KickAAS - political blogging

The Guardian have launched a new weblog aimed at removing all agricultural subsidies worldwide, it is called KickAAS. Thanks to Tom Coates and Matt Jones for highlighting it first.
Interesting to use a third party blogging tool to create a political platform for raising awareness of a very important issue. It gives them some freedom to actively promote an issue and lend support to it, without it being directly on The Guardian's actual website.
I wholeheartedly agree with the idea, agricultural subsidies have been a bind for the EU via the CAP for decades, producing food that no-one wants and maintaining a hold over land that could otherwise be used for other activities.
The stated ambition of several American cereal and basic food stuff companies (name escapes me right now) is to have everything that is eaten using some of their products. This is supported via the GATT and other agreements to the point whereby it is impossible for a local farmer in Indonesia to grow and sell crops in a manner profitable for him to make a living, therefore he cannot participate in trade even with his neighbours so stays in poverty.
Well done to The Guardian for taking a stand on this issue and promoting it from within their paper. It'll be interesting to see how this develops and whether issue based weblogs are taken up by other broadsheets or if KickAAS becomes another pressure group.