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Monbiot: Anticipatory Compliance
Commentary, May, 12 2008
George Monbiot
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If you want to know how powerful Rupert Murdoch is, read the reviews of Bruce Dover's book, Rupert's Adventures in China. Well, go on, read them. You can't find any? I rest my case.
Monbiot: The Great Consolidation
Commentary, April, 30 2008
George Monbiot
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Everything is getting bigger and further away. Hospitals, post offices, schools and prisons are being "rationalised" and "consolidated". The government says that this process improves efficiency. Instead, it outsources inefficiency: we must travel...
Monbiot: The Middle East has had a secretive nuclear power in its midst for years
Znet Article, April, 25 2008
George Monbiot
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George Bush and Gordon Brown are right: there should be no nuclear weapons in the Middle East. The risk of a nuclear conflagration could be greater there than anywhere else. Any nation developing them should expect a firm diplomatic response. So w...
Monbiot: Three Million Homes?
Znet Article, April, 23 2008
George Monbiot
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It sounds preposterous: three million new homes in England alone by 2020. My instinct is to fight this project. It threatens Britain's countryside, the character of our towns, our water supplies and carbon targets. Today the Housing and Regenerati...
Monbiot: The Pleasures of the Flesh: If you care about hunger, eat less meat.
Commentary, April, 23 2008
George Monbiot
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You have probably seen the figures by now: the price of rice has risen by three-quarters in the past year, that of wheat by 130%(1). There are food crises in 37 countries. One hundred million people, according to the World Bank, could be pushed in...
Monbiot: A Cunning Plot: How to grow vegetables without breaking your back
Commentary, April, 19 2008
George Monbiot
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Why do people become obsessed with growing vegetables? It's not exactly high-octane. It won't make you rich or boost your social status. But millions who can afford to buy their food devote every free moment to the kind of labour our ancestors wer...
Monbiot: Snow Jobs
Commentary, April, 14 2008
George Monbiot
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The employment figures attached to large projects tend to be codswallop.
Monbiot: The Patient Stalkers
Znet Article, March, 16 2008
George Monbiot
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Privatisation schemes dressed up as customer choice...
Monbiot: A Likely Story
Commentary, March, 08 2008
George Monbiot
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As the evidence accumulates, the Evening Standard's allegations of terrorist planning have fallen apart.
Monbiot: Pro-Death: Religious conservatives are responsible for high abortion rates
Commentary, February, 28 2008
George Monbiot
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Who carries the greatest responsibility for the deaths of unborn children in this country? I accuse the leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, His Eminence Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor. I charge that he is partly to blame for our a...
Monbiot: An Exchange of Souls
Commentary, February, 20 2008
George Monbiot
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As government documents show, Sir Nicholas Stern accidentally launched a trade in human lives.
Monbiot: The Threat of Population Growth Pales Beside the Greed of the Rich
Znet Article, January, 31 2008
George Monbiot
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I cannot avoid the subject any longer. Almost every day I receive a clutch of emails about it, asking the same question. A frightening new report has just pushed it up the political agenda: for the first time the World Food Program is struggling t...
Monbiot: Global Day of Action Pt.2
Video, January, 18 2008
George Monbiot
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George Monbiot speaks to protesters at the Global Day of Action National Climate March, December 8th 2007. Part 2 of 2.
Monbiot: Global Day of Action Pt.1
Video, January, 17 2008
George Monbiot
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George Monbiot speaks to protesters at the Global Day of Action National Climate March, December 8th 2007...
Monbiot: Hurray! We're Going Backwards!
Commentary, January, 08 2008
George Monbiot
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The European Union had asked for greenhouse gas cuts of 15% by 2010. Gore's team drove them down to 5.2% by 2012. Then it did something worse: it destroyed the whole agreement.
Monbiot: How Britain became party to a crime that may have killed a million people
Commentary, January, 05 2008
George Monbiot
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If you doubt Britain needs a written constitution, listen to the strangely unbalanced discussion broadcast by the BBC last Friday. The Today programme asked Lord Guthrie, formerly chief of the defence staff, and Sir Kevin Tebbit, until recently th...
Monbiot: The Kings of England
Commentary, January, 03 2008
George Monbiot
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If you doubt that Britain needs a written constitution, listen to the strangely unbalanced discussion broadcast by the BBC on Friday. The Today programme asked Lord Guthrie, formerly chief of the defence staff, and Sir Kevin Tebbit, until recently...
Monbiot: The Kings of England
Commentary, January, 02 2008
George Monbiot
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If you doubt that Britain needs a written constitution, listen to the strangely unbalanced discussion broadcast by the BBC on Friday. The Today programme asked Lord Guthrie, formerly chief of the defence staff, and Sir Kevin Tebbit, until recently...
Monbiot: Ban the Bomb - But Only in Iran
Commentary, December, 21 2007
George Monbiot
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George Bush and Gordon Brown are right: there should be no nuclear weapons in the Middle East. The risk of a nuclear conflagration could be greater there than anywhere else. Any nation developing them should expect a firm diplomatic response. So w...
Monbiot: Stop taking it out of the ground
Znet Article, December, 16 2007
George Monbiot
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About ten thousand delegates from more than 180 nations are meeting in Bali to attempt to extend the Kyoto Protocol Global Warming Pact beyond 2012. Opposition from the United States, Canada, and Japan is likely to stand in the way of any attempts...
