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Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Or as columnist George Monbiot says, how the ultra rich enslave themselves in order to avoid paying taxes.
It’s a bitter blow. When the UK government proposed a windfall tax on bonuses and a 50p top rate of income tax, thousands of bankers and corporate executives promised to leave the country ...
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Monday, February 1st, 2010
Writer and Guardian columnist George Monbiot is so incensed by Tony Blair's efforts to wage war on Iraq that he has launched a new fund - www.arrestblair.org – to reward those who attempt to arrest the former British prime minister.
The only question that counts is the one that the Chilcot ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
The world's hungriest are the losers as an old colonialism returns to govern relations between wealthy and poor nations. As investigative journalist George Monbiot says, "The rich world's governments will protect themselves from the political cost of shortages, even if it means that other people must starve."
In his book Late ...
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