Three New Reads – February
Philip Roddis Reshaping global food production in the image of corporate imperialism, a brief and bloody history of capitalism in its lead nation and the pillorying of the world’s...
This Week in The Guardian #2
Every week, on a Sunday, we like to highlight three or four stories that go full-Guardian, but don’t require an entire article of refutation. We encourage reader-participation here, so...
Love is Lovelier the Third Time Around, Isn’t It?
Edward Curtin I sure as hell hope so. I’ve been going through a rough patch these last few years. My search for true love has been disastrous. I suppose...
The Trump Impeachment: looking back and looking forward
Bill Martin Of course this will never be over, not even all the way through Trump’s second term. The Democrats howled about the vote to not have witnesses, even...
Media Whipping Covid19 Panic to Unprecedented Heights
Kit Knightly
Another day, another round of shrill headlines. The coronavirus could spread to “every country in the world” (like chickenpox), we might have to cancel the Olympics. Ban handshakes! We’re...
Julian Assange, the Glass Cage and Heaven in a Rage: Day Four
Binoy Kampmark Thursday, February 27, Woolwich Crown Court. The first round of extradition hearings regarding Julian Assange’s case concluded a day early, to recommence on May 18th. It ended...
Syria’s War of Self-Defence
David Macilwain Continuing in efforts to get the OPCW fraud exposed to the Western mainstream media’s sheltered and blinkered audience, I recently had an opportunity to have an opinion...
Julian Assange, Political Offences and Legal Restraints: Day Three
Binoy Kampmark Wednesday, February 26, Woolwich Crown Court. Today, the focus shifted to the protagonist himself and the nature of the US-UK Extradition Treaty of 2003, a contentious document...
Julian Assange Against the Imperium: Day Two
Binoy Kampmark The second day of extradition hearings against Julian Assange and by virtue of that, WikiLeaks, saw Mark Summers QC deliver a formidable serve for the defence at...
Assange Extradition: Proceedings so Far
This was originally an update to our discussion thread on Julian Assange’s arrest and “trial”, but as that post was two days old many readers seemed to miss the...
Julian Assange and the Imperium’s Face: Day One of the Extradition Hearings
Binoy Kampmark If we are to believe it, Julian Assange of WikiLeaks, the man behind showing the ugliness of power, is the one responsible for having abused it. It...
Coronavirus: Hysteria reaches “tipping point”
Catte Black In Hubei Province, China, where the ‘new’ virus was first diagnosed, and where the vast majority of the cases have occurred, it’s no longer considered necessary to...
The Syrian Army in Idlib
Philip Roddis This video may cause distress. Taken by their Isis captors in May 2016, it shows the humiliation of two Syrian soldiers prior to their roadside execution. Now...
DISCUSS: Assange Extradition Hearing
Julian Assange’s extradition hearing is underway as of this morning, at Woolwich Crown Court. It will be his first public appearance since last May. However fair, impartial, or even...
The Nobel Peace Prize Is A Sick Joke
Ben Barbour It’s very simple. The Nobel Peace Prize is just like most other awards. Sometimes its distributors get it right and sometimes they get it wrong. The people...
This Week in The Guardian #1
Five years ago this month, OffGuardian posted its first article. Since then nearly 4000 more have been posted, all with pretty much the same aim – fact-checking the media,...
The Devil’s Comb Over
John Steppling “It is this author’s analysis that the effect of the Donald Trump presidency has been, somewhat paradoxically, to put wind in the sails of a kind of...
Subcomandante Bloomberg
CJ Hopkins Break out the pussyhats and vuvuzelas, folks, because the neoliberal Resistance is back, and this time they’re not playing around. No more impeachments and investigations. It’s time...
Iran Holds Legislative Polls after A Frenzied Week of Campaigning
Alireza Hashemi With the campaign season over as of Thursday morning, the countdown to the 11th vote for the Islamic Consultative Assembly has begun. For over a week, candidates...
Apocalypse Now! Insects, Pesticides and a Public Health Crisis
Colin Todhunter In 2017, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Hilal Elver, and UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics, Baskut Tuncak, produced a report that called for a...
