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Defence Against What?

The Iraq disaster has eliminated the last major function of our armed forces. So let’s pay ourselves a war dividend.

How to stop the planet burning

At the talks beginning in Geneva today, the British government will fight attempts to ban cluster bombs.

For fast and effective action on climate change

The Disneyfication of war allows us to ignore its real savagery

The trade in carbon offsets is an excuse for business as usual.

Protesters who have damaged military equipment are walking away from the dock

Global freshwater supplies could start to determine whether or not we can feed ourselves.

Micro generation can’t solve climate change.

People should be as offensive as they wish. But in Britain the police can decide whose views to ban.

When pundits discuss contentious issues on air, they must reveal their financial interests.

Does anyone really want to stop climate change?

That’s what we need in the United Kingdom to avoid catastrophic climate change

It isn’t just Exxon which has funded the climate change deniers – Big Tobacco has also played a strange and disturbing role.

The emerging disaster at Dounreay is a powerful argument for open government.

An untold story from Greenham Common

If the IMF wants to reform itself, why not try democracy?

Re-engineering the atmosphere could be as dangerous as climate change

Real men in government use their position to sell weapons.

In victory or in defeat, the military leaders who dominate Israeli politics can’t lose.