Connecting the Dots
John Steppling “Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.” Lenin – Letters from Afar Many on...
REVIEW: Creative Destruction – How to start an economic renaissance
Frank Lee CYCLES OF CAPITALIST ACCUMULATION A recession is defined in economics as two or more quarters of negative growth. A depression, on the other hand, comprises a sharp...
Trump Impeachment: Ukrainegate Hidden Evidence
Eric Zuesse On November 22nd, a 100-page Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) data-dump was made by the U.S. Department of State, to the Democratic-Party-aligned nonprofit “American Oversight,” which had...
Official Secrets, Lies and the Five Eyes
David Macilwain Is Putin losing his grip? Why did Russian disinformation operations fail so dramatically in the UK election? Not only did the “rabid socialist” Corbyn fail to seize...
2019 – The Year of Manufactured Hysteria
CJ Hopkins Well, it looks like we’ve somehow managed to survive another year of diabolical Putin-Nazi attacks on democracy. It was touch-and-go there for a while, especially coming down...
NSA Whistleblower: “Mueller Report based on fabricated evidence”
Eric Zuesse On December 12th, the retired NSA whistleblower and former Technical Director of the NSA, Bill Binney asserted (at 39:00-44:00 in the above video): BILL BINNEY: I basically...
The Bloomberg Factor: Authoritarianism, Money and US Presidential Politics
Binoy Kampmark Political rottenness may be bottomless. Consider the following description of a political aspirant for the White House, this person being from the Democratic Party. His “liabilities as...
How can the US lecture China on the rights of Muslims?
Andre Vltchek In 2019, I wrote a long analysis about “the Uygur issue”; analysis which will be soon published as a book. For some time, I have been warning...
Trump and the coup in Bolivia
Bill Martin This is not about me, of course, but my leftist friends (and I mean the actual friends) often accuse me of “making excuses for Trump.” It’s true...
The Art of Doublespeak: Bellingcat and Mind Control
Edward Curtin In the 1920s, the influential American intellectual Walter Lippman argued that the average person was incapable of seeing or understanding the world clearly and needed to be...
Why vote Labour today?
Philip Roddis Following my Jesus or Barabbas post yesterday and – replicated on OffGuardian – Dirty War on the NHS post the day before, I’ve seen fit to respond...
Will Pelosi have the Votes to Impeach?
Renée Parsons Despite an inadequate performance last week by Constitutional law experts before the House Judiciary Committee, Chair Jerrold Nadler released a unilateral committee report on Saturday entitled “Constitutional...
10 Reasons to be Cheerful on Election Eve
W Stephen Gilbert In what they keep calling “the most unpredictable election of recent times”, the pundits report a continuing Tory lead in the opinion polls, indicating that Boris...
The Dirty War on the NHS
Philip Roddis I saw this film last night at a one-off screening in Derby. It’s all you’d expect of a John Pilger documentary. Polished and professional? Well of course,...
A Troubled Family: NATO turns 70
Binoy Kampmark Summit anniversaries are not usually this abysmally interesting. While those paying visits to Watford, England on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty...
Quo Vadis, Lebanon?
Andre Vltchek Good bye, Lebanon, metaphorically and truly. Good bye to a country which, many believe, actually has already ceased to exist. For five long years I have been...
The OffGuardian View – GE2019
Consider this a catch-all discussion thread on the UK General Election 2019. A few readers have been asking in email and in the comments why we aren’t running daily...
The Der Spiegel exposé of Bill Browder
Lucy Komisar Two years after I wrote the first exposé of fraudster William Browder and his Magnitsky hoax published in the West, by the investigative website 100Reporters, and after...
Impeachment, the Left, and the Deep State (Keep going, Toto!)
Bill Martin Dear Off Guardian readers, Warm greetings, my name is Bill Martin. You can read a little about me at the end of this article. I have been...
The Grand Poo Bah Still Searching for Impeachment
Renée Parsons There were two especially notable testimonys made during the recent House impeachment inquiry that should have been ‘nothing to see here folks, let’s move on’ except that...
