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Monbiot: Britain's Shadow Government: Unelected, Unbalanced and Unaccountable
Znet Article, March, 13 2012
George Monbiot
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Through a network of unbalanced, almost-invisible committees, the government gets what it wants
Monbiot: How Ayn Rand Became the New Right's Version of Marx
Znet Article, March, 07 2012
George Monbiot
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Ayn Rand's is the philosophy of the psychopath, a misanthropic fantasy of cruelty, revenge and greed
Monbiot: Britain Is Being Rebuilt In Aid Of Corporate Power
Znet Article, February, 28 2012
George Monbiot
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The corporations gaining ever greater powers will be subject to less democratic oversight and restraint
Monbiot: We Need To Know Who Funds These Thinktank Lobbyists
Znet Article, February, 24 2012
George Monbiot
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The battle for democracy is becoming a fight against backroom billionaires seeking to shape politics to suit their own interests
Monbiot: Is Protecting The Environment Incompatible With Social Justice?
Znet Article, February, 14 2012
George Monbiot
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Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more
Monbiot: The Right's Stupidity Spreads, Enabled By A Too-Polite Left
Znet Article, February, 07 2012
George Monbiot
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Conservativism may be the refuge of the dim. But the room for rightwing ideas is made by those too timid to properly object
Monbiot: Nuclear vs Nuclear vs Nuclear
Znet Article, February, 03 2012
George Monbiot
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Opponents of nuclear power who shout down suggestions of how to use spent waste as fuel will not make the problem disappear
Monbiot: Divine Injustice
Znet Article, February, 01 2012
George Monbiot
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Unmanned craft allow governments to fight a coward’s war, a god’s war, harming only the unnamed
Monbiot: The Great Pay Robbery
Znet Article, January, 25 2012
George Monbiot
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Wealth, which was once spread more evenly,is now siphoned off by people who have neither earned nor generated it
Monbiot: The Sacrificial Caste
Znet Article, January, 18 2012
George Monbiot
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In this and other nations, there are groups of children who can be abused with impunity
Monbiot: The Green Deal Is A Useless, Middle-Class Subsidy
Znet Article, January, 15 2012
George Monbiot
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This deal is in no way green – it's just one of the means by which money is being taken from the poor and given to the rich
Monbiot: Making Democracy Safe for Business
Znet Article, January, 11 2012
George Monbiot
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When governments seek to protect the rich from the poor, they act swiftly and decisively
Monbiot: Why Libertarians Must Deny Climate Change, In One Short Take
Znet Article, January, 08 2012
George Monbiot
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The owners of coal-burning power stations in the UK have not obtained the consent of everyone who owns a lake or a forest in Sweden to deposit acid rain there
Monbiot: How Freedom Became Tyranny
Znet Article, December, 21 2011
George Monbiot
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Rightwing libertarians have turned “freedom” into an excuse for greed and exploitation.
Monbiot: Why Is It So Easy To Save The Banks – But So Hard To Save The Biosphere?
Znet Article, December, 17 2011
George Monbiot
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Agreements to bail out banks happen in days – but despite some good progress at Durban, we still don't have a legally binding deal to bail out the planet
Monbiot: Unmasking the Press
Znet Article, December, 14 2011
George Monbiot
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Have we ever been so badly served by the press?
Monbiot: A Question of Faith
Znet Article, December, 09 2011
George Monbiot
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If people are committed to an unscientific position, no evidence or argument will shake them out of it
Monbiot: A Waste of Waste
Znet Article, December, 07 2011
George Monbiot
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I suggest we take the radical step of using science, not superstition, as our guide
Monbiot: Slash and Burn Capitalism
Znet Article, December, 03 2011
George Monbiot
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As the chancellor establishes his Republic of Gideon, finally big landowners have their champion of slash and burn capitalism
Monbiot: We're all Paying for Europe's Gift to our Aristocrats and Utility Companies
Znet Article, November, 30 2011
George Monbiot
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Dukes, water companies and wildlife charities will be relieved to know their plunder of farm subsidies under the common agricultural policy can last until at least 2020
Monbiot: The Corporate Welfare State
Znet Article, November, 22 2011
George Monbiot
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Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor: that is how our economies work
Monbiot: The Self-Attribution Fallacy
Znet Article, November, 09 2011
George Monbiot
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Intelligence? Talent? No, the ultra-rich got to where they are through luck and brutality
Monbiot: Wealth Destroyers
Znet Article, November, 02 2011
George Monbiot
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It’s the dark heart of Britain, the place where democracy goes to die, immensely powerful, equally unaccountable
Monbiot: Advertising is a Poison
Znet Article, October, 26 2011
George Monbiot
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Most advertising appeals to and reinforces extrinsic values
Monbiot: Show Me The Money
Znet Article, October, 20 2011
George Monbiot
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We have a democratic right to know who is funding public advocacy
Monbiot: Roads to Ruin
Znet Article, October, 08 2011
George Monbiot
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Car driving isolates us from other people and encourages us to see society – pedestrians, bicycles, other cars, speed limits, traffic calming – as an obstacle
Monbiot: More Cuts Please
Znet Article, October, 06 2011
George Monbiot
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Whatever else the ministry of defence gets wrong, however, you can’t fault it for innovation
Monbiot: A Billionaires' Coup in the US
Znet Article, September, 29 2011
George Monbiot
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The rich have to somehow persuade the other 99% to vote against their own interests
Monbiot: War with the Wullies
Znet Article, September, 28 2011
George Monbiot
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A fight between corporate power and democracy
Monbiot: How the Proposed Planning Reforms Make a Mockery of Us
Znet Article, September, 12 2011
George Monbiot
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You will not be allowed to prevent developers from wrecking your neighbourhood
