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Commentary Monbiot: Born Yesterday

Commentary, June, 07 2004 George Monbiot
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Review of The Day After Tomorrow

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...

Commentary Monbiot: Seeds of Distraction

Commentary, March, 27 2004 George Monbiot
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The question is as simple as this: do you want a few corporations to monopolise the global food supply? If the answer is yes, you should welcome the announcement the government is expected to make today, that the commercial planting of a GM crop i...

Commentary Monbiot: Extreme Measures

Commentary, March, 03 2004 George Monbiot
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So now what happens? Our prime minister is up to his neck in it. His attorney-general appears to have changed his advice about the legality of the war a few days before it began. Blair refuses to release either version, apparently for fear that he...

Commentary Monbiot: On the Edge of Lunacy

Commentary, January, 18 2004 George Monbiot
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Spare a thought this bleak new year for all those who rely on charity. Open your hearts, for example, to a group of people who, though they live in London, are in such desperate need of handouts that last year they received 7.6 million pounds in f...

Commentary Monbiot: A Weapon With Wings

Commentary, December, 17 2003 George Monbiot
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They will probably be commemorating the wrong people in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, tomorrow. Five months before the Wright brothers lifted a flying machine into the air for twelve seconds above the sand dunes of the Outer Banks, the New Zealander...

Commentary Monbiot: George Bush, The Anti-American

Commentary, November, 22 2003 George Monbiot
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This week something unprecedented will happen in Britain. An American president will arrive here and be greeted not by cheering crowds but by howls of execration. The protests in London against George Bush are likely to be the biggest Britain has ...

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...

Commentary Monbiot: The Enemies of Science

Commentary, October, 09 2003 George Monbiot
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It is curious that this government, which goes to such lengths to show that it responds to market forces, appears to believe, when it comes to genetic modification, that the customer is always wrong. Tony Blair might have spent six years rolling b...

Commentary Monbiot: Stealing Nations

Commentary, August, 28 2003 George Monbiot
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The International Monetary Fund does not make its "mistakes" by accident.

Commentary Monbiot: America Is a Religion

Commentary, August, 03 2003 George Monbiot
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"The death of Uday and Qusay," the commander of the ground forces in Iraq told reporters on Wednesday, "is definitely going to be a turning point for the resistance."1 Well, it was a turning point, but unfortunately not of the kind he envisaged. O...

Commentary Monbiot: Shadow of extinction

Commentary, July, 20 2003 George Monbiot
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It is old news, I admit. Two hundred and fifty-one million years old, to be precise. But the story of what happened then, which has now been told for the first time, demands our urgent attention. Its implications are more profound than anything ta...

Commentary Monbiot: I Was Wrong About Trade

Commentary, June, 29 2003 George Monbiot
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A few years ago I would have raised at least two cheers. The US government, to judge by the aggressive noises now being made by its trade negotiators, seems determined to wreck one of the most intrusive and destructive of the instruments of global...

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...

Commentary Monbiot: Chemical Hypocrites

Commentary, April, 10 2003 George Monbiot
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When Saddam Hussein so pig-headedly failed to shower US troops with chemical weapons as they entered Iraq, thus depriving them of a retrospective justification for this war, the American generals explained that he would do so as soon as they cross...

Commentary Monbiot: The Poor Get Stuffed

Commentary, January, 09 2003 George Monbiot
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The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians. But one feature of the celebrations has remained unchanged: the consumption of vast quantities of meat. The practice used to make sense. Livesto...

Commentary Monbiot: The Covert Biotech War

Commentary, November, 24 2002 George Monbiot
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The president of Zambia is wrong. Genetically modified food is not, as far as we know, "poison". While adequate safety tests have still to be conducted, there is, as yet, no compelling evidence that it is any worse for human health than convention...

Commentary Monbiot: Unreality TV

Commentary, October, 28 2002 George Monbiot
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For the past nine months, priests and tribal leaders in West Papua, the easternmost province of Indonesia, have been trying to warn the world that an Islamic fundamentalist movement is using their land as a training ground. Laskar Jihad is command...

Commentary Monbiot: Corporate Phantoms

Commentary, July, 30 2002 George Monbiot
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New findings reveal a web of deceit around GM food, in which the Prime Minister has now been caught. By George Monbiot.

Commentary Monbiot: White Lies

Commentary, June, 28 2002 George Monbiot
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In the Canadian fastness of Kananaskis this week, the messianic cult of empire will solemnly worship itself. The leaders of the G8 nations will declare that they have come to deliver the world from evil. They will announce that they are sacrificin...

Commentary Monbiot: A New Mobilisation

Commentary, May, 27 2002 George Monbiot
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The left, almost everyone agrees, is on the run. George Bush's seizure of power has dragged governments everywhere still further to the right. Most of the world's media are deeply hostile to progressive ideas. Now the war in Afghanistan has greatl...

Commentary Monbiot: Diplomatic Impunity

Commentary, April, 26 2002 George Monbiot
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Tony Blair might believe he belongs to an international coalition, but George Bush has other ideas. Bush's international war against terrorism has not stopped him from waging a parallel war against co-operation.

Commentary Monbiot: A War Against the Peacemaker

Commentary, April, 20 2002 George Monbiot
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On Sunday, the US government will launch an international coup. It has been planned for a month. It will be executed quietly, and most of us won't know what is happening until it's too late. It is seeking to overthrow 60 years of multilateralism, ...

Commentary Monbiot: Patent Nonsense

Commentary, March, 21 2002 George Monbiot
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The most surprising aspect of the steel war launched by the United States last week is that anyone is surprised. For all the talk of increasing freedom, the only certain and consistent trend in global trade rules over the past ten years has been t...

Commentary Monbiot: Race War

Commentary, March, 08 2002 George Monbiot
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Those of us who opposed the bombing of Afghanistan warned that the war between nations would not stop there. Now, as Tony Blair prepares the British people for an attack on Iraq, the conflict seems to be proliferating faster than most of us predic...

Commentary Monbiot: The Corporate Takeover of Childhood

Commentary, February, 14 2002 George Monbiot
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For many children, a new school term begins with apprehension. But yesterday it wasn't just the children who were worried about what they might encounter. Every term now brings another government scheme, to re-finance, outsource, subcontract, recl...

Commentary Monbiot: Airstrip One

Commentary, February, 05 2002 George Monbiot
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There could scarcely be an odder time to announce a massive airport development. Even before the crash in New York eleven days ago, the world's airline companies were expecting to lose 15% of their trade and some $7bn. In the past fortnight two ma...

Commentary Monbiot: The End of the Enlightenment

Commentary, December, 21 2001 George Monbiot
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The pre-Enlightenment has just been beaten by the post-Enlightenment. As the last fundamentalist fighters are hunted through the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, the world's most comprehensive attempt to defy modernity has been atomised. But this...

Commentary Monbiot: Making Generosity Redundant

Commentary, November, 23 2001 George Monbiot
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They thought it was all over. After civilisation's victory in Afghanistan, where the lion now lies down with the lamb, there was, almost all the newspapers agreed, nothing left to discuss. All that needed to be done was to remind those who had que...

Commentary Monbiot: Blasting Our Way to Peace The West's "victory" is a defeat for civilisation

Commentary, November, 16 2001 George Monbiot
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The armchair warriors have proved no more merciful in victory than the Northern Alliance. Yesterday's Sun turned over two pages to an editorial titled "Shame of the traitors: wrong, wrong, wrong ... the fools who said Allies faced disaster".

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