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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Monbiot: The Bottom of the Barrel
Znet Article, December, 02 2003
George Monbiot
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The Bottom of the Barrel
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...
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...
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...
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...
Monbiot: Tony Blair's New Friend
Znet Article, October, 28 2003
George Monbiot
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Tony Blair's New Friend
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...
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...
Monbiot: The Philosophy of Cant
Znet Article, September, 16 2003
George Monbiot
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The Philosophy of Cant
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...
Monbiot: Rich/Poor Trade 1
Znet Article, September, 03 2003
George Monbiot
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The world is beginning ...
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...
Monbiot: Sleepwalking To Extinction
Znet Article, August, 11 2003
George Monbiot
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Something about the human min...
Monbiot: Driven Out of Eden
Znet Article, August, 11 2003
George Monbiot
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Driven Out of Eden
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...
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...
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...
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...
