Post-Brexit Farming, Glyphosate and GMOs
The following is an edited and abridged version of an open letter recently sent by Dr Rosemary Mason to Michael Gove, the British Secretary of State for Environment, Food...
Shooting the Whistleblowers
David Macilwain It has just been announced that Facebook is banning some “dangerous people” from its platforms, particularly those promoting and allowing “hate speech” of various colours, but also...
Above Us the Waves
W Stephen Gilbert The salient point about Cassandra the mythological princess, and Dr Stockmann in Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, and Chief Brody in Peter Benchley’s Jaws is...
THE CHINA HOAX: Is China Being Framed?
Godfree Roberts Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.” Noam Chomsky I was researching Chinese censorship when – irony of ironies – I...
Worst Practice Leadership Amongst the Political Classes
Britain is beset by contradictory tendencies. Its parliament refuses to attend to the voices of the 17.4 million that, by a decent margin, voted for Brexit while a...
New Site – Info & Guide
Welcome to the new OffG. After such a major reboot and transfer there will inevitably be some minor glitches. You may encounter some missing content and some brief downtimes...
The Establishment Game
Vladimir Golstein I know rather intelligent and educated people who love to play what is called fantasy sport. I don’t know the details of this bizarre activity, but somehow...
The DNC Debates, the MSM and Tulsi
Renee Parsons As some of the last minute Democratic presidential candidates scramble to qualify for the DNC’s upcoming June 26/27 primary debate, the latest poll results become more than...
Venezuelan Embassy Siege: U.S. violating Vienna Convention
In an apparently unprecedented situation, a group of peace activists, known as the Embassy Protection Collective, have been at the Venezuelan embassy while it is besieged and attacked by...
UN Mission Criticizes Ukraine over Odessa
Odessa Solidarity Campaign In a major breakthrough for Odessans and their supporters, a United Nations human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine has criticized the Ukrainian government for its failure...
Embedded on the Frontline: Carole Cadwalladr and OSI
David Macilwain “Investigative journalism” is all the rage nowadays, in the age of “fake news. And anyone can do it, from institutions like the Guardian – “support our independent...
UK Local Election Propaganda: “Significant Losses for Both Sides”
The local elections have been a complete disaster for the Tories. They have lost over 1100 seats (as of 7pm today). They have lost nearly forty councils. They have...
UPDATE: New Site Launches This Weekend
After months of work OffGuardian is making the switch from being hosted on wordpress.com to self-hosting. As such you can expect the site to (hopefully) briefly, be out of...
Send Labour A Message: Vote Brexit, Vote Galloway
David Lindsay At the forthcoming European Elections, every Labour candidate favours a second referendum and would vote Remain. Add in the sentence handed down to Julian Assange, and...
Leaked: USA’s Feb 2018 Plan for Coup in Venezuela
A detailed plan from “UNITED STATES SOUTHERN COMMAND” dated “23 FEBRUARY 2018” was issued with the title “PLAN TO OVERTHROW THE VENEZUELAN DICTATORSHIP ‘MASTERSTROKE’” and is here presented complete. This...
Zero Percent of Elite Commentators Oppose Regime Change in Venezuela
A FAIR survey of US opinion journalism on Venezuela found no voices in elite corporate media that opposed regime change in that country. Over a three-month period (1/15/19–4/15/19), zero...
Bt Brinjal Illegally Growing in India: Who Is Really Pulling the Strings?
Colin Todhunter In February 2010, the Indian government placed an indefinite moratorium on the commercial release of Bt brinjal. Prior to this decision, numerous independent scientists from India and...
Discuss: The Coup in Venezuela
There is a coup happening in Venezuela. Not the rather sad, fizzling, slow-motion coup that has been beavering away behind the scenes for months, if not years. An actual...
What “community standards” did these comments breach? #21
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,...
Orientalism and the Myth of Independence
Shahzada Rahim In the nineteenth century more half of the world was colonized by the European imperial powers and according to historians like Eric Hobsbawm, it was the peak...
