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Monbiot: A Thousand Dusty Codicils
Commentary, August, 25 2004
George Monbiot
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If we have learnt anything over the past 18 months it is this: that the first rule of politics - power must never be trusted - still applies. The government will neither regulate itself nor be regulated by the institutions which surround it. Parli...
Landau: Transfer Of Power, Sort Of -- Now And Then
Commentary, August, 17 2004
Saul Landau
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"The government is the potent omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himse...
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...
Palast: BBC Whitewash
Znet Article, January, 31 2004
Greg Palast
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He did not say, "hello," or even his name, just left a one-word message: "Whitewash." It came from an embattled journalist whispering from inside the bowels of a television and radio station under siege, on a small island off the coast of Irelan...
Pilger: Power, Propaganda and Conscience in The War On Terror
Znet Article, January, 26 2004
John Pilger
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I would like to thank The University of Western Australia for inviting me here today, and especially Nigel Dolan for his warm welcome and smooth organisation. I am a reporter, who values bearing witness. That is to say, I place paramount importan...
Monbiot: The Bottom of the Barrel
Znet Article, December, 02 2003
George Monbiot
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The Bottom of the Barrel
Monbiot: The Flight to India
Commentary, October, 29 2003
George Monbiot
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If you live in a rich nation in the English-speaking world, and most of your work involves a computer or a telephone, don't expect to have a job in five years' time. Almost every large company which relies upon remote transactions is starting to d...
Monbiot: Tony Blair's New Friend
Znet Article, October, 28 2003
George Monbiot
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Tony Blair's New Friend
Raptis: Greek Lawyers and Blair; Clinton and Kiesling
Commentary, August, 15 2003
Nikos Raptis
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Greek Lawyers and Blair; Clinton and Kiesling
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...
Author: Progressives can learn from Scotland and Wales
Commentary, July, 02 2003
Guest Author
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Progressives, people of color, and women advocates, stuck in the doldrums of Bush's America, should look toward Scotland and Wales for relief. Grounded in new "full representation" voting systems that provide multi-party democracy, elections this ...
Pilger: Bush's Vietnam
Znet Article, June, 22 2003
John Pilger
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America's two "great victories" since 11 September 2001 are unravelling. In Afghanistan, the regime of Hamid Karzai has virtually no authority and no money, and would collapse without American guns. Al-Qaeda has not been defeated, and the Taliban ...
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...
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...
Bandera: Anti-war organizing in Spain
Znet Article, March, 26 2003
Magda Bandera
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Long before the outset of war in Iraq, and more so since, Spain has seen massive demonstrations both in its main cities and its smallest centers. On February 15, when millions of people worldwide demonstrated together for the first time against th...
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...
Edwards: Final Exchange With George Monbiot On The Guardian And The Propaganda Model
Znet Article, December, 11 2002
David Edwards
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In response to our recent Media Alert Update, "George Monbiot Responds Again on Iraq and 'Just War'" (December 7, 2002), Monbiot has sent the following response. He has also published a Guardian article ('Who guards the guards', December 10, 2002)...
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...
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...
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...


