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Environment

George Monbiot: Black Friday is right: our relentless consumption is trashing the planet

November 22, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

When you hear that something makes economic sense, this means it makes the opposite of common sense. Those sensible men and women who run the world’s treasuries and central banks, who see an indefinite rise […]

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Austerity

George Monbiot: Look to Sheffield: this is how state and corporate power subverts democracy

October 25, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The destructiveness and reach of neo-liberalism is made clear in this piece by George Monbiot. It is a question of felling some trees in the city of Sheffield in the UK, but one can see […]

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Solutions

George Monbiot: Keynesianism is dead. We need a radical reboot of our economy

October 22, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

George Monbiot proposes a couple of useful suggestions for turning around the modern state and its economy. Read here  

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Climate Crisis

George Monbiot: Opinion Insectageddon: farming is more catastrophic than climate breakdown

October 20, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

At least Monsanto, Bayer and the other multinational pesticide and GMO seed producers are still earning billions. Like Peter Thiel, those making the profits are probably buying estates in New Zealand, where they can go when the environmental […]

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EU politics

George Monbiot: Referendums get a bad press – but to fix Britain, we need more of them

October 18, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

650 parliamentarians decide for 66 million Britons. Elections are years apart. Is that really democracy asks George Monbiot. There must be a way to improve this system: referendums. The sort of referendum used for Brexit […]

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Solutions

George Monbiot: How Labour could lead the global economy out of the 20th century

October 11, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The world is stuck in a political and economic rut. A system that has failed and is daily failing 99% of the earth’s population needs to be replaced. George Monbiot offers a series of solutions. […]

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Food Production

George Monbiot: Goodbye – and good riddance – to livestock farming

October 4, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

From The Guardian Livestock production is the single largest driver of habitat loss. Grazing livestock are a fully automated system for ecological destruction. Animal farming looks as incompatible with a sustained future for humans and […]

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EU politics

George Monbiot: Don’t let the rich get even richer on the assets we all share

September 29, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

From The Guardian There are four major economic sectors: the market, the state, the household and the commons. The neglect of the last two by both neoliberals and social democrats has created many of the […]

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Economics

Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

June 15, 2025 0

Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

Geopolitics

A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

May 5, 2025 0

Book Review by Chris Green It provides a modicum of relief to one’s mental health to turn from Nicholas Kristof’s lame bothsidesism and Bernie Sanders’s blather about Israel’s “right to defend itself” to reading Chris […]

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