The rift between Western “alt media” and Russian “alt media” is so massive that it’s almost as if they’re talking about two different wars. And they are. The problem is, only one of these wars actually exists. Which one?

All I ask for is a level playing field, where we can all work together, in good-faith and good cheer, to answer the elusive question: What the heck is going on in Ukraine? https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/maybe-prigozhin-is-just-really-stressed

..."Everything I have tried to do in urge over the past 50 years has been done with our children and grandchildren in mind."
Quote from 1 min 17 secs in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BucTwPegW5k

Just in case you wondered who's children and grandchildren he was referring to, he wasn't thinking of yours 😂😉

https://t.me/Miscellaneous_Illuminations/4750

Although Scarred by Violence, We Must Not Be Scared into Silence

Edward Curtin

The world has been haunted by human violence since time immemorial. There are untold millions (billions?) of people all over the world who have been scarred by it in all its forms.

There are two basic responses: one is to try to return that violence with violence and defeat one’s enemy; the other is, in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words, to “not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding” through a non-violent response. Politicians usually embrace the former, while those who are called dreamers advocate the latter.

Between these two,…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/07/although-scarred-by-violence-we-must-not-be-scared-into-silence/

"War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished.

In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact..."

George Orwell, 1984

WATCH: Meet King Charles, the Great Resetter

While most of the public’s attention is falling on the obvious issues—the monarchy’s increasing irrelevance to the 21st century, the colossal waste of taxpayer resources that go towards the upkeep of the world’s richest family and their multiple palaces, the dark history of slavery and other colonial abuses for which royals of the far-distant past are responsible—few are aware of just how dark the history of the royal family is, or just how twisted Charles’ vision for the future of the United Kingdom—and, indeed the world—really is.

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WATCH: Meet King Charles, the Great Resetter

While most of the public’s attention is falling on the obvious issues—the monarchy’s increasing irrelevance to the 21st century, the colossal waste of taxpayer resources that go towards the upkeep of the world’s richest family and their multiple palaces, the dark history of slavery and other colonial abuses for which royals of the far-distant past are responsible—few are aware of just how dark the history of the royal family is, or just how twisted Charles’ vision for the future of the United Kingdom—and, indeed the world—really is.

For source links, download options and a full transcript, click here…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/07/watch-meet-king-charles-the-great-resetter/

39 questions about the war in Ukraine

Riley Waggamnan

Igor Strelkov’s Angry Patriots Club (КРП) has published a list of questions about Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine.

Most of their questions are highly pertinent; some of them are a bit superfluous; a few—in your correspondent’s humble opinion—are misguided and a bit silly.

But we decided to publish them all in hopes of starting a dialogue, and (this is really too hopeful) widening the abysmally narrow Overton Window that is asphyxiating “alternative media” coverage of this increasingly bizarre and precarious conflict.

As you read through these questions, keep in mind that many of…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/08/39-questions-about-the-war-in-ukraine/

The Ukraine war currently looks like a bloodstained boxing match both sides have decided to throw.

What is wrong with this picture?

Anyone done any type of rough calculation on who is getting rich on the back of the non-war that looks like it may never end?

Someone is, right. Someone always is.

Open Letter to Twitter’s Head of Trust & Safety (and Censorship)

CJ Hopkins

The following is an open letter to Ella G. Irwin, Head of Twitter Trust and Safety, and Elon Musk, CEO of Twitter, and anyone else at Twitter, Inc. who is responsible for censoring political speech and defaming people with fake “advisory” labels, among other such “visibility-filtering” tactics.

I am publishing it as an open letter, not to bore everyone to death with my personal problems, but because the censorship and defamation I have suffered at the hands of Twitter for at least two years is an example of how the decentralized network of global corporations, Intelligence agencies,…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/09/open-letter-to-twitters-head-of-trust-safety-and-censorship/

Disarm the IRS, De-Militarize the Bureaucracy, & Dismantle the Standing Army

John & Nisha Whitehead

“There are instruments so dangerous to the rights of the nation and which place them so totally at the mercy of their governors that those governors, whether legislative or executive, should be restrained from keeping such instruments on foot but in well-defined cases. Such an instrument is a standing army.”
Thomas Jefferson, 1789

What does it say about the state of our freedoms that there are now more pencil-pushing, bureaucratic (non-military) government agents armed with weapons than U.S. Marines?

Among the agencies being supplied with night-vision equipment, body armor, hollow-point bullets, shotguns…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/09/disarm-the-irs-de-militarize-the-bureaucracy-dismantle-the-standing-army/

They’re Coming To Take You Away

Michael Lesher

Suppose I tell you in advance that the essay you are reading is meant to startle you. And suppose I suggest, by way of demonstration, that two people as loosely connected as the leader of the “COVID Crisis Group” and Joe Biden’s “Special Envoy To Monitor and Combat Antisemitism” – both of whom have recently offered recommendations for improving political life in the United States – are in fact determined to unravel American freedoms.

Would you be surprised?

Well, if so, that is exactly the startling fact I am trying to bring to your…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/10/theyre-coming-to-take-you-away/

Get Ready for Pfizer’s “TURBO-CHARGED GUIDED MISSILE” Cancer Drugs

Karen Hunt

Our fearless leaders love war. They love talking about it. They love playing war games. They love fighting in actual wars. That’s because they always benefit from them—any kind of war.

“We’re going fight this and win,” they say.

“We’re all in this together,” they say.

Except, whatever “this” is, what they really mean is you’re going to fight it and lose your lives, your savings, your homes, your land, your good health. Meanwhile, they’re going to win everything that you lost—and give themselves medals for bravery and prizes for peace to celebrate their…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/11/get-ready-for-pfizers-turbo-charged-guided-missile-cancer-drugs/

The Easter Island Heads Don’t Face the Sea

Sylvia Shawcross

Welcome to your Off-Guardian Friday/Saturday opinion piece. Also known as the placeholder for the discussion that might ensue which hopefully will have nothing whatsoever to do with what I might write here as I’m very likely to make some sort of error like putting “the” in front of Ukraine or thinking the Easter Island heads face the sea. This is entirely aside from my colourful use or non-use or glaringly terrifying use of punctuation which I will never change because I just don’t want to and because it annoys everyone.

This amuses me now unfortunately. One of…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/12/the-easter-island-heads-dont-face-the-sea/

WATCH: A Better Way – #SolutionsWatch

In the run up to the Better Way conference – taking place in Bath next month – James Corbett (who will be speaking at the conference) sits down with the one of organisers, Dr Tess Lawrie.

D Lawrie is a medical doctor and research consultant based in the UK. She is the CEO of Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy and she sits on the steering committee of the World Council for Health.

Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found here. Previous episodes of #SolutionsWatch can be found here…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/12/watch-a-better-way-solutionswatch/

Art Equals Human—Not Anymore

Todd Hayen

When I was a young lad of 11, I was fascinated with computers, or what little there was of them at the time. It was about 1966, and I checked out a book from the school library on the short but exciting history of the machines. I pored over every page of it. Of course computers were very cool back then to pre-pubescent boys, and I was no exception.

Half way through the book I ran across what I remember being J.M. Coetzee’s work with programming computers to write poetry. My memory regarding details like this is…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/13/art-equals-human-not-anymore/

Dr. Mike Yeadon, a former vice president at Pfizer, on UN Agenda 2030, digital ID and CBDCs:

"By 2030, you will not be able to leave [the country], you will not own private transport, you will have a digital ID to do everything, and you will only have electronic money with which to transact. I would say, at that point, you are a slave. And because you can see them coming, you should say no. Say no right now."

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Sowing Seeds of Plunder: A Lose-Lose Situation in Ukraine

Colin Todhunter

It’s a lose-lose situation for Ukrainians. While they are dying, financial institutions are insidiously supporting the consolidation of farmland by oligarchs and Western financial interests.

So says Frédéric Mousseau, Policy Director of the Oakland Institute, an independent think tank.

Depending on which sources to believe, between 100,000 and 300,000 Ukrainian soldiers (possibly more) have died during the conflict with Russia. That figure, of course, does not include civilian casualties.

But it is not the purpose of this article to explore these issues. Much has already been written on this elsewhere. But billions of dollars’ worth of military…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/13/sowing-seeds-of-plunder-a-lose-lose-situation-in-ukraine/

There Is No Escape From Telling

Edward curtin

By the lake’s lapping shore above the town and the railroad tracks, my wife and I stopped and marveled, struck stone silent by two dazzling Baltimore Orioles, clawed together as they tumbled, wrestling in the green morning breeze above our heads. They perched upon a branch and sang a morning hymn, an ode to joy and the spring’s morning glory. Their black and orange throats vibrated amid the green quaking aspen’s leaves as the lake’s low lapping sounds lent counterpoint. They were sublime.

I too felt a quake, a shiver down my spine as associations tumbled through…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/14/there-is-no-escape-from-telling/

A Pandemic of Narcissistic Abuse

Lucy Davies

Narcissism and its associated abuse; control, manipulation, greed, exploitation of power, an audacious sense of entitlement to name a few traits, has been the bedrock of our societies for thousands of years.

Different people will relate to it from different experiences of various aspects of life, but whether these manipulative, conscience-void, power-grabbers are family members, friends, romantic partners, work colleagues, or psychopathic government overlords, the pattern is the same.

And it’s rife.

It’s been drip fed from the top down, through generations, families, schools, media etc.; rewarded and encouraged at every turn. It’s been normalised and accepted.…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/14/a-pandemic-of-narcissistic-abuse/

OffG’s Quick Take: “Patriot Front”

Yesterday, the group calling themselves “Patriot Front” marched on Washington DC. They wore perfectly coordinated uniforms, carried shields and batons, and were masked up to make Tony Fauci proud.

Perhaps you saw the “chilling footage”.

Nobody is quite sure why they were there, or what they wanted. Then they packed their gear into a U-haul, got on the subway and left.

A lot of this went “viral”, including the “heroes” standing up to them, and the “leaked footage” of them praising Hitler. While the handful of “Patriots” who got arrested were…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/15/offgs-quick-take-patriot-front/