politics
Politics does not dictate our collective cultural mindset as much as it simply reflects it; We've got to look in the mirror sometimes, and we've got one.
Dominic Raab: Speaking to Kay Burley of Sky News.
Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, has been speaking to Sky's Kay Burley, regarding COVID, in the UK. Dominic Raab outlined new measures brought in by the government and the re-enforcing of old rules. The fear of a new lockdown has been a major worry for many. The UK, as a whole, is facing a new spike in COVID-19, as the Autumn period for the UK officially began yesterday.
By Nicholas Bishop6 years ago in The Swamp
Let's Talk About Justice
I'm going to be honest, while I frequently stay up to date on politics, I never knew how much Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or RBG for short, influenced women's rights. Her famous quote "Women belong in all places where decisions are being made," is a perfect representation of how women need to be involved in politics.
By Grace Genet6 years ago in The Swamp
THE FIRE THIS TIME
James Baldwin wrote, “One’s bitterness begins to be palatable and hatred becomes too heavy a sack to carry.” Indeed, these days hating is tasty. It’s the number one flavor once you tune in to your news of choice or log on to Facebook. A Senior Engineer recently got fired by Mark Zuckerberg for sharing evidence that the social media site lets conservative online ruckus slide. While liberal users posting news about Trump’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic often spend thirty days in Facebook jail. Somehow the condition of COVID has been branded with race and class. Does this truly overlap and interplay? Or just distract? It ain’t droves of Black and Brown spreading the pandemic from the Sturgis Motorcycle rally.
By Tanya Kennedy6 years ago in The Swamp
Why are far-left notions always fashionable?
For many, it is generally accepted that far-left ideologies are tantalisingly alluring, yet unavoidably unworkable. Nevertheless, this does not stop supporters of such movements from promoting the cause as often as they can, in any way they can.
By Daniel McNay6 years ago in The Swamp
Unipolar Order
A unipolar order in the international world can be described as an allotment of power in which one state, the superpower, exercises its influence in terms of culture, economy, and military. It illustrates the nature of the global system at any given time. In the unipolar order, the superpower or the leader state normally dictates the internal politics and the communal character of the sub-ordinate states that are parts of the hegemonic subject of influence.
By Bella Ortiz6 years ago in The Swamp
Boris Addresses 250 Conservative MPs.
Yesterday, Boris Johnson addressed 250 Members of Parliament (MPs), asking them, to back his 'Internal Market Bill'. Boris outlined that not supporting such a bill could threaten what he called, "the integrity", of the UK. In other words, not backing the bill, could threaten the very fabric of the four nations, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, that make up the United Kingdom.
By Nicholas Bishop6 years ago in The Swamp
Australian Secret Intelligence Service
The head of Australia's foreign intelligence service has used a rare public appearance to highlight the agency's new recruitment strategy for the next generation of intelligence officers. Australian intelligence agency ASIS has hired and recruited with a fairly novel approach. Melbourne-based Cummins & Partners is recruiting its next-generation intelligence officer as part of a new recruitment campaign aimed at luring them to Australia.
By Something Complicated6 years ago in The Swamp
The crack, The Elections and The Street
In the nine weeks leading up to November 3, the U.S. presidential election, in which Donald Trump is up for re-election to his second term, will continue to be a topic of forced political analysis. It's not that things don't happen in other regions. In the Mediterranean, Greece and Turkey are playing a dangerous war game, with the dispute over energy resources and geopolitical preponderance as its background. In Belarus, the revolt against the eternal president Aleksander Lukashenko is recreating the war of attrition between the European Union representing the "West" on one side, and Putin's Russia on the other. In the South China Sea, a rain of missiles fired by Beijing to reaffirm its claim to sovereignty showed the growing military trend that the strategic rivalry between the Asian giant and the United States is taking on. This is without mentioning the crisis in Lebanon, where France is playing its role as the ruling power in the framework of a fluid situation in the Middle East.
By Sophia James6 years ago in The Swamp
