The press is reporting that President Biden gave his permission for Ukrainian forces to fire US-made missiles into Russia. Russia confirms one such launch, claiming to have shot most...
Once upon a time, on a planet called Earth, there was born a global-capitalist empire. It was the first global empire in the history of empires. It dominated the...
OffG editor Kit Knightly re-joins Paul Brennan on Reality Check Radio’s Breakfast Show for their latest monthly chat, talking Trump’s “victory” and what it means for the global agenda...
So, it’s déjà vu all over again. That’s right, he’s back! Trumpenstein the Monster! Literal Russian-Agent Hitler! The Ayatollah of Orange Shinola! And this time he’s not screwing around!...
After months of handwringing and mud-slinging and fear-mongering, the votes have finally been cast and the outcome has been decided: the Deep State has won. Despite the billions spent to create...
This isn't 2016. And Harris isn't Clinton, and Trump isn't even the same Trump. Then at least there was some wild card elements to his game, now we know...
Most of the votes are counted, most of the states declared and, barring some shenanigans, Trump will serve his second term as President. In the end, the evening passed...
It’s voting day. Historically, that would mean that by some time early tomorrow morning we’d know who was going to be President, but they have already announced that counting...
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...
The year-old Israeli-Hamas war is, we are told, spreading across the region. Following Israel’s bizarre “pager attack” last month the IDF have “shifted focus” to Lebanon. Two days ago...
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln...
I am sitting on the beach at the National Seashore, a forty-mile long stretch of the Atlantic Ocean seashore on Outer Cape Cod, established in 1961 by President Kennedy....
Donald Trump is back on the app formerly known as Twitter. After almost four years in the “Truth Social” wilderness he sat down with Elon Musk for a 3-hour...
To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It’s irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie...
A failed assassination attempt on a presidential candidate. An incumbent president withdrawing his re-election bid at the 11th hour. A politicized judiciary that fails to hold the powers-that-be accountable to...
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...
Remakes and sequels have almost killed Hollywood movie making, turning every film into a collection of meta references and nostalgia bait…‘hey remember when this happened in that other movie!...
“Whenever any American’s life is taken by another American unnecessarily—whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of law, by one man or...
A contronym is a word having two definitions that contradict each other. Two examples are the word bolt, which can mean to lock with a bolt and to flee,...