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Edwards: Force-feeding
Sep 22, 2002
A current Peugeot advert depicts an Indian driver in a dusty, impoverished village smashing his wreck of a car - what appears to be an old Morris Oxford - forwards and backwards into walls. The driver then coaxes an elephant to sit on the bonnet, crushing
Edwards: Mad Mullahs
Jul 13, 2002
Prologue - When Lies Are Killing People, Liars Must Be Exposed
Edwards: Unspoken Rule
Jun 17, 2002
Focusing heavily on the machinations of public relations guru Edward
Edwards: Ironclad Hearts
Jun 13, 2002
Fromm was right. What, after all, is the difference between an active dissident and a mainstream "journalist of attachment", or one of our many indifferent citizens?
Edwards: Climate Change
Apr 06, 2002
In a recent Guardian article, Julian Borger reports a massive 11% increase in U.S. defence spending. It is estimated that by 2007 defence spending will be 20% higher than average cold war levels. While September 11 is cited as justification, the increase
Edwards: Land Of The Blind
Jan 22, 2002
After weeks of silence, ITN has finally acknowledged some of Afghanistan's terrible suffering in its TV broadcasts.
Edwards: Mobile Phone
Jan 21, 2002
In 1953 the tobacco industry faced a problem - their own reviews of the available scientific data concluded that smoking could kill. A report for RJ Reynolds stated: "Studies of clinical data tend to confirm the relationship between heavy and prolonged to
Edwards: Lethal Conceits
Dec 31, 2001
Truth is not always a casualty of war. In a recent Guardian article, Roy Greenslade reports the dramatic and, for the press, devastating collapse in advertising revenues following the terrorist atrocities of September 11:
Edwards: CLIMATE OF PROFIT
Aug 22, 2001
To what extent is business a positive force for good in a world undergoing potentially devastating human-induced climate change? In the week that government leaders met in Bonn to discuss the rapidly-crumbling Kyoto Protocol, The Guardian took a look at t
Edwards: CLIMATE OF PROFIT
Aug 22, 2001
To what extent is business a positive force for good in a world undergoing potentially devastating human-induced climate change? In the week that government leaders met in Bonn to discuss the rapidly-crumbling Kyoto Protocol, The Guardian took a look at t
Edwards: ALL YOU NEED
Aug 10, 2001
"All of existence", an ancient sage once wrote, "depends on the tip of a wish." By which he meant that the state of the world is determined by what ultimately motivates us: if enough people basically crave personal wealth and power, then the world fills u
Edwards: MEDIA ELECTION
Jun 18, 2001
Traditionally, general elections in Britain are a time for much quasi-religious talk of the blessed gift of democracy - so recently won at such high cost, we are told - and the importance of paying due homage to that great principle at the business-owned
Edwards: KILL THE TRUTH
May 24, 2001
On December 22, 2000, I asked Alan Rusbridger, editor of the 'liberal' flagship newspaper, the Guardian, if he thought wealthy owners, parent companies, advertisers, flak machines, and allied political pressures compromised press reporting:
Edwards: Media Mendacity
May 09, 2001
On 27 January 1986, the O-ring task force of Morton Thiokol met to discuss the likely consequences of a proposed Space Shuttle launch the following day at a temperature of 18 degrees Fahrenheit. O-rings are designed to take up the slack in the Shuttle's s
Edwards: Mad House
Apr 16, 2001
In his study of obedience in modern society, psychologist Stanley Milgram wrote, "There is always some element of bad form in objecting to the destructive course of events, or indeed, in making it a topic of conversation." Milgram noted that even Nazi's m
Edwards: BIG BROTHER
Mar 07, 2001
December 2001 will see London hosting the first conference exploring the extent to which radical writing tends to incorporate, and be corrupted by, mainstream prejudices, emphases and ethical presumptions.
Edwards: CLIMATE KILLERS
Nov 29, 2000
An anonymous US official once advised, "We must counter, both in the UN and within the framework of the North-South dialogue, any discussion of global problems which questions the validity of the free market and of free enterprise in the countries of the
Edwards: SPORTING LIE
Sep 01, 2000
A month before the great 'Green Games' in Sydney were due to open, a group of international scientists arrived at the North Pole to find, not ice, but a stretch of open water at least one mile wide - the first time the North Pole has not been ice-bound fo
Edwards: Two on Iraq
Aug 06, 2000
August 6 is the tenth anniversary of sanctions on Iraq...and we have two commentaries on the broad topic to deliver...
Sep 27, 2002
Chemistry teachers have long delighted students by showing how near-perfect symmetrical structures can be produced by pouring a large number of small balls into a square box, whereupon a perfect pyramid is inevitably produced. The balls either land in a p