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The Gilet Jaune and ‘France Profonde’
On the 12th December The Guardian published an article entitled ‘If you want to understand the Gilets Jaunes you...
Open Thread: US Backs anti-Maduro Coup in Venezuela
In a move that many of us saw coming, the US has backed efforts to force Nicolas Maduro from...
Guardian Reports More “Good News”, Kids are Dying in Venezuela
The Guardian’s Tom Phillips’ article “Venezuela Crisis Takes Deadly Toll on Buckling Health System” (January 06, 2019) is more...
We Need a Martin Luther King Day of Truth
As Martin Luther King’s birthday is celebrated with a national holiday, his death day disappears down the memory hole....
Buzzfeed, Question Time & the purpose of Fake News
in the last two months both Buzzfeed and The Guardian have issued "BREAKING NEWS" stories that were based...
Why is Theresa May still Prime Minister?
Theresa May's government has a strong argument for being the worst in the history of our democracy. So why...
Discuss: Brexit deal vote looms
Tonight, any time now, the UK Parliament will vote on whether or not accept Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit...
The War on Populism
Remember when the War on Terror ended and the War on Populism began? That’s OK, no one else does. It...
What Are We Working For “At Eternity’s Gate”?
Ever since I was a young boy, I have wondered why people do the kinds of work they do....
War Criminals at Large
It is a common misconception that democracies do not start wars of aggression or carry out terrorist attacks. The...
Lies and Damned Lies: Australia, the US and the “Syria Withdrawal”
Few of us would claim we never told a lie, but neither that we did so enthusiastically. Just the...
OffG in the New Year
And so the year ends. 2018 is a closed book. The final sentence dotted, a new chapter started. It...
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...
The Mock Democracy
The citizens are disenfranchised and conditioned to be politically apathetic consumers. In recent decades, democracy has been replaced by...
A Spiritual Special Ops Team’s Christmas Gift
It was snowing hard in the days before Christmas in 1972 as I sat at my writing desk looking...
The Year of Putin-Nazi Paranoia
As my regular readers will probably recall, according to my personal, pseudo-Chinese zodiac, 2017 was “The Year of the...
In Syria the Entire Nation Mobilized…and Won
Yes, there is rubble, in fact total destruction, in some of the neighborhoods of Homs, Aleppo, in the outskirts...
The US Wants to Bring Back the Shah of Iran
The US had a great deal going from 1953 to 1979 with the Shah of Iran. For 25...
UPDATED: Maria Butina Endgame
I wrote in some detail in Off-Guardian on 29 July about the 15 July arrest by the FBI...
The EU and the warning signs of Fascism
Things are spiralling out of control in Europe, faster than many predicted. Outside of Brexit, there is strong anti-EU...
