of this particular party, I do detect a degree of unfair oversimplification on the part of the author of that piece.
Villifying positions - which call for a move away from the perennial cycle of debt as well as cultural and resource exploitation for profit over the developing world, which comprises the core of our long running (and ultimately unsustainable) corporate driven and corporate serving system - as simply cultural isolationism is far too intellectually dishonest and reactionistic an approach.
Perhaps after more careful study I might find, indeed, that The Third Way's positions are more akin to those of Mr. Giffin and the BNP, however (in fairness) I simply do not get that sense from my reading of the posted manifesto.
I bow to you.
Insofar as war is perhaps the least ecological act any government could perpetrate, I fear you are simply throwing out non-sequitors as a means of simply dismissing the points raised in the Third Way's manifesto (which itself is quite in tune with the views expressed by most anti-globalist advocates).
And by the way, the inclusion of The S*n as a political website is a tad optimistic mate.
I check the Telegraph every day as well as BBC News, the Guardian and occasionally the Independent, the Scum and the Mirror.
Well I'm impressed Luke! You certainly seem to be sharpening you sense of sarcasm. I fell for it.
So what websites do you check, if any?
www.guardian.co.uk
www.haaretzdaily.com
www.ynet.co.il
news.bbc.co.uk
May I point out that nckdn was listing sites that he doesn't necessarily agree with, seeing as the list included monbiot.com you can't conclude that even if these guys are fascists that nckdn agrees with them, that was the point he made in the first place......
"The Spaniards were booing players who clearly were not Englishmen"
http://vbulletin.thesite.org.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=73502
Now that looks like the views of racist nationalist to me.
He quotes from Monbiot in attacking Third Way!
I know the answer, but I want to hear it from you: straight 'yes' or 'no' please.
The Durham Shallot is better;)
BBC News.
Guardian.
The Political Quarterly.
The Age
Go and look back at the history of the Green Party.
So?
This is also a fairly unsavoury anti-semitic and pro racial separatism site.
Thanks JR. It'll do me good to use haaretzdaily as most of the sites I look at share my prejudices about Israel. So I'll hear the other p.o.v. for a while. Good. To be honest I only think of Israel at all, as 'the Palestinian issue', seeing 'normal' news stories made me realise how narrow my viewpoint is. Cheers.
Clandestine, (or anyone) what is the WoT?
Duh! Figured it out eventually.
That poll about immigration was dodgy, the choices I offered were crap and provocative, I'm sorry for that.
The English footballers thread should really have been two different ones. 1) Should we have a British team inclusive of all the nationalities and ethnic groups making up the British people? And 2) Who are the English? I'm still puzzled that people don't accept the English are an ethnic group and that BlackArab and his minority ethnic friends say they are English. Mine don't and I think mine are more representative.
The dodgy science and a possible racist motive is, I hope a misunderstanding. The WSJ letter I linked to in the Nick Griffin thread was written by scientists working in the field of IQ and intelligence. It was written in response to the controversy created by 'The Bell Curve', not in support of the conclusions drawn by Herrnstein and Murray from the work that IQ and Intelligence specialists have done. Somebody noted in the thread (somehow thinking it argued against me or my posts) that the 52 scientists do not claim that Blacks are somehow genetically less intelligent than any other groups. Good. I don't think they are either and have never suggested differently. Prof James Flynn of Univ. of Otago is regarded as the best academic debunker of 'Bell Curve' type stuff, as far as I know he's never taken issue with the WSJ letter.
There's a lot of 'Guilty by association' going on here I think.
Third Way and Aidan Rankin and The Ecologist likewise. I'm not Fascist or racist and I'd like to think I'm a lot less dogmatic, intolerant and judgemental than you come across to me on this board Blagsta.
And no, "English" is not an ethnicity. It is a nationality. If you want to talk about "native" ethnicity or race in England, you might need to mention the Celts. And yes, all the black or asian or otherwise non-white people I know who were born here and live here see themselves as English or at least British and I think my friends are more representative than yours.
Your opinions are racist whether you think they are or not.