George Monbiot

Those against an attack on Iraq must do more than shake their heads at the television

Her seferinde yeni yıla girerken, hayatlarımızın daha iyi olacağı beklentisi içinde oluyoruz. Ekonomi büyümeye devam ettikçe biz de dünyanın daha cana yakın bir yer olacağını hayal ediyoruz. Bu inancın hiçbir temeli yok oysa.

We will pay the price for believing the world has infinite resources

Çok değil, 10 yıl gibi kısa bir süre içinde dünya bir seçim yapmak zorunda kalacak: Ekilebilir topraklar ya dünya yüzündeki hayvanları beslemek için kullanılacak ya da dünya yüzündeki insanları beslemek için. İkisini birden yapması olanaksız.

Famine can only be avoided if the rich give up meat, fish and dairy

Wildlife TV shows portray a phoney Garden of Eden, but the reality is built on ethnic cleansing

The UN security council is inherently tyrannical and will be until no member has a veto

We should help the Iraqi people overthrow Saddam, but not by flouting international law

The battle to put a corporate GM padlock on our foodchain is being fought on the net

While Lula's Brazil kowtows to the free market, Blair's Britain only pretends to do so

In the media, places like Bali only feature as tourist playgrounds. That endangers us all

The global grip of western vested interests can only be overcome by a democratic revolution

The US has been seeking to prevent a resolution of the Iraq crisis for the past eight years

The key issue is that the World Bank and IMF are controlled exclusively by the rich nations and work exclusively in the poor nations.

İnşasına Aralık ayında başlanması beklenen Bakü-Tiflis-Ceyhan boru hattı Hazar Denizi'nden başlayacak, Azerbaycan, Gürcistan ve Türkiye'den geçerek Akdeniz'e ulaşacak. Hattın günde bir milyon varil ham petrol taşıması planlanıyor.

Africa is forced to take the blame for the devastation inflicted on it by the rich world

"Özgürlük ve güvenlik arasında seçim yapmak zorunda kaldığınızda, özgürlüğü seçin. Aksi halde, her ikisine de sahip olamazsınız. Güvenli bir iş ve güvenli bir maaş için ruhunu satan insanlar o denli vazgeçilmez olmadıkları anlaşıldığı ilk anda kendilerini kapının dışında bulacaklardır.

The British ships about to pick up a consignment of plutonium present one of the gravest of all threats to global security.

So my second piece of career advice echoes the political advice offered by Benjamin Franklin: whenever you are faced with a choice between liberty and security, choose liberty. Otherwise you will end up with neither.

The web of deceit over GM food has now drawn in the PM's speechwriters

The more a government emphasizes its commitment to defense, the less it seems to care about the survival of its people. Perhaps it is because its attention may be focused on more distant prospects: the establishment and maintenance of empire, for example, or the dynastic succession of its leaders.

Corporations are inventing people to rubbish their opponents on the internet

The far right is trying to hijack the green and anti-globalisation agenda

The removal of Jose Bustani demonstrates George Bush's contempt for cooperation

The US wants to depose the diplomat who could take away its pretext for war with Iraq

The movement written off after September 11 is demonstrating its worth in Palestine

Peace has been declared before the war has begun. Those who advocated the obliteration of Kabul and Baghdad have retreated in the face of insuperable complexity. Many of those who argued against aggression have relaxed as the threat of carpet bombing or nuclear strikes has lifted.

There could scarcely be an odder time to announce a massive airport development. Even before the crash in New York 11 days ago, the world's airline companies were expecting to lose 15% of their trade and some $7bn. In the past fortnight two major carriers have collapsed.

They thought it was all over. After civilisation's victory in Afghanistan, where the lion now lies down with the lamb, there was, almost all the newspapers agreed, nothing left to discuss.

The armchair warriors have proved no more merciful in victory than the Northern Alliance. Yesterday's Sun gave two pages to an editorial entitled "Shame of the traitors: wrong, wrong, wrong ... the fools who said Allies faced disaster".