Trump and the coup in Bolivia
Bill Martin This is not about me, of course, but my leftist friends (and I mean the actual friends) often accuse me of “making excuses for Trump.” It’s true...
The “Afghanistan Papers”: Deep State narrative management
An awful lot of modern "leaks" are no such thing. They are Orwellian exercises in controlling the conversation. And this is no exception, carefully making sure the "establishment" and...
The Art of Doublespeak: Bellingcat and Mind Control
Edward Curtin In the 1920s, the influential American intellectual Walter Lippman argued that the average person was incapable of seeing or understanding the world clearly and needed to be...
Labour Leaders-In-Waiting Rush Back to the Centre
Kit Knightly Jeremy Corbyn isn’t gone yet, but his is now a phantom presence. He’s very much a political dead man walking. His replacements are lining up, setting out...
Boris Johnson’s Incredible Landslide
Catte Black There’s an orgy of election post mortem going on at the moment. A lot of people in the mainstream and the alternative media are bringing their own...
DISCUSS: Exit Polls and Election Results
The polls are closed, and the exit polls are in, and apparently Labour has had a terrible day. The story taking shape is that Brexit, over everything else,...
Why vote Labour today?
Philip Roddis Following my Jesus or Barabbas post yesterday and – replicated on OffGuardian – Dirty War on the NHS post the day before, I’ve seen fit to respond...
Will Pelosi have the Votes to Impeach?
Renée Parsons Despite an inadequate performance last week by Constitutional law experts before the House Judiciary Committee, Chair Jerrold Nadler released a unilateral committee report on Saturday entitled “Constitutional...
Did Laura Kuenssberg Commit Massive Breach of Electoral Ethics?
The BBC may have just unwittingly revealed – or even committed – a huge breach of electoral rules. Giving a report via her phone this afternoon, the BBC’s political...
10 Reasons to be Cheerful on Election Eve
W Stephen Gilbert In what they keep calling “the most unpredictable election of recent times”, the pundits report a continuing Tory lead in the opinion polls, indicating that Boris...
The Dirty War on the NHS
Philip Roddis I saw this film last night at a one-off screening in Derby. It’s all you’d expect of a John Pilger documentary. Polished and professional? Well of course,...
Fake News and the “Punch” that never happened
Kit Knightly Yesterday the Health Secretary Matt Hancock went to Leeds to visit a struggling NHS hospital. It was a PR stunt designed to make the Tories look pro-active...
What “community standards” did these comments breach? #24
The following comments – sent in to us by a reader – were censored by The Guardian. Which of the well-publicised CiF “community standards” did they breach? Removed comments,...
Reddit Hiring NATO Shills to Control Narrative
Kit Knightly I wrote a short piece a few days ago about Reddit banning users for posting the leaked NHS documents. (Spreading anti-Russian propaganda in the process). Previously, we...
A Troubled Family: NATO turns 70
Binoy Kampmark Summit anniversaries are not usually this abysmally interesting. While those paying visits to Watford, England on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty...
Quo Vadis, Lebanon?
Andre Vltchek Good bye, Lebanon, metaphorically and truly. Good bye to a country which, many believe, actually has already ceased to exist. For five long years I have been...
Reddit Bans Users for Telling the Truth
Last week Jeremy Corbyn unveiled dozens of leaked documents. Documents showing that Boris Johnson - and the Tories in general - are lying when they say there are no...
The OffGuardian View – GE2019
Consider this a catch-all discussion thread on the UK General Election 2019. A few readers have been asking in email and in the comments why we aren’t running daily...
The Der Spiegel exposé of Bill Browder
Lucy Komisar Two years after I wrote the first exposé of fraudster William Browder and his Magnitsky hoax published in the West, by the investigative website 100Reporters, and after...
Impeachment, the Left, and the Deep State (Keep going, Toto!)
Bill Martin Dear Off Guardian readers, Warm greetings, my name is Bill Martin. You can read a little about me at the end of this article. I have been...