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Monbiot: Beneath the Pall of Misery, a New Movement Is Born
Znet Article, August, 21 2007
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There are plenty of people at the Heathrow climate camp who say they are campaigning on behalf o...
Monbiot: The editorials urge us to cut emissions, but the ads tell a very different story
Znet Article, August, 15 2007
George Monbiot
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I am sorry to be crude...
Monbiot: Eco-junk
Znet Article, July, 26 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 s...
Monbiot: Everywhere they go, the Olympic Games become an excuse for eviction and displacement.
Znet Article, July, 02 2007
George Monbiot
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Everywhere they go, the Olympic Games become an excuse for eviction and displacement.
Monbiot: The Conspiracy Widens
Znet Article, June, 12 2007
George Monbiot
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So at last, and after only seven requests, we have some references. And, to no gasps of surprise, they reveal that the "papers" on which Alexander Cockburn bases his claim that carbon dioxide doesn't cause global warming have not been published in...
Monbiot: G8: Watch What They Do, Not What They Say
Znet Article, June, 06 2007
George Monbiot
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It is time once again for that touching annual ritual, in which the world's most powerful people move themselves to tears. At Heiligendamm they will emote with the wretched of the...
Monbiot: Alexander Cockburn and the Corruption of Science
Znet Article, May, 31 2007
George Monbiot
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Alexander Cockburn and the Corruption of Science
Monbiot: What if the Oil Runs Out?
Znet Article, May, 31 2007
George Monbiot
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Motorised transport is a form of time travel. We mine the compressed time of other eras - the infinitisimal rain o...
Monbiot: Request for Climate References
Znet Article, May, 12 2007
George Monbiot
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Request for Climate References
Monbiot: Response to Cockburn
Znet Article, May, 03 2007
George Monbiot
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[Editors Note: Click here for Alexander Cockburn's precipitating article "From Papal I...
Monbiot: Giving Up On Two Degrees
Znet Article, May, 02 2007
George Monbiot
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The rich nations seeking to cut climate change have this in common: they lie. You won't find this statement in the...
Monbiot: If we want to save the planet, we need a five-year freeze on biofuels
Znet Article, March, 29 2007
George Monbiot
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Oil produced from plants sets up c...
Monbiot: The 9/11 conspiracy theories are a coward's cult
Znet Article, February, 23 2007
George Monbiot
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The 9/11 conspiracy theories are a coward's cult
Monbiot: This is a dazzling debunking of climate change science.
Znet Article, November, 17 2006
George Monbiot
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Deniers are cock-a-hoop at an aristocrat's claims that global warming is a UN hoax. But the physics is bafflingly bad For the past nine days my inbox has been filling up with messages labelled "Your scam exposed", "The great fraud unravels" ...
Monbiot: Asserting Our Right to Kill and Maim Civilians
Znet Article, November, 08 2006
George Monbiot
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The central mystery of the modern state is this. The necessary resources, both economic and political, will always be found for the purpose of terminating life. The project of preserving it will always struggle. When did you last see a soldier sha...
Monbiot: Putting the State on Trial
Znet Article, October, 20 2006
George Monbiot
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In the early hours, two days before the attack on Iraq began, two men in their thirties, Phil Pritchard and Toby Olditch, cut through the fence surrounding the air base at Fairford in Gloucestershire and made their way towards the B52 bombers whic...
Monbiot: Who's Paying?
Znet Article, September, 28 2006
George Monbiot
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On the letters page of the Guardian last week, a Dr Alan Kendall attacked the Royal Society for "smearing" its opponents. It had sent an official letter to Exxon, complaining about the oil company's "inaccurate and misleading" portrayal of the sci...
Monbiot: A Catalogue of Idiocy
Znet Article, September, 13 2006
George Monbiot
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It is as far out of sight, and as far out of mind, as any place on the British mainland could be. From the point of view of our political leaders, this is just as well. If the perennial farce at the Dounreay nuclear site, on the north coast of Sco...
Monbiot: The Generals' War
Znet Article, August, 16 2006
George Monbiot
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Last week I argued that Israel's attack on Lebanon was premeditated. Hizbullah's capture of two soldiers gave the government the excuse to launch an assault it had been planning since 2004. Both Bush and Blair knew that it would happen and gave it...
Monbiot: Israel responded to an unprovoked attack by Hizbullah, right? Wrong
Znet Article, August, 08 2006
George Monbiot
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Whatever we think of Israel's assault on Lebanon, all of...
Monbiot: Israel responded to an unprovoked attack by Hizbullah, right? Wrong
Znet Article, August, 07 2006
George Monbiot
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Whatever we think of Israel's assault on Lebanon, all of us seem to agree about one fact: that it was a response, however disproportionate, to an unprovoked attack by Hizbullah. I repeated this "fact" in my last column, when I wrote that "Hizbulla...
Monbiot: Thanks, But We Still Don't Need It
Znet Article, July, 11 2006
George Monbiot
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If someone had worked out how to cause a war within the environment movement, they could not have developed a better means than nuclear power. In public, we will line up to attack the energy review published by the government today. In private we ...
Monbiot: Willy Loman Syndrome
Znet Article, July, 09 2006
George Monbiot
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If this were Iraq, or Somalia or Chechnya, the trend would not be difficult to understand. But this is Britain, during the longest period of domestic peace and prosperity in modern history. After 36 successive quarters of growth and low inflation,...
Monbiot: Not Enough Fish in the Sea
Znet Article, June, 21 2006
George Monbiot
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The more it is tested, the more compelling the hypothesis becomes. Dyslexia, ADHD, dyspraxia and other neurological problems seem to be associated with a deficiency of omega-3 fatty acids, especially in the womb(1,2,3,4). The evidence of a link wi...
Monbiot: Occupations Brutalise
Znet Article, June, 07 2006
George Monbiot
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That they have not seen his film is no impediment. That it has won the Palme d'Or at Cannes only quickens their desire for reprisals. Ken Loach has been placed in preventive detention and is having his fingernails pulled out. Writing in the Time...
Monbiot: The Inspectors Who Look the Other Way
Znet Article, May, 30 2006
George Monbiot
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The Inspectors Who Look the Other Way
Monbiot: A Well of Hypocrisy
Znet Article, May, 16 2006
George Monbiot
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Civilisation has a new enemy. He is a former coca grower called Evo Morales, who is currently the president of Bolivia. Yesterday he stood before the European parliament to explain why he had sent troops to regain control of his country's gas and ...
Monbiot: An Easter Egg Hunt
Znet Article, May, 09 2006
George Monbiot
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Whenever a new scandal about the private finance initiative (PFI) emerges, the government and its friends in the financial press blame it on "teething problems". When the first contracts permitting private companies to build and run our public ser...
Monbiot: An Easter Egg Hunt
Znet Article, May, 09 2006
George Monbiot
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Whenever a new scandal about the private finance initiative (PFI) emerges, the government and its friends in the financial press blame it on "teething problems". When the first contracts permitting private companies to build and run our public ser...
Monbiot: A Bully in Ermine
Znet Article, March, 25 2006
George Monbiot
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I think I have discovered the clinching argument for closing the House of Lords. It is the presence in that chamber of a peer called Lady Tonge of Kew. Last week, the baroness (formerly the Liberal Democrat MP Jenny Tonge) opened a debate about ...
