In the Company of Wolves
The members of the Council of Europe have agreed to overlook each other’s abuses. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 8th May 2007. What would it take to disqualify a nation from running...
View ArticleWithout Principle
New revelations show that Blair’s government is as corrupt as any of those it criticises. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 8th June 2007. Never let members of this government complain about...
View ArticleThe Junta’s Accomplices
If you want to support democracy in Burma, phone Gary Player and the other western businessmen propping up the generals. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 2nd October 2007 China has become...
View ArticlePlaying in the Rough
Why won’t Gary Player answer my questions about apartheid and evictions? By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 16th October 2007 Most human differences can be overcome, but there is one...
View ArticleLost in the System
What has happened to Bush’s secret prisoners? By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 17th June 2008 We shouldn’t be surprised to hear that George Bush dined with a group of historians on Sunday...
View ArticleWar With the Ghosts
What are our nuclear weapons for, and who controls them? By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 22nd March 2010 Sharing our nuclear deterrence with France is out of the question. Last week the...
View ArticleNaming the Genocide Deniers
The right-wing denial of the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda is bad enough; the new left-wing denial is even worse. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 14th June 2011 In a leading article last...
View ArticleDo As We Say, Not As We Do
My letter to Media Lens over the issue of the massacre at Srebrenica. In my latest column, I dedicated two sentences to what I felt was an obvious double standard on the part of the campaigning group...
View ArticleMedia Cleanse
How a group which claims to defend human rights turned into an apologist for genocidaires and ethnic cleansers. By George Monbiot. Published on monbiot.com, 4th August 2011 Every few months, and in the...
View ArticleA Gun to Your Head
Should wider sanctions be imposed on Syria? By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 20th September 2011 I would rather not be writing this column. To argue against the course of action I’m...
View ArticleDark Hearts
We British have a peculiar ability to blot out our colonial history. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 24th April 2012 There is one thing you can say for the Holocaust deniers: at least they...
View ArticleBlotting Out the Past
This is my reply to a former colonial official denying British atrocities in Kenya Published in a Guardian comment thread, 10th May 2012 John Allen really should have read Caroline Elkins’s book before...
View ArticleGenocide Denial: Expert Assessments
This is supporting material for the article See No Evil. Posted on monbiot.com, 21st May 2012 I asked four of the world’s leading genocide scholars to assess Herman and Peterson’s response to my first...
View ArticleCorrespondence with Noam Chomsky
This is supporting material for the article See No Evil. Posted on monbiot.com, 21st May 2012 From: George Monbiot Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 10:10 AM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: foreword to Politics of...
View ArticleSee No Evil
How did genocide denial become a doctrine of the internationalist left? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 22nd May 2012. The term genocide conjures up attempts to kill an entire people: the...
View ArticleThe Empire Strikes Back
Imperialism did almost as much harm to the ruling nations as it did to their subject peoples. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 9th October 2012 Over the gates of Auschwitz were the words...
View ArticleUnremitting Pain
The US government, it seems, couldn’t care less if it causes a humanitarian catastrophe in one of the world’s poorest nations. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian, 11th February 2015 Let me...
View ArticleThe Lady Has Turned
Aung San Suu Kyi should lose her Nobel Prize, as a result of her disgraceful complicity in genocide By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 6th September 2017 Those of us who have spent our...
View ArticleSlavemasters
The world’s most powerful nations endorsed the Indonesian occupation of West Papua 50 years ago. Now they have a duty to help bring it to an end. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 21st...
View ArticleLying In State
History, as the government tells it, is one long lie, airbrushing a host of atrocities. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 17th June 2020 When Boris Johnson claimed last week that removing...
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