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Commentary Monbiot: Snow Jobs

Commentary, April, 14 2008 George Monbiot
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The employment figures attached to large projects tend to be codswallop.

Commentary Monbiot: A Likely Story

Commentary, March, 08 2008 George Monbiot
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As the evidence accumulates, the Evening Standard's allegations of terrorist planning have fallen apart.

Commentary Monbiot: Pro-Death: Religious conservatives are responsible for high abortion rates

Commentary, February, 28 2008 George Monbiot
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Who carries the greatest responsibility for the deaths of unborn children in this country? I accuse the leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, His Eminence Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor. I charge that he is partly to blame for our a...

Commentary Monbiot: An Exchange of Souls

Commentary, February, 20 2008 George Monbiot
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As government documents show, Sir Nicholas Stern accidentally launched a trade in human lives.

Commentary Monbiot: Hurray! We're Going Backwards!

Commentary, January, 08 2008 George Monbiot
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The European Union had asked for greenhouse gas cuts of 15% by 2010. Gore's team drove them down to 5.2% by 2012. Then it did something worse: it destroyed the whole agreement.

Commentary Monbiot: How Britain became party to a crime that may have killed a million people

Commentary, January, 05 2008 George Monbiot
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If you doubt Britain needs a written constitution, listen to the strangely unbalanced discussion broadcast by the BBC last Friday. The Today programme asked Lord Guthrie, formerly chief of the defence staff, and Sir Kevin Tebbit, until recently th...

Commentary Monbiot: The Kings of England

Commentary, January, 03 2008 George Monbiot
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If you doubt that Britain needs a written constitution, listen to the strangely unbalanced discussion broadcast by the BBC on Friday. The Today programme asked Lord Guthrie, formerly chief of the defence staff, and Sir Kevin Tebbit, until recently...

Commentary Monbiot: The Kings of England

Commentary, January, 02 2008 George Monbiot
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If you doubt that Britain needs a written constitution, listen to the strangely unbalanced discussion broadcast by the BBC on Friday. The Today programme asked Lord Guthrie, formerly chief of the defence staff, and Sir Kevin Tebbit, until recently...

Commentary Monbiot: Ban the Bomb - But Only in Iran

Commentary, December, 21 2007 George Monbiot
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George Bush and Gordon Brown are right: there should be no nuclear weapons in the Middle East. The risk of a nuclear conflagration could be greater there than anywhere else. Any nation developing them should expect a firm diplomatic response. So w...

Commentary Monbiot: The Road Well Travelled

Commentary, November, 19 2007 George Monbiot
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The Road Well Travelled

Commentary Monbiot: Libertarians are the true social parasites

Commentary, November, 11 2007 George Monbiot
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Libertarians are the true social parasites

Commentary Monbiot: Playing in the Rough

Commentary, October, 29 2007 George Monbiot
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Most human differences can be overcome, but there is one unbridgeable divide. The world is split between people who play golf and people who don't. Each faction regards the other as an alien lifeform. One is astonished that any human fails to see ...

Commentary Monbiot: The Junta's Accomplices

Commentary, October, 09 2007 George Monbiot
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China has become the world's excuse for inaction. If there is anything a government or a business does not want to do, it invokes the Yellow Peril. Raise the minimum wage to £6 an hour? Not when the Chinese are paid £6 a year. Cap working time at ...

Commentary Monbiot: Drumming Up a New Cold War

Commentary, September, 10 2007 George Monbiot
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In one short statement to parliament last week, the defence secretary, Des Browne, broke the promises of two prime ministers, potentially misled the House, helped bury an international treaty and dragged Britain into a new cold war. Pretty good go...

Commentary Monbiot: Eco-junk: Green consumerism will not save the biosphere

Commentary, August, 20 2007 George Monbiot
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It wasn't meant to happen like this. The climate scientists told us that our winters would become wetter and our summers drier. So I can't claim that these floods were caused by climate change, or are even consistent with the models. But, like the...

Commentary Monbiot: Union With the Devil

Commentary, July, 26 2007 George Monbiot
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Gordon Brown appears to have tested them. It is as if he wanted to discover how far he can go before the affiliated trade unions - which provide most of the Labour party's funds - decide that they have had enough. The results must reassure him: th...

