Martin Cohen “The end of everything we call life is at hand and cannot be evaded” H. G. Wells (1946) The coronavirus doesn’t just make individual people ill –...

Bill Martin This is for my friends who supported Bernie Sanders. I suppose it is also directed toward all of my friends who believe that, despite everything, they should...

Masterful essays take aim at the numbskullery of Trump, his hapless political opponents, and the boneheaded media warriors who flounder hopelessly in the president’s turbulent wake. Tony Sutton looks...

Martial Law in Lombardy, all of France under house arrest & UK passes sweeping "Coronavirus Bill"...our world is being reshaped. But only if we let it.

Kit Knightly Today’s Democratic primaries will go a long way to signalling who the DNC will put forward to run against Donald Trump in November. The fourteen states holding...

Joe Giambrone In 2016, Hillary Clinton deserved to lose, and she did. Her deception, her cheating in the primary elections, was well-documented, despicable, dishonest, untrustworthy. Her money-laundering scheme at...

Bill Martin Of course this will never be over, not even all the way through Trump’s second term. The Democrats howled about the vote to not have witnesses, even...

Five years ago this month, OffGuardian posted its first article. Since then nearly 4000 more have been posted, all with pretty much the same aim – fact-checking the media,...

John Steppling “It is this author’s analysis that the effect of the Donald Trump presidency has been, somewhat paradoxically, to put wind in the sails of a kind of...

CJ Hopkins Break out the pussyhats and vuvuzelas, folks, because the neoliberal Resistance is back, and this time they’re not playing around. No more impeachments and investigations. It’s time...

Binoy Kampmark A note of fraternal tension has been registered between the United Kingdom and Australia. It began with Britain’s decision to permit China’s technology giant Huawei a role...

Binoy Kampmark Interfering, corrupting and altering the views of electors is apparently frowned upon. But it all depends on who that manipulating source is. The Russians might be condemned...

Renée Parsons For those who believe that there is more to life than just the physical, material world, the role of karma is well understood. Popularly known as what-goes-...

Bruce Lesnick In the 1940s and 50s, advocating Karl Marx’s critique of capitalism could get you fired from your job, blacklisted, deplatformed and even imprisoned. Though communists and socialists...

Prof. Anthony Hall In responding to an attack on a media venue about which I care a lot, this Canadian from Alberta Canada is being pulled into the swamp....

Max Parry As this article was going to press, it was formally confirmed – as was long expected – that the Senate had found Donald Trump not guilty of...

Binoy Kampmark In this year of the presidential elections, President Donald J. Trump shows little sign of cowering. It had been some time in coming, but here was a...

Binoy Kampmark Whatever the claims by the Democratic pollsters on the ground, the party has all the work to do ahead of selecting a candidate to make a fist...

Renée Parsons We now know that, before Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2017, the FBI had the ouster of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the President’s National Security Adviser,...

This is just an open thread to focus discussion on the breaking news of the day. The last day of the first month of 2020 is shaping up to...