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Znet Article Monbiot: Beholden to the Mob

Znet Article, March, 15 2006 George Monbiot
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After wriggling its way through every possible excuse for inaction, last week the Office of Fair Trading decided to launch an inquiry into the behaviour of the big grocery chains. It's about time. But alongside it we need another one: into whether...

Znet Article Monbiot: We Are All Killers Until We Stop Flying

Znet Article, February, 28 2006 George Monbiot
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At last the battlelines have been drawn, and the first major fight over climate change is about to begin. All over the country, a coalition of homeowners and anarchists, NIMBYs and internationalists is mustering to fight the greatest future cause ...

Znet Article Monbiot: A Good Model for a Mugging

Znet Article, February, 14 2006 George Monbiot
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From the hubbub surrounding the privatisation of the British government's defence research service - Qinetiq - last week, one statement stopped me dead. Lord Drayson, the minister for defence procurement, asserted that it was a "good model for fut...

Znet Article Monbiot: Smoke Rings

Znet Article, February, 08 2006 George Monbiot
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Three weeks ago, while looking for something else, I came across one of the most extraordinary documents I have ever read. It relates to an organisation called Arise, which stands for Associates for Research into the Science of Enjoyment. Though l...

Znet Article Monbiot: How Britain Denies its Holocausts

Znet Article, December, 27 2005 George Monbiot
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In reading the reports of the trial of the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, you are struck by two things. The first of course is the anachronistic brutality of the country's laws. Mr Pamuk, like scores of other writers and journalists, is being prose...

Znet Article Monbiot: Who Runs Britain?

Znet Article, December, 22 2005 George Monbiot
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If Jesus Christ were to return to earth and the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit were to slay the greater part of mankind, the first thing the media would do would be to find out how the markets had reacted. The next would be to ring...

Znet Article Monbiot: The Anti-Social Bastards in Our Midst

Znet Article, December, 20 2005 George Monbiot
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The road rage lobby couldn't have been more wrong. Organisations like the Association of British Drivers and "Safe Speed" - the boy racers' club masquerading as a road safety campaign - have spent years claiming that speeding doesn't cause acciden...

Znet Article Monbiot: Worse Than Fossil Fuel

Znet Article, December, 07 2005 George Monbiot
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Over the past two years I have made an uncomfortable discovery. Like most environmentalists, I have been as blind to the constraints affecting our energy supply as my opponents have been to climate change. I now realise that I have entertained a b...

Znet Article Monbiot: Worse Than Fossil Fuel

Znet Article, December, 07 2005 George Monbiot
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Over the past two years I have made an uncomfortable discovery. Like most environmentalists, I have been as blind to the constraints affecting our energy supply as my opponents have been to climate change. I now realise that I have entertained a b...

Znet Article Monbiot: Struggle Against Ourselves

Znet Article, December, 05 2005 George Monbiot
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  I want to take a moment to remind you of where we have come from. For the first three million years of human history, we lived according to circumstance. Our lives were ruled by the happenstances of ecology. We existed, as all animals do, in ...

Znet Article Monbiot: A War Crime Within a War Crime Within a War Crime

Znet Article, November, 22 2005 George Monbiot
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The media couldn't have made a bigger pig's ear of the white phosphorus story. So before moving on to the new revelations from Falluja, I would like to try to clear up the old ones.  There is no hard evidence that white phosphorus was used against...

Znet Article Monbiot: War Without Rules

Znet Article, November, 15 2005 George Monbiot
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Did US troops use chemical weapons in Falluja? The answer is yes. The proof is not to be found in the documentary broadcast on Italian TV last week, which has generated gigabytes of hype on the internet. It's a turkey, whose evidence that white ph...

Znet Article Monbiot: Bringing Out the Dead

Znet Article, November, 09 2005 George Monbiot
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We were told that the Iraqis don't count. Before the invasion began the head of US central command, General Thomas Franks, boasted "we don't do bodycounts."(1) His claim was repeated by Donald Rumsfeld in November 2003 ("we don't do body counts on...

Znet Article Monbiot: Passive Driving

Znet Article, November, 01 2005 George Monbiot
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It was fudged - stupidly and unnecessarily fudged - but at least they tried. The ban on smoking in pubs, though gutted by the prime minister's cowardice, will save some fraction of the bar staff who die every year as a result of passive smoking. T...

Znet Article Monbiot: Our Own Nuclear Salesman

Znet Article, October, 26 2005 George Monbiot
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I report this with sadness: Sir David King has lost his bottle. Until a few weeks ago, the chief scientific adviser looked to me like one of the few brave souls in the British government. In an article in Science at the beginning of last year, he ...

