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...
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...
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...
Tipping Point: The Gilets Jaunes are winning, what’s next?
The weekend just gone, Manifestation 23, marked a seismic shift in the five month battle between the Gilets Jaunes and the French state. The Notre Dame fire has...
Large Protests and Political Crisis in Albania
Dr. Ana L. Scheer The Balkan Peninsula is known as the “gunpowder barrel” of the European continent. In Albania, this “gunpowder barrel” seems to explode quite often due to...
Globalization North and South: The Road to Nowhere.
Frank Lee ‘We must sell more to strangers yearly than we consume of theirs in value’ Thomas Mun, 1571-1641, Director of the East India Company. Author of English Treasure...
Robin Yassin-Kassab and the Aleppo Revolution that Never was
Nu’man Abd al-Wahid Robin Yassin-Kassab has distinguished himself as one of Britain’s leading regime-change propagandists. Whether it’s Libya, Syria or Venezuela, Mr. Yassin-Kassab can be handsomely relied upon to...
Tony Kevin Speaks Out on Assange
We live in dangerous times. US imperial power is flailing around in its death throes , making trouble for people and nations all over the world.
Managing Russia’s Dissolution: Truth or Desire?
SouthFront At the start of the year, on January 9, The Hill, a leading US political newspaper, as if setting the year agenda put out an article entitled “Managing...
