latest a complete list of every article on OffG in descending date order
Black, White, and the Comfortable Lie
Todd Hayen
I was talking to a very close friend the other day who happens to be a die-hard Trump hater (I know what you are thinking, don’t ask). We unfortunately...
Let’s talk about…Dick Cheney’s Posthumous Glazing
This was going to be a discussion thread for the on-going elections — and we will get to that — but then Dick Cheney died and distracted me. Or,...
The Agrarian Imagination: The Iron Cage of Agri-Rationality and Dostoevsky ‘s Moral Underground
Colin Todhunter
“A great deal depends upon a right relationship with the soil; the right relationship with the soil is the basis for the right relationship with one another.” Wendell Berry,...
The Vampire State: Feeding on Our Fear, Freedom and Finances
John & Nisha Whitehead
“But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around—they were monsters with human...
REVIEW: Martyrs to the Unspeakable – A Luminous Tapestry of Truth
Edward Curtin
To weave a magnificent tapestry like the one James W. Douglass has created with Martyrs to the Unspeakable: The Assassinations of JFK, Malcolm, Martin, and RFK takes a steady hand, a...
Jay Forrester & the Blueprints of Ecological Doom
David Fleming & Niall McCrae
When the Club of Rome’s first report, The Limits to Growth, was published in 1972, the editor of the prestigious academic journal Nature was scathing. John Maddox criticised irresponsible...
This Halloween in the New Normal
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...
WATCH: The Nobel War Prize Strikes Again
And the Nobel Peace Prize goes to…María Corina Machado? Wait, what’s going on here? Why does it seem like, far from celebrating a champion of peace, the Nobel Committee...
Has wind power REALLY saved the UK £104 billion?
Kit Knightly
Have you heard that wind power has saved the people of Great Britain over one hundred billion pounds in the last decade? That’s the contention of a new study,...
What do they have planned for Family Court “reform”?
Kit Knightly
It was busy weekend for those who follow British family court law. Normally speaking I wouldn’t count myself among those people, but then social media and news headlines decided...
Who Would Jesus Bomb? The Gospel According to the Military-Industrial Complex
John & Nisha Whitehead
“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.” Thomas Jefferson>/a> For a man supposedly intent on winning a Nobel Peace Prize, Donald Trump spends an extraordinary amount of time waging war,...
This Week in the New Normal #107
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...
Pick and Choose Your Own Truth
Todd Hayen
Here I go again. Getting perplexed by the sheep-types in my life. I seem to be in a constant state of cognitive dissonance. I’ve whacked my forehead so many...
WATCH: Self-Publishing – #SolutionsWatch
This week on #SolutionsWatch, James is joined by Tom-Oliver Regenauer, a self-taught publisher whose German language self-published books now regularly outsell major publishing houses in Germany. He discusses how...
Quick Take: I Don’t Trust Mainstream Epstein Coverage
Everyone has been talking about Jeffrey Epstein for the last few days, and everyone is asking, “Why isn’t anyone talking about Epstein?” Which doesn’t make any sense because, you...
They’re Coming for Your Wood-Burning Stove. Again.
Kit Knightly
The weather is getting colder, and that means getting back to anti-wood-burning propaganda. Did you know a wood burner can kill you? They pollute more than cars and cause...
Beyond the Farm Laws: Corporate Cloud Poised to Reign Over India’s Fields
Colin Todhunter
Nearly four years after India’s historic year-long farmers’ protests forced the repeal of three pro-corporate farm laws, it is clear that the government’s underlying agenda remains intact. The repeal...
Police State Bounty Hunters: The Rise of ICE’s Unconstitutional War on America
John & Nisha Whitehead
“Brother, I am American. You are twisting my arm.” Man shouts “I am American” while ICE agents detain him Masked gunmen. Tasers. Tear gas. Pepper spray. Unmarked vehicles. Intimidation...
The Masks Have Come Off
Edward Curtin
If you believe what is written on those hats worn in the Israeli Knesset – “Trump the Peace President” – you are deluded beyond hope. Halloween may be coming,...
The Wheel of Decline
JR Leach
Unlimited growth. It’s the logic that says a business making a tidy profit is, somehow, failing—unless next quarter is bigger, wider, taller, louder, forever. Growth without end. As if...
