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…

Simon Elmer This is Part II of this essay, you can read Part I here. The Misogyny of ‘Trans’ Let’s begin with a question few have the courage to pose and fewer still dare to answer honestly. Why is…

CJ Hopkins So, the quadrennial simulation of democracy in the USA is getting underway, and personally, I couldn’t be happier. It’s been a challenging few years for unincorporated political satirist…

Kit Knightly Last week, a senior member of Parliament for the UK’s Labour Party went on television demanding the UK – maybe even the entire world – be on a “war-like footing…

Riley Waggaman The Russia–Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum, held in St. Petersburg at the end of July, was by all accounts a smashing success. The biggest names in Africa-related economics an…

Do you feel there is a conspiracy against manhood? Are you struggling to find meaning and purpose in the face of the rigged game that is modern society? Have you given up on life? In the most recen…

Karen Hunt In the opening scene of the original Blade Runner film, Leon, a Nexus-6 replicant is given a “Voight-Kampff Test” to determine whether or not he is human. The test is designed to provoke…

John Whitehead “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.” Ray Bradbury What we are witnessing is the modern-day equivalent of book …