Colin Todhunter The article below was written the day before India’s state-run biotech regulator, the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), approved genetically modified (GM) mustard for …

Riley Waggaman You have such a nice face. Would you mind terribly if Sergey Sobyanin, the Techno-Khan of Moscow, stored it in his centralized data center, forever? And would it be okay with you if …

Sylvia Shawcross There are four types of people in the world. Well, in this world anyway. Now, the first type of person looks at the world and asks “Why?” They gnash their teeth and glare glumly at…

In Part 1, we described how state-corporate media non-reporting of evidence relating to the sabotage of the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines on September 26 was an example of how the truth on key issues is increasingly being quarantined from public awareness…

Michael Bryant In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary actattributed to George Orwell but unsourced As we approach the third year of the ‘Covid Crisis’, the once unassai…

Todd Hayen It seems there is a clear global effort to make information uniform, and in particular, to make science uniform—One Science, Under Singular Rule, For the Good of All…I’m not making this …

John Whitehead “You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they’re people just like you. You’re wrong. Dead wrong.” They Live We’re living in…

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1.Climate pan…

The spooky season is upon us, and what does that mean? The same as most other mondays, of course: memes. I’ll be honest, the title pun is the major reason these memes are here, but it’s…

Once upon a time in a land far away and in a time of plenty there were two rich and prosperous Landlords who each owned large and spacious adjoining buildings wherein many people lived. The apartme…

Hi all. So here’s the deal. Last December we lost our Patreon and with it a huge percentage of our income. About 60%. Since then we have been running on a shoestring. Following our covid19/11…

Kit Knightly A few days ago, on Halloween, the Atlantic ran this opinion piece by economist Emily Oster, headlined: LET’S DECLARE A PANDEMIC AMNESTY This, along with the sub-head… We need to …

Colin Todhunter A public interest litigation is currently before India’s Supreme Court which challenges the drive to commercialise the growing of genetically modified (GM) mustard in India. On 26 O…

Most people think of sabotage as explosive and sometimes deadly acts of violence against property and machinery. But from lying flat and quiet quitting to water-level tinkering and other subtle act…

Censorship and OffG are old friends at this point, across most social media platforms but especially Twitter. Aside from the covert actions – shadow-banning, follower trimming, the sort of ta…

Off-Guardian recently published Iain Davis’s takedown, The BBC’s “Unvaccinated with Professor Hannah Fry“ parts one, two and three, some all-round brilliant journalism which we thought was worth re…

Todd Hayen I have a confession to make. I do not believe most of what I hear. That doesn’t at all mean I think it is false or untrue, I just don’t believe it is true—neither true, or untrue—neither…

A discussion about independent publishing and censorship with CJ Hopkins (Consent Factory), Søren Kristoffersen (Det Poetiske Bureau), Robert Cibis (OVALmedia), Kit Knightly (Off-Guardian), Simon E…

Edward Curtin “We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!” T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men” When many people share thoughts, speech, or…

Sylvia Shawcross I know we’re really all tired of the types of people in the world but really there are only two types of people in this ghastly world: the optimists and the pessimists. And it has …

Torsten Engelbrecht: Everybody seems to agree that the mRNA injections work by teaching our cells to make spike proteins. The only dispute is whether these spike proteins produced are harmless or h…