Global Issues and Anarchism
For those of you studying A2 Political Theory and A2 Global Issues there is a potentially interesting programme called ‘The Enemy Within’ being screened this evening at 8pm on Channel 4 which draws comparisons between ‘modern’ British jihadists and 19th Century ‘Victorian’ anarchists. The idea is obviously controversial and has attracted comment in a number of today’s papers.
The Independent carries an excellent article entitled ‘Blood, Rage and history - The World’s First Terrorists’ and explores the issue of whether this anarchism bears any relationship to the jihadists who bob the very same targets today.
The Guardian has the following to say:
Heard the one about police fighting two year old terrorists?
Should powers designed to fight terrorism in the wake of 9/11 be used on people as young as two years old?
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There’s a fine piece of writing by Tim Garton Ash in Thursday’s Guardian on how the war on the faltering economy has put thoughts about the so called war on terror to the back of many peoples’ minds.
“The first thing I see every time I come to New York is something that is not there. That soaring absence of the twin towers on the skyline of Manhattan remains this city’s most haunting presence. A landmark of air. But the shadow cast by the absent twin towers is no longer the defining feature of world politics in the way that the shadow cast by the Berlin Wall was for nearly 30 years. Most people don’t any more feel that we live in a “war on terror” in the way that we did feel that we lived in a cold war. Not across the world. Not in America. Not even in New York.”
US revision: comparing civil liberties
Anyone looking at synoptic questions about the ability of the UK and US political systems to uphold civil liberties may wish to consider this story.
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