Al-Baghdadi Raid is the US Empire “Creating Reality”

Kit Knightly Apparently the United States killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi yesterday. US Special Forces allegedly killed the ISIS leader during a raid on a stronghold in Idlib. As far...

Three New Reads – October

Aptly enough – one hundred and two years to the month since those ‘Ten Days that Shook the World’ – all three (four if you’re on the ball) of...

Ms. Pumpkin Head for President: A Nightmare

Edward Curtin A few weeks ago I had a terrifying nightmare, so gruesome was it that I awoke screaming and had to run to the bathroom to vomit in...

The streets of Barcelona

Philip Roddis One of my most enduring friendships is with Pete, who in 1976 took off to Barcelona and never came back. A passionate Catalan separatist, whose knowledge of...

Libra and Calibra: Mark Zuckerberg appears before Congress

Binoy Kampmark It was never going to be pretty. The Facebook CEO knew in appearing before the House Financial Services Committee to answer questions on the company’s proposed cryptocurrency...

Can the US beat China in a “trade war”?

Andre Vltchek It is very popular these days to talk and write about the “trade war” between the United States and China. But is there really one raging? Or...

OffG is back online

Tuesday night (BST) our infrastructure went on the fritz for reasons we’re still trying to figure out. After consultations with server managers and hours of debugging we now have...

The Putin-Nazis Are Coming (Again)!

CJ Hopkins So, it looks like that’s it for America, folks. Putin has gone and done it again. He and his conspiracy of Putin-Nazis have “hacked,” or “influenced,” or...

Asia-Pacific Trade Deal: Trading Away Indian Agriculture?

Colin Todhunter On the back of Brexit, there are fears in the UK that a trade deal will be struck with Washington which will effectively lower food and environmental...

Will the Democratic Party Exist after 2020 Election

Renée Parsons Even before Rep. Tulsi Gabbard threatened to boycott the October 15th Dem debate as the DNC usurps the role of voters in the Democratic primacy 2020 election...

The Deep State Goes Shallow 2.0

Edward Curtin This article was first published on February 21, 2017, one month after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, more than two-and-a half years ago. What was...

Brexit: Parliament Tethers Britain to a Failing Experiment

Brexit isn't going to happen. Left or Right - Lexit or Rexit - it's over. It's time to make peace with that idea. This on-going, slow-burn sabotage is hard...

Class Contempt: A Washington Post Reporter’s Prison Diary

Rostam Pourzal Journalist Jason Rezaian, born in California to Iranian immigrant parents, was arrested with his wife in Tehran midsummer 2014 on suspicion of espionage. He had a government-issued...

The “ISIS Resurgence” is Fake News

Donald Trump's decision to "withdraw" from Syria has kicked up a lot of dust - there's sympathy for the poor Kurds, concern for the stability of the region, fear...

Bayer Shareholders: Put Health and Nature First and Stop Funding This Company!

Colin Todhunter Campaigner and environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has just written an open letter to Bayer Crop Science shareholders and Chairman of the Board Werner Wenning. She has also...

Social Media: Ground Zero for the War on Ideas

Julian Glassford This time last year I cautioned, in a commentary for the libertarian e-zine Spiked, that Twitter’s leadership had finally sold-out on free speech. Much to the consternation...

WATCH: Kentucky is in Syria

"Did you know that Kentucky is in Syria? Or that Tripoli is in India? Or that Caracas is in Singapore? No? Then you must not be paying enough attention...

At the Feet of Mammon…

Philip Farruggio

Mass. Rep Jim McGovern caught in William Browder’s Magnitsky Hoax

Lucy Komisar A member of Congress you thought was a liberal is caught up in a Russiaphobe conjob. His name is Jim McGovern, and he is a congressman from...

A Coalition of Support: Parliamentarians for Julian Assange

Binoy Kampmark Australian politicians, and the consular staff of the country, are rarely that engaged on the subject of protecting their citizens.  In a couple of notorious cases, Australian...