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George Monbiot

Over the last fifteen years, editors often asked me not to mention the word “neoliberalism,” because I was told readers wouldn’t comprehend the “jargon.” This…
Last week a research wing of the International Monetary Fund came out with a report admitting that neoliberalism has been a failure. The report, entitled, “Neoliberalism: Oversold?”…
Let’s face it, young Americans are fed up with the economic status quo. If this fact is not evident enough from the groundswell of millennial…
What have governments learnt from the financial crisis? I could write a column spelling it out. Or I could do the same job with one…
Corporate-friendly international agreement like TPP and TTIP, writes Monbiot, "could scarcely be better designed to exacerbate and universalise our multiple crises – financial, social and…
Eat less meat and fish, drink less milk. No request could be simpler, or more consequential. Nothing we do has greater potential for reducing our…
Last weekend, about 100 U.S. Veterans for Peace gathered in Red Wing, Minnesota, for a statewide annual meeting. In my experience, Veterans for Peace chapters hold “no-nonsense”…
In defending the natural world, we should be honest about our motivations – it’s love that drives us, not money. Who wants to see the…
Imagine a wonderful world, a planet on which there was no threat of climate breakdown, no loss of freshwater, no antibiotic resistance, no obesity crisis,…