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29 Jul 2003 03:45:39 AM |
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Re: George Monbiot |
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America is a religion
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1007741,00.html
George Monbiot: US leaders now see themselves as priests of a divine
mission to rid the world of its demons.
George Monbiot
http://tinyurl.com/5hbs
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A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
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05 Aug 2003 03:18:33 AM |
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Driven out of Eden
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1012221,00.html
George Monbiot: Our desire to holiday in an earthly paradise has
created a hell for those we shut out.
George Monbiot
http://tinyurl.com/5hbs
and thread
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
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| User: "maff" |
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19 Aug 2003 03:33:24 AM |
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Poisoned chalice
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1021297,00.html
George Monbiot: Wherever it is prescribed, a dose of IMF medicine only
compounds economic crisis.
George Monbiot
http://tinyurl.com/5hbs
and thread
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
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| User: "maff" |
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26 Aug 2003 03:21:07 AM |
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Beware the bluewash
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1029147,00.html
George Monbiot: The UN must not let itself be used as a dustbin for
failed American adventures.
George Monbiot
http://tinyurl.com/5hbs
and thread
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
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| User: "maff" |
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02 Sep 2003 04:48:47 AM |
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The worst of times
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1033812,00.html
In the first of a three-part series on trade, George Monbiot argues
that the rich world's brutal diplomacy is worsening the plight of poor
nations.
George Monbiot
http://tinyurl.com/5hbs
and thread
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
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| User: "maff" |
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09 Sep 2003 04:35:01 AM |
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The myth of localism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1038164,00.html
George Monbiot: It is unrealistic and misguided to believe that poor
countries should be totally self-reliant.
George Monbiot
http://tinyurl.com/5hbs
and thread
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
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| User: "maff" |
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16 Sep 2003 03:53:50 AM |
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A threat to the rich
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1042796,00.html
Forcing the poor countries to walk out of the Cancun trade talks may
rebound on the west
George Monbiot
Tuesday September 16, 2003
The Guardian
Were there a Nobel Prize for hypocrisy, it would be awarded this year
to Pascal Lamy, the EU's trade negotiator. A week ago, in the
Guardian's trade supplement, he argued that the World Trade
Organisation (WTO) "helps us move from a Hobbesian world of
lawlessness into a more Kantian world - perhaps not exactly of
perpetual peace, but at least one where trade relations are subject to
the rule of law".
On Sunday, by treating the trade talks as if, in Thomas Hobbes's
words, they were "a war of every man against every man", Lamy
scuppered the negotiations, and very possibly destroyed the
organisation as a result. If so, one result could be a trade regime,
in which, as Hobbes observed, "force and fraud are ... the two
cardinal virtues". Relations between countries would then revert to
the state of nature the philosopher feared, where the nasty and
brutish behaviour of the powerful ensures that the lives of the poor
remain short.
George Monbiot
http://tinyurl.com/5hbs
and thread
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
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| User: "maff" |
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30 Sep 2003 04:05:00 AM |
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The patient is dying
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1052229,00.html
George Monbiot: The fate of an eye hospital in Oxford is symptomatic
of the stealthy privatisation of the NHS.
George Monbiot
http://tinyurl.com/5hbs
and thread
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
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| User: "maff" |
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07 Oct 2003 04:10:23 AM |
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Force-fed a diet of hype
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1057406,00.html
The verdict of the market means nothing to the GM industry and its
government friends
George Monbiot
Tuesday October 7, 2003
The Guardian
It is curious that this government, which goes to such lengths to show
that it responds to market forces, appears to believe, when it comes
to genetic modification, that the customer is always wrong. Tony Blair
may have spent six years rolling back the nanny state, but he
instructs us to shut up and eat what we're given. The public has
comprehensively rejected the technology; the chief scientist has
warned that pollen contamination may be impossible to prevent; the
field trials suggest that GM threatens our remaining wildlife. Yet the
government seems determined to force us to accept it.
George Monbiot
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22George+Monbiot%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22George+Monbiot%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22George+Monbiot%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=George%20Monbiot&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
http://tinyurl.com/5hbs
and thread
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
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| User: "maff" |
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13 Oct 2003 06:00:36 AM |
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(maff) wrote in message news:<18510aff.0309300105.1d607306@posting.google.com>...
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Force-fed a diet of hype
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1057406,00.html
The verdict of the market means nothing to the GM industry and its
government friends
George Monbiot
Tuesday October 7, 2003
The Guardian
It is curious that this government, which goes to such lengths to show
that it responds to market forces, appears to believe, when it comes
to genetic modification, that the customer is always wrong. Tony Blair
may have spent six years rolling back the nanny state, but he
instructs us to shut up and eat what we're given. The public has
comprehensively rejected the technology; the chief scientist has
warned that pollen contamination may be impossible to prevent; the
field trials suggest that GM threatens our remaining wildlife. Yet the
government seems determined to force us to accept it.
