George Monbiot

If the IMF wants to reform itself, why not try democracy?

Sulphate pollution killed hundreds of thousands of Africans. A plan to use sulphur to fight climate change risks the same

Labour seems to see the escalating dangers in the Middle East as little more than an opportunity for business

The failure of the attack on Lebanon has left the Israeli people less secure, but it has done nothing to dent the generals' power

The assault on Lebanon was premeditated - the soldiers' capture simply provided the excuse. It was also unnecessary

Geçen birkaç gün içinde ABD, İngiltere'nin de desteğiyle, acil bir ateşkes ilan edilmesine yönelik tüm uluslararası girişimleri engelleyerek İsrail'e açıkça Lübnan'a yönelik saldırılarına devam etme izni verdi.

A US leader in his second term should have the power to rein in Israel. But George Bush is no ordinary president

Some of the arguments against nuclear power are no longer valid, but it remains the wrong technology.

We need omega-3 oils for our brains to function properly. But where will they come from?

The green rebranding of Shell and BP is a fraud. Far from switching to biofuels, it's drilling and devastation as usual

The atrocities in Iraq surprise us only because we ignore colonial history.

Why Won't Anyone Enforce Our Building Standards?

The £95 million that private companies extracted from a hospital project was not a mistake, but a deliberate gift from the government.

If governments really want to improve law and order, they should ban adverts for junk food

We all know the damage aviation does, but the government and the airlines want to turn the country into Airstrip One

Labour's First Full-scale Privatisation Involves The Multiple Fleecing Of The Taxpayer

Wealth itself can be a source of deprivation, when property paranoia makes us hate each other

The most destructive effect of the carbon offset trade is that it allows us to believe we can carry on polluting

Why do so few people know about the atrocities of empire?

It's not just the common agricultural policy: the corporate sector relies on state handouts that dwarf their profits

It is not illegal to discuss the millions who were killed under our empire. So why do so few people know about them?

The car is slowly turning us, like the Americans and the Australians, into a nation that recognises only the freedom to act

Daha fazlasını değil, daha azını talep eden ilk politik kitle hareketi bu. Daha azla yetinme peşinde sokaklara dökülen ilk hareket. Konforumuzun kısılmasını talep eden ilk hareket. Kimse bunun kolay olacağını söylemesin. Başkalarına değil, kendimize karşı da mücadele vermek zorundayız.

It's not just the common agricultural policy: the entire corporate sector relies on state handouts that dwarf their profits

For the first three million years of human history, we lived according to circumstance. Our lives were ruled by the happenstances of ecology. We existed, as all animals do, in fear of hunger, predation, weather and disease.

By promoting biodiesel as a substitute, we have missed the fact that it is worse than the fossil-fuel burning it replaces

We now know the US also used thermobaric weapons in its assault on Falluja, where up to 50,000 civilians remained

Now we know napalm and phosphorus bombs have been dropped on Iraqis, why have the hawks failed to speak out?

Air pollution kills many times more people than passive smoking, but Britain has failed even to meet feeble EU standards

İklim değişikliği meselesini ciddiye alan bizler gibi insanların göğüslemek zorunda olduğu iki önemli sorun var. Bunlardan birincisi şu: Hiç olmazsa tarihi açıdan söyleyebiliriz ki, tutumlu olmak, yani azla yetinmek konusunda şimdiye kadar sokaklara dökülmüş, isyan etmiş hiç kimse yoktur.