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BEST OF OFFG: “There is no American Deep State…it just looks like there is”

Kit Knightly 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. I picked this piece for the Best of OffG for two reasons: Firstly, the synchronised …

Putin Paranoia

By Peter Van Buren | We Meant Well | March 31, 2017 Things about America we’ve learned since November. Our nation, the republic, democracy, our very system of government is more fragile than at any other time in American history. So fragile that everything has, or is in near-immediate danger of, collapsing, after only a […]

“There is no American Deep State…it just looks like there is”

By Kit | OffGuardian | March 21, 2017 Last week the New Yorker, and yesterday Salon magazine, published editorials arguing against the very existence of an “American Deep State”. The arguments presented are very… interesting. Both are, perhaps, classic cases of protesting too much. Well, I don’t know about you guys, but I’m convinced. This […]

WikiLeaks exposes liberal group’s efforts to thwart climate writings of CU’s Roger Pielke Jr.

By Sarah Kuta | Daily Camera | October 26, 2016 A University of Colorado professor who’s been criticized for his writings about climate change has been caught up in WikiLeaks’ dump of emails involving John Podesta, campaign chairman for Hillary Clinton. Roger Pielke Jr., who has been a faculty member on the Boulder campus since […]

Cowardly brutality exposed: The viral video that should change the Israel/Palestine debate forever

The struggle captured by that video has to be seen against the backdrop of Israel’s day to day—everyday—war against the Palestinian people, men, women and children alike: shooting them, tear-gassing them, snatching them, harassing them, beating them up, burning them alive, smashing their wells, uprooting their trees, bulldozing their homes, all in order that a population from a different ethnic background can take over their land inch by inch if that’s what it comes to.