Author: george

Cardinal Sins

How a modern Inquisition, with the help of Pope Francis, stifled the movement protecting the poor.

Why are we exploiting unconventional gas when we can’t afford to burn existing supplies?

We have reached a remarkable and eminently decent settlement.

17 years, and the phone companies still haven’t sorted out the issue of conflict minerals

Forcing schools into the hands of unelected oligarchs is the latest contradiction of everything the market fetishists claim to stand for.

Take a ringside seat as a giant company beats the living daylights out of itself.

Companies like EDF, seeking to terrify protesters with lawsuits, are likely to become victims of their own aggression.

Billionaires are hiding behind a network of “independent” groups, who manipulate politics on their behalf.

How the government betrayed its promises to protect our seas.

Nuclear power seems to have stalled. So what happens now?

Ladbroke’s is offering odds on fish populations collapsing; the government is shortening them.

The way we are governed is inexplicable – until you understand the upbringing of the elite.

Why we need land value taxation.

In both Russia and Canada a bloodbath of wolves is now taking place.

How neoliberalism trashed your life, but made the super-rich even richer.

A letter to the Travellers’ Solidarity Network.

The extremes now hammering Australia leave old perspectives stranded.

Could an astonishing explanation for the rise and fall of violent crime be correct?

2012 was the worst year for the environment in living memory.

“A sad tale’s best for winter: I have one / Of sprites and goblins.”(1)