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  Arts

  Radiohead’s Thom Yorke ‘disgusted’ by Copenhagen summit

  As the world’s leaders traipse home from Copenhagen, activist rock stars are doing the same, with Thom Yorke complaining that he feels...

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  Economy

  Ramadan Xmas

  Most of us, whether we’ve experienced it directly or not, are familiar with the idea of a comedown. A comedown is what...

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  Environment

  Climate deal cannot ignore rainforests

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  If Nothing Else, Save Farming

  I don’t know when global oil supplies will start to decline. I do know that another resource has already peaked and gone...

• History

  The Coming Insurrection

  THE instability of meaning within the society of the spectacle is such that a statement can contain two opposing messages simultaneously. In...

• Economy

  Climate Rage

  Setting aside the morality of building high-tech fortresses to protect ourselves from a crisis we inflicted on the world, those enclaves and...

• History

  How the U.S. Funds the Taliban

  ON OCTOBER 29, 2001, while the Taliban’s rule over Afghanistan was under assault, the regime’s ambassador in Islamabad gave a chaotic press...

• Coroner & Legal

  Republic of Fools: The Evil Empire

  THE US government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that “our” government can no longer respond to...

• Economy

  Death Denial

  THERE is no point in denying it: we’re losing. Climate change denial is spreading like a contagious disease. It exists in a...

• Economy

  A double shock for Australia

  IT’S HARDLY a surprise that the G20 finance ministers did not agree to splash cash on developing nations to help get a...