Znet Article Monbiot: Protesters as Criminals

Znet Article, October, 04 2005 George Monbiot
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"We are trying to fight 21st-century crime - antisocial behaviour, drug-dealing, binge drinking, organised crime - with 19th-century methods as if we still lived in the time of Dickens". Tony Blair, 27th September 2005.(1) "Down poured the wine l...

Znet Article Monbiot: Crying Sheep

Znet Article, September, 27 2005 George Monbiot
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Are global oil supplies about to peak? Are they, in other words, about to reach their maximum and then go into decline? There is a simple answer to this question: no one has the faintest idea. Consider these two statements: 1. "Last year Saudi A...

Znet Article Monbiot: A World Turned Upside Down

Znet Article, September, 20 2005 George Monbiot
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Climate change denial has gone through four stages. First the fossil fuel lobbyists told us that global warming was a myth. Then they agreed that it was happening, but insisted it was a good thing: we could grow wine in the Pennines and take Medit...

Znet Article Monbiot: The Net Censors

Znet Article, September, 13 2005 George Monbiot
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"Several of this cursed brood, getting hold of the branches behind, leaped up into the tree, whence they began to discharge their excrements on my head"(1). Thus Gulliver describes his first encounter with the Yahoos. Something similar seems to ha...

Znet Article Monbiot: The Man Who Betrayed the Poor

Znet Article, September, 06 2005 George Monbiot
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Two months have not elapsed since the G8 summit, and already almost everything has turned to ashes. Even the crustiest sceptics have been shocked by the speed with which its promises have been broken. It is true that they didn't amount to much. T...

Znet Article Monbiot: How to Stop Civil War

Znet Article, August, 30 2005 George Monbiot
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Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow of occupation. Whatever the parliamentarians in Iraq do to try to prevent total meltdown, their efforts are compromised by the fact that their power grows from the barrel of someone else's gun. Whe...

Znet Article Monbiot: Faced With This Crisis

Znet Article, July, 26 2005 George Monbiot
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One day we will look back on the effort to deny the effects of climate change as we now look back on the work of Trofim Lysenko. Lysenko was a Soviet agronomist who insisted that the entire canon of genetics was wrong. There was no limit to an o...

Znet Article Monbiot: Africa's New Best Friends

Znet Article, July, 07 2005 George Monbiot
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I began to realise how much trouble we were in when Hilary Benn, the secretary of state for international development, announced that he would be joining the Make Poverty History march on Saturday. What would he be chanting, I wondered? "Down with...

Znet Article Monbiot: Save us from Ourselves

Znet Article, July, 02 2005 George Monbiot
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Show me an environmentalist, and I will show you a hypocrite. In an interview with the Guardian recently, Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay and all-round good guy, spoke of his concerns about climate change. On his new album there's "an in...

Znet Article Monbiot: Our Very Own Enron?

Znet Article, June, 28 2005 George Monbiot
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For how much longer can this farce carry on? Everywhere, the chickens released by the government's private finance initiative are not so much coming home to roost as crashing into the henhouse and sliding down the wall in a heap of blood and feath...

Znet Article Monbiot: A Truckload Of Nonsense

Znet Article, June, 23 2005 George Monbiot
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An aura of sanctity is descending upon the world's most powerful men. On Saturday the finance ministers from seven of the G8 nations (Russia was not invited) promised to cancel the debts the poorest countries owe to the World Bank and the Internat...

Znet Article Monbiot: Bards of the Powerful

Znet Article, June, 21 2005 George Monbiot
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"Hackers bombard financial networks", the Financial Times reported on Thursday. Government departments and businesses "have been bombarded with a sophisticated electronic attack for several months." It is being organised by an Asian criminal netwo...

Znet Article Monbiot: A Restraint of Liberty

Znet Article, May, 24 2005 George Monbiot
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The British government recognises two kinds of freedom. There is the freedom of the citizen, which it appears to perceive as a threat to good order. It has permitted (through the Serious Organised Crime Act) the police or courts to ban any public ...

Znet Article Monbiot: In Bed With Killers

Znet Article, May, 03 2005 George Monbiot
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It all seems a very long way away. But what is happening in an obscure island nation in the South Pacific has now become our business. A few weeks ago, BP, the British company which has invested most in "corporate social responsibility", received ...

Znet Article Monbiot: A Different Kind of Revolution

Znet Article, April, 26 2005 George Monbiot
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The people fighting the new wind farm in Cumbria have cheated and exaggerated. They appear to possess little understanding of the dangers of global warming. They are supported by an unsavoury coalition of nuclear power lobbyists and climate change...

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