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Monbiot: The Business Of Power
Znet Article, February, 06 2002
George Monbiot
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Just as the government struggles to shake off one scandal, it is entangling itself in several more. Almost every day for the past fortnight Labour has been embarrassed by new revelations about the favours it has exchanged with the disgraced compan...
Monbiot: Airstrip One
Commentary, February, 05 2002
George Monbiot
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There could scarcely be an odder time to announce a massive airport development. Even before the crash in New York eleven days ago, the world's airline companies were expecting to lose 15% of their trade and some $7bn. In the past fortnight two ma...
Monbiot: Both Savior And Victim
Znet Article, January, 29 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...
Monbiot: Greens Get Eaten
Znet Article, January, 15 2002
George Monbiot
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Environmentalism as an argument has been comprehensively won. As a practice it is all but extinct. Just as people in Britain have united around the demand for effective public transport, car sales have broken all records. Yesterday the superstore ...
Monbiot: The End of the Enlightenment
Commentary, December, 21 2001
George Monbiot
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The pre-Enlightenment has just been beaten by the post-Enlightenment. As the last fundamentalist fighters are hunted through the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, the world's most comprehensive attempt to defy modernity has been atomised. But this...
Monbiot: Making Generosity Redundant
Commentary, November, 23 2001
George Monbiot
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They thought it was all over. After civilisation's victory in Afghanistan, where the lion now lies down with the lamb, there was, almost all the newspapers agreed, nothing left to discuss. All that needed to be done was to remind those who had que...
Monbiot: Blasting Our Way to Peace The West's "victory" is a defeat for civilisation
Commentary, November, 16 2001
George Monbiot
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The armchair warriors have proved no more merciful in victory than the Northern Alliance. Yesterday's Sun turned over two pages to an editorial titled "Shame of the traitors: wrong, wrong, wrong ... the fools who said Allies faced disaster".
Monbiot: Trade Piracy Unmasked
Commentary, November, 12 2001
George Monbiot
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Just as woodworkers used to drink in the Carpenter's Arms, or farmhands in the Jolly Ploughman, the trade negotiators from the world's richest nations have found their way to their own hallowed ground.
Monbiot: Backyard Terrorism
Commentary, November, 01 2001
George Monbiot
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"If any government sponsors the outlaws and killers of innocents," George Bush announced on the day he began bombing Afghanistan, "they have become outlaws and murderers themselves. And they will take that lonely path at their own peril." I'm glad...
Monbiot: Genocide or Peace
Commentary, October, 02 2001
George Monbiot
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Peace has been declared before the war has begun. Those who advocated the obliteration of Kabul and Baghdad have retreated in the face of insuperable complexity. Many of those who argued against aggression have relaxed as the threat of carpet bomb...
Monbiot: Hell's Grannies
Commentary, August, 20 2001
George Monbiot
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Ariel Sharon's decision not to blast the Palestinians out of existence after last week's suicide bombings is, at first sight, mystifying. While jets blew up the Palestinians' police station in Ramallah and Israeli soldiers occupied their East Je...
Monbiot: Stealing Europe The great European dream has been subverted by corporate power
Commentary, July, 25 2001
George Monbiot
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"If people did not sometimes do silly things," Wittgenstein observed, "nothing intelligent would ever get done." In a world in which intelligence is banned from public life, baring our buttocks at George Bush is one of the few means we possess of ...
Monbiot: Big Business vs Big Ideas
Commentary, June, 16 2001
George Monbiot
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If Gordon Brown was serious yesterday about creating an environment for "business dynamism" like that of the United States, he could do no better than to champion the entrepreneurial work of Conwy Council in North Wales. Conwy has done as all busi...
Monbiot: Mad Cows Are Back
Commentary, April, 07 2001
George Monbiot
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It should have been dead and buried years ago. But somehow the spectre of BSE keeps rising from the grave. In Britain, where billions of pounds have been spent and millions of cattle slaughtered to stamp out the disease, new cases continue to emer...
Monbiot: How the Superstores Gave Us Foot and Mouth
Commentary, March, 04 2001
George Monbiot
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"You enterprised a railroad through the valley," John Ruskin charged the railway companies in 1889. "The valley is gone, and the gods with it; and now every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton." ...
Monbiot: No Blood Please, We're British
Commentary, February, 21 2001
George Monbiot
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The British approach to gynaecology was encapsulated in the furious whisper I once heard in the pub, from a man arguing bitterly with his girlfriend: "I don't want to talk about menstruation. Period." We might be obsessed by sex, but our distaste ...
Monbiot: Dying of Consumption
Commentary, January, 12 2001
George Monbiot
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The modern industrial economy works like this: resources are dug from a hole in the ground on one side of the planet, used for a few weeks, then dumped in a hole on the other side of the planet. This is known as the Creation of Value. The Creation...
Monbiot: Big Business, As Seen On TV
Commentary, December, 23 2000
George Monbiot
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Our liberty could scarcely be entrusted to a more rackety bunch. Journalists are, quite rightly, almost universally reviled. But the freedom of a nation depends in large measure on the freedom they enjoy. If reporters are forced to show the world ...
Monbiot: The Massacre Starts Tomorrow
Commentary, December, 01 2000
George Monbiot
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There's an odd component of globalisation, which I find myself at a loss to explain. We are, we're assured, living in a global village, whose people are daily brought closer together. Yet we hear ever less about what is happening in distant parts ...
Monbiot: Reality Re-Asserts ItselfT
Commentary, November, 14 2000
George Monbiot
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Just as floods and tornadoes were laying waste to our homes, we earthlings watched the launch of an exciting new venture. Three cosmonauts were blasted into orbit, to pioneer the permanent inhabitation of space. Humanity is already making plans fo...
