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Monbiot: Feeding Frenzy: Why is it still acceptable to eat the endangered large predators of the sea?
May 12, 2007
To Ransom A. Myers, who died on March 27th.
Monbiot: The Real Climate Censorship
Apr 28, 2007
The drafting of reports by the world's pre-eminent group of climate scientists is an odd process. For many months scientists contributing to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tussle over the evidence. Nothing gets published unless it achieves
Monbiot: Untroubled by Democracy
Apr 03, 2007
The consultations surrounding the Olympic Games are a stitch-up.
Monbiot: Routine and systematic torture is at the heart of America's war on terror
Jan 06, 2007
After thousands of years of practice, you might have imagined that every possible means of inflicting pain had already been devised. But you should never underestimate the human capacity for invention. United States interrogators, we now discover, have fo
Monbiot: Here's the Plan: For fast and effective action on climate change
Dec 08, 2006
It is a testament to the power of money that Nicholas Stern's report should have swung the argument for drastic action, even before anyone has finished reading it. He appears to have demonstrated what many of us suspected: that it would cost much less to
Monbiot: Here's the Plan For fast and effective action on climate change
Nov 23, 2006
It is a testament to the power of money that Nicholas Stern's report should have swung the argument for drastic action, even before anyone has finished reading it. He appears to have demonstrated what many of us suspected: that it would cost much less to
Monbiot: The Cult of the Heroic Animal: The Disneyfication of war allows us to ignore its real savagery
Nov 13, 2006
Most of our memorials sentimentalise war. Few commemorate the horror. But now we have a new category, whose purpose seems to be to trivialise it.
Monbiot: Defend Our Ranting Homophobes
Oct 15, 2006
Stephen Green represents everything most readers of the Guardian loathe. As head of the organisation Christian Voice, he sought to have Jerry Springer the Opera banned from theatres and the BBC and prosecuted for blasphemy. When Hurricane Katrina hit New
Monbiot: How Much Reality Can You Take?
Does anyone really want to stop climate change?
Oct 09, 2006
You have to pinch yourself. Until now, the Sun has denounced environmentalists as "loonies" and "eco beards". Last week it published "photographic proof that climate change is real."(1). In a page that could have come straight from a Greenpeace pamphlet,
Monbiot: Still the Rich World's Viceroy: If the IMF wants to reform itself, why not try democracy?
Sep 20, 2006
The glacier has begun to creak. In the world's most powerful dictatorship, we detect the merest hint of a thaw. I am not talking about China, or Uzbekistan, Burma or North Korea. This state runs no torture chambers or labour camps. No one is executed, tho
Mondragon: From Apartheidland to AUC-Land
Sep 17, 2006
One irreversible (for the moment) of the decades of apartheid in South Africa was the enrichment of the large corporations that benefited to the hilt from the super-exploitation of the black working class, an exploitation imposed by absolute racial discri
Monbiot: Peace Is For Wimps
Aug 31, 2006
It's described by a senior official at the Ministry of Defence as "a dead duck ... expensive and obsolete."(1) The editor of World Defence Systems calls it "10 years out of date."(2) A former defence minister remarked that it is "essentially flawed and ou
Mokhiber: THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY ACADEMY AWARDS
Aug 27, 2006
Everywhere you look, Big Tobacco is proclaiming, "We've changed."
Monbiot: The King of Fairyland
Aug 02, 2006
Of all the curious things which have been written about Israel's assault on Lebanon, surely the oddest is contained in Paddy Ashdown's article for the Guardian on Saturday. "There is only one solution to this crisis, and it is the same solution we have to
Monbiot: Still Drilling
Jun 27, 2006
For a company that claims to have moved "beyond petroleum", BP has managed to spill an awful lot of it onto the tundra in Alaska. Last week, after the news was leaked to journalists, it admitted to investors that it is facing criminal charges for allowing
Mahajan: Haditha Is Arabic for My Lai
Jun 05, 2006
One day in November 2005, Marines in Haditha decided to take revenge for the death of one of their comrades from an IED by deliberately murdering 24 innocent, unarmed men, women, and children. They went into their houses and shot them at close range. Adul
Monbiot: Britain's Most Selfish People
Jun 04, 2006
What greater source of injustice could there be, than while some people have no home, others have two? Yet the vampire trade in second homes keeps growing - by 3% a year - uninhibited by government or by the conscience of the buyers. Every purchase of a s
Monbiot: Feeding Crime
May 14, 2006
Does television cause crime? The idea that people copy the violence they watch is debated endlessly by criminologists. But this column concerns an odder and perhaps more interesting notion: if crime leaps out of the box, it is not the programmes that are
Monbiot: Children of the Machine
Mar 14, 2006
It received just a few column inches in a couple of papers, but the story I read last week looks to me like a glimpse of the future. A company in Ohio called CityWatcher has implanted radio transmitters into the arms of two of its workers. The implants en
May 21, 2007
What would it take to disqualify a nation from running Europe's official human rights organisation? Persecuting gays? Not a hope. Torturing and murdering political opponents? Forget about it. Waging an illegal war? You must be joking. The Council of Europe doesn't seem to care who speaks on its behalf.