Catte Black Republished as part of our ‘Best Of’ series, revisiting some of OffG’s Pre-Covid editorials – either because they help remind us of important realities easily overlooked nowadays, or because they take on added significance in a ‘post-covid’ world. Do you remember 2015? It seems more than six years ago. Do you remember when …
Vanessa Beeley After three years of a fragile ceasefire and a campaign of assassinations of Syrian government ‘loyalists’ by embedded fundamentalist armed groups, the Syrian flag has once more been raised in Daraa Al Balad. Western media persists in portraying the emergence of extremist armed groups in Daraa, south of Damascus, as the “cradle of …
Under the cover of counterterrorism, AFRICOM is beefing up Nigeria’s military to ensure the free flow of oil to the West, and using the country as a proxy against China’s influence on the continent. Last month, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari wrote an op-ed in the Financial Times. It might as well have been written by the Pentagon. Buhari promoted Brand Nigeria, auctioning the country’s military services to Western powers, telling readers that Nigeria would lead Africa’s “war on terror” in […]
vanessa beeley · Afghanistan unpacked – the "new" Taliban, ISIS imports and the Chaos strategy OffG’s own Kit Knightly sits down with the brilliant Vanessa Beeley to talk about his article 6 questions we NEED to ask about Afghanistan. They discuss everything from the timing of the Afghanistan scene-stealer and the pivot to the rebranded …
Original link: http://middleeastobserver.net/iran-fuel-to-rescue-lebanon-from-us-econo… Description: Lebanese economist Ziad Nasreddine comments on the potential ramifications of Hezbollah’s ongoing efforts to ship Iranian fuel to Lebanon, an effort announced by Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
Joe Biden is certainly not the president of the United States. He does not have the initiative to do the job. This is particularly true now. However, he is sitting in the office of Chief Executive of the United States, and as such he can wield a lot of power, and he is… all in […]
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at Strategic Culture One way exists to stop global warming, but the mutual feedback cycles that are now accelerating global warming might already have achieved enough speed of increasing temperature so as to prevent even that one way from working, and therefore the planet might already be doomed. Since the only […]
If and when the powers-that-be decide to move on from their pandemic narrative, lockdowns won't be going anywhere. Instead, it looks like they'll be rebranded as "climate lockdowns", and either enforced or simply held threateningly over the public's head.
Hype Gasoline Crypto Political The Ochelli Effect 5-11-2021 Mike Swanson and Dylan Wade Hype Gasoline Crypto Political Chuck and Mike talked about the panic-buying of gasoline at the pumps in many states. What do we know about other times when distribution was disrupted? Is Elon Musk a symptom or a disease? How does seemingly [...]
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