Three Point Failure: The Guardian’s racist campaign against “dirty Russian money”
Kit Knightly
Since the initial press hysteria over the Skripal case, the major political parties of the UK have been clambering over each other in an effort to scale the highest...
Open Thread: Skripal Suspects Interviewed on RT
For those of you who missed it - the Skripal suspects came forward, approaching RT to tell their story. The whole interview is available here...
Skripal Case: Luke Harding’s latest work of fiction
Kit Knightly
Luke Harding likes writing books about things that he wasn’t really involved in and doesn’t really understand. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, that covers pretty much everything....
UPDATED: Skripal Case: Gaping Holes in New Narrative
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) named their suspects in the poisoning of Sergei Skripal et al. today. The two men - named as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov -...
First they came for the home-schooled….
Kit Knightly
There is a war being waged. Not the one in Syria or Yemen. Not the Nazis shelling the Donbass or the warlords selling slaves in Libya. Not America's drones...
5 timely reminders that the media think you are an idiot…
Kit Knightly
The corporate media think we are stupid. All of us. They have as much respect for our intellect or ability to reason as they do for the truth. This...
Internet Censorship: Appeal to Reinstate “American Everyman”
Kit Knightly
Just a week or so after Spotify, Google, Apple and Facebook made the curiously synchronized move to kick Alex Jones and InfoWars off their platforms, and just days after...
No, Carole Cadwalladr, THIS is what war looks like…
Kit Knightly
Carole Cadwalladr has been applying her fingertips to her keyboard again. This is usually bad news for anybody offended by giant leaps of logic or insufferable smugness, but it’s...
“Democratic Institutions?” – 10 Lessons from history that will destroy your trust in the CIA
Kit Knightly
In the hysterical wake of the Trump-Putin Summit in Helsinki, President Donald Trump was roundly criticised in the media for taking the side of a "hostile state" over his
Open Thread: Trump-Putin Summit and Mounting Hysteria
Kit Knightly
Yesterday, Trump and Putin met for a summit in Helsinki. The resulting hysteria, all throughout the mainstream media and in the minds of neocon and (self-described) "liberals" alike. Just to...
What is the Real Agenda Behind the Great “Twitter Purge”?
Kit Knightly
On July 12th, Twitter launched their announced “purge”. Stripping roughly six percent of all the followers on the platform. Barack Obama lost millions, so did Katy Perry. The stated...
Open Thread: The Amesbury Couple and the Reborn Novichok Saga
Kit Knightly
1. Are we supposed to believe that this "novichok" incident is directly related to the alleged poisoning of the Skripals? How so? 2. If this IS the same chemical, why...
Times Headline: Fears Over Prospect of Peace
OffGuardian was founded on the idea that he media should be held to account, corrected, fact-checked and interpreted. A lot of the time that’s job that needs to be...
“Right to Die”, or Right to Kill?
Kit Knightly
The Guardian’s “Comment is Free” section makes for predictable reading this morning. John Harris says Brexit is bad and Corbyn is to blame, Shon Faye writes that trans rights...
The Parallel Universe of BBC Panorama
Kit Knightly
The folks at Panorama LOVE Putin, or at least love to hate him. In the last two years there have been no less than five (five!) episodes devoted to...
WATCH: Robert F. Kennedy’s Speech Mourning Martin Luther King Jr.
On April 4th 1968 Martin Luther King was shot and killed in Memphis Tennessee. New York's Senator Robert F Kennedy was in Indianapolis, on the campaign trail for the...
VISA Payment Crash and the Dangers of a Cashless World
Kit Knightly
Yesterday, Visa's payment system crashed in Europe. Millions of people were unable to complete purchases. Some found themselves trapped overseas. It was a small glitch, apparently, but could have...
MH17: New “evidence”, same issues
Kit Knightly
Nearly four years since the incident, and over two years since they last reported any progress, the MH17 Joint Investigative Team (JIT) have held a press conference. To underline...
Profile: Guardian Pass Notes
Kit Knightly
Name: Guardian Pass Notes Age: Launched in 1992, canned in 2005, brought back in 2009. So…either 26 or 22 depending on your math preference. Purpose: None that I can...
Gina Haspel and the Normalising of Torture
Kit Knightly
Gina Haspel is almost certainly going to be the next director of the CIA. This shouldn't happen, but it will. For those unfamiliar: Haspel was deputy head of the Agency...
