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Znet Article Monbiot: Bards of the Powerful

Znet Article, June, 21 2005 George Monbiot
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"Hackers bombard financial networks", the Financial Times reported on Thursday. Government departments and businesses "have been bombarded with a sophisticated electronic attack for several months." It is being organised by an Asian criminal netwo...

Commentary Monbiot: Spin, Lies and Corruption

Commentary, June, 17 2005 George Monbiot
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The G8's debt reduction plan is little better than an extortion racket

Znet Article Monbiot: A Restraint of Liberty

Znet Article, May, 24 2005 George Monbiot
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The British government recognises two kinds of freedom. There is the freedom of the citizen, which it appears to perceive as a threat to good order. It has permitted (through the Serious Organised Crime Act) the police or courts to ban any public ...

Commentary Monbiot: Junk Science

Commentary, May, 16 2005 George Monbiot
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For the past three weeks, a set of figures has been working a hole in my mind. On April 16th, New Scientist published a letter from the famous botanist David Bellamy. Many of the world's glaciers, he claimed, "are not shrinking but in fact are gro...

Znet Article Monbiot: In Bed With Killers

Znet Article, May, 03 2005 George Monbiot
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It all seems a very long way away. But what is happening in an obscure island nation in the South Pacific has now become our business. A few weeks ago, BP, the British company which has invested most in "corporate social responsibility", received ...

Znet Article Monbiot: A Different Kind of Revolution

Znet Article, April, 26 2005 George Monbiot
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The people fighting the new wind farm in Cumbria have cheated and exaggerated. They appear to possess little understanding of the dangers of global warming. They are supported by an unsavoury coalition of nuclear power lobbyists and climate change...

Commentary Monbiot: Signal Your Opposition

Commentary, April, 24 2005 George Monbiot
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A vote for a minor party could be the most powerful one you could cast.

Znet Article Monbiot: Signal Your Opposition

Znet Article, April, 20 2005 George Monbiot
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Michael Howard could not have done a better job of proving people like me wrong. He has missed no opportunity to demonstrate that, however much they agree on economic, foreign and defence policy, there is still a real difference between Labour and...

Znet Article Monbiot: With Wolfowitz

Znet Article, April, 05 2005 George Monbiot
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It's about as close to consensus as the left is ever likely to come. Everyone this side of Atilla the Hun and The Wall Street Journal agrees that Paul Wolfowitz's appointment as president of the World Bank is a catastrophe. Except me. Under Wolfow...

Znet Article Monbiot: The Business of Killing

Znet Article, March, 29 2005 George Monbiot
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It is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, or a tap on the head with a steam hammer. But only just. The new draft bill on corporate manslaughter is a ghost of what was once proposed. But, for the first time in the United Kingdom, ther...

Commentary Monbiot: Harassment Laws

Commentary, March, 20 2005 George Monbiot
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It was the greatest legal victory against corporate power in living memory. Last week, two penniless activists, Dave Morris and Helen Steel, persuaded the European Court of Human Rights that Britain's libel laws, under which they had been sued by ...

Znet Article Monbiot: The Real Straight Banana

Znet Article, March, 08 2005 George Monbiot
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There is a group of men and women which seeks to make life as difficult as possible for the progressives who support the European Union. They are members not of the UK Independence Party or the French National Front, but of the European Commission...

Znet Article Monbiot: Paid-Up Members

Znet Article, March, 04 2005 George Monbiot
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William Hague, according to the new register of members' interests, makes about 20 times as much for not being an MP as he makes for being one. We don't know exactly how much he is paid for his other 54 jobs, because members are not obliged to rev...

Commentary Monbiot: Mocking Our Dreams

Commentary, February, 25 2005 George Monbiot
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It is now mid-February, and already I have sown eleven species of vegetable. I know, though the seed packets tell me otherwise, that they will flourish. Everything in this country - daffodils, primroses, almond trees, bumblebees, nesting birds - i...

Znet Article Monbiot: Pedigree Dogs of War

Znet Article, January, 25 2005 George Monbiot
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What is the legal difference between hiring a helicopter for use in a coup against a West African government, and sending supplies to the Chechen rebels? If there isn't one, why isn't Mark Thatcher in Belmarsh? Conversely, why aren't the "foreign ...

Znet Article Monbiot: Media Fairyland

Znet Article, January, 19 2005 George Monbiot
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On Thursday, the fairy king of fairyland will be re-crowned. He was elected on a platform suspended in mid air by the power of imagination. He is the leader of a band of men who walk through ghostly realms unvisited by reality. And he remains the ...

Commentary Monbiot: America's War with Itself

Commentary, January, 13 2005 George Monbiot
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I have a persistant mental image of US foreign policy, which haunts me even in my sleep. The vanguard of a vast army is marching around the globe, looking for its enemy. It sees a mass of troops in the distance, retreating from it. It opens fire, ...

Znet Article Monbiot: Sweden vs England

Znet Article, January, 11 2005 George Monbiot
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"Does not already the response to the massive tidal wave in south east Asia," Gordon Brown asked on Thursday, "show just how closely and irrevocably bound together ... are the fortunes of the richest persons in the richest country to the fate of t...

Commentary Monbiot: The Victims Of The Tsunami Pay The Price Of War On Iraq

Commentary, January, 06 2005 George Monbiot
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There has never been a moment like it on British television. The Vicar of Dibley, one of our gentler sitcoms, was bouncing along with its usual bonhomie on New Year's Day when it suddenly hit us with a scene from another world. Two young African c...

Znet Article Monbiot: A Deadly Reversal

Znet Article, December, 14 2004 George Monbiot
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I hope that the newspapers do not represent public opinion. If they do, it means that we consider the Home Secretary's love affair several hundred times more important than the resumption of the most deadly conflict since the Second World War. On ...

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