Articles by The Guardian
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Armadillo: The Afghanistan War Documentary that Shocked Denmark
Geoffrey Macnab – The Guardian,
7 Jun 2010
In Denmark, the press and public have been stunned by Armadillo, Janus Metz’s documentary about a UK-Danish base in Afghanistan, and the actions of the soldiers based there.
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Simon Tisdall – The Guardian,
24 May 2010
Brazil and Turkey are determined to pursue diplomacy and compromise – even if it means upsetting Washington.
→ read full articleJerusalem Residents Attack Writer Elie Wiesel over Appeal to Barack Obama
Chris McGreal – The Guardian,
17 May 2010
Holocaust survivor accused of ignoring anti-Arab discrimination in Jerusalem.
→ read full articleBolivia’s Fight for Survival Can Help Save Democracy Too
Naomi Klein – The Guardian,
26 Apr 2010
The people’s summit to tackle climate change is a radical, transformative response to the failure of the Copenhagen club.
→ read full articleEmbedded War Reporting Cannot Escape Its Own Bias
Alison Banville – The Guardian,
26 Apr 2010
Rather than offer a ‘greater reality’, it actually hinders attempts to make sense of a conflict.
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Joseph Huff-Hannon – The Guardian,
12 Apr 2010
The turmoil in a small Central Asian country speaks volumes about US ‘democratisation’ efforts in the region.
→ read full articleBOLIVIA CREATES A NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR CLIMATE TALKS THAT FAILED AT COPENHAGEN
Pablo Solón - The Guardian,
26 Mar 2010
Bolivia will host an international meeting on climate change next month because it is not prepared to ‘betray its people.’In the aftermath of the Copenhagen climate conference, those who defended the widely condemned outcome tended to talk about it as a "step in the right direction". This was always a tendentious argument, given that tackling […]
→ read full articleBOLIVIA, A BEACON OF HOPE
Matt Kennard – The Guardian,
9 Mar 2010
The inspiring example of Evo Morales’s Bolivian government. There’s a game I’ve been playing recently. Any time I read the news and get depressed about the parlous state of our world, I type "Bolivia" into Google news and wait for the results. It’s really all you need to brighten up your day. In the last […]
→ read full articleLATIN AMERICA’S PATH TO INDEPENDENCE
Mark Weisbrot – The Guardian,
26 Feb 2010
With the creation of a new regional organisation, Latin America is emerging as a power bloc with its own interests and agenda. Latin America took another historic step forward this week with the creation of a new regional organization of 32 Latin American and Caribbean countries. The United States and Canada were excluded. The increasing […]
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Mark Weisbrot – The Guardian,
1 Feb 2010
US interference in the politics of Haiti and Honduras is only the latest example of its long-term manipulations in Latin America.When I write about US foreign policy in places such as Haiti or Honduras, I often get responses from people who find it difficult to believe that the US government would care enough about these […]
→ read full articleHAITI’S SUFFERING IS A RESULT OF CALCULATED IMPOVERISHMENT
Seumas Milne – The Guardian,
26 Jan 2010
Haiti’s poverty is treated as some baffling quirk of history or culture, when in reality it is the direct consequence of a uniquely brutal relationship with the outside world — notably the US, France and Britain — stretching back centuries. There is no relief for the people of Haiti, it seems, even in their hour […]
→ read full articleONE QUARTER OF US GRAIN CROPS FED TO CARS – NOT PEOPLE, NEW FIGURES SHOW
John Vidal, environment editor – The Guardian,
22 Jan 2010
New analysis of 2009 US Department of Agriculture figures suggests biofuel revolution is impacting on world food supplies.One-quarter of all the maize and other grain crops grown in the US now ends up as biofuel in cars rather than being used to feed people, according to new analysis which suggests that the biofuel revolution launched […]
→ read full articleIRAQ LITTERED WITH HIGH LEVELS OF NUCLEAR AND DIOXIN CONTAMINATION, STUDY FINDS
Martin Chulov in Baghdad - The Guardian,
22 Jan 2010
