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Too Much of a Good Thing

Underlying the US drive to war is the need to open up new opportunities for surplus capital

The men who claim to be fighting “evil” on behalf of “good” are also funding one of the world’s dirtiest wars

Far from fizzling out, the global justice movement is growing in numbers and maturity

We must oppose this war as we have never opposed one before

Capitalism is not even mathematically possible, let alone biologically viable

We cannot feed the world’s livestock and the world’s people.

Wildlife programmes on television, David Attenborough’s among them, perpetuate the dangerous myth of wilderness.

The UN Security Council is inherently tyrannical. No war it mandates can ever be just

Taking the government to court may be the only means of holding Britain and the US to account for their plans to invade Iraq

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