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Children of the Machine

New technological advances could make us susceptible to perpetual surveillance

Labour’s first full-scale privatisation involves the multiple fleecing of the taxpayer

The tobacco industry duped both academic journals and the media.

Wealth is beginning to reduce our freedoms

Building new nuclear weapons creates the threats they are supposed to avert.

The trade in “carbon offsets” is based on bogus accounting

Why do so few people know about the atrocities of empire?

A footnote.

I nominate the CBI.

The car is turning us into a nation of libertarians

They bleat about the free market, then insist that we subsidise them.

Biodiesel enthusiasts have accidentally invented the most carbon-intensive fuel on earth

Are there enough renewables to keep the lights on? The answer will be comforting to no one.

The revelations from Falluja are piling up

Yes, the US has used chemical weapons

The press has been minimising the death toll in Iraq

Why are we still exposed to pollution that kills 39,000 a year?

The government’s chief scientist appears to have succumbed to politics

If you’re buying Brazilian beef, the answer is yes