• Greater rates of cancer and birth defects near sites• Depleted uranium among poisons revealed in reportMore than 40 sites across Iraq are contaminated with high levels or radiation and dioxins, with three decades of war and neglect having left environmental ruin in large parts of the country, an official Iraqi study has found. Areas […]
→ read full articleOUR ROLE IN HAITI’S PLIGHT
Peter Hallward- The Guardian,
14 Jan 2010
If we are serious about assisting this devastated land we must stop trying to control and exploit it.Any large city in the world would have suffered extensive damage from an earthquake on the scale of the one that ravaged Haiti’s capital city on Tuesday afternoon, but it’s no accident that so much of Port-au-Prince now […]
→ read full articleTERROR IS THE PRICE OF SUPPORT FOR DESPOTS AND DICTATORS
Seumas Milne – The Guardian,
12 Jan 2010
Egypt’s complicity in Gaza’s siege underlines the role of western support for such regimes in the spread of war. If an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor had gone on hunger strike in support of a besieged people in another part of the world, and hundreds of mostly western protesters had been stoned and beaten by police, you […]
→ read full articleTHE HOLOCAUST WE WILL NOT SEE
George Monbiot - The Guardian,
12 Jan 2010
Avatar half-tells a story we would all prefer to forget.Avatar, James Cameron’s blockbusting 3-D film, is both profoundly silly and profound. It’s profound because, like most films about aliens, it is a metaphor for contact between different human cultures. But in this case the metaphor is conscious and precise: this is the story of European […]
→ read full articleMEDIA BATTLES IN LATIN AMERICA NOT ABOUT “FREE SPEECH”
Mark Weisbrot - The Guardian,
10 Jan 2010
For at least a month now in Ecuador there has been a battle over regulation of the media. It has been in the front pages of the newspapers most of the time, and a leading daily, El Comercio, referred to the fight as one for “defense of human rights and the free practice of journalism.” […]
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George Monbiot - The Guardian,
19 Dec 2009
The talks at Copenhagen are not just about climate change. They represent a battle to redefine humanity. This is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become. It chooses whether […]
→ read full articleCOPENHAGEN CLIMATE PROTESTERS RALLY
Bibi van der Zee in Copenhagen, David Batty and agencies – The Guardian,
13 Dec 2009
Thousands of people march as part of a global protest to demand that governments agree a new climate deal.Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Copenhagen today (Sat, Dec 12, 2009] as part of a global protest to demand governments across the world agree a binding new global deal to tackle climate […]
→ read full articleBOLIVIA: REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE
The Guardian – Editorial, Dec 8 2009,
10 Dec 2009
President Evo Morales won a stunning victory in Bolivia yesterday, taking 63% of the popular vote and guiding his party to win control of congress. Bolivia’s first indigenous president has won the biggest popular mandate in recent memory, destroying three political parties that rotated the presidency between them for the last two decades. In doing […]
→ read full articleTHE CHILDREN OF FALLUJA
Martin Chulov and Shehani Fernando – The Guardian,
26 Nov 2009
Doctors are dealing with an increase in chronic deformities in infants in Falluja, where heavy munitions were used in 2004. A Video from The Guardian 4:29-Min VideoCLICK TO VIEW – GUARDIAN.CO.UK
→ read full articleGERMANS PRESS FOR REMOVAL OF US NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN EUROPE
Julian Borger, diplomatic editor – The Guardian,
9 Nov 2009
Pressure is growing within Nato for the removal of the remaining US nuclear weapons on European soil, and for a new doctrine for the alliance that would depend less on nuclear deterrence.The initiative is being driven by the new German government coalition, which has called for the removal of American nuclear weapons on its territory […]
→ read full articleCHOMSKY: ‘US FOREIGN POLICY IS STRAIGHT OUT OF THE MAFIA’
Seumas Milne – The Guardian,
8 Nov 2009