Commentary Monbiot: Without Principle

Commentary, June, 26 2007 George Monbiot
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Never let members of this government complain about corruption abroad. Never let them blame the failure of Tony Blair's mission to rescue Africa on venal dictators and grasping officials. The new allegations published in the Guardian yesterday abo...

Commentary Monbiot: The Conspiracy Widens

Commentary, June, 13 2007 George Monbiot
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[ZNet editors note: see related debate between Cockburn, Monbiot and others here http://www.zmag.org/debatesglobalwarming.html]

Commentary Monbiot: No More Ventriloquists: A world parliament allows the poor to speak for themselves

Commentary, June, 07 2007 George Monbiot
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It was first proposed (as far as I can discover) in 1842, by Alfred Tennyson(1). Since then the idea has broken the surface and sunk again at least a dozen times. But this time it could start to swim. The demand for a world parliament is at last a...

Commentary Monbiot: Car-nage: We need a global campaign for road safety, but not one controlled by the motor industry.

Commentary, May, 25 2007 George Monbiot
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Corporate social responsibility often resembles the adventures of The Good Soldier Svejk. In 1914, about to be conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian army, Svejk puts on his old uniform and a volunteer's buttonhole and, waving his borrowed crutches...

Commentary Monbiot: In the Company of Wolves

Commentary, May, 24 2007 George Monbiot
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What would it take to disqualify a nation from running Europe's official human rights organisation? Persecuting gays? Not a hope. Torturing and murdering political opponents? Forget about it. Waging an illegal war? You must be joking. The Council ...

Commentary Monbiot: In the Company of Wolves

Commentary, May, 21 2007 George Monbiot
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What would it take to disqualify a nation from running Europe's official human rights organisation? Persecuting gays? Not a hope. Torturing and murdering political opponents? Forget about it. Waging an illegal war? You must be joking. The Council ...

Commentary Monbiot: Feeding Frenzy: Why is it still acceptable to eat the endangered large predators of the sea?

Commentary, May, 12 2007 George Monbiot
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To Ransom A. Myers, who died on March 27th.

Commentary Monbiot: The Real Climate Censorship

Commentary, April, 28 2007 George Monbiot
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The drafting of reports by the world's pre-eminent group of climate scientists is an odd process. For many months scientists contributing to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tussle over the evidence. Nothing gets published unless it a...

Commentary Monbiot: Untroubled by Democracy

Commentary, April, 03 2007 George Monbiot
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The consultations surrounding the Olympic Games are a stitch-up.

Commentary Monbiot: Routine and systematic torture is at the heart of America's war on terror

Commentary, January, 06 2007 George Monbiot
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After thousands of years of practice, you might have imagined that every possible means of inflicting pain had already been devised. But you should never underestimate the human capacity for invention. United States interrogators, we now discover,...

Commentary Monbiot: Here's the Plan: For fast and effective action on climate change

Commentary, December, 08 2006 George Monbiot
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It is a testament to the power of money that Nicholas Stern's report should have swung the argument for drastic action, even before anyone has finished reading it. He appears to have demonstrated what many of us suspected: that it would cost much ...

Commentary Monbiot: Here's the Plan For fast and effective action on climate change

Commentary, November, 23 2006 George Monbiot
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It is a testament to the power of money that Nicholas Stern's report should have swung the argument for drastic action, even before anyone has finished reading it. He appears to have demonstrated what many of us suspected: that it would cost much ...

Commentary Monbiot: The Cult of the Heroic Animal: The Disneyfication of war allows us to ignore its real savagery

Commentary, November, 13 2006 George Monbiot
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Most of our memorials sentimentalise war. Few commemorate the horror. But now we have a new category, whose purpose seems to be to trivialise it.

Commentary Monbiot: Defend Our Ranting Homophobes

Commentary, October, 15 2006 George Monbiot
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Stephen Green represents everything most readers of the Guardian loathe. As head of the organisation Christian Voice, he sought to have Jerry Springer the Opera banned from theatres and the BBC and prosecuted for blasphemy. When Hurricane Katrina ...

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