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Monbiot: Signal Your Opposition
Znet Article, April, 20 2005
George Monbiot
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Michael Howard could not have done a better job of proving people like me wrong. He has missed no opportunity to demonstrate that, however much they agree on economic, foreign and defence policy, there is still a real difference between Labour and...
Monbiot: With Wolfowitz
Znet Article, April, 05 2005
George Monbiot
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It's about as close to consensus as the left is ever likely to come. Everyone this side of Atilla the Hun and The Wall Street Journal agrees that Paul Wolfowitz's appointment as president of the World Bank is a catastrophe. Except me. Under Wolfow...
Monbiot: The Business of Killing
Znet Article, March, 29 2005
George Monbiot
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It is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, or a tap on the head with a steam hammer. But only just. The new draft bill on corporate manslaughter is a ghost of what was once proposed. But, for the first time in the United Kingdom, ther...
Monbiot: The Real Straight Banana
Znet Article, March, 08 2005
George Monbiot
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There is a group of men and women which seeks to make life as difficult as possible for the progressives who support the European Union. They are members not of the UK Independence Party or the French National Front, but of the European Commission...
Monbiot: Paid-Up Members
Znet Article, March, 04 2005
George Monbiot
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William Hague, according to the new register of members' interests, makes about 20 times as much for not being an MP as he makes for being one. We don't know exactly how much he is paid for his other 54 jobs, because members are not obliged to rev...
Monbiot: Pedigree Dogs of War
Znet Article, January, 25 2005
George Monbiot
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What is the legal difference between hiring a helicopter for use in a coup against a West African government, and sending supplies to the Chechen rebels? If there isn't one, why isn't Mark Thatcher in Belmarsh? Conversely, why aren't the "foreign ...
Monbiot: Media Fairyland
Znet Article, January, 19 2005
George Monbiot
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On Thursday, the fairy king of fairyland will be re-crowned. He was elected on a platform suspended in mid air by the power of imagination. He is the leader of a band of men who walk through ghostly realms unvisited by reality. And he remains the ...
Monbiot: Sweden vs England
Znet Article, January, 11 2005
George Monbiot
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"Does not already the response to the massive tidal wave in south east Asia," Gordon Brown asked on Thursday, "show just how closely and irrevocably bound together ... are the fortunes of the richest persons in the richest country to the fate of t...
Monbiot: A Deadly Reversal
Znet Article, December, 14 2004
George Monbiot
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I hope that the newspapers do not represent public opinion. If they do, it means that we consider the Home Secretary's love affair several hundred times more important than the resumption of the most deadly conflict since the Second World War. On ...
Monbiot: Bring Them Back
Znet Article, December, 07 2004
George Monbiot
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It hardly compares in importance to the invasion of Iraq, or the fall of the dollar, or the outcome of the next election. But in some ways the decision we are being asked to make will say more about us and the world we choose to inhabit than any o...
Monbiot: Fallen Fruit
Znet Article, November, 09 2004
George Monbiot
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It takes a while to work out what it is about Hogg and Bull’s Herefordshire Pomona. What it is that, two or three minutes after you’ve started lifting the heavy pages, makes you, quite unexpectedly, want to cry. It’s not, o...
Monbiot: Exploitation on Tap
Znet Article, October, 20 2004
George Monbiot
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No one could have accused the Conservative government of breaking its promise to bring back Victorian values. When, in 1992, it permitted private water companies to install pre-paid meters in Birmingham, the people who couldn't afford to flush the...
Monbiot: Expose the Tax Cheats
Znet Article, September, 29 2004
George Monbiot
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Behind every great fortune there are two crimes: the crime required to obtain it, and the crime required to maintain it. Well, that isn't quite true. There may be no moral difference between evading tax and avoiding it, but there is a legal one. I...
Monbiot: Global Warming
Znet Article, September, 27 2004
George Monbiot
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This article is Monbiot's response to Bellamy in a debate regarding global warming. For the entire debate, visit http://www.zmag.org/MonbiotBellamyDebate.htm . For more debates, visit http://www.zmag.org/znet_debates.htm 23rd September...
Monbiot: Global Warming
Znet Article, September, 27 2004
George Monbiot
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This article is Bellamy's response to Monbiot in a debate regarding global warming. For the entire debate, visit http://www.zmag.org/MonbiotBellamyDebate.htm . For more debates, visit http://www.zmag.org/znet_debates.htm ...
Monbiot: Global Warming
Znet Article, September, 27 2004
George Monbiot
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This letter is a response from Monbiot to Bellamy in a debate between regarding global warming. For the entire debate, visit http://www.zmag.org/MonbiotBellamyDebate.htm . For more debates, visit http://www.zmag.org/znet_debates.htm 18th ...
Monbiot: Goodbye, Kind World
Znet Article, September, 27 2004
George Monbiot
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Goodbye, Kind World
Monbiot: Living with the Age of Entropy
Znet Article, September, 03 2004
George Monbiot
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"Never again", the Texas oil baron and corporate raider T. Boone Pickens announced this month, "will we pump more than 82 million barrels."(1) As we are pumping 82 million barrels of oil a day at the moment, what Pickens is saying is that global p...
Monbiot: Adventure Playground
Znet Article, September, 02 2004
George Monbiot
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Adventure Playground
Monbiot: Greasing Up To Power
Znet Article, July, 13 2004
George Monbiot
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Our journalists bear as much responsibility for the misinformation about Iraq as t...
Monbiot: Losing The Battle With Entropy
Znet Article, June, 08 2004
George Monbiot
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"Some people have wacky ideas," the new Republican campaign ad alleges. "Like taxing gasoline more so people drive less. That's John Kerry."(1) Cut to a shot of men in suits riding bicycles. Sadly, the accusation is false....
Monbiot: Empire of Denial
Znet Article, June, 01 2004
George Monbiot
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No one could have called ours a raucous household. The passions of our first two years at university were spent, and we were now buried in our books. My work, as usual, was quixotic and contradictory (studying zoology by day, writing a terrible no...
Monbiot: This Is What We Paid For
Znet Article, May, 18 2004
George Monbiot
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Tony Blair has lost the election. It's true he wasn't standing, but we won't split hairs. His policies have just been put to the test by an electorate blessed with a viable opposition, and crushed. In throwing him out of their lives, the voters of...
Monbiot: Apocalypse Please
Znet Article, April, 20 2004
George Monbiot
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US po...
Monbiot: Rwanda: Victim's License
Znet Article, April, 13 2004
George Monbiot
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I first encountered the phenomenom of Victim's Licence when arguing on a radio show with a British importer of mahogany from the Amazon. I had pointed out that the timber cutters who supplied him were hiring gunmen to shoot indigenous people. "W...
Monbiot: Jump on our Bandwagon
Znet Article, April, 06 2004
George Monbiot
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Jump on our Bandwagon
Monbiot: Jump on our Bandwagon
Znet Article, April, 06 2004
George Monbiot
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Jump on our Bandwagon
Monbiot: The British Threat
Znet Article, April, 01 2004
George Monbiot
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The paradox of modern warfare works like this: by enhancing our military strength, we enhance our opponents' capacity to destroy us. The Russian state developed thermobaric bombs (which release a cloud of explosive material into the air) for use a...
Monbiot: Monbiot Reply to Albert 3
Znet Article, March, 25 2004
George Monbiot
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Monbiot Reply to Albert 3
Monbiot: Supermarkets
Znet Article, March, 19 2004
George Monbiot
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Every year the list is the same, but every year it still comes as a shock. Of the 10 richest people on Earth, five of them have the same surname. It's not Gates, or Murdoch, or Rockefeller, but Walton. They are the heirs and trustees of the superm...
