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Znet Article Monbiot: A Well of Hypocrisy

Znet Article, May, 16 2006 George Monbiot
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Civilisation has a new enemy. He is a former coca grower called Evo Morales, who is currently the president of Bolivia. Yesterday he stood before the European parliament to explain why he had sent troops to regain control of his country's gas and ...

Commentary Monbiot: Feeding Crime

Commentary, May, 14 2006 George Monbiot
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Does television cause crime? The idea that people copy the violence they watch is debated endlessly by criminologists. But this column concerns an odder and perhaps more interesting notion: if crime leaps out of the box, it is not the programmes t...

Znet Article Monbiot: An Easter Egg Hunt

Znet Article, May, 09 2006 George Monbiot
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Whenever a new scandal about the private finance initiative (PFI) emerges, the government and its friends in the financial press blame it on "teething problems". When the first contracts permitting private companies to build and run our public ser...

Znet Article Monbiot: An Easter Egg Hunt

Znet Article, May, 09 2006 George Monbiot
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Whenever a new scandal about the private finance initiative (PFI) emerges, the government and its friends in the financial press blame it on "teething problems". When the first contracts permitting private companies to build and run our public ser...

Znet Article Monbiot: A Bully in Ermine

Znet Article, March, 25 2006 George Monbiot
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I think I have discovered the clinching argument for closing the House of Lords. It is the presence in that chamber of a peer called Lady Tonge of Kew. Last week, the baroness (formerly the Liberal Democrat MP Jenny Tonge) opened a debate about ...

Znet Article Monbiot: Beholden to the Mob

Znet Article, March, 15 2006 George Monbiot
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After wriggling its way through every possible excuse for inaction, last week the Office of Fair Trading decided to launch an inquiry into the behaviour of the big grocery chains. It's about time. But alongside it we need another one: into whether...

Commentary Monbiot: Children of the Machine

Commentary, March, 14 2006 George Monbiot
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It received just a few column inches in a couple of papers, but the story I read last week looks to me like a glimpse of the future. A company in Ohio called CityWatcher has implanted radio transmitters into the arms of two of its workers. The imp...

Znet Article Monbiot: We Are All Killers Until We Stop Flying

Znet Article, February, 28 2006 George Monbiot
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At last the battlelines have been drawn, and the first major fight over climate change is about to begin. All over the country, a coalition of homeowners and anarchists, NIMBYs and internationalists is mustering to fight the greatest future cause ...

Commentary Monbiot: Property Paranoia

Commentary, February, 20 2006 George Monbiot
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A few days ago, after a furious argument, I was thrown out of a wood where I have walked for over 20 years. I must admit that I did not behave very well. As I walked away I did something I haven't done for a long time: I gave the gamekeeper a one-...

Znet Article Monbiot: A Good Model for a Mugging

Znet Article, February, 14 2006 George Monbiot
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From the hubbub surrounding the privatisation of the British government's defence research service - Qinetiq - last week, one statement stopped me dead. Lord Drayson, the minister for defence procurement, asserted that it was a "good model for fut...

Znet Article Monbiot: Smoke Rings

Znet Article, February, 08 2006 George Monbiot
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Three weeks ago, while looking for something else, I came across one of the most extraordinary documents I have ever read. It relates to an organisation called Arise, which stands for Associates for Research into the Science of Enjoyment. Though l...

Commentary Monbiot: Buying Complacency

Commentary, February, 02 2006 George Monbiot
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Sometimes I envy the self-belief of the Daily Mail's columnist Melanie Phillips. When Andrew Wakefield, a researcher at the Royal Free Hospital, suggested that there might be a link between autism and the MMR injection, she decided he was right.

Commentary Monbiot: How Much Energy Do We Have?

Commentary, December, 28 2005 George Monbiot
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In one respect, Simon Jenkins is right. "Nobody", he complained in the Guardian last week, while laying out his case for nuclear power, "agrees about figures"(1). As a result, "energy policy is like Victorian medicine, at the mercy of quack remedi...

Znet Article Monbiot: How Britain Denies its Holocausts

Znet Article, December, 27 2005 George Monbiot
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In reading the reports of the trial of the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, you are struck by two things. The first of course is the anachronistic brutality of the country's laws. Mr Pamuk, like scores of other writers and journalists, is being prose...

Znet Article Monbiot: Who Runs Britain?

Znet Article, December, 22 2005 George Monbiot
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If Jesus Christ were to return to earth and the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit were to slay the greater part of mankind, the first thing the media would do would be to find out how the markets had reacted. The next would be to ring...

Znet Article Monbiot: The Anti-Social Bastards in Our Midst

Znet Article, December, 20 2005 George Monbiot
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The road rage lobby couldn't have been more wrong. Organisations like the Association of British Drivers and "Safe Speed" - the boy racers' club masquerading as a road safety campaign - have spent years claiming that speeding doesn't cause acciden...

Znet Article Monbiot: Worse Than Fossil Fuel

Znet Article, December, 07 2005 George Monbiot
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Over the past two years I have made an uncomfortable discovery. Like most environmentalists, I have been as blind to the constraints affecting our energy supply as my opponents have been to climate change. I now realise that I have entertained a b...

Znet Article Monbiot: Worse Than Fossil Fuel

Znet Article, December, 07 2005 George Monbiot
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Over the past two years I have made an uncomfortable discovery. Like most environmentalists, I have been as blind to the constraints affecting our energy supply as my opponents have been to climate change. I now realise that I have entertained a b...

Znet Article Monbiot: Struggle Against Ourselves

Znet Article, December, 05 2005 George Monbiot
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  I want to take a moment to remind you of where we have come from. For the first three million years of human history, we lived according to circumstance. Our lives were ruled by the happenstances of ecology. We existed, as all animals do, in ...

Znet Article Monbiot: A War Crime Within a War Crime Within a War Crime

Znet Article, November, 22 2005 George Monbiot
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The media couldn't have made a bigger pig's ear of the white phosphorus story. So before moving on to the new revelations from Falluja, I would like to try to clear up the old ones.  There is no hard evidence that white phosphorus was used against...

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