Johann Hari
Johann Hari has reported from Iraq, Israel/Palestine, the Congo, the Central African Republic, Venezuela, Peru and the US, and his journalism has appeared in publications all over the world. The youngest person to be nominated for the Orwell Prize for political writing, in 2003 he won the Press Gazette Young Journalist of the Year Award and in 2007 Amnesty International named him Newspaper Journalist of the Year. He is a contributing editor of Attitude magazine and published his first book, God Save the Queen?, in 2003.
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Thursday, 20 November 2008
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Thursday, 13 November 2008
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Time-bombs are ticking in Obama's intray. They need to be defused fast
Johann Hari: In the age of transformation, Obama's time has come
Monday, 3 November 2008
By 2040, white people will be a minority in America. It will look more and more like a universal nation
How we fuel Africa's bloodiest war
Thursday, 30 October 2008
Johann Hari: What is rarely mentioned is the great global heist of Congo's resources
The Republicans' dirty secret... torture
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Johann Hari: Allen West oversaw the brutal treatment of an Iraqi. Now he is running for Congress
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Thursday, 23 October 2008
While we're addicted to oil, governments will put petroleum before feminism
Johann Hari: The Weapon of Mass Destruction under your fingernails
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
Every day, you handle the deadliest substance on earth. It is a weapon of mass destruction festering beneath your fingernails.
Don't kill the planet in the name of saving the economy
Monday, 20 October 2008
Johann Hari: The collision of the credit crunch and the climate crunch could be a boon, but only if we fight now

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The idiocy and graft at work in the system barely merits a second glance.
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Sometimes the public feel the perpetrator should not be released.
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Why was Damian Green arrested with such spectacular insensitivity?
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