>Mystery:

>How Wealth Creates Poverty in the Worldby Michael ParentiZNet Commentary (September 28 2006)There is a "mystery" we must explain: How is it that as corporate investments and foreign aid and international loans to poor countries have increased dramatically throughout the world over the last half century, so has poverty? The number of people living in …

>The Anti-Empire Report

>Some things you need to know before the world ends by William Blumwww.killinghope.org (September 25 2006) "Thank you for not putting a bomb in your luggage". "President Bush said the United States is still under the threat of attack and will continue to be right up until Election Day". -- Jay LenoHand-in-hand with his threat …

>New aircraft fuel could be pie in the sky

>by George MonbiotThe Guardian - Comment is Free (September 25 2006)So now we know: Richard Branson doesn't read the Guardian. On Thursday, it published an extract from my book showing that there are no foreseeable substitutes for aviation fuel (kerosene) that don't currently cause more harm than good. A few hours later, Branson announced that …

>It’s the Palestinian Problem, Stupid

>by Charley ReeseKing Features Syndicate (September 18 2006)To paraphrase the rather rude slogan of Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign, "It's the Palestinian problem, stupid".During the hearings the 9-11 Commission conducted, Lee Hamilton asked a group of FBI agents to explain the motivation of the 19 hijackers. Special Agent James Fitzgerald answered this way, according to …

>Who’s Paying?

>When pundits discuss contentious issues on air, they must reveal their financial interests.by George MonbiotPublished in the Guardian (September 26 2006)On the letters page of the Guardian last week, a Dr Alan Kendall attacked the Royal Society for "smearing" its opponents. It had sent an official letter to Exxon, complaining about the oil company's "inaccurate …

>A Rock in His Boot

>by Charley ReeseKing Features Syndicate (September 25 2006)Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, is certainly a sharp rock in the cowboy boot of President George W Bush and therefore a prime candidate for the Bush administration's main tool of foreign policy - regime change.That's just a bureaucratic phrase that means overthrowing somebody else's government. Two …

>How Much Reality Can You Take?

>Does anyone really want to stop climate change?by George MonbiotPublished in the Guardian (September 21 2006)You have to pinch yourself. Until now, the Sun has denounced environmentalists as "loonies" and "eco beards". Last week it published "photographic proof that climate change is real". {1}. In a page that could have come straight from a Greenpeace …

>March of the clone towns

>by Mark LynasNew Statesman (September 25 2006)I had the great misfortune, on returning from a public meeting in Abergavenny this past week, to pass through Hereford. With an hour to kill before catching my connecting train back to Oxford, I was in high spirits as I left the station. The meeting had been packed, and …

>Shopping: How it became our national disease

>We are rapidly turning into a nation of continuous shoppers, unable to walk the streets without making purchases, however trivial. Somehow we have come to believe the marketers' hype: we must always treat ourselves - we're worth it.by Lynsey HanleyNew Statesman Cover story (September 18 2006)The woman in the NatWest knew what she wanted. "Basically, …

>An 87% Cut by 2030

>That's what we need in the United Kingdomto avoid catastrophic climate changeby George Monbiot (September 21 2006)Published on the Guardian's Comment is Free siteThere are three things on which almost all climate scientists are now agreed. The first is that manmade climate change is real. The second is that we need to take action. The …