George Monbiot
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22George+Monbiot%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22George+Monbiot%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22George+Monbiot%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=George%20Monbiot&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Monbiot to found anti-war coalition
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green/story/0,9061,1061898,00.html
Martin Nicholls and Tom Happold
Monday October 13, 2003
Anti-war activists including the Guardian columnist George Monbiot are
planning to form a coalition to challenge the Labour party in next
June's European and local elections.
But the attempt to unite socialist parties, anti-globalisation
campaigners, peace activists and faith groups; including Muslims, has
already aroused the hostility of the Green party, which has branded
the project "unhelpful".
http://tinyurl.com/5hbs
and thread
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
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14 Oct 2003 05:01:43 AM |
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States of war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1062382,00.html
Appeasing the armed forces has become a political necessity for the
American president
George Monbiot
Tuesday October 14, 2003
The Guardian
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 business pressure group holds its annual conference or
dinner, Tony Blair or Gordon Brown or another senior minister will
come and beg it not to persecute the government. George Bush flies
around the United States, flattering the companies that might support
his re-election, offering tax breaks and subsidies even before the
companies ask for them.
George Monbiot
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22George+Monbiot%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22George+Monbiot%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22George+Monbiot%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=George%20Monbiot&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
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http://tinyurl.com/5hbs
and thread
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
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| User: "maff" |
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21 Oct 2003 05:17:26 AM |
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The flight to India
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1067344,00.html
The jobs Britain stole from the Asian subcontinent 200 years ago are
now being returned
George Monbiot
Tuesday October 21, 2003
The Guardian
If you live in a rich nation in the English-speaking world, and most
of your work involves a computer or a telephone, don't expect to have
a job in five years' time. Almost every large company which relies
upon remote transactions is starting to dump its workers and hire a
cheaper labour force overseas. All those concerned about economic
justice and the distribution of wealth at home should despair. All
those concerned about global justice and the distribution of wealth
around the world should rejoice. As we are, by and large, the same
people, we have a problem.
Britain's industrialisation was secured by destroying the
manufacturing capacity of India. In 1699, the British government
banned the import of woollen cloth from Ireland, and in 1700 the
import of cotton cloth (or calico) from India. Both products were
forbidden because they were superior to our own. As the industrial
revolution was built on the textiles industry, we could not have
achieved our global economic dominance if we had let them in.
Throughout the late 18th and 19th centuries, India was forced to
supply raw materials to Britain's manufacturers, but forbidden to
produce competing finished products. We are rich because the Indians
are poor.
George Monbiot
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22George+Monbiot%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22George+Monbiot%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22George+Monbiot%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=George%20Monbiot&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
http://tinyurl.com/5hbs
and thread
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
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28 Oct 2003 03:46:16 AM |
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Tony Blair's new friend
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1072313,00.html
Britain and the US claim a moral mandate - and back a dictator who
boils victims to death
George Monbiot
Tuesday October 28, 2003
The Guardian
The British and US governments gave three reasons for going to war
with Iraq. The first was to extend the war on terrorism. The second
was to destroy its weapons of mass destruction before they could be
deployed. The third was to remove a brutal regime, which had tortured
and murdered its people.
If the purpose of the war was to defeat terrorism, it has failed.
Before the invasion, there was no demonstrable link between al-Qaida
and Iraq. Today, al-Qaida appears to have moved into that country, to
exploit a new range of accessible western targets. If the purpose of
the war was to destroy Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction
before he deployed them, then, as no such weapons appear to have
existed, it was a war without moral or strategic justification.
Tony Blair
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Tony+Blair%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Tony+Blair%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Tony+Blair%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Tony%20Blair&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Uzbekistan
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Uzbekistan&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Uzbekistan&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Uzbekistan&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=Uzbekistan&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Islam Karimov
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Islam+Karimov%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Islam+Karimov%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Islam+Karimov%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Islam%20Karimov&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
George Monbiot
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22George+Monbiot%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22George+Monbiot%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22George+Monbiot%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=George%20Monbiot&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
http://tinyurl.com/5hbs
and thread
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
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04 Nov 2003 03:23:10 AM |
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Acceptable hatred
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1077154,00.html
Beneath the enduring hostility to Gypsies lies an ancient envy of the
nomadic life
George Monbiot
Tuesday November 4, 2003
The Guardian
Imagine an English village building an effigy of a car, with
caricatures of black people in the windows and the number plate
"N1GGER", and burning it in a public ceremony. Then imagine one of
Britain's most socially conscious MPs appearing to suggest that black
people were partly to blame for the way they had been portrayed.
Gypsies
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Gypsies%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Gypsies%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Gypsies%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=Gypsies&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Gypsy
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Gypsy&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Gypsy&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Gypsy&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=Gypsy&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Romani
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Romani&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Romani&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Romani&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=Romani&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Roma
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Roma&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Roma&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Roma&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=Roma&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
George Monbiot
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22George+Monbiot%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22George+Monbiot%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22George+Monbiot%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=George%20Monbiot&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
http://tinyurl.com/5hbs
and thread
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
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11 Nov 2003 03:17:21 AM |
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Dreamers and idiots
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1082250,00.html
Britain and the US did everything to avoid a peaceful solution in Iraq
and Afghanistan
George Monbiot
Tuesday November 11, 2003
The Guardian
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 is easy to control. As
intelligence gathering and diplomacy are conducted in secret, we
seldom discover - until it is too late - how plausible the
alternatives may be.
George Monbiot
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22George+Monbiot%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22George+Monbiot%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22George+Monbiot%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=George%20Monbiot&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
http://tinyurl.com/5hbs
and thread
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
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18 Nov 2003 03:53:01 AM |
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Rattling the bars
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1087488,00.html
A huge gathering in Paris at the weekend showed the young don't reject
politics, just politicians
George Monbiot
Tuesday November 18, 2003
The Guardian
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 drummed into our ears. But when
51,000 mostly young people converge for a conference on the future of
politics, they are ignored. The European Social Forum, which ended in
Paris on Sunday, generated just one report in the printed editions of
the British mainstream press. Doubtless the papers will inform us
again this week that young people have lost interest in politics.
George Monbiot
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22George+Monbiot%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22George+Monbiot%22&sa=N&tab=nw
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25 Nov 2003 04:04:23 AM |
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The moral myth
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1092487,00.html
Superpowers act out of self-interest, not morality, and the US in Iraq
is no different
George Monbiot
Tuesday November 25, 2003
The Guardian
It is no use telling the hawks that bombing a country in which
al-Qaida was not operating was unlikely to rid the world of al-Qaida.
It is no use arguing that had the billions spent on the war with Iraq
been used instead for intelligence and security, atrocities such as
last week's attacks in Istanbul may have been prevented. As soon as
one argument for the invasion and occupation of Iraq collapses, they
switch to another. Over the past month, almost all the warriors -
Bush, Blair and the belligerents in both the conservative and the
liberal press - have fallen back on the last line of defence, the
argument we know as "the moral case for war".
George Monbiot
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http://tinyurl.com/5hbs
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02 Dec 2003 04:10:28 AM |
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Bottom of the barrel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1097622,00.html
The world is running out of oil - so why do politicians refuse to talk
about it?
George Monbiot
Tuesday December 2, 2003
The Guardian
The oil industry is buzzing. On Thursday, the government approved the
development of the biggest deposit discovered in British territory for
at least 10 years. Everywhere we are told that this is a "huge" find,
which dispels the idea that North Sea oil is in terminal decline. You
begin to recognise how serious the human predicament has become when
you discover that this "huge" new field will supply the world with oil
for five and a quarter days.
Every generation has its taboo, and ours is this: that the resource
upon which our lives have been built is running out. We don't talk
about it because we cannot imagine it. This is a civilisation in
denial.
George Monbiot
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09 Dec 2003 04:04:23 AM |
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Invasion of the entryists
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1102753,00.html
How did a cultish political network become the public face of the
scientific establishment?
George Monbiot
Tuesday December 9, 2003
The Guardian
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 there is a group which has
travelled even further, from the most distant fringes of the left to
the extremities of the pro-corporate libertarian right. While its
politics have swung around 180 degrees, its tactics - entering
organisations and taking them over - appear unchanged. Research
published for the first time today suggests that the members of this
group have colonised a crucial section of the British establishment.
George Monbiot
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http://tinyurl.com/5hbs
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16 Dec 2003 04:12:42 AM |
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A weapon with wings
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1107861,00.html
The centenary of the Wright brothers' flight should be a day of
international mourning
George Monbiot
Tuesday December 16, 2003
The Guardian
They will probably be commemorating the wrong people in Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina, tomorrow. Five months before the Wright brothers
lifted a flying machine into the air for 12 seconds above the sand
dunes of the Outer Banks, the New Zealander Richard Pearse had
travelled for more than a kilometre in his contraption, without the
help of ramps or slides, and had even managed to turn his plane in
mid-flight.
George Monbiot
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http://tinyurl.com/5hbs
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06 Jan 2004 04:13:08 AM |
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On the edge of lunacy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1116854,00.html
British foreign aid is now targeted at countries willing to sell off
their assets to big business
George Monbiot
Tuesday January 6, 2004
The Guardian
Spare a thought this bleak new year for all those who rely on charity.
Open your hearts, for example, to a group of people who, though they
live in London, are in such desperate need of handouts that last year
they received £7.6m in foreign aid. The Adam Smith Institute, the
ultra-rightwing lobby group, now receives more money from Britain's
Department for International Development (DfID) than Liberia or
Somalia, two of the most desperate nations on Earth.
George Monbiot
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http://tinyurl.com/5hbs
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