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The Covert Biotech War

The corporations seeking to force GM food into reluctant markets are opening new fronts in their internet campaign against their critics.

Far from handing elections to the right, protest votes galvanise the major players into action

Blair is appeasing Bush partly in order to get a share of the world’s diminishing supplies of oil

The free market is imposed on the poor world, but absent from the rich world

Television coverage of the poor world has all but disappeared, with disastrous consequences for everyone.

Only a democratic revolution can break the grip of vested interests

For the past eight years, the US has undermined disarmament in Iraq

The trades unions need have no fear of flexing their muscles: we now depend on them to fight the government

The corporations have asked us to trust them. But even the paragon of “corporate social responsibility” is saying one thing and doing quite another.

The richer we are, the more miserable we become.

Public enthusiasm for saving the environment is not influencing public policy

The solution to the world’s problems, world leaders are about to agree, is more of the problem.

Robert Mugabe is portrayed as the prince of darkness, but when whites expel black people from their lands, nobody gives a damn.

The United States is now our foremost enemy. We must begin to treat it as such.

African leaders will be forced to humble themselves at the G8 summit, by taking the blame for what has happened to their continent

Refute these charges, or admit that the private finance initiative is built on fraud and false accounting

Bush and Blair, who made so much of their “leadership” when there was a war to be fought, are nowhere to be seen when peace is needed.

New findings reveal a web of deceit around GM food, in which the Prime Minister has now been caught.

Companies are creating false citizens to try to change the way we think