Control, Crisis and Compliance: Endgame Logic of Late Capitalism
Colin Todhunter
It must be made clear from the start that, drawing on the work of sociologist Max Weber, capitalism is an ‘ideal type’ concept. An ideal type is a conceptual...
The Trilateralist Keir Starmer
Iain Davis
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is seemingly a serving member of the Trilateral Commission. If you check out the most recent Trilateral Commission membership record it lists Starmer as a “Former Member...
The New Normal Right
CJ Hopkins
OK, this will be one of my non-satirical essays … or mostly non-satirical essays. It will serve as a companion piece to The New Normal Left, another non-satirical essay that...
The New Normal Left
CJ Hopkins So, I went to London to speak to the Left … no, not “the Left” you’re probably thinking of. Not the mask-wearing, Ukrainian-flag-flying Left. Not the pronoun-using,...
The REAL reason behind China’s “Zero Covid” policy
Kit Knightly
Most of the Western world is no longer in lockdown, some vaccine mandates are being loosened, mask wearers are distinctly the minority everywhere you look. For now at least,...
Localization: An Alternative to the New Normal
Colin Todhunter ‘World Localization Day’ will be celebrated on 20 June. Organised by the non-profit Local Futures, this annual coming together of people from across the world began in 2020...
Parasite Empire Unravelled
Hiroyuki Hamada So before Covid, a local school where one of my kids used to attend had prominent race issues. Namely, teachers were being accused of being blind to...
The Alibi of Tyrants
Julien Charles “The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a...
We Are Many. The Oppressors Are Not.
Hiroyuki Hamada I remember chatting with a man from Iraq in 2016. He was driving a taxi in Germany. I wrote about him in one of my essays[1]: Last...
Manufacturing (New Normal) “Reality”
CJ Hopkins The ultimate goal of every totalitarian system is to establish complete control over society and every individual within it in order to achieve ideological uniformity and eliminate...
Three New Reads: February
Philip Roddis This month brings that rarest of occurrences. I’m recommending a Guardian piece: a tour of the mind of Jeff Bezos. You wouldn’t want to live there but...
The Great Reset: The end of Capitalism as we know it
Sean Stinson To suggest that there has been an overreaction to the coronavirus pandemic may be the understatement of the century. The spark that began as a rational fear...
Killing Unknown
It’s hard to talk about the myriad issues piled in our society in a cohesive way, and when we try, we often get the same response: “What is your...
REVIEW: The people need to take back control
Tony Sutton A review of The Sport & Prey of Capitalists: How the Rich Are Stealing Canada’s Public Wealth, by Linda McQuaig. Published by Dundurn It’s painful to recount...
Do Americans Dream of Capitalist Sheep?
Hiroyuki Hamada It’s capitalism after all. Those political parties for the rich and powerful know how to sell exploitation and subjugation by their good cop/bad cop marketing. If you...
If you are reading this, you might be a conspiracy theorist
If you’re reading this, then you’ve probably been called a conspiracy theorist. Also you’ve been derided and shamed for questioning the “science” of the Covid debacle. The idea of...
GloboCap Über Alles
So, how are you enjoying the “New Normal” so far? Is it paranoid and totalitarian enough for you? If not … well, hold on, because it’s just getting started....
Capitalism and the Throttling of Democracy in India
Colin Todhunter The deregulation of international capital flows (financial liberalisation) has effectively turned the planet into a free-for-all bonanza for the world’s richest capitalists. Under the post-World-War Two Bretton...
An open letter from Philip Roddis to OffG
Dear Off-Guardian This comment was made by a reader, below a recent post on my blogsite. There’s just as much fear porn bandied about in regard to narratives pushing...
Brave New Normal
So the War on Populism is finally over. Go ahead, take a wild guess who won. >
