Fall Fundraiser – Can you help keep OffGuardian afloat?
Fall is in the air, so it’s time for our bi-annual donation drive. We appreciate that there’s nothing as infuriating as sites dropping banner ads and pop-ups asking for...
Psy-Op Alert: The Dundee Dagger Girl
Niall McCrae
She’s all over American ‘alt-right’ media: the 12-year-old girl in Dundee who brandished a dagger in one hand and an axe in the other, apparently to stop a migrant...
Burning the Flag or Torching the Constitution: Only One Destroys Freedom
John & Nisha Whitehead
“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.” Ray Bradbury Cancel culture—political correctness amped up on...
This Week in the New Normal #104
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...
The Silent Singing Bird of Flamboyant Plumage
Edward Curtin
Whenever I get the infrequent opportunity to walk the wild deserted Cape Cod outer Atlantic beach in the early morning, I exult in the sea’s silent roar. It extinguishes...
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Ethics
Todd Hayen
Artificial Intelligence, transhumanism and technology will easily take over the world because people never think about ethics while doing whatever job they have that supports all this insanity. Ethics?...
Let’s talk about…Iran sanctions & picking teams for “WWIII”?
France, Germany and the UK are likely to reinstate “sweeping” sanctions on Iran due its failure to follow the terms of the nuclear deal, the press are reporting today....
OffG under attack…again.
Just a quick note apologizing for the temporary outages and presence of the CloudFlare testing screen through out the day. The site has been experiencing prolonged denial-of-service atttacks on-and-off...
This Week in the New Normal #103
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...
The US Government Is Waging Psychological War on Its Citizens: Inside the Deep State’s PsyOps Machine
John & Nisha Whitehead
“Have you ever wondered who’s pulling the strings? … Anything we touch is a weapon. We can deceive, persuade, change, influence, inspire. We come in many forms. We are everywhere.”...
WATCH: The Boys on the Tracks
Many of you are likely familiar with the case of The Boys on the Tracks, for those that aren’t I will be vague to avoid spoiling the experience. What...
Conspiracy Theories Revisited
Niall McCrae
Parked continually at a cliff-top near my town in Sussex is a dormobile, its windows covered in posters about conspiracy theories, particularly QAnon. Recently I had a chat with...
Photo Illusion
Todd Hayen
An interesting course of events is about to take place. We are all about to enter a time machine and return to the era before photography was invented. This...
WATCH: The Blueprint for AI Government Revealed with Jacob Nordangård
What is the Global Government Technology Centre? Why are they writing whitepapers on The Agentic State? Why are they proposing that governments use AI to create virtual twins of...
The Sacred and the Sick: The Rhythm of the Lanes and the Repercussions of Progress
Colin Todhunter
A lot has been written on the global food system—its industrialisation, ecological consequences and the erosion of cultural, economic and food sovereignty. Despite this onslaught, however, traditional rhythms and...
The Police State Has a New Playbook: Martial Law, One City at a Time
John & Nisha Whitehead
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”...
Race, Segregation, and Sectarianism in American Cinema
David Penner
Due to the capitalistically orchestrated scourge of illiteratization and the machinations of the mass media, only a small percentage of Americans understand Washington’s penchant for launching illegal wars of...
The Forbidden Question
Todd Hayen
My personal experiences seem to lag a bit behind the general population. I have not, until recently, noticed too many people succumbing to strange cancers. Now, quite a few...
Trump Said It: “There’s No Better Word Than Stupid.”
Edward Curtin
For anyone who still thinks Donald Trump does not represent the interests of what is called “the deep state” but is actually the shallow or official US state, it...
What Is Democracy?
Iain Davis
Based on the original article I published in 2022, in light of the subsequent shift away from “representative democracy,” we need to be clear about what democracy really is. Otherwise,...
