TRANSCRIPT: Parliament House OPCW Presentation
Yesterday the OPCW released the results of their “independent investigation” into their leaks. The finding is that the two men who released confidential internal documents “weren’t real whistleblowers”, so,...
Why Food Systems Are Breaking Down Across The World
Colin Todhunter Fast food nations and global nutrition Daniel Maingi works with small farmers in Kenya and belongs to the organisation Growth Partners for Africa. He remembers a time...
Democrats impeached Trump for withholding arms to Neo-Nazis
Max Parry As this article was going to press, it was formally confirmed – as was long expected – that the Senate had found Donald Trump not guilty of...
Triumphal Divisions: Trump’s State of the Union Address
Binoy Kampmark In this year of the presidential elections, President Donald J. Trump shows little sign of cowering. It had been some time in coming, but here was a...
Muddling Democrats: Chaos in the Iowa Caucus
Binoy Kampmark Whatever the claims by the Democratic pollsters on the ground, the party has all the work to do ahead of selecting a candidate to make a fist...
REVIEW: Global Justice and Finance
Philip Roddis Paleontologists tell us homo sapiens sapiens has walked the earth for 140,000 years, 130,000 of them as hunter gatherers. Social animals, poorly equipped for solo survival, we...
Did the FBI Sabotage Trump’s Foreign Policy?
Renée Parsons We now know that, before Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2017, the FBI had the ouster of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the President’s National Security Adviser,...
Literature and Politics in a Dystopian Age
Frank Lee Unquestionably, the world seems to be moving away from democratic forms of rule and morphing into authoritarian/totalitarian political and economic systems (liberal totalitarianism if you will). This...
Site Maintenance Announcement
OffGuardian.org will be under-going some server maintenance during the early hours of the 3rd of February (GMT). Hopefully, services will be uninterrupted, but there is a chance the site...
Secret Wars, Forgotten Betrayals, Global Tyranny. Who Is Really in Charge of the U.S. Military?
Cynthia Chung There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.” William Shakespeare Once again we find ourselves in a...
DISCUSS: Brexit Day, Trump Impeachment, Coronavirus
This is just an open thread to focus discussion on the breaking news of the day. The last day of the first month of 2020 is shaping up to...
Split Hearings: The Assange Extradition Case Drags On
Binoy Kampmark It is being increasingly larded with heavy twists and turns, a form of state oppression in slow motion, but the Julian Assange extradition case now looks like...
Bernie Sanders: Real resistance and the steep learning curve
Bill Martin Clinton/Warren 2020! Please mark my words, this is where things are heading. Most of what calls itself “the Resistance” in present U.S. society is complete nonsense, of...
How Washington “Liberates” Free Countries
Andre Vltchek There are obviously some serious linguistic issues and disagreements between the West and the rest of the world. Essential terms like “freedom”, “democracy”, “liberation”, even “terrorism”, are...
Ignoring the Elephant at Gitmo: Yet Another 9/11 Crime
Kevin Ryan The dubious legal proceedings at the Guantanomo Bay (Gitmo) prison camp continue to promote the idea of justice for victims of 9/11. Unfortunately, these proceedings do not...
Dead President Walking
CJ Hopkins I never thought I’d hear myself say this, but I’m a little worried about Donald Trump. I’m worried he may be on the verge of a sudden,...
Hovering in Cyberspace
Edward Curtin We live in a fabricated reality where the visible world became nearly meaningless once the screen world became people’s “window on the world.” An electronic nothingness replaced...
Three (or Four) New Reads – January
Philip Roddis The Roaring Twenties began with a bang. Whatever else the decade may bring, chronologers will look back on its opening fortnight as momentous. The tone was set...
Putin Calls for a New System Guided by the UN Charter… But Is It Possible?
Matthew Ehret Anyone looking with sober eyes upon today’s world and the feeble economic and geopolitical underpinnings holding the system together must accept the fact that a new system...
The Comey-Lynch Plausible Deniability Game
Renée Parsons As the structure and form of institutions continue to breakdown offering new perspectives and unexpected revelations, it is fitting that former FBI Director James Comey continues to...
