Gates Unhinged: Dystopian Vision for the Future of Food
Colin Todhunter We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agrifood chain. The high-tech/data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined...
Denying the Demonic
Edward Curtin In March of last year as the coronavirus panic was starting, I wrote a somewhat flippant article saying that the obsession with buying and hoarding toilet paper...
Open Letter to a Friend Who “Tested Positive”…and Should Have Known Better
Jerry Bernini Dear Josef K, Several weeks have passed since you told me that you “tested positive” for what was initially and briefly called Sars-CoV-2 and then quickly became...
The Kill the Bill Achilles’ Heel
Rachel Allen The Kill the Bill movement has recently emerged in the UK in response to a proposed piece of legislation called the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill....
3 Things You Don’t Know about Euthanasia
Rosemary Frei, via her website The cadence is increasing of jurisdictions introducing, normalizing and expanding laws allowing doctors to help people commit suicide. Is this purely in the service...
The Silencing of the Lambs
Andrea Halewood ‘All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.’ Frank Herbert, Dune Many of us want to be led. As children we look to our parents...
WATCH: Science Says
The mouthpieces of the scientific establishment have identified the latest global security threat: antiscience. So what does that mean, exactly? Whatever they want it to mean, of course!
A Damned Murder Inc: Kennedy’s Battle Against the Leviathan
Cynthia Chung The Eisenhower presidency would see Washington taken over by business executives, Wall Street lawyers, and investment bankers—and by a closely aligned warrior caste that had emerged into...
CIJA Sting Operation Stirs FCDO’s ‘Hotch Potch’ of Spooks
Vanessa Beeley A recent sting operation carried out by the Commission for International Justice and Accountablity (CIJA) entrapped an unsuspecting academic member of the Working Group on Syria Media and Propganda (WGSPM) into...
“You are Damaged and Only We Can Repair You”
Thomas Harrington They are the stewards Of the whole universe Masters by force Commanders without laws. […] They eat everything They eat everything They eat everything And leave nothing....
WATCH: Being Selfish
Someone sent Off-Guardian this animation today which, we feel, very much sums up our shared mood on this warm Spring Sunday afternoon. The animation’s author appears to be twitter...
The Workers Who Make the Clouds
David Perez Hardly a day goes by without news of the multi-sided impact of the digital world, how it shapes our individual lives and our collective future. Curse and...
What’s up with our fact-checking blind spots?
Rosemary Frei, via her website Three days ago I posted this tweet: How do you know whether information from someone 'on our side' – whether me, or Tom Cowan,...
WATCH: Absolute Slavery – Zero Carbon Agenda Deconstructed
What is a zero-carbon future? What does it look like? To imagine, turn off your heater. No airports. No shipping. No animals. Perfect surveillance state. In this Ice Age...
Four Words Gates and His Pals Despise: Democracy & Minimum Support Price
Colin Todhunter The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and an assortment of high-profile figures and policymakers are pushing for unregulated gene-editing technologies, the rollout of bio-synthetic food created in...
You Can’t Win. Don’t Even Try!
James Corbett Imagine you find a prisoner in an unlocked jail cell. Confused, you ask him why he’s sitting there when the door to his cell isn’t even locked....
COMPLICITY / COLLUSION
Korvus Korax TAKE 1 In the bread and circuses phase of an empire’s waning days skillfully framed spin-riddled reports devised and arranged to shape not reflect reality...
The Assassination and Resurrection of Martin Luther King
Edward Curtin “I don’t believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me, I will rise again in the Salvadorian people…” Archbishop Oscar Romero, martyred, 24 March 1980 Whether we...
Three(ish) New Reads – March
Philip Roddis Just two reads this month. (You’ll see why when you clock the word count of the first one.) This past year I’ve been in an uncomfortable place vis-a-vis CV-19....
WATCH: Salting Your Data
You don’t give your real data when you’re signing up for things online, do you? Well, perhaps you shouldn’t. Join James for this week’s edition of #SolutionsWatch where he...
