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Monbiot: Dirty Bombs Waiting for a Detonator
Znet Article, June, 11 2002
George Monbiot
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The world now faces two imminent nuclear threats. The first is the standoff between India and Pakistan, two nuclear powers vacillating on the brink of war. The second arises from a commercial deal between the United Kingdom and Japan. At the end ...
Monbiot: Choose Life
Znet Article, June, 07 2002
George Monbiot
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Every week, sometimes every day, someone writes to me asking for advice about the career they should take. I can't, unfortunately, respond to them all, so I thought I should try to formulate some general guidelines, which I hope people will be abl...
Monbiot: A New Mobilisation
Commentary, May, 27 2002
George Monbiot
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The left, almost everyone agrees, is on the run. George Bush's seizure of power has dragged governments everywhere still further to the right. Most of the world's media are deeply hostile to progressive ideas. Now the war in Afghanistan has greatl...
Monbiot: Riddle of the Spores
Znet Article, May, 22 2002
George Monbiot
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The more a government emphasises its commitment to defence, the less it seems to care about the survival of its people. Perhaps it is because its attention may be focused on more distant prospects: the establishment and maintenance of empire, for ...
Monbiot: Black Shirts in Green Trousers
Znet Article, April, 30 2002
George Monbiot
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The polling stations had scarcely closed before Le Pen's success was being blamed on the greens and the new left. The leader of France's Front National, commentators on both sides of the Channel agree, had done so well because the radicals first e...
Monbiot: Diplomatic Impunity
Commentary, April, 26 2002
George Monbiot
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Tony Blair might believe he belongs to an international coalition, but George Bush has other ideas. Bush's international war against terrorism has not stopped him from waging a parallel war against co-operation.
Monbiot: Diplomacy US-Style
Znet Article, April, 23 2002
George Monbiot
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Tony Blair might believe he belongs to an international coalition, but George Bush has other ideas. Bush's international war against terrorism has not stopped him from waging a parallel war against cooperation. Two weeks ago, the US ambassador to...
Monbiot: A War Against the Peacemaker
Commentary, April, 20 2002
George Monbiot
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On Sunday, the US government will launch an international coup. It has been planned for a month. It will be executed quietly, and most of us won't know what is happening until it's too late. It is seeking to overthrow 60 years of multilateralism, ...
Monbiot: World Bank To West Bank
Znet Article, April, 10 2002
George Monbiot
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Two sets of human shields are in use in the West Bank. The first is less than willing. The Israeli army, like some of the terrorist groups it has fought, has been taking hostages. Its soldiers have been propelling Palestinian civilians through the...
Monbiot: America's Bioterror
Znet Article, April, 06 2002
George Monbiot
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Monbiot: Angel Of Death
Znet Article, April, 02 2002
George Monbiot
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Clare Short is a paradoxical figure. She has hinted that she might resign if Britain helps the US to invade Iraq. She has bravely blocked the aid money which would have been spent on a useless British air traffic system due to have been deployed, ...
Monbiot: Race War
Znet Article, March, 29 2002
George Monbiot
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Those of us who opposed the bombing of Afghanistan warned that the war between nations would not stop there. Now, as Tony Blair prepares the British people for an attack on Iraq, the conflict seems to be proliferating faster than most of us predic...
Monbiot: Patent Nonsense
Commentary, March, 21 2002
George Monbiot
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The most surprising aspect of the steel war launched by the United States last week is that anyone is surprised. For all the talk of increasing freedom, the only certain and consistent trend in global trade rules over the past ten years has been t...
Monbiot: America's Bioterror
Znet Article, March, 19 2002
George Monbiot
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Dear President Bush, In commemorating the victims of the attacks on New York and Washington last week, you called for disputes to be "settled within the bounds of reason." You insisted that "every nation in our coalition must take seriously the g...
Monbiot: Race War
Commentary, March, 08 2002
George Monbiot
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Those of us who opposed the bombing of Afghanistan warned that the war between nations would not stop there. Now, as Tony Blair prepares the British people for an attack on Iraq, the conflict seems to be proliferating faster than most of us predic...
Monbiot: They're All Dammed
Znet Article, February, 26 2002
George Monbiot
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Events in isolation do not establish that a government is corrupt. Tony Blair's support for Lakshmi Mittal, the Labour donor hoping to buy Romania's steel industry, looks suspicious, but could, perhaps, be the result of a misjudgement. To suggest ...
Monbiot: The Corporate Takeover of Childhood
Commentary, February, 14 2002
George Monbiot
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For many children, a new school term begins with apprehension. But yesterday it wasn't just the children who were worried about what they might encounter. Every term now brings another government scheme, to re-finance, outsource, subcontract, recl...
Monbiot: America's Imperial War
Znet Article, February, 12 2002
George Monbiot
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Never was victory so bitter. Those liberals who supported the war in Afghanistan, and so confidently declared that their values had triumphed in November, must now be feeling a little exposed. Precisely who has lost, and what the extent of their l...
Monbiot: Both Saviour and Victim
Znet Article, February, 12 2002
George Monbiot
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The more powerful a nation becomes, the more it asserts its victimhood. In contemporary British eyes, the greatest atrocities of the 18th and 19th centuries were those perpetrated on compatriots in the Black Hole of Calcutta or during the Indian m...
