latest a complete list of every article on OffG in descending date order
Buzzfeed, Question Time & the purpose of Fake News
Kit Knightly
in the last two months both Buzzfeed and The Guardian have issued "BREAKING NEWS" stories that were based on anonymous sources....both these stories were shown to be untrue...
“Conspiracy theories” believed by “significant minority”
A revealing observation is contained in a recent UK government report UK FOREIGN POLICY IN A SHIFTING WORLD ORDER (published December 2018) and brought to our attention on Twitter....
Main Street, Brexitland
Tony Sutton People in England’s northern towns and cities are scared. Their fears stoked by xenophobic right-wing media, they hate Europe, and they hate migrants. But, most of all,...
Tilting at the Mills in the Empire: Or, Fascism Real and Imaginary
Vladimir Golstein In the real world, fascists come to power when Western democracies imposed unbelievably harsh sanctions on Germany, and when the genuine German lefties were crushed by the...
Why is Theresa May still Prime Minister?
Kit Knightly
Theresa May's government has a strong argument for being the worst in the history of our democracy. So why is it allowed to continue?
Breast cancer, feminism & Israeli warplanes
Philip Roddis I’m critical of identity politics both in its passive form, as theory-lite substitute for class analyses of oppression and exploitation, and in its more active manifestations. Such...
Capitalist Agriculture: Putting Soil on a Diet of Snake Oil and Doughnuts
Colin Todhunter In their rush to readily promote neoliberal dogma and corporate-inspired PR, many government officials, scientists and journalists take as given that profit-driven transnational corporations have a legitimate...
Curious Bedfellows: The Neocon and Progressive Alliance to Destroy Donald Trump
Philip Giraldi, January 14, 2019, via American Herald Tribune The Roman poet Ovid’s masterful epic The Metamorphoses includes the memorable opening line regarding the poem’s central theme of transformation....
NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard
by the George Washington University’s National Security Archive, December 12, 2017 Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand,...
Disbelief, Magic Realism and Doublethink Alive and Well in 2018
James O’Neill In the Lyrical Ballads, a collection of essays and poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the latter coined the phrase “the willing suspension of disbelief.”...
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 "deal" with the EU. The deal, which essentially keeps us...
From Baghdad to Finland and All Across the World: What’s the US Up To?
We are publishing here two articles on this subject from Helsinki Times, dated December 29, 2018 and January 1, 2019 respectively. Guarded warehouses near airport and mysterious cargo from...
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 happened in the Summer of 2016, also known as “the...
Crisis in Ukraine: Religious Schism and War
Christopher Black “The signing of the Tomos or note of Autocephaly for the newly created Orthodox Church of Ukraine is not a church but a political act which may...
Accomplishments of Eleven Years of the “Process of Change” in Evo Morales’ Bolivia
Stansfield Smith via Chicagoalbasolidarity Evo Morales will soon have been the president of Bolivia for 12 years, heralding the ascent of the indigenous social movements to governmental power. This...
British think-tanks call for “US leadership” in Europe
“Rebuilding US leading role is the key for European security” say British experts, but the new political realities inspire doubts Jeremy McCoy January 4, Anonymous hackers released the new...
Jacques Hogard: Europe has died in Pristina
Colonel Jacques Hogard in the European Parliament, via GeoStrategy Conference: “KOSOVO AND METOHIJA – A EUROPEAN CASE OF VIOLENT SECESSION” Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to be here...
The Dallaire Genocide Fax: A Fabrication
by Christopher Black, April 8 2018, via The Rwandan I first wrote this in 2005 and it was published by Sanders Research Associates in the UK. Since then the...
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. I sensed early on that the economic system was a...
Chomsky’s Unearned Prestige
Eric Zuesse A large part of Noam Chomsky’s public image as an intellectual is derived not from his role in the field of linguistics, but instead from his having...