Noam Chomsky is the closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar. A philosopher of language and political campaigner of towering academic reputation, who as good as invented modern linguistics, he is entertained by presidents, addresses the United Nations general assembly and commands a mass international audience. When he spoke in London last […]
→ read full articleAMERICA’S NEW CRUSADER CASTLES
Simon Tisdall – The Guardian,
6 Nov 2009
Across the Middle East, the US is building heavily fortified embassies which cut off diplomats and create hostilitiesAfter the US Congress agreed a $7.5bn aid package for Pakistan this autumn, the Obama administration was taken aback by the seemingly ungrateful reaction of its intended recipients. Pakistani opposition politicians fumed about "colonialism" and "imperialism". Military men […]
→ read full articleARRESTING BLAIR
George Monbiot - Published in the Guardian, 26th October 2009,
28 Oct 2009
His bid for the EU presidency gives us the best chance we’ll ever have.Tony Blair’s bid to become president of the European Union has united the left in revulsion. His enemies argue that he divided Europe by launching an illegal war; he kept the UK out of the eurozone and the Schengen agreement; he is […]
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George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian, 22nd September 2009,
22 Sep 2009
The Trafigura scandal is just one of thousands of cases of the rich world’s fly-tipping. It was revolting, monstrous, inhumane – and scarcely different from what happens in Africa almost every day. The oil trading company Trafigura has just agreed to pay compensation to 31,0000 people in Cote d’Ivoire, after the Guardian and the BBC’s […]
→ read full articleHELP ADDICTS, BUT LOCK UP THE CASUAL USERS OF COCAINE
George Monbiot - Published in the Guardian 30th June 2009,
30 Jun 2009
The UN’s Proposal for Decriminalisation is Senseless and DestructiveIt looked like the first drop of rain in the desert of drugs policy. Last week Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said what millions of liberal-minded people have been waiting to hear. “Law enforcement should shift its focus from […]
→ read full articleBAGHDAD: CITY OF WALLS part 2
The Guardian,
20 Apr 2009
PART 2 – CROSSING THE WALL Eight new ghettos divide Baghdad’s Shia and Sunni neighbourhoods. The Real News Network12:08-Min. VideoCLICK TO VIEW
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The Guardian,
19 Apr 2009
PART 1 – SCARS OF WAR Baghdad wears its scars as a series of giant walls dividing its neighbourhoods. The Real News Network12:19-Min. VideoCLICK TO VIEW
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The Guardian, UK - Editorial (Mar 3),
4 Mar 2009
Pledging aid for Gaza is the easy bit. Getting it delivered to Gazans living in tents after Israel’s three-week bombardment is another matter. The $3bn that donors promised in Sharm el-Sheikh yesterday will have to penetrate a labyrinth of barriers and conditions, the complexity of which King Minos of Crete would have been proud. The […]
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Karen Armstrong – The Guardian,
15 Nov 2008
World Religions Too Often Seem Predicated on Prejudice, When Their True Roots Lie in Compassion The practice of compassion is central to every one of the major world religions – but sometimes you would never know it. Instead, religion is associated with violence, intolerance and seems more preoccupied by dogmatic or sexual orthodoxy. People don’t […]
→ read full articleSELF-EVIDENT TRUTHS
The Guardian - Editorial,
14 Nov 2008
If there is a truth which the world now holds to be self-evident, it is that the US prison camp in Guantánamo Bay should close. Four prosecutors at the camp have resigned, and the last one to do so, Darrel Vandeveld, could become a defence witness. He claimed the US government was not providing lawyers […]
→ read full articleSUFFERING WITHOUT END
The Guardian - Editorial,
31 Oct 2008
If the words humanitarian catastrophe and eastern Congo have a familiar ring to them, it is because the fundamental causes of a conflict that has claimed five million lives and continues to kill 45,000 a month through starvation and disease remain unaddressed. And this despite the world’s largest peacekeeping force, with the strongest mandate […]
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