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Bards of the Powerful

Far from challenging the G8’s role in Africa’s poverty, Geldof and Bono are legitimising its power.

The G8’s debt reduction plan is little better than an extortion racket

The UK and EU are keeping the poorer nations exactly where they want them: beholden to their patrons

An explosive argument with David Bellamy about climate change.

Climate change’s unprecedented moral challenge demands that we restrict market freedom

The superstores are on the verge of cornering the news market, with disastrous implications for democracy

Climate change denial, as David Bellamy’s claims show, is based on pure hocus pocus

BP is working with a genocidal government

Wind power is a technological fix for a political problem.

A vote for a minor party could be the most powerful one you could cast.

Would Rover not have been better off as a workers’ co-operative?

Have we forgotten what the World Bank is for?

The corporate manslaughter bill has been neutered to please employers

Only when nomads settled on fertile land did the notion of progress take root

A coup against social Europe has been foiled – for the time being

How can MPs represent us when they earn up to 95% of their income from outside interests?

The new crime bill permits the police to stop almost any demonstration.

Climate change exposes progress as a myth

Where has Iraq’s money gone?

Some people who engage in foreign conflicts are called terrorists. Others are about to be licensed by the government