Follow the Leader
Todd Hayen Yet another quirk of human behaviour is this propensity to follow leaders without much scrutiny as to who that leader is. This is not only to be...
OffGuardian’s Birthday
February 10th is OffGuardian’s birthday. As of today we are eight years old. That probably doesn’t sound very old, but from this side of the keyboard it feels like...
AUDIO: Iain Davis on Perspective with Jesse Zurawell
Iain Davis joins Jesse Zurawell on a recent episode of Perspetive. They talk Andrew Bridgen, the dangers of smear politics and labels, “menticide”, the true mindset of fascism and...
Keep on trucking’ in the free world
Sylvia Shawcross Some mornings you wake up and straggle-stretch your way to the coffee cup in a state of dismal despair thinking about the state of the world. Which...
WATCH: Opting Out of CBDCs
In this presentation for the CBDC Opt Out Challenge, James Corbett explains what you need to know about the CBDC control grid and how we can begin our preparations...
Jacinda Ardern: Saint or Psychopath?
Martin Hanson While still at the height of her popularity, “Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy”, a biography of the New Zealand Prime Minister was published. It was described by...
States of Emergency & the State of the Canadian Governments’ Mind
Ray McGinnis Canada’s Liberal government couldn’t justify invoking the Emergencies Act based on the existing definition in the legislation. So, it obtained a legal opinion to embellish parameters for...
OffG on…the Chinese “Spy Balloon”
Everyone is talking about the “Chinese spy balloon” this week, for some reason. It’s apparently a big deal, it even has its own Wikipedia page already. After days of...
REVIEW: The Psychology of Totalitarianism
Kevin Ryan Belgian psychologist Mattias Desmet published his book The Psychology of Totalitarianism in June 2022. The book brings attention to the need to understand our own psychology in this time...
Unconditional Surrender
Todd Hayen I know I am beating a dead horse here, but I am still fuming about The Atlantic article from October 2022. How dare they?! I am also...
The Patrushev Oversight
Iain Davis In a recent interview with Russian media, Nikolay Patrushev, an intelligence officer who is the former director of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and the current secretary...
Incentivizing Censorship: A Snitch in Every Skull
Helen Buyniski An informational iron curtain is coming down across the West, and its architects are determined to make examples out of those who refuse to pick a side....
Down Cricket Road
Sylvia Shawcross Now you’d think that Jacinda Ardern, a WEF star, would have picked a different turn of phrase to explain her exit. Instead of lamenting that she didn’t...
WATCH: The 6th Annual Fake News Awards
And now, from an undisclosed location deep beneath the Earth’s surface, it’s the 6th Annual Fake News Awards! Shining the spotlight of ridicule on the dumbest disinformation, the silliest...
The New York Times is Orwell’s Ministry of Truth
Edward Curtin “Ingsoc. The sacred principles of ingsoc. Newspeak, double-speak, the mutability of the past.” – George Orwell, 1984 As today dawned, I was looking out the window into the...
Fear of Inconvenience
Todd Hayen Everyone is asking the question: Why can’t people see the obvious? Why can’t people believe what is going on and stand up and do something about it?...
The doubt of a trout
Sylvia shawcross Well, we all get these stray thoughts sometimes. They are orphaned from our lives and our doings and just appear quickly like the flash of a trout...
360 Degree Surveillance: How Police Use Public-Private Partnerships to Spy on Americans
John & Nisha Whitehead “We live in a surveillance state founded on a partnership between government and the technology industry.” Law Professor Avidan Y. Cover In this age of...
They have oligarchs. We have socially responsible entrepreneurs.
Riley Waggman The world’s benevolent captains of industry gathered in the Swiss Alps last week to discuss tax-extraction schemes and other sustainable ways to make life intolerable. This Tony...
Three Years On: Our Early Covid Articles
A couple of days ago this tweet from reporter Elijah Schaffer popped up on our feed: Which public commentators were openly correct about the pandemic in 2020 and were...
