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Commentary Monbiot: From the Bottom Up

Commentary, February, 12 2009 George Monbiot
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A new mobilisation could revitalise politics in the UK - but only if you get involved.

Commentary Monbiot: Squandered

Commentary, February, 04 2009 George Monbiot
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This is how a government elected to stamp out sleaze became worse than its predecessor.

Commentary Monbiot: A Better Way to Make Money

Commentary, January, 29 2009 George Monbiot
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Here's how we could solve the credit crunch without giving anything to the banks.

Commentary Monbiot: Flying Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Commentary, January, 21 2009 George Monbiot
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How did Marxist class warriors end up fighting for the bosses' right to fly?

Commentary Monbiot: Shell's Game

Commentary, January, 12 2009 George Monbiot
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Why good people do bad things...

Commentary Monbiot: The Open Veins of Wales

Commentary, January, 02 2009 George Monbiot
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Dr Beeching helped turn the country I've come to love into an outpost of empire. Now his legacy can be reversed.

Commentary Monbiot: A Beardful of Bunkum

Commentary, December, 28 2008 George Monbiot
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David Bellamy's at it again, with even dafter claims about climate change.

Commentary Monbiot: The Paranoia Squad

Commentary, December, 25 2008 George Monbiot
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A British police unit is spreading scare stories. Why?

Commentary Monbiot: At Last, A Date

Commentary, December, 22 2008 George Monbiot
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For the first time, the International Energy Agency has produced a date for peak oil. And it's not reassuring.

Commentary Monbiot: One Shot Left

Commentary, November, 26 2008 George Monbiot
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The latest science suggests that preventing runaway climate change means total decarbonisation.

Commentary Monbiot: Clearing Up This Mess

Commentary, November, 19 2008 George Monbiot
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John Maynard Keynes had the answer to the crisis we're now facing; but it was blocked and then forgotten.

Commentary Monbiot: The Triumph of Ignorance

Commentary, November, 01 2008 George Monbiot
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How was it allowed to happen? How did politics in the US come to be dominated by people who make a virtue out of ignorance? Was it charity that has permitted mankind's closest living relative to spend two terms as president? How did Sarah Palin, D...

Commentary Monbiot: This Is What Denial Does

Commentary, October, 16 2008 George Monbiot
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The economic crisis is petty by comparison to the nature crunch. But they have the same cause.

Commentary Monbiot: Congress Confronts Its Contradictions

Commentary, October, 01 2008 George Monbiot
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They baled out of the bail-out, but the money will still have to come from us. It always has.

Commentary Monbiot: Manufactured Famine

Commentary, September, 10 2008 George Monbiot
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A new wave of food colonialism is snatching food from the mouths of the poor.

Commentary Monbiot: Hypocrites Unite

Commentary, August, 26 2008 George Monbiot
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In her new book, Not In My Name, Julie Burchill reserves her grandest fury about hypocrites for environmentalists. We are, she says, pious, sexless and contemptuous of humankind. All of us are posh and rich, and have found in environmentalism a ne...

Commentary Monbiot: Identity Politics in Climate Change Hell

Commentary, August, 24 2008 George Monbiot
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If you want a glimpse of how the movement against climate change could crumble faster than a summer snowflake, read Ewa Jasiewicz's article, published yesterday on the Guardian's Comment is Free site(1). It is a fine example of the identity politi...

Commentary Monbiot: The Magic Pudding

Commentary, August, 21 2008 George Monbiot
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It's a novel way to commit suicide. Just as Russia demonstrates what happens to former minions which annoy it, Poland agrees to host a US missile defence base. The Russians, as Poland expected, respond to this proposal by kindly offering to turn t...

Commentary Monbiot: Self-Justifying Myths

Commentary, July, 29 2008 George Monbiot
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There is just one party which doesn't seem to care about the controversy created by The Great Global Warming Swindle. That is the company which broadcast it: Channel 4. In fact it seems rather proud of the fuss, and I suspect that Ofcom's damning ...

Commentary Monbiot: Censored by Money

Commentary, July, 23 2008 George Monbiot
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After every test case, the media assume the worst is over: that Britain's libel laws, designed to protect the powerful from public scrutiny, have been fanged, and freedom of speech will no longer be treated like a crime. And then it gets worse.

Commentary Monbiot: Kept Afloat on a Tide of Money

Commentary, July, 21 2008 George Monbiot
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All over the world, protesters are engaged in a heroic battle with reality. They block roads, picket fuel depots, throw missiles and turn over cars in an effort to hold it at bay. The oil is running out and governments, they insist, must do someth...

Commentary Monbiot: Green Lifeline

Commentary, July, 04 2008 George Monbiot
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A radical new idea could save the world's ecosystems. But what will it do to the economy?

Commentary Monbiot: Justice Undone

Commentary, June, 06 2008 George Monbiot
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I didn't get my man, but I helped to remind people what he's done.

Commentary Monbiot: Majesty, We Have Gone Mad: An open letter to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

Commentary, May, 31 2008 George Monbiot
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In common with the leaders of most western nations, our prime minister is urging you to increase your production of oil. I am writing to ask you to ignore him. Like the other leaders he is delusional, and is no longer competent to make his own dec...

Commentary Monbiot: Nothing Left to Fight For

Commentary, May, 23 2008 George Monbiot
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The most rightwing government Britain has had since the Second World War does not deserve to be re-elected.

Commentary Monbiot: How to Build a Human Bomb

Commentary, May, 17 2008 George Monbiot
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When we learnt last week that Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi had blown himself up in Mosul in northern Iraq, the US government presented this as a vindication of its policies. Al-Ajmi was a former inmate of the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay. The Pentag...

Commentary Monbiot: Anticipatory Compliance

Commentary, May, 12 2008 George Monbiot
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If you want to know how powerful Rupert Murdoch is, read the reviews of Bruce Dover's book, Rupert's Adventures in China. Well, go on, read them. You can't find any? I rest my case.

Commentary Monbiot: The Great Consolidation

Commentary, April, 30 2008 George Monbiot
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Everything is getting bigger and further away. Hospitals, post offices, schools and prisons are being "rationalised" and "consolidated". The government says that this process improves efficiency. Instead, it outsources inefficiency: we must travel...

Commentary Monbiot: The Pleasures of the Flesh: If you care about hunger, eat less meat.

Commentary, April, 23 2008 George Monbiot
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You have probably seen the figures by now: the price of rice has risen by three-quarters in the past year, that of wheat by 130%(1). There are food crises in 37 countries. One hundred million people, according to the World Bank, could be pushed in...

Commentary Monbiot: A Cunning Plot: How to grow vegetables without breaking your back

Commentary, April, 19 2008 George Monbiot
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Why do people become obsessed with growing vegetables? It's not exactly high-octane. It won't make you rich or boost your social status. But millions who can afford to buy their food devote every free moment to the kind of labour our ancestors wer...

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