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Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Monbiot: The Bottom of the Barrel

Znet Article, December, 02 2003 George Monbiot
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The Bottom of the Barrel

Commentary 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...

Znet Article Monbiot: Tony Blair's New Friend

Znet Article, October, 28 2003 George Monbiot
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Tony Blair's New Friend

Commentary 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

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...

Commentary 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 ...

Znet Article 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 ...

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...

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 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...

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 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)...

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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