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site attack update
The site went down again today (Friday), but is now running and secure. The attack seems to be an application layer DDoS attack which, we gather, can be harder...
We’re under attack
Since last Thursday – over a week ago – OffG has been under continued intermittent Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks from agents unknown. Today around 7pm BST the...
Climate and the Money Trail
Whatever one may believe about the dangers of CO2 and risks of global warming creating a global catastrophe in the next roughly 12 years, it is worth noting who...
Nuclear War: Just Another Day
Colin Todhunter Catastrophic events that send the world into turmoil happen on ‘just another day’. The atom bomb that exploded over Hiroshima took place while thousands of ordinary folk...
Trump-Zelensky-Ukraine: What is really going on here?
Tony Kevin I have over several days reflected on the official White House record (also embedded below) of the Trump-Zelensky conversation on Ukraine-US relations on 25 July 2019, a...
Jacques Chirac: The Art of Being Vague
The tributes have been dripping in heavy praise: former French president Jacques Chirac and mayor of Paris, the great statesman; the man who said no to the US-led war...
Brexit isn’t David Cameron’s Legacy – Libya is
Kit Knightly
“The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.” Lord Acton David Cameron has a book out. You’ve probably heard. There’s a lot...
Twitter Executive is Psy-Op Soldier – Middle East Eye
Middle East Eye are reporting a striking story that, if true, should be circulated widely as possible. It sheds a whole new light on just how deeply interwoven the...
Three New Reads – September
Philip Roddis Let none accuse me of frivolity. My three selected reads this month address subjects that could not be more serious. As Western media and leaders continue to...
REVIEW: Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
Hope Kesselring Anybody who’s expecting shocking revelations from Edward Snowden’s new book, Permanent Record, is going to be disappointed. However, if you’re interested in spy culture like I am,...
No, Srebrenica did not ‘inspire’ Christchurch
Max Parry Earlier this month, popular ‘progressive’ news website The Intercept published an article entitled “From El Paso to Sarajevo: How White Nationalists Are Inspired by the Bosnia Genocide”,...
Karl Marx, radical environmentalist
Phil Gasper International Socialist Review columnist Phil Gasper challenges the myth that Marxism has nothing useful to say about the environment–with help from the old man himself. At the...
Normal Intrusions: Globalising AI Surveillance
Binoy KLampmark They all do it: corporations, regimes, authorities. They all have the same reasons: efficiency, serviceability, profitability, all under the umbrella term of “security”. Call it surveillance, or...
The Rule of the Mob: Labour Conference Banner Banned, Slashed
Peter Gregson On Sunday 22nd Sept, I, a Labour Party member since 1986, had my banner taken down from outside Conference. Why? The police agreed it was not anti-Semitic....
Pesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse but Business as Usual
It is worrying to think that, globally, sales of synthetic chemicals are to double over the next 12 years with alarming implications for health and the environment if governments...
Hong Kong is Scared….of the Rioters
Andre Vltchek It was once a British police station, as well as the Victoria Prison Compound. Hong Kong inhabitants used to tremble just from hearing its name mentioned. This...
A tale of two Brexits
Philip Roddis I am in many ways a fully paid up member of the liberal middle classes, even if I appear to have gone off the rails of late....
The Supreme Court, Proroguing & Dangerous Precedents
Kit Knightly
The Supreme Court has ruled against Boris Johnson's proroguing of Parliament. People all over the country are celebrating this ruling, but one can't help but feel that comes from...
As Biden Falters, Will Warren Survive the Scrutiny?
Renée Parsons Despite early polls which showed some of the ‘top tier’ Democrat candidates beating Trump in a general election, the last DNC debate left considerable question as to...
American Psychopathy
John Steppling Not only are we not going to have wars between major powers in this era of fascist upsurge (of course, as will be discussed, we shall have...