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This Week in the Guardian #13
Every week we like to highlight three or four stories that go full-Guardian, but don’t require an entire article...
Beirut Explosion Lays Groundwork for Regime Change Push
Whatever shape this fallout takes, spare a thought for the people of Lebanon. Because no matter how it starts,...
Fact-Checking a “Fact-Checker”: A Response to HealthFeedback.org
Rosemary Frei On July 12 an organization called Health Feedback posted a review of my and Patrick Corbett’s July...
This Week in the Guardian #11
Every week (or, rather, most weeks, since the coronavirus torpedoed our schedule), we like to highlight three or four...
Open Letter: Refuting Politifact’s “fact check”
On the 27th of June OffGuardian published an article by Torsten Engelbrecht and Konstantin Demeter titled “COVID19 PCR Tests...
This Week in the Guardian #10
This week The Graun takes aim at rabid anti-vax death cults, "free speech without consequences", and (surprise surprise) Russia....
We must inoculate ourselves against the crazy Anti-Rationalists
Iain Davis Recently, leading anti-rationalist Dominic Lawson had his COVID 19 vaccine promotion pamphlet published by the Daily Mail with the headline “To win...
Media Mask-Mania, or Covid19 Groupthink
I never thought I’d see the day when publicly wearing a muzzle would constitute a proof of virtue in...
The “Russian vaccine hack” is a 3-for-1 deal on propaganda
Kit Knightly The Guardian, and all the other predictable voices, are currently reporting that Russian “state sponsored hackers” have...
The Groupthink Pandemic
Groupthink is all around us. Decision-making in government, in the media and at work. It's slowly killing the...
The Co-opting of Activism by the State
Dustin Broadbery It is well documented that members of the police and intelligence communities have been infiltrating activist groups...
WATCH: Who Will Fact Check the Fact Checkers?
We’ve all come across online fact checkers that purport to warn us away from independent media sites under the...
This Week in the Guardian #9
This week sees dogs who can smell the coronavirus, sarcasm as social protest and the reformation of a ...
5 Facts BBC’s “The Salisbury Poisonings” Forgot to Mention
The BBC's new drama "The Salisbury Poisonings" concluded over the weekend. A three-part story "based on actual events", claiming...
Lies, Damned Lies and Covid19
Michael Lesher Growing up as I did in the Cold War, I still experience a special kind of shudder...
Facebook using “fact-checkers” to censor dissent on Covid19
OffG Facebook has flagged our article “It’s all bullshit”: 3 links sinking the Covid narrative” as ‘false information’, based...
Interview Most Foul
Edward Curtin Imagine this: A so-called presidential historian for a major television network publishes an interview in the most...
The Worst Literal Hitler Ever
So, the GloboCap-Resistance Minneapolis Putsch appears to have not gone exactly to plan. Once again, Trump failed to go...
This Week in The Guardian #8
Every week (or, rather, most weeks, since the coronavirus torpedoed our schedule), we like to highlight three or four...
Donald Trump is completely right about mail-in ballots
Kit Knightly It’s an artefact of the peculiar world in which we live that we are sometimes forced to...
