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. Unvaxxed banned from Jury Duty A Canadian judge has published his finding on unvaccinated people being removed from the jury pool. The original decision …
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. Picked because no “Best of OffG” section could ever be complete without at least some …
Kit Knightly For those of you who haven’t been following the news – Russian politician (or “opposition figure”, as he is universally referred to in the Western press) Alexei Navalny was taken ill two weeks ago. It is now being reported he was “poisoned” with “novichok”. Here’s a quick rundown of the official story as …
This week The Graun takes aim at rabid anti-vax death cults, "free speech without consequences", and (surprise surprise) Russia. Thank God Sir Keir Starmer is here to save us all.
You hear it all the time these days. People are constantly asking, ‘What happened to the Guardian’?
Real journalism is being criminalized by thugs in plain sight, says John Pilger. Dissent has become an indulgence. And the British elite has abandoned its last imperial myth: that of fairness and justice. By John Pilger The glimpse of Julian…Read more →
Chalk up another failure for a rabid media desperately trying to prove the Russia-gate story, this time a piece by a reporter with a history of failure, as Joe Lauria reports. In their haste to prove they are right after…Read more →
21st Century Wire says…
All the proof you need of the media losing their minds over their own craven ‘Russiagate’ conspiracy theory coverage.
This is going to be one of the most infamous news disasters since Stern published the ‘Hitler Diaries’.
— WikiLeaks, Twitter, November 27, 2018
If you’re one of the millions of human beings who, despite a preponderance of evidence to the contrary, still believe there is such a thing as “the truth,” you might not want to read this essay. Seriously, it can be extremely upsetting when you discover that there is no “truth” … or rather, that what we’re all conditioned to regard as “truth” from the time we are children is just the product of a technology of power, and not an empirical state of being.
