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Znet Article Monbiot: War Without Rules

Znet Article, November, 15 2005 George Monbiot
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Did US troops use chemical weapons in Falluja? The answer is yes. The proof is not to be found in the documentary broadcast on Italian TV last week, which has generated gigabytes of hype on the internet. It's a turkey, whose evidence that white ph...

Znet Article Monbiot: Bringing Out the Dead

Znet Article, November, 09 2005 George Monbiot
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We were told that the Iraqis don't count. Before the invasion began the head of US central command, General Thomas Franks, boasted "we don't do bodycounts."(1) His claim was repeated by Donald Rumsfeld in November 2003 ("we don't do body counts on...

Znet Article Monbiot: Passive Driving

Znet Article, November, 01 2005 George Monbiot
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It was fudged - stupidly and unnecessarily fudged - but at least they tried. The ban on smoking in pubs, though gutted by the prime minister's cowardice, will save some fraction of the bar staff who die every year as a result of passive smoking. T...

Znet Article Monbiot: Our Own Nuclear Salesman

Znet Article, October, 26 2005 George Monbiot
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I report this with sadness: Sir David King has lost his bottle. Until a few weeks ago, the chief scientific adviser looked to me like one of the few brave souls in the British government. In an article in Science at the beginning of last year, he ...

Commentary Monbiot: Better Off Without Him

Commentary, October, 23 2005 George Monbiot
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Are religious societies better than secular ones? It should be an easy question for athiests to answer. Most of those now seeking to blow people up - whether with tanks and missiles or rucksacks and passenger planes - do so in the name of God. In ...

Znet Article Monbiot: Protesters as Criminals

Znet Article, October, 04 2005 George Monbiot
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"We are trying to fight 21st-century crime - antisocial behaviour, drug-dealing, binge drinking, organised crime - with 19th-century methods as if we still lived in the time of Dickens". Tony Blair, 27th September 2005.(1) "Down poured the wine l...

Znet Article Monbiot: Crying Sheep

Znet Article, September, 27 2005 George Monbiot
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Are global oil supplies about to peak? Are they, in other words, about to reach their maximum and then go into decline? There is a simple answer to this question: no one has the faintest idea. Consider these two statements: 1. "Last year Saudi A...

Commentary Monbiot: The Man Who Betrayed the Poor

Commentary, September, 27 2005 George Monbiot
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Two months have not elapsed since the G8 summit, and already almost everything has turned to ashes. Even the crustiest sceptics have been shocked by the speed with which its promises have been broken.

Znet Article Monbiot: A World Turned Upside Down

Znet Article, September, 20 2005 George Monbiot
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Climate change denial has gone through four stages. First the fossil fuel lobbyists told us that global warming was a myth. Then they agreed that it was happening, but insisted it was a good thing: we could grow wine in the Pennines and take Medit...

Znet Article Monbiot: The Net Censors

Znet Article, September, 13 2005 George Monbiot
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"Several of this cursed brood, getting hold of the branches behind, leaped up into the tree, whence they began to discharge their excrements on my head"(1). Thus Gulliver describes his first encounter with the Yahoos. Something similar seems to ha...

Commentary Monbiot: A Life With No Purpose

Commentary, September, 13 2005 George Monbiot
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All is not lost in America. When George Bush came out a couple of weeks ago in favour of teaching "intelligent design" - the new manifestation of creationism - the press gave him a tremendous kicking. The Christian Taliban have not yet won.

Znet Article Monbiot: The Man Who Betrayed the Poor

Znet Article, September, 06 2005 George Monbiot
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Two months have not elapsed since the G8 summit, and already almost everything has turned to ashes. Even the crustiest sceptics have been shocked by the speed with which its promises have been broken. It is true that they didn't amount to much. T...

Znet Article Monbiot: How to Stop Civil War

Znet Article, August, 30 2005 George Monbiot
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Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow of occupation. Whatever the parliamentarians in Iraq do to try to prevent total meltdown, their efforts are compromised by the fact that their power grows from the barrel of someone else's gun. Whe...

Commentary Monbiot: The Treaty Wreckers

Commentary, August, 04 2005 George Monbiot
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Saturday is the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The nuclear powers are commemorating it in their own special way: by seeking to ensure that the experiment is repeated.

Znet Article Monbiot: Faced With This Crisis

Znet Article, July, 26 2005 George Monbiot
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One day we will look back on the effort to deny the effects of climate change as we now look back on the work of Trofim Lysenko. Lysenko was a Soviet agronomist who insisted that the entire canon of genetics was wrong. There was no limit to an o...

Znet Article Monbiot: Africa's New Best Friends

Znet Article, July, 07 2005 George Monbiot
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I began to realise how much trouble we were in when Hilary Benn, the secretary of state for international development, announced that he would be joining the Make Poverty History march on Saturday. What would he be chanting, I wondered? "Down with...

Znet Article Monbiot: Save us from Ourselves

Znet Article, July, 02 2005 George Monbiot
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Show me an environmentalist, and I will show you a hypocrite. In an interview with the Guardian recently, Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay and all-round good guy, spoke of his concerns about climate change. On his new album there's "an in...

Commentary Monbiot: A Game of Double Bluff

Commentary, June, 29 2005 George Monbiot
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Rejoice! The world is saved! The governments of Europe have agreed that by 2015 they will give 0.7% of their national income in foreign aid. Admittedly that's 35 years after the target date they first set for themselves, and it's still less than t...

Znet Article Monbiot: Our Very Own Enron?

Znet Article, June, 28 2005 George Monbiot
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For how much longer can this farce carry on? Everywhere, the chickens released by the government's private finance initiative are not so much coming home to roost as crashing into the henhouse and sliding down the wall in a heap of blood and feath...

Znet Article Monbiot: A Truckload Of Nonsense

Znet Article, June, 23 2005 George Monbiot
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An aura of sanctity is descending upon the world's most powerful men. On Saturday the finance ministers from seven of the G8 nations (Russia was not invited) promised to cancel the debts the poorest countries owe to the World Bank and the Internat...

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