January is almost over, and we’re only just dropping the first memes of 2023? We can only apologise. But don’t worry, because today we’re here to post memes and chew bubblegum…and we’re all out of bubblegum. I know you’re all probably devastated, betrayed, and desperate for memes…so let’s dive right in. 1. Can’t we just …
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. Don’t mention the V-word It’s been very cold in the UK this past week. Cold enough to give you a stroke, apparently…according to “experts”. …
Edward Curtin “What they [regular people] need, and what they feel they need, is a quality of mind that will help them use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world and what may be happening within themselves….what may be called the sociological imagination.” …
Kit Knightly The Biden administration is apparently looking to ban gas stoves, calling them a “hidden danger”. But while that sounds bad enough, a deeper dive shows – as usual – it’s not really about what they say it’s about. Talk of banning gas stoves and “unregulated indoor air quality” could be a Trojan horse …
Simon Elmer In the UK today, it seems, being knighted means you’re someone the UK state wishes to protect from prosecution for crimes against the British people. We don’t need to point to Sir Tony Blair, Klaus Schwab KBE, or even to Sir Jimmy Saville to corroborate this theory. Last week, Pascal Soriot, the French-born …
CJ Hopkins Well, it has been quite a year, 2022. I’m officially dubbing it “The Year of the Gaslighter.” I was going to dub it “The Year of the Mother of All Mindfucking Global-Capitalist Gaslighters,” but that seemed like a mouthful, so I’m opting for brevity. Seriously, if there were an Olympics of Gaslighting, GloboCap …
OffGuardian has been privileged to feature the work of David Ray Griffin several times in our history. So when we heard the sad news of his passing we decided to organize a small tribute to his life. We asked his close colleague Elizabeth Woodworth to say some words and to name the colleagues and friends …
Edward Curtin “Ditto,” said Tweedledum. “Ditto, ditto!” cried Tweedledee. Lewis Carroll, Through The Looking-Glass Sometimes a trifling contretemps can open a window onto significant issues. As a case in point, The New York Times, a newspaper that regularly publishes U.S. propaganda without a bit of shame or remorse, recently reported on a controversy involving Simon …
OffG is sad to report the death of David Ray Griffin, who finally lost his long battle with cancer on November 25th. He was 83 years old. Professor Griffin was a distinguished intellectual and giant of the 9/11 truth movement, authoring over fifty books (including 15 on the subject of 9/11). His contribution to exposing …
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.San Fran’s Killer Robots According to a report from The Verge, the San Francisco Police Deparment has submitted a proposal that would permit robots to …
