Author: george

Plutocracy’s Boot Boys

We’re getting a better idea of how billionaires and corporations capture government policy.

A potent myth is being used to justify economic capture by a parasitic class.

The evidence linking Alzheimer’s disease to the food industry is strong and growing.

With the appointment of an anti-green as Environment Secretary, the pretence is over.

The prospect of a trial for Tony Blair now starts to look more plausible

Press release: Payouts for attempts to arrest the former PM now exceed £10,000.

An animation calling for economic democracy.

Could the rubbish published in the Observer about birds of prey be related to the author’s undisclosed interests?

Climate breakdown is right here, right now.

The rich world is causing the famines it claims to be preventing.

In the name of saving the natural world, governments are privatising it.

The environment is being trashed because of a failure to reform campaign finance.

Why have the Year Zero policies of neoliberalism not been abandoned?

A new front opens up in the war against nature.

This is the fate of young people today: excluded, but forbidden to opt out.

The people cutting open bluefin tuna nets are heroes

Enclosure and dispossession have driven us, like John Clare, all a little mad.

We were wrong about peak oil: there’s enough in the ground to deep-fry the planet.

So now what do we do to defend life on Earth?

The Rio Declaration rips up the basic principles of environmental action.