The G20 Leaders Communique”²
November 23, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Mark Horner critically reviews four major themes of the G20 Leaders Communique
Tag Archive: Global
Growth: the destructive god that can never be appeased
November 19, 2014 7:52 am Leave your thoughts
The blind pursuit of economic exapansion stokes a cycle of financial crisis, and is wrecking our world. Time for an alternative, writes George Monbiot.
Interstellar: magnificent film, insane fantasy
November 12, 2014 11:53 am Leave your thoughts Movies about abandoning Earth reflect the political defeatism of our age: that adapting to climate breakdown is preferable to stopping it, writes George Monbiot.
How the world was saved from a nuclear catastrophe
November 2, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In 1983 the world stood on the brink of a nuclear holocaust. War between NATO and the USSR was prevented by a high ranking NATO official secretly working for the GDR foreign intelligence service
HSBC: the bank with a shameful past and scandalous present
November 1, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts The fourth article in the series The banks and the "too big to jail" doctrine by Eric Toussaint
Piketty for Progressives: Part 4
October 25, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Thomas Riggins continues to guide us through Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Why climate ‘uncertainty’ is no excuse for doing nothing
October 25, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Former environment minister Owen Paterson has called for the UK to scrap its climate change targets
‘Cleansing the stock’ and other ways governments talk about human beings
October 22, 2014 1:57 pm Leave your thoughts Those in power don't speak of 'people' or 'killing' - it helps them do their job. And we are picking up their dehumanising euphemisms, writes George Monbiot.
It’s time to shout stop on this war on the living world
October 7, 2014 5:18 pm Leave your thoughts Our consumption is trashing a natural world infinitely more fascinating and intricate than the stuff we produce, writes George Monbiot.
The Dangers of Form Agnosia
October 5, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Kate Zagoskina describes the West's tendency to shut its eyes to the bigger picture and ignore the link between action and consequence