Politics

California in 'fiscal emergency'
California's IOU to the world
Californians are sinking themselves

Scientists attack energy industry
Treasury faces legal action over 'dirty' banking investments
Britain's green shame

From Versailles a message of no austerity
The Green Bank
Holding together

The Key to Fixing Health Care and Energy: Use Less
Market dogma is exposed as myth. Where is the new vision to unite us?
Vandana Shivas views on society & nature
A new (under) class of travellers
Cloning Winnie

Betraying the Planet
Lovelock: We need a climate change 'Churchill'
America's climate-change bill is a bundle of compromises
Obama Opposes Trade Sanctions in Climate Bill
Kucinich: “Passing a weak bill today gives us weak environmental policy tomorrow”

Monbiot on drugs
New book: Marijuana Is Safer
Production of heroin and cocaine falling

Iraq: Warily Moving Ahead on Oil Contracts
The Dirty War Against Clean Coal
A Flower Grows in West Africa

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Monbiot: Any real effort on climate change will hurt. Start with the easy bits: war toys
The Griffin Has Landed
Spare me that rubbish about your 'rights'

Tithing at the Crude Altar
Oil rush: Scramble for Iraq's wealth
Japan and China fight it out for right to mine lithium under Bond's battlefield