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Desire for power drives megadeath

Killing elephants and rhinos for even a part of their bodies wounds our humanity and lives.

Callous US axes Somalis’ only lifeline

The US Treasury claims its measures are to counter terrorism but the heinous criminal activities of the giant HSBC bank are ignored.

The careless, astonishing cruelty of Barack Obama’s government

The US, it seems, couldn’t care less if it causes a humanitarian crisis in Somalia, one of the world’s poorest countries.

Scotland’s ayes should be smiling

Voting ‘no’ against independence from the United Kingdom means being in favour of staying in an abusive relationship.

Transatlantic trade deal is too opaque

The paucity of available information has only served to confuse the issue further.

The United Nations Security Council in session. Photo: Reuters

US’s duplicity comes back to bite it

The country is peeved at being blocked in the UN Security Council but is guilty of doing the same.

Monbiot: Bono can’t help Africans by stealing their voice

Because the U2 frontman and others like him are seen as representatives of the poor, the poor are not invited to speak, writes George Monbiot.

When ‘helping’ Africa resembles grabbing its resources

From the Conference of Berlin to today’s G8, "helping" Africans looks suspiciously like monopolising their resources, writes George Monbiot.

The ambitious targets are not set in stone until they are deposited at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change later this year, while legislative processes vary between countries that have stated their mitigation

The market is no friend to nature

In other ages, states sought to seize as much power as they could. Today, the self-hating state renounces its powers.

Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.

Deep Read: When corporates bankroll politics, we all lose

Letting taxpayers fund parties directly could revive the rotten system – and it would be cheaper too, writes George Monbiot.

Tony Blair.

Deep Read: The Blair necessity

Desmond Tutu has helped us see the true nature of what Tony Blair did to Iraq and increased pressure for a prosecution, writes George Monbiot.

Brent futures gained 1%

We were wrong about peak oil, but disaster looms anyway

A boom in oil production has made a mockery of our predictions. Good news for capitalists – but a disaster for humanity, writes George Monbiot.

Dozens of societies across several centuries recognised same-sex marriages as legitimate.

Myth of the traditional family

Throughout history and most societies marriage has always been the union of a man and woman. It’s a familiar claim and it’s wrong, says George Monbiot

Credit crunch? The real crisis is global hunger

Never mind the economic crisis. Focus for a moment on a more urgent threat: the great food recession that is sweeping the world faster than the credit crunch. You have probably…

Don’t be fooled: IMF is still the rich world’s viceroy

The glacier has begun to creak. In the world’s most powerful dictatorship we detect the merest hint of a thaw. I am not talking about China or Uzbekistan, Burma or North Korea.…

The secret of the soul’s toil

”Professor Greg Retallack has spent much of the past few years taking soil samples from the sites of the temples of ancient Greece. He has stumbled on a remarkable phenomenon.…

Exploitation on tap

No one could have accused the British Conservative government of breaking its promise to bring back Victorian values. When, in 1992, it permitted private water companies to…

With eyes wide shut

Our dreaming will, as it has begun to do already, destroy the conditions necessary for human life on Earth. Were we governed by reason, we would be on the barricades today,…

America is a religion

”The death of Uday and Qusay,” the commander of the ground forces in Iraq told reporters on Wednesday, ”is definitely going to be a turning point for the resistance.” Well, it…

Our quality of life has peaked – it’s downhill now

With the turning of every year we expect our lives to improve. As long as the economy continues to grow, we imagine, the world will become a more congenial place in which to…