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Why are governments subsidising the destruction of the marine environment?

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A radical new idea could save the world’s ecosystems. But what will it do to the economy?

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Crime is down, convictions are down, but the prisons are bursting. Why?

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What has happened to Bush’s secret prisoners?

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Peasant farmers offer the best chance of feeding the world. So why do we treat them with contempt?

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I didn’t get my man, but I helped to remind people what he’s done.

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The Charge Sheet

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An open letter to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

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The most rightwing government Britain has had since the Second World War does not deserve to be re-elected.

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Guantanamo Bay is killing people thousands of miles away.

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Is the airship a viable alternative to jet travel?

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What more can the government shut down? Oh yes, doctors’ surgeries.

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Rupert Murdoch doesn’t even have to ask to get what he wants.

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If you care about hunger, eat less meat.

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How to grow vegetables without breaking your back

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The employment figures attached to large projects tend to be codswallop.

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The government’s plans for clean coal are another great green scam.

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Beware of privatisation schemes dressed up as customer choice.

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As the evidence accumulates, the Evening Standard’s allegations of terrorist planning have fallen apart.

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Religious conservatives are responsible for high abortion rates

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As government documents show, Sir Nicholas Stern accidentally launched a trade in human lives.

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A new generation of biofuels turns out to be another environmental disaster

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Big money trumps everything in politics, even the most dearly-held beliefs

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It’s an important issue, but nowhere near the top of the list.

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Britain’s strange private school system causes immeasurable harm

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The unaccountable people who launched the Iraq war have learnt nothing from it.

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Bush trashed the climate talks. But look what Gore did.

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The climate talks are a stitch-up, as no one is talking about supply.

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The numbers show that this should be the real question at the Bali talks.

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Yes, I am sorry to say, we need them.

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When will Bush and Brown acknowledge that there is already a nuclear power in the Middle East?

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The anti-speed camera campaign is based on junk science.

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Biofuels could kill more people than the Iraq war.

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Are we already shutting our minds to the consequences of climate change?

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Matt Ridley raged against the government - until he needed £16 billion

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Why won’t Gary Player answer my questions about apartheid and evictions?

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A vast new opencast pit will ruin local people’s lives and wreck the government’s climate change policies. How was it allowed to happen?

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How else will the destructive effects of growth be stopped?

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If you want to support democracy in Burma, phone Gary Player and the other western businessmen propping up the generals.

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People of all political colours are clamouring to answer a meaningless question.

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Wherever you hear the words “free market”, you’ll find massive state handouts to corporations

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Many of our current crises are the long-term results of a meeting which took place 60 years ago

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The climate camp at Heathrow is materially different from protests that have taken place in Britain before.

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The press has been publishing a series of crazy scare stories about our intentions at the climate camp

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Is it time to consider a ban on the adverts which help to cook the planet?

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To win an injunction against protests at Heathrow airport, BAA used a law which threatens our democratic rights

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By signing up to Bush’s missile defence programme, the British government shows it doesn’t give a damn about either peace or democracy
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Green consumerism will not save the biosphere

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The trade unions still rage about the class war, but keep funding their class enemies.

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A new paper suggests we have been greatly underestimating the impacts of climate change - and the size of the necessary response.

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Even in the rich nations, the babymilk manufacturers are undermining breastfeeding

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In which we battle over carbon targets, green tokenism and the economics of climate change.

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A final response to Alexander Cockburn.

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Everywhere they go, the Olympic Games become an excuse for eviction and displacement.

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New revelations show that Blair’s government is as corrupt as any of those it criticises.

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The G8 has the interests of the rest of the world at heart - until they conflict with its own.

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This is a response to Alexander Cockburn’s articles on global warming. You can find all the articles, and other responses, here: http://www.zmag.org/debatesglobalwarming.html (more…)

When planning laws are relaxed, it is the poor who suffer most.

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Though the government is planning a massive expansion of transport networks, it has never considered this question.

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We need a global campaign for road safety, but not one controlled by the motor industry.

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The members of the Council of Europe have agreed to overlook each other’s abuses. (more…)