“All things transient are but a parable” Goethe, Faust These books are killing me he thought. The sun has risen, the bells toll eight. I’ve tried to learn before...

Edward curtin It is comical how easily one can be ignored for pointing out that new technology is dangerous and fetishistic.  So-called “smart” cell phones are a prime example. ...

Edward Curtin This new book by Graeme MacQueen (click here for a free e-copy) contains a collection of his articles and essays on the attacks of September 11, 2001, the...

Edward curtin On the short roof outside the bedroom window, two black vultures sit, staring in.  They have come to remind me of something.  I put my book down...

Edward Curtin My title comes from a 19th century author whose name does not matter nor would it mean much if I mentioned him.  It’s an old truth that has...

“No one knows who will live in this [iron] cage in the future….” Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism I would prefer not to relay...

Edward Curtin “Ingsoc. The sacred principles of ingsoc. Newspeak, double-speak, the mutability of the past.” – George Orwell, 1984 As today dawned, I was looking out the window into the...

Edward Curtin “What they [regular people] need, and what they feel they need, is a quality of mind that will