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Commentary Monbiot: Underground Movement

Commentary, May, 31 2011 George Monbiot
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Why do those who oppose wind power insist on spoiling their case with gibberish?

Commentary Monbiot: False Witness

Commentary, April, 13 2011 George Monbiot
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“From the information I had, that is what I believed happened to me.”(1) So Simon Harwood, the police officer who pushed Ian Tomlinson to the ground at the G20 protests two years ago, told the inquest into his death.

Commentary Monbiot: The Freedom Swindle

Commentary, March, 31 2011 George Monbiot
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The government promised us the right to peaceful protest. It is delivering nothing of the kind.

Commentary Monbiot: Online Astroturfing Is More Advanced And More Automated Than We’d Imagined

Commentary, February, 25 2011 George Monbiot
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Every month more evidence piles up, suggesting that online comment threads and forums are being hijacked by people who aren’t what they seem to be.

Commentary Monbiot: A Corporate Coup d’Etat

Commentary, February, 13 2011 George Monbiot
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“I would love to see tax reductions,” David Cameron told an interviewer at the weekend, “but when you’re borrowing 11 per cent of your GDP, it’s not possible to make significant net tax cuts.

Commentary Monbiot: What could be sillier and more invidious than the Observer’s “eco-power list”?

Commentary, January, 24 2011 George Monbiot
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Is there anything the Sunday papers can’t turn into a fatuous celeb-fest?

Commentary Monbiot: Beware Fake Radicals

Commentary, January, 15 2011 George Monbiot
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There was a time when conservatives tried to assure people of continuity. The social order would remain intact. Revolution and reform would be suppressed, disruptive change averted. As political consciousness spread, this message became untenable....

Commentary Monbiot: Cold Burn

Commentary, December, 23 2010 George Monbiot
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There is now strong evidence to suggest that the unusually cold winters of the past two years in the UK are the result of heating elsewhere.

Commentary Monbiot: Reclaim The Cyber-Commons

Commentary, December, 16 2010 George Monbiot
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They are the online equivalent of enclosure riots: the rick-burning, fence-toppling protests by English peasants losing their rights to the land.

Commentary Monbiot: Britain’s Shock Doctrine

Commentary, October, 22 2010 George Monbiot
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The economic crisis is the disaster the Conservatives have been praying for. Now they can reshape the economy on corporate lines.

Commentary Monbiot: It Goes Against Our Nature, but the Left Has to Start Asserting Its Own Values

Commentary, October, 14 2010 George Monbiot
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The progressive attempt to appeal to self-interest has been a catastrophe. Empathy, not expediency, must drive our campaigns.

Commentary Monbiot: The Short, Happy Life of Climate Change Enlightenment

Commentary, September, 28 2010 George Monbiot
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The collapse of the talks at Copenhagen took away all momentum for change and the lobbyists are back in control. So what next?

Commentary Monbiot: The Man Who Wants to Northern Rock the Planet

Commentary, June, 09 2010 George Monbiot
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Matt Ridley’s irrational theories remain unchanged by his own disastrous experiment.

Commentary Monbiot: What Links The Banking Crisis And The Volcano?

Commentary, April, 21 2010 George Monbiot
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We rely globally on over-complex, over-strained systems. Act now, or wait for the much more brutal corrective of nature.

Commentary Monbiot: Wanted: Tony Blair for war crimes. Arrest him and claim your reward

Commentary, January, 31 2010 George Monbiot
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Wanted: Tony Blair for war crimes. Arrest him and claim your reward

Commentary Monbiot: This Is Bigger Than Climate Change. It Is A Battle To Redefine Humanity

Commentary, December, 17 2009 George Monbiot
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This is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become. It chooses whether to continue livi...

Commentary Monbiot: We Cannot Fight Climate With Consumerism

Commentary, November, 09 2009 George Monbiot
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The 'licensing effect': Researchers have found that buying green can establish the moral credentials that license subsequent bad behaviour.

Commentary Monbiot: The Busybody State

Commentary, August, 05 2009 George Monbiot
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Is it paranoia, or are they really out to get us? Most of the time it's paranoia. Every week I'm approached by people whispering about vapour trails from planes being used to control our minds, free energy devices suppressed by oil companies or mi...

Commentary Monbiot: Pulling Yourself Off the Ground By Your Whiskers

Commentary, July, 17 2009 George Monbiot
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Here is the simple mathematical reason why large scale carbon offsets can't work

Commentary Monbiot: Blue Desert

Commentary, June, 04 2009 George Monbiot
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I live a few miles from Cardigan Bay. Whenever I can get away, I take my kayak down to the beach and launch it through the waves. Often I take a handline with me, in the hope of catching some mackeral or pollock. On the water, sometimes five kilom...

Commentary Monbiot: The Real Expenses Scandal

Commentary, June, 01 2009 George Monbiot
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For a moment, my heart leapt. The headline on the front of yesterday's Daily Mail contained the words travel, scandal, extortionate and £6.2. I imagined, until I read it properly, that it referred to the £6.2bn contract to expand the M25 mot...

Commentary Monbiot: The Barbarians at the Gate

Commentary, May, 24 2009 George Monbiot
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The principal cause of man's unhappiness is that he has learnt to stay quietly in his own room. If our needs are not met, if justice is not done, it is because we are not prepared to leave our homes and agitate for change. Blaise Pascal ("the sole...

Commentary Monbiot: Captive Knowledge

Commentary, May, 13 2009 George Monbiot
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The funding for academic research has been taken over by business...

Commentary Monbiot: Printing Police Lies

Commentary, April, 26 2009 George Monbiot
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The rightwing press has briefly turned against the police, but normal service will soon resume.

Commentary Monbiot: Cross Your Fingers and Carry On

Commentary, April, 17 2009 George Monbiot
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Why does the government refuse to make contingency plans for peak oil?

Commentary Monbiot: Plastic Fetish

Commentary, April, 10 2009 George Monbiot
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Do you remember that unspeakably naff designer accessory, "I'm Not a Plastic Bag"? The "design", by Anya Hindmarch, involved thinking up the gauchest slogan ever contrived then printing it on a white shopping bag of the kind old ladies used in the...

Commentary Monbiot: Woodchips With Everything

Commentary, March, 29 2009 George Monbiot
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Here comes the latest utopian catastrophe...

Commentary Monbiot: Scrap It

Commentary, March, 16 2009 George Monbiot
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The magic numbers spin before our eyes. No one can grasp the scale of the hand-outs, or understand how public money which didn't exist - could never exist - for hospitals or schools or public toilets begins to flow as soon as the bankers fall to t...

Commentary Monbiot: The Proceeds of Crime

Commentary, March, 14 2009 George Monbiot
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The US and British governments have created a private prison industry which preys on human lives.

Commentary Monbiot: Someone Else's England

Commentary, March, 02 2009 George Monbiot
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You don't have to be a nationalist, or English, to accept the case for an English parliament.

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