Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian
george monbiot authorlatest news & developments
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.

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

Bush’s smoke and mirrors

George W Bush proposes to deal with climate change by means of smoke and mirrors. So what’s new? Only that it is no longer just a metaphor. After six years of obfuscation and…

It’s better to cry wolf now over oil

Are global oil supplies about to peak? Are they, in other words, about to reach their maximum and then go into decline? There is a simple answer to this question: no one has the…

Puritanism of the rich

If Bush wins," the United States writer Barbara Probst Solomon claimed just before the election, "fascism is possible in the United States." Blind faith in a leader, she said, a…