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Crying Sheep

We had better start preparing for a decline in global oil supply

The corporations are demanding regulation, and the government is refusing to give it to them

The democratic potential of the new media is being blocked by the companies providing the technology.

Even as the G8 promises fall apart, Geldof stays silent

Nicaragua and South Africa, not the US, should be the inspiration for Iraq’s constitution.

Kenneth Clarke’s work for British American Tobacco should disqualify him from office.

Darwin tells us that we are no more than assemblages of complex molecules. We should celebrate this.

Why should I love this country?

In just a few months, Bush and Blair have destroyed the global restraint on nuclear weapons

The G8 leaders refuse to accept that anything difficult needs to be done about climate change

The corporations which helped to immiserate Africa are being given control of its development.

Review of Margaret Thatcher’s 1989 speech to the UN (extract published below).

Green hypocrisy means that we can’t tackle climate change without government intervention.

Is the private finance initiative melting down?

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