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The Hidden Messages of the Power Elite’s Cultural Apparatus

Edward Curtin

To be crucified is to suffer and die slowly and agonizingly.  It was a common form of execution in...

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Nostalgic for the Future

Edward Curtin Despite its pedigree as a fundamental element in civilization’s greatest stories, nostalgia has come to be associated...

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Covid Odyssey

John Griffin Who else senses the world shrinking around them? Was it only a year ago we could twirl...

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Utopia, Coming to a World Near You

Patrick Corbett We’ve been told by the promoters of the pandemic, Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, and others that it’s...

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Partly Truth and Partly Fiction – Totally Genius: Kris Kristofferson

Edward Curtin He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the...

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Review: Turning Back: The Personal Journey of a Born-Again Jew

Steve Lipman A review of Turning Back: The Personal Journey of a Born-Again Jew, by Michael Lesher. Published by...

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OffG Recommends….V for Vendetta

"OffG Recommends" is a new series we'll be putting out intermittently commenting on books, film, television or other arts...

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The Machine Stops

The second half of short-story double is The Machine Stops, by EM Forster. While technically more science fiction than...

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WATCH: The Jones Plantation

The first half of our halloween short-story double bill isn’t a horror story in the tradiional sense. But it...

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The Searching Life and Enigmatic Death of Albert Camus

Edward Curtin Everyone wants the man who is still searching to have already reached his conclusions. A thousand voices...

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Film review: Sorry We Missed You

Philip Roddis “I never thought it would be this hard”, says Rickie Turner to Abby his wife, holding her...

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What’s Joker’s Joke?

Edward Curtin Cause how many times can you wake up in this comic book and plant flowers?” Rodriguez, “Cause”...

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Between Yes and No, Heaven and Earth with Albert Camus on a Spring Morning

Edward Curtin To give up beauty and the sensual happiness that comes with it and devote one’s self exclusively...

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Donbass Borderland

A few months after the e-premiere of Russian Hour’s "New York to Donetsk & Back" documentary on Off-Guardian, there’s...

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A Gentrified Little Town Goes to Pot

Edward Curtin In my little town/ I grew up believing/God keeps his eye on us all.” Simon and Garfunkel,...

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The EU: From Social-Democratic Dream to Neoliberal Nightmare

Frank Lee Reviews The Left Case Against the EU by Costas Lapavitsas Britain, in the shape of Conservative Prime...

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ODE to 2018

It fogs the mind that Century Twenty-One Already has a sixth of its span run. Those born in the first months...

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Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” at 175

Catte This is an updated version of our 2017 article to mark the 175th anniversary of A Christmas Carol...

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And That’s The Way It Is

The Essential U.S. Journalism Books of 2018 James McEnteer Two very different reporters dig deep beneath the mainstream media...

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BOOK REVIEW: Injustice – The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five

Vacy Vlazna Survive prison I must, for when I come out I would hold no grudges, or hate, or...

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