Gavin O’Reilly Over the past several weeks, Ireland has been rocked by a scandal related to the significant undeclared earnings of Ryan Tubridy, the most prominent presenter on the public bro…

Iain Davis In this continuing investigation of the BBC’s “Marianna in Conspiracyland” podcast series, we now turn our attention to Episode 2, titled “Down the Rabbit Hole.&#…

Kit Knightly It seems every day lately there is a new “shocking viral video” of “desperate drivers losing patience with Just Stop Oil”, or some similar phrasing. Something l…

“They’re not talking about health, they’re talking about a transfer of wealth.” James Corbett and James Roguski return to ‘Good Morning CHD’ with Dr. Meryl Nass to chronicle the latest on the WHO a…

Sylvia Shawcross Well its enough to drive you around the bend and put bubbles in your veins trying to understand the world as it is unfolding. Watching Mattias Desmet being interviewed here, I reme…

Todd Hayen Aren’t you tired hearing about masks? Mask-talk is almost as ubiquitous as Hitler-talk. Well, if the shoe fits…Just because we are tired hearing about appropriate things to discuss…

Edward Curtin I sit here in the silence of the awakening dawn’s stillness stunned by the realization that I exist.  I wonder why.  It is my birthday.  The first rays of the rising sun bleed crimson…

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. We name he…

Iain Davis “Marianna In Conspiracyland” is the 10 part podcast series presented by the BBC’s specialist disinformation and social media correspondent Marianna Spring. As we approa…

Kit Knightly There is a growing international campaign to institute free school meals all around the globe. On face of it this might seem like a great idea… but in the New Normal age nothing …

Simon Elmer ‘There is a new word in Newspeak’, said Syme, ‘I don’t know whether you know it: duckspeak, to quack like a duck. It is one of those interesting words that have two contradictory meanin…

Today is the big day, UFO enthusiasts. Today you get your day in court. …or, rather, your day in front of Congress. Yes, later today US Congress will gather to hear testimony on whether or no…

John & Nisha Whitehead “There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is a dangerous activity.” Hannah Arendt Get ready for the next phase of the government’s war on thought crimes: mental …

Kit Knightly Last week it was reported that the Australian state of Victoria may be considering “permanent” facemask mandates to achieve “zero-Covid”. Now, we don’t ne…

Sylvia Shawcross We are human beings. We are brilliant, superior adaptive creatures who have roamed about the planet for a good long time; eating, drinking and evolving to the point where we have b…

How has television been used as a vehicle of propaganda? What psychological techniques are deployed in media manipulation? What is the future of media? Join James Corbett for this important edition…

Todd Hayen Remember those dot games? Where you would spend hours going through a book of numbered dots, connecting them with a line starting at a dot numbered “1” and continuing until an image of s…

Elizabeth Woodworth Author of more than 50 books, Dr. David Ray Griffin has been compared to Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King for his courage and dedication to seeking truth. Griffin was twice…

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. Highly con…

Colin Todhunter The prevailing globalised agrifood model is built on unjust trade policies, the leveraging of sovereign debt, population displacement and land dispossession. It fuels commodity mono…

Our first memes in many a moon, and it’s fittingly space-themed. As expected, the US Congress’ “UFO hearings” sparked a rash of meme activity. Enough to spark this back to l…