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Znet Article Monbiot: Of Mice and Money Men

Znet Article, February, 17 2004 George Monbiot
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If Comcast's takeover of the Disney Corporation goes ahead, the world's biggest media conglomeration will be built around one of humankind's most ancient practices. Investing animals with human characteristics is something we've been doing since w...

Znet Article Monbiot: Global Warming

Znet Article, January, 13 2004 George Monbiot
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I've been in and around the environmental movement since the first Earth Day in 1970, which I attended while living in Philadelphia, Pa. For many years I've been following news reports and articles about the dangers of global warming. In 2002, dur...

Znet Article Monbiot: Reply to Albert 2

Znet Article, December, 27 2003 George Monbiot
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Dear Michael, It seems to me that in responding to my questions, you have restated your wishes, but have failed to demonstrate how those wishes might be fulfilled. You claim, for example, that people will "modify [their] requests" for goods an...

Znet Article Monbiot: Monbiot Rejoinder 1

Znet Article, December, 22 2003 George Monbiot
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Dear Michael, Many thanks for these questions and criticisms, and for the incomparable forum that Znet provides. I'm grateful to have the chance to discuss these ideas with you. Let me start with the most difficult area first, the Internationa...

Znet Article Monbiot: Monbiot Reply to Albert 1

Znet Article, December, 19 2003 George Monbiot
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Dear Michael, I would like to start by thanking you for the opportunity to debate these matters. One of the developments which makes me most optimistic is that the question our movement is now asking most often is no longer what?, or why?, but h...

Znet Article Monbiot: The Age of Consent

Znet Article, December, 18 2003 George Monbiot
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Without global democracy, national democracy is impossible. If you don't believe me, take a look at what has happened to Luiz Inacio da Silva. Before he became president of Brazil, Lula promised to transform the way his country was run. The econom...

Znet Article Monbiot: Invasion Of The Entryists

Znet Article, December, 12 2003 George Monbiot
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One of strangest aspects of modern politics is the dominance of former left-wingers who have swung to the right. The "neo-cons" pretty well run the White House and the Pentagon, the Labour party and key departments of the British government. But t...

Znet Article Monbiot: The Bottom of the Barrel

Znet Article, December, 02 2003 George Monbiot
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The Bottom of the Barrel

Znet Article Monbiot: The Moral Myth

Znet Article, November, 25 2003 George Monbiot
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It is no use telling the hawks that bombing a country in which Al Qaeda was not operating was unlikely to rid the world of Al Qaeda. It is no use arguing that had the billions spent on the war with Iraq been used instead for intelligence and secur...

Znet Article Monbiot: Rattling The Bars

Znet Article, November, 18 2003 George Monbiot
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When a few hundred elderly people converge on a seaside town for the annual conference of the Conservative Party, all leave for Britain's journalists is cancelled. Every stave and quaver of the death rattle of a moribund movement is recorded and d...

Znet Article Monbiot: Dreamers And Idiots

Znet Article, November, 12 2003 George Monbiot
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Those who would take us to war must first shut down the public imagination. They must convince us that there is no other means of preventing invasion, or conquering terrorism, or even defending human rights. When information is scarce, imagination...

Znet Article Monbiot: Acceptable Hatred

Znet Article, November, 04 2003 George Monbiot
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Imagine an English village building an effigy of a car, with caricatures of black people in the windows and the numberplate "N1GGER", and burning it in a public ceremony. Then imagine one of Britain's most socially-conscious MPs appearing to sugge...

Znet Article Monbiot: Tony Blair's New Friend

Znet Article, October, 28 2003 George Monbiot
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Tony Blair's New Friend

Znet Article Monbiot: Back to Front Coup

Znet Article, October, 14 2003 George Monbiot
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The relationship between governments and those who seek favours from them has changed. Not long ago, lobbyists would visit politicians and bribe or threaten them until they got what they wanted. Today, ministers lobby the lobbyists. Whenever a big...

Znet Article Monbiot: The Patient is Dying

Znet Article, September, 30 2003 George Monbiot
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Tomorrow, still basking in afterglow of Tony Blair's thunderous platitudes, most of the delegates to the Labour Party conference will snore through the complexities of a policy which spells the end of everything their party once stood for. The mot...

Znet Article Monbiot: The Philosophy of Cant

Znet Article, September, 16 2003 George Monbiot
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The Philosophy of Cant

Znet Article Monbiot: Whose Side Are You On?

Znet Article, September, 10 2003 George Monbiot
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Outside the world trade talks beginning in Cancun in Mexico tomorrow, two battles will be fought. The f...

Znet Article Monbiot: Rich/Poor Trade 1

Znet Article, September, 03 2003 George Monbiot
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Znet Article Monbiot: Beware the Bluewash

Znet Article, August, 25 2003 George Monbiot
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The US government's problem is that it has built its foreign policy on two great myths. The first is that it is irresistible; the second is that as time advances, life improves. In Iraq it is trapped between the two. To believe that it can be thwa...

Znet Article Monbiot: Sleepwalking To Extinction

Znet Article, August, 11 2003 George Monbiot
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Something about the human min...

Znet Article Monbiot: Driven Out of Eden

Znet Article, August, 11 2003 George Monbiot
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Driven Out of Eden

Znet Article Monbiot: Fake Patriots

Znet Article, July, 07 2003 George Monbiot
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The prediction was not hard to make. If Britain kept supporting the US government as it trampled the sovereignty of other nations, before long it would come to threaten our own. But few guessed that this would happen so soon. Long ago, Britain i...

Znet Article Monbiot: Global Warming

Znet Article, July, 04 2003 George Monbiot
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In an astonishing announcement on global warming and extreme weather, the World Meteorological Organisation signalled last night that the world's weather is going haywire. In a startling report, the WMO, which normally produces detailed scientifi...

Znet Article Monbiot: I Was Wrong About Trade

Znet Article, 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...

Znet Article Monbiot: Let's Do A Monsanto

Znet Article, June, 10 2003 George Monbiot
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Something about the launch of the government's "great GM debate" last week rang a bell. It was, perhaps, the contrast between the ambition of its stated aims and the feebleness of their execution. Though the environment secretary, Margaret Beckett...

Znet Article Monbiot: How To Stop America

Znet Article, June, 07 2003 George Monbiot
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Presidents Roosevelt and Truman were smart operators. They knew that the hegemony of the United States could not be sustained without the active compliance of other nations. So they set out, before and after the end of the Second World War, to des...

Znet Article Monbiot: Enslaved By Free Trade

Znet Article, June, 06 2003 George Monbiot
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The founding myth of the dominant nations is that they achieved their industrial and technological superiority through free trade. Nations which are poor today are told that if they want to follow our path to riches, they must open their economies...

Znet Article Monbiot: Africa's Scar Gets Uglier

Znet Article, June, 02 2003 George Monbiot
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Perhaps the defining moment of Tony Blair's premiership was the speech that he gave to the Labour party conference in October 2001. In June, his party had returned to office with a monumental majority. In September, two planes were flown into the ...

Znet Article Monbiot: Prosecute Franks

Znet Article, May, 20 2003 George Monbiot
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Belgium is becoming an i...

Znet Article Monbiot: Don't Cry for Clare

Znet Article, May, 13 2003 George Monbiot
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Some of the Guardian's readers will, for all her faults, have shed a few tears at the departure of our development secretary. Clare Short may have failed, in March, to act upon her threat to resign over the war with Iraq. But even those who have t...

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