John whitehead Step away from the blinders that partisan politics uses to distract, divide and conquer, and you will find that we are drowning in a cesspool of problems that individually and collec…

Edward Curtin “No one knows who will live in this [iron] cage in the future….” Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism I would prefer not to relay the following very strange st…

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.Mink farms …

Iain Davis In 1935, Major General Smedley Butler’s seminal book “War Is A Racket” warned of the dangers of the US military-industrial complex, more than 25 years before the outgoi…

The magic words can open doors that you didn’t even know were there. They can help you skirt the censors and the fact checkers. They can unlock minds and take your research to a whole new lev…

CJ Hopkins So, Matt Taibbi is going after the Consent Factory. No, not my blog. The actual Consent Factory. The unimaginably powerful, mostly decentralized, global-capitalist propaganda apparatus t…

Martin Hanson I don’t normally watch TVNZ’s Seven Sharp, but on 5th October 2021 we were told that an immunologist would be on the programme to debunk certain ‘Covid myths’. One such ‘myth’ was the…

Gavin O’Reilly Since Russia began its special military operation in Ukraine almost a year ago, one of the key features of the collective West’s response, alongside sanctions and the expulsion…

UPDATED 17/02/23 to include details of previous train derailments [skip] It has been reported, in just the last hour, that there had been a major train derailment near Van Buren Township, just outs…

Riley Waggaman It seems QR codes will soon be back in vogue in Russia. Via Interfax: The Ministry of Digital Development, together with the FSB, will submit to the Russian government by May 1 a dra…

Sylvia Shawcross And so we have to go back to discussing insects I’m afraid. It is just the way it is going to have to be because there are far too many things we disagree on now—even more things t…

Todd Hayen “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.” Kurt Cobain What is paranoia? Usually the condition is coupled with another mental malady…

Simon Elmer “If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, the mainspring of popular government during a revolution is both virtue and terror; virtue, without which terror i…

Edward Curtin My title comes from a 19th century author whose name does not matter nor would it mean much if I mentioned him.  It’s an old truth that has not changed a bit over the centuries. I thi…

Iain Davis In his excellent exposé of the recent decision by the Knight-Cronkite News Lab (KCNL) to advocate journalism that goes beyond objectivity, and in light of the report from the Columbia Jo…

Independent journalist (and regular OffG contributor) Michael Bryant joins Jesse Zurawell on Perspective to discuss Italy’s role in establishing the Covid narrative in 2020. They talk demogra…

Kit Knightly Back in October 2022, when the Nordstream 2 sabotage was first hitting the headlines, I predicted the following: The “official story” will never prove who bombed the pipeline one way o…

Meryl Nass interviews James Corbett for CHD.tv. Following on their previous discussions, they interpret recently drafted amendments to the International Health Regulations for future pandemics. Nas…

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JJ Starky Some protests are torrid affairs. Others can prove enlightening. The march last Saturday in the heart of Oxford was the latter. Attendees rocked up nearly 2 hours before the scheduled mee…

Sylvia Shawcross Now I know I promised last time that I might tell you the tragic tale of the Luna moth during its larval development but it is such a dreadfully sad story and given the woebegotten…