Portal:Politics

Politics are the process and method of gaining or maintaining support for public or common action, the conduct of decision-making for groups. Although it is usually applied to governments, political behavior is also observed in corporate, academic, religious, and other institutions. Political science is the field devoted to studying political behavior and examining the acquisition and application of power, or the ability to impose one's will on another. Its practitioners are known as political scientists. Political scientists look at elections, public opinion, institutional activities (how legislatures act, the relative importance of various sources of political power), the ideologies behind various politicians and interest groups, how politicians achieve and wield their influence, and so on.

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The Power of Nightmares is a BBC documentary film series, written and produced by Adam Curtis. The series consists of three one-hour films, consisting mostly of a montage of archive footage with Curtis's narration, which were first broadcast in the United Kingdom in late 2004 and have been subsequently aired in multiple countries and shown in several film festivals, including the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. The films compare the rise of the American Neo-Conservative movement and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and noting strong similarities between the two. More controversially, it argues that the threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organised force of destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, is in fact a myth perpetrated by politicians in many countries—and particularly American Neo-Conservatives—in an attempt to unite and inspire their people following the failure of earlier, more utopian ideologies. The Power of Nightmares has been praised by film critics in both Britain and the United States. Its message and content have also been the subject of various critiques and criticisms from conservatives and progressives.

The western (front) side of the United States Capitol. The U.S. Capitol serves as the location for Congress, the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government. It is located in Washington, D.C., on top of Capitol Hill at the east end of the National Mall. The building is marked by its central dome above a rotunda and two wings. It is an exemplar of the Neoclassical architecture style.

• ...that anarchism once was the strongest current in the Cuban labor movement?

• ...that, at a congress in May 1921, all Socialist Party of Romania delegates who supported Bolshevik guidelines were arrested 24 hours after a vote on affiliation to the Comintern?
• ...that Ngo Dinh Diem became president of South Vietnam after a fraudulent 1955 election run by his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu, polling 133% of registered voters in Saigon?
• ...that the Brothers Grimm were amongst the Göttingen Seven, university teachers who protested changes to the constitution of the Kingdom of Hanover in 1837?

• ...that depending on a time and place, the same social movement may be revolutionary or not?

• ...that on the death of Governor George Madison, Kentucky lieutenant governor Gabriel Slaughter was refused the title of "governor" by a hostile state legislature and was referred to as "acting governor" for the duration of his three-year administration?

David Lewis (1909–1981) was a Russian-born Canadian Rhodes Scholar, labour lawyer and social democratic politician. He was national secretary of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation from 1936 to 1950. As the United Steelworkers of America’s legal counsel in Canada, he played a central role in the creation of the Canadian Labour Congress in 1956 and in the New Democratic Party (NDP)'s formation in 1961. In 1962, he was elected as a Member of Parliament. He was the NDP's leader from 1971 to 1975. After his defeat in the 1974 Canadian election, he retired from politics. He spent his last years as a university professor and a newspaper travel correspondent. In retirement, he was named to the highest level of the Order of Canada for his political service. After a lengthy battle with cancer, he died in 1981.

Wikinews on Politics and conflicts

• May 25: Victorian premier apologises for history of criminalisation of homosexuality
• May 21: Lord Howard and Alistair Darling address Confederation of British Industry on EU referendum
• May 19: Besieged Syrian city of Deir Ezzour suffers multi-day attack
• May 17: Telegraph publishes letter from 300 business leaders who back UK leaving EU
• May 16: Wikinews interviews Augustus Sol Invictus, Libertarian Party candidate for U.S. Senate
• May 15: Islamic State claims attack which killed 25 police recruits in Yemen
• May 13: IMF says UK leaving the EU will lead to negative economic consequences
• May 12: Brazilian Senate vote to suspend President Rousseff
• May 12: Italian parliament votes to back same-sex civil unions
• May 10: Political columnist apologises after mocking disabled broadcaster Andrew Marr

Other current events:

• Iran's nuclear program
• United States debt-ceiling crisis
• European sovereign-debt crisis

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Anarchism	Barack Obama	British politics	Canadian politics

Communism	Conservatism	Criminal justice	European Union

Freedom of speech	Genocide	Government of India	Government of Pakistan

Government of the United States	Human rights	Law	Liberalism

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Libertarianism	NATO	Political science	Presidency of the Philippines

SAARC	Social and political philosophy	Socialism	United Nations

War	Geert Wilders	Right-wing populism

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