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The New Chauvinism
Why should I love this country?
The Treaty Wreckers
In just a few months, Bush and Blair have destroyed the global restraint on nuclear weapons
Faced With This Crisis
The G8 leaders refuse to accept that anything difficult needs to be done about climate change
Africa’s New Best Friends
The corporations which helped to immiserate Africa are being given control of its development.
Going Nowhere
Review of Margaret Thatcher’s 1989 speech to the UN (extract published below).
Save us from Ourselves
Green hypocrisy means that we can’t tackle climate change without government intervention.
Our Very Own Enron?
Is the private finance initiative melting down?
Bards of the Powerful
Far from challenging the G8’s role in Africa’s poverty, Geldof and Bono are legitimising its power.
Spin, Lies and Corruption
The G8’s debt reduction plan is little better than an extortion racket
A Game of Double Bluff
The UK and EU are keeping the poorer nations exactly where they want them: beholden to their patrons
Bust-up with Bellamy
An explosive argument with David Bellamy about climate change.
A Restraint of Liberty
Climate change’s unprecedented moral challenge demands that we restrict market freedom
Bad News from Tesco
The superstores are on the verge of cornering the news market, with disastrous implications for democracy
Junk Science
Climate change denial, as David Bellamy’s claims show, is based on pure hocus pocus
In Bed With the Killers
BP is working with a genocidal government
A Different Kind of Revolution
Wind power is a technological fix for a political problem.
Signal Your Opposition
A vote for a minor party could be the most powerful one you could cast.
A Vehicle for Equality
Would Rover not have been better off as a workers’ co-operative?
I’m With Wolfowitz
Have we forgotten what the World Bank is for?