February 10th is OffGuardian’s birthday. As of today we are eight years old. That probably doesn’t sound very old, but from this side of the keyboard it feels like most of a lifetime. Let’s journey back, to the heady days of February 2015 when OffG published its very first article. It reads, in its entirety: …
By Robert Blumen | Brownstone Institute | January 23, 2023 The Guardian on Jan 15, 2023 published the most perfect piece of new normal nostalgia that ever was or could be: Coronavirus: ‘People aren’t taking this seriously’: experts say US Covid surge is big risk by Melody Schreiber. This piece may be studied as a Platonic Form. Nothing could more […]
By Damian Lenard | Press TV | December 30, 2022 In his recent article Seven people with British links arrested in Iran over protests, freelance journalist for The Guardian, Nadeem Badshah, relates to the audience an interesting and all-too-familiar Western media version of the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran. It is educational to dissect the […]
BY CHRIS MORRISON| THE DAILY SCEPTIC | DECEMBER 20, 2022 The popular prints are flooded with climate and weather misinformation. Net Zero, seen by increasing numbers of people as a looming disaster, is lauded to the skies. Few journalists investigate the ‘unsettled’ science behind unproven claims that humans cause most, if not all, changes in […]
JR Leach It never ceases to amaze me what seemingly innocuous ideas the establishment media find ‘dangerous’ or ‘controversial’. Netflix recently released an eight-part documentary series titled Ancient Apocalypse, where Graham Hancock (who has a been a household name for “alternative archeology” since the release of his book ‘Fingerprints of the Gods’ in 1995), introduces …
Kit Knightly Most of the Western world is no longer in lockdown, some vaccine mandates are being loosened, mask wearers are distinctly the minority everywhere you look. For now at least, and for want of a better phrase, we have largely “gone back to normal”…except, you know, now with a totally broken economy, more centralised …
OffGuardian | November 21, 2022 The big population news, reported late last month, is that we just crossed 8 billion humans on the planet. This week, to coincide with the COP27 and G20 meetings, this news was parlayed into a climate change narrative. DW asks “How can 8 billion people sustainably share a planet?” while Reuters reports […]
Kit Knightly A few days ago, on Halloween, the Atlantic ran this opinion piece by economist Emily Oster, headlined: LET’S DECLARE A PANDEMIC AMNESTY This, along with the sub-head… We need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID. …have been doing the rounds on …
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.Climate panic reports ahead of COP27 Next Sunday is the beginning of the UN’s climate summit COP27 in Cairo, and this week the media have …
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. A somewhat briefer than usual TWitNN today, as our editor has been felled by a bad case of the ‘flu – sorry, we mean “an …
