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Sugar and Spice and Everything Vice: the Empire’s Sin City of London
Cynthia Chung The over 1000 point plunge of the stock market on Feb 27th and broader ruptures of the...
This Week in The Guardian #1
Five years ago this month, OffGuardian posted its first article. Since then nearly 4000 more have been posted, all...
The OffGuardian View – GE2019
Consider this a catch-all discussion thread on the UK General Election 2019. A few readers have been asking in...
Assange lawyers’ links to US govt & Bill Browder raises questions
Lucy Komisar A US government lawyer in the Assange extradition case just wrote a London Times oped promoting the...
Asia-Pacific Trade Deal: Trading Away Indian Agriculture?
Colin Todhunter On the back of Brexit, there are fears in the UK that a trade deal will be...
Climate and the Money Trail
Whatever one may believe about the dangers of CO2 and risks of global warming creating a global catastrophe in...
Europe: The cracks are beginning to show
Frank Lee The NATO build-up 2014: The expansion of NATO in the late 20th and early 21st centuries had...
In Defense of Cory Morningstar & “Manufacturing for Consent”
Hiroyuki Hamada Good investigative journalism doesn’t only reveal hidden mechanisms of our time; it also exposes those who refuse...
The EU – do we stay or do we go?
Philip Roddis For years I’ve called myself a peg-on-nose Remainer. While many fellow Remainers strike me as naive, deluded...
Brexit ‘crisis’: political theatre & the demonizing of democracy
Catte Black We already know democracy is currently a sham. A lip-service. And nowhere more so than within the...
Inside the Submissive Void
The use of propaganda and censorship is more frequently associated with totalitarian, corrupt and/or despotic regimes, not our purported...
Military Intelligence?
Hugh O’Neill For no important reason, I was thinking about the Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier, HMS “Queen Elizabeth...
Tian’anmen – 30 years of sanctimony and cant
I generally describe Western attitudes to China as “a great big bag of arrogance, stuffed to the brim with...
“Only little people pay taxes.”
The Wheel of History Turns To understand the present, we must understand the past, and possibly the future direction...
Masters of Myths – From Homer to Hollywood
Hugh O’Neill The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie–deliberate, contrived and dishonest–but the myth–persistent, persuasive...
Owen Smith and his fantasy league EU
Philip Roddis Remember this man? It’s close to three years ago he split the delightfully small Anyone-But-Corbyn vote when...
Anti-Semitism Pandemic!
CJ Hopkins Get the kids into the house! Lock your doors! Board up the windows! Break out the gas...
Anti-Capitalism is NOT Anti-Semitism
Kit Knightly
Austerity is a brutal crime against humanity. The rich get richer whilst the poor are starving. The 1% deserve...
Venezuela? The bad guys are on Wall St.
Philip Roddis With Washington talking up a military coup (Democrats for once in no hurry to berate Trump on...
Neoliberalism and its Discontents
Frank Lee Pure economics is not a theory of real-world economics, of actually-existing capitalism, but of an imaginary capitalism.”...
