Conspiracies against the public don't get much uglier than this. As [the Guardian] revealed last week, two secretive organisations working for US billionaires have spent $118m to ensure that no action is taken to
LONDON: How they must bleed for us. Last year, the world’s 100 richest people became $241 billion richer. They are now worth $1.9 trillion: just a little less than the entire output of the United Kingdom
LONDON: It was the year of living dangerously. In 2012 governments turned their backs on the living planet, demonstrating that no chronic problem, however grave, will take priority over an immediate concern, however trivial. I believe there has
“MERE words cannot match the depths of your sorrow, nor can they heal your wounded hearts ... These tragedies must end. And to end them, we must change.” Every parent can connect with what President Barack Obama said about the murder of 20 children in New
LONDON: I don't blame Mo Farah, Pele and Haile Gebrselassie, who lined up, all hugs and smiles, outside Downing Street for a photocall at David Cameron's hunger summit. Perhaps they were unaware of the way in which they were being used to promote the Brit
LONDON: The land around Helpston, just to the north of Peterborough in Northamptonshire, central England, now ranks among the most dismal and regularised tracts of countryside in Europe.
THE facts have changed, now we must change too. For the past 10 years an unlikely coalition of geologists, oil drillers, bankers, military strategists and environmentalists has been warning that peak oil — the decline of global supplies — is just around t
IT is, perhaps, the greatest failure of collective leadership since the First World War. The Earth’s living systems are collapsing, and the leaders of some of the most powerful nations — the United States, the UK, Germany, Russia — could not even be bothe
THE term ‘genocide’ conjures up attempts to kill an entire people: the German slaughter of the Jews and the near-extermination of the Native Americans.
THE ancient Greeks, unlike the Jews or the Christians, invested their gods with human failings. Divine judgment, they believed, was neither flawless nor dispassionate; it was warped by lust, vengeance and self-interest.
LONDON: Texas is a largely Christian state that appears to believe in neither forgiveness nor redemption. Last week the Guardian revealed the extent to which it has criminalised its children.
