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WATCH: The Fight for Health Freedom Continues – #SolutionsWatch
After years of build-up and anticipation, the 77th World Health Assembly has come and gone. So, what did the would-be lords of global health gavel down on? And what...
AUDIO: Kit Knightly on Reality Check Radio
Join OffG editor Kit Knightly for the first of his monthly chats with Paul Brennan on Reality Check Radio’s Breakfast Show. Kit and Paul talk about the UK Election,...
AI and Commercial Music
Todd Hayen
Del Bigtree recently devoted a segment on his popular program, The Highwire, on the advent of AI in commercial music. Del created a theme song for The Highwire on one of many AI...
Whistling in the Dark
Sylvia Shawcross
In the morning, the bobolink sings. It always heartens me—listening to the morning chorus of creatures waking up to the sun singing. Imagine. When was the last time any...
The Latest “Bird Flu” Death is “Covid” All Over Again
Kit Knightly
Yesterday, the mainstream media widely reported that a new strain of Bird Flu had claimed its first victim, a 59-year-old man from Mexico. The big news here is that...
SPIEF ’24 – Multipolar World Order converges on St. Petersburg to take PCR tests & chat about sustainable development
Riley Waggaman
It’s happening. Again. It happens every year, unfortunately. I am of course referring to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, which is an annual gathering of the world’s most...
Sars-Cov2 Origins – “Gain of Function” or “Claim of Function”?
Martin Neil & Jonathan Engler
“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” Richard P. Feynman A thorough review of the available evidence suggests that the emergence...
This Week in the New Normal #91
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...
Get Up, Stand Up, Don’t Give Up the Fight: Know Your Rights or You Will Lose Them
John & Nisha Whitehead
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” Thomas Jefferson If America’s schools are...
WATCH: The Rwandan Genocide Is A Lie
Everyone has heard of the Rwandan genocide of 1994. But everything you have heard about the so-called “hundred days” is either a distortion, a misrepresentation or a downright lie....
If The Wars Go On
Edward Curtin
I suppose my title could have been couched in the singular form, as Hermann Hesse, the Nobel Prize winning German/Swiss author, did with his collection of anti-war essays about...
Better Than…
Todd Hayen
It seems that the concept of “better than . . .” has completely left the human experience. And wow, what a big deal that is! I mean the entire...
“Nothing About Us Without Us” – An Open Letter
World Health Organization WHO Headquarters in Geneva Avenue Appia 20 1211 Geneva, Switzerland Attention: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General, WHO Dear Sir, This is a citizens’ sign-on, on the...
Are the powers-that-be preparing to cut Israel loose?
Kit Knightly
For decades, Israel has been “one of the club”, a proud member of the “good-guy countries”. A handful of regimes protected by a bubble that makes them almost immune...
[UPDATED] And the Bird Flu just keeps on coming…
Kit Knightly
The bird flu narrative is constantly developing, so I figured it was time for an update. You know…to keep you all abreast of the chicken situation. Ba dum tss!...
No, they’re (probably) not going to bring back National Service.
Kit Knightly
As you all know, the UK is in the throes of campaigning following the announcement of an “election” on July 4th. One particular campaign promise has already caused a...
From COVID-19 to Campus Protests: How the Police State Muzzles Free Speech
John & Nisha Whitehead
“Politicians of both parties want to use the power of government to silence their foes. Some in the university community seek to drive it from their campuses. And an...
Fire in the Soul: Nick Lyons
Edward Curtin
With lilacs in the dooryard blooming a week ago, I was struck by a sense of synchronicity so strong that I stood stone still and sniffed the air for...
The norm-deviation tolerance test for authoritarianism
Johan Eddebo
If you think about it, you know perfectly well what you’re allowed to say. You know what most people will nod in agreement with, and what, on the other...
And the Cancer Keeps Rolling In
Todd Hayen
Kate Middleton has cancer. The King of England has cancer. Every day we hear of more and more people diagnosed with cancer—many of them quite young. And not a...
