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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...

Znet Article Monbiot: Too Much of a Good Thing

Znet Article, February, 18 2003 George Monbiot
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Too Much of a Good Thing

Znet Article Monbiot: A War of Terror

Znet Article, February, 04 2003 George Monbiot
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Last week, on the day George Bush delivered his State of the Union address, the Pentagon received a visitor. A few hours before the president told the American people that "we will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men", General...

Znet Article Monbiot: Fired Up

Znet Article, January, 29 2003 George Monbiot
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Mr Bush and Mr Blair might have a tougher fight than they anticipated. Not from Saddam Hussein perhaps -- although it is still not obvious that they can capture and hold Iraq's cities without major losses -- but from an anti-war movement that is b...

Commentary Monbiot: The Poor Get Stuffed

Commentary, January, 09 2003 George Monbiot
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The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians. But one feature of the celebrations has remained unchanged: the consumption of vast quantities of meat. The practice used to make sense. Livesto...

Znet Article Monbiot: The Time For Talking Is Over

Znet Article, January, 07 2003 George Monbiot
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The rest of Europe must be wondering whether Britain has gone into hibernation. At the end of this month our Prime Minister is likely to announce the decision he made months ago, that Britain will follow the US into Iraq. If so, then two or three ...

Znet Article Monbiot: Who Guards the Guards?

Znet Article, December, 10 2002 George Monbiot
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If there is a characteristic which unites all human societies, past or present, it is surely an inordinate fondness for violence. Those who can force others to submit to their demands will do so until they meet a greater force. We tend, in the s...

Znet Article Monbiot: See You In Court

Znet Article, November, 25 2002 George Monbiot
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Parliament might have been denied its debate and the Cabinet might have been silenced, but there are other means of holding the government to account. If, by 4pm today, his lawyers have failed to agree that he will not attack Iraq without a new UN...

Commentary Monbiot: The Covert Biotech War

Commentary, November, 24 2002 George Monbiot
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The president of Zambia is wrong. Genetically modified food is not, as far as we know, "poison". While adequate safety tests have still to be conducted, there is, as yet, no compelling evidence that it is any worse for human health than convention...

Znet Article Monbiot: The Rescue Parties

Znet Article, November, 12 2002 George Monbiot
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How many political parties can dance on the head of a pin? The answer, it seems, is one. In Britain and the United States, the opposition parties are beginning to discover that there simply isn't room for both them and their rivals on the narrow p...

Znet Article Monbiot: In The Crocodiles Mouth

Znet Article, November, 05 2002 George Monbiot
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Tony Blair's loyalty to George Bush looks like slow political suicide. His preparedness to follow him over every precipice jeopardises Britain's relationships with its allies, conjures up enemies all over the world and infuriates voters of all pol...

Znet Article Monbiot: Do As We Say, Not As We Do

Znet Article, October, 29 2002 George Monbiot
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Democracy in Brazil both won and lost on Sunday night. It won because, for the first time in its history, the nation chose a man of humble origins and radical views to be its president. It lost because that man is now forbidden to be radical. The ...

Commentary Monbiot: Unreality TV

Commentary, October, 28 2002 George Monbiot
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For the past nine months, priests and tribal leaders in West Papua, the easternmost province of Indonesia, have been trying to warn the world that an Islamic fundamentalist movement is using their land as a training ground. Laskar Jihad is command...

Znet Article Monbiot: The Rich World's Veto

Znet Article, October, 17 2002 George Monbiot
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There was no announcement, no press release, not even an off-the record briefing. But last week the government revealed that it was proposing to rule out forever the re-nationalisation of the railways. If you missed this, you're in good company: s...

Znet Article Monbiot: They Are Systematically Destroying Economies

Znet Article, September, 26 2002 George Monbiot
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 GEORGE MONBIOT has become one of the leading voices of the global justice movement worldwide. He is a regular columnist for Britain’s Guardian newspaper and author of Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain. He was recentl...

Znet Article Monbiot: Earth Eating Summit

Znet Article, August, 23 2002 George Monbiot
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The German election could be the second this year to be won or lost on the environment. In New Zealand, the Labour Party failed to win its anticipated overall majority, partly because of its determination to approve the planting of genetically mod...

Znet Article Monbiot: Our Racist Demonology

Znet Article, August, 13 2002 George Monbiot
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The most evil man on earth, besides Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden, is Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe. That, at least, is the view of most of the western world's press. Yesterday Mugabe insisted that 2,900 white farmers will have t...

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