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Monbiot: Think Inside The Box
Commentary, August, 06 2004
George Monbiot
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Every year the figures inch downwards, and every year they are greeted as a triumph. Britain now has the best record for road safety in Europe. Only 3,508 people were killed on our roads last year, and only 171 of them were children. (1) Only 33,7...
Monbiot: War x 4
Commentary, July, 14 2004
George Monbiot
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Any government concerned about global security and climate change should be banning 4x4s.
Monbiot: Greasing Up To Power
Znet Article, July, 13 2004
George Monbiot
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Our journalists bear as much responsibility for the misinformation about Iraq as t...
Monbiot: Losing The Battle With Entropy
Znet Article, June, 08 2004
George Monbiot
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"Some people have wacky ideas," the new Republican campaign ad alleges. "Like taxing gasoline more so people drive less. That's John Kerry."(1) Cut to a shot of men in suits riding bicycles. Sadly, the accusation is false....
Monbiot: Born Yesterday
Commentary, June, 07 2004
George Monbiot
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Review of The Day After Tomorrow
Monbiot: Empire of Denial
Znet Article, June, 01 2004
George Monbiot
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No one could have called ours a raucous household. The passions of our first two years at university were spent, and we were now buried in our books. My work, as usual, was quixotic and contradictory (studying zoology by day, writing a terrible no...
Monbiot: Virginity Campaign
Commentary, May, 20 2004
George Monbiot
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The flame of sexual liberation may soon have to be kept alive by us geriatric delinquents. A US evangelical group has announced that next month it will be recruiting British teenagers to its campaign against sex before marriage. In the States, ove...
Monbiot: This Is What We Paid For
Znet Article, May, 18 2004
George Monbiot
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Tony Blair has lost the election. It's true he wasn't standing, but we won't split hairs. His policies have just been put to the test by an electorate blessed with a viable opposition, and crushed. In throwing him out of their lives, the voters of...
Monbiot: Apocalypse Please
Znet Article, April, 20 2004
George Monbiot
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US po...
Monbiot: Rwanda: Victim's License
Znet Article, April, 13 2004
George Monbiot
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I first encountered the phenomenom of Victim's Licence when arguing on a radio show with a British importer of mahogany from the Amazon. I had pointed out that the timber cutters who supplied him were hiring gunmen to shoot indigenous people. "W...
Monbiot: Jump on our Bandwagon
Znet Article, April, 06 2004
George Monbiot
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Jump on our Bandwagon
Monbiot: Jump on our Bandwagon
Znet Article, April, 06 2004
George Monbiot
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Jump on our Bandwagon
Monbiot: The British Threat
Znet Article, April, 01 2004
George Monbiot
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The paradox of modern warfare works like this: by enhancing our military strength, we enhance our opponents' capacity to destroy us. The Russian state developed thermobaric bombs (which release a cloud of explosive material into the air) for use a...
Monbiot: Seeds of Distraction
Commentary, March, 27 2004
George Monbiot
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The question is as simple as this: do you want a few corporations to monopolise the global food supply? If the answer is yes, you should welcome the announcement the government is expected to make today, that the commercial planting of a GM crop i...
Monbiot: Monbiot Reply to Albert 3
Znet Article, March, 25 2004
George Monbiot
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Monbiot Reply to Albert 3
Monbiot: Supermarkets
Znet Article, March, 19 2004
George Monbiot
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Every year the list is the same, but every year it still comes as a shock. Of the 10 richest people on Earth, five of them have the same surname. It's not Gates, or Murdoch, or Rockefeller, but Walton. They are the heirs and trustees of the superm...
Monbiot: Extreme Measures
Commentary, March, 03 2004
George Monbiot
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So now what happens? Our prime minister is up to his neck in it. His attorney-general appears to have changed his advice about the legality of the war a few days before it began. Blair refuses to release either version, apparently for fear that he...
Monbiot: Of Mice and Money Men
Znet Article, February, 17 2004
George Monbiot
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If Comcast's takeover of the Disney Corporation goes ahead, the world's biggest media conglomeration will be built around one of humankind's most ancient practices. Investing animals with human characteristics is something we've been doing since w...
Monbiot: On the Edge of Lunacy
Commentary, January, 18 2004
George Monbiot
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Spare a thought this bleak new year for all those who rely on charity. Open your hearts, for example, to a group of people who, though they live in London, are in such desperate need of handouts that last year they received 7.6 million pounds in f...
Monbiot: Global Warming
Znet Article, January, 13 2004
George Monbiot
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I've been in and around the environmental movement since the first Earth Day in 1970, which I attended while living in Philadelphia, Pa. For many years I've been following news reports and articles about the dangers of global warming. In 2002, dur...
