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Commentary Monbiot: Shadow of extinction

Commentary, July, 20 2003 George Monbiot
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It is old news, I admit. Two hundred and fifty-one million years old, to be precise. But the story of what happened then, which has now been told for the first time, demands our urgent attention. Its implications are more profound than anything ta...

Znet Article Monbiot: Fake Patriots

Znet Article, July, 07 2003 George Monbiot
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The prediction was not hard to make. If Britain kept supporting the US government as it trampled the sovereignty of other nations, before long it would come to threaten our own. But few guessed that this would happen so soon. Long ago, Britain i...

Znet Article Monbiot: Global Warming

Znet Article, July, 04 2003 George Monbiot
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In an astonishing announcement on global warming and extreme weather, the World Meteorological Organisation signalled last night that the world's weather is going haywire. In a startling report, the WMO, which normally produces detailed scientifi...

Znet Article Monbiot: I Was Wrong About Trade

Znet Article, June, 29 2003 George Monbiot
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A few years ago I would have raised at least two cheers. The US government, to judge by the aggressive noises now being made by its trade negotiators, seems determined to wreck one of the most intrusive and destructive of the instruments of global...

Commentary Monbiot: I Was Wrong About Trade

Commentary, June, 29 2003 George Monbiot
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A few years ago I would have raised at least two cheers. The US government, to judge by the aggressive noises now being made by its trade negotiators, seems determined to wreck one of the most intrusive and destructive of the instruments of global...

Znet Article Monbiot: Let's Do A Monsanto

Znet Article, June, 10 2003 George Monbiot
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Something about the launch of the government's "great GM debate" last week rang a bell. It was, perhaps, the contrast between the ambition of its stated aims and the feebleness of their execution. Though the environment secretary, Margaret Beckett...

Znet Article Monbiot: How To Stop America

Znet Article, June, 07 2003 George Monbiot
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Presidents Roosevelt and Truman were smart operators. They knew that the hegemony of the United States could not be sustained without the active compliance of other nations. So they set out, before and after the end of the Second World War, to des...

Znet Article Monbiot: Enslaved By Free Trade

Znet Article, June, 06 2003 George Monbiot
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The founding myth of the dominant nations is that they achieved their industrial and technological superiority through free trade. Nations which are poor today are told that if they want to follow our path to riches, they must open their economies...

Znet Article Monbiot: Africa's Scar Gets Uglier

Znet Article, June, 02 2003 George Monbiot
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Perhaps the defining moment of Tony Blair's premiership was the speech that he gave to the Labour party conference in October 2001. In June, his party had returned to office with a monumental majority. In September, two planes were flown into the ...

Znet Article Monbiot: Prosecute Franks

Znet Article, May, 20 2003 George Monbiot
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Belgium is becoming an i...

Commentary Monbiot: The Bottom Dollar

Commentary, May, 17 2003 George Monbiot
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The problem with American power is not that it's American. Most states with the resources and opportunities the US possesses would have done far worse. The problem is that one nation, effectively unchecked by any other, can, if it chooses, now det...

Znet Article Monbiot: Don't Cry for Clare

Znet Article, May, 13 2003 George Monbiot
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Some of the Guardian's readers will, for all her faults, have shed a few tears at the departure of our development secretary. Clare Short may have failed, in March, to act upon her threat to resign over the war with Iraq. But even those who have t...

Znet Article Monbiot: Rich in Imagination

Znet Article, May, 06 2003 George Monbiot
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The global economy is working...

Znet Article Monbiot: Death of the Secret Ballot

Znet Article, April, 29 2003 George Monbiot
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There are two big questions about the local [British] elections on Thursday, but only one of them is being asked. The first is whether people will bother to vote. The emerging rule of British politics now appears to be that the bigger the issues a...

Commentary Monbiot: Chemical Hypocrites

Commentary, April, 10 2003 George Monbiot
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When Saddam Hussein so pig-headedly failed to shower US troops with chemical weapons as they entered Iraq, thus depriving them of a retrospective justification for this war, the American generals explained that he would do so as soon as they cross...

Znet Article Monbiot: No Way Out

Znet Article, April, 01 2003 George Monbiot
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Every likely outcome of this war is a disaster So far, the liberators have succeeded only in freeing the souls of the Iraqis from their bodies. Saddam Hussein's troops have proved less inclined to surrender than they had anticipated, and the civi...

Znet Article Monbiot: One Rule For Them...

Znet Article, March, 25 2003 George Monbiot
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Suddenly, the government of the United States has discovered the virtues of international law. It may be waging an illegal war against a sovereign state; it may be seeking to destroy every treaty which impedes its attempts to run the world, but wh...

Znet Article Monbiot: Left Behind To Starve

Znet Article, March, 18 2003 George Monbiot
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There is surely no more obvious symptom of the corruption of western politics than the disproportion between the money available for sustaining life and the money available for terminating it. We could, I think, expect that, if they were asked to ...

Znet Article Monbiot: Wilfull Blindness

Znet Article, March, 11 2003 George Monbiot
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The war in Afghanistan has plainly brought certain benefits to that country: thousands of girls have gone to school for the first time, for example, and in some parts of the country women have been able to go back to work. While over 3000 civilian...

Znet Article Monbiot: Out Of The Wreckage

Znet Article, February, 25 2003 George Monbiot
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The men who run the world are democrats at home and dictators abroad. They came to power by means of national elections which possess, at least, the potential to represent the will of their people. Their citizens can dismiss them without bloodshed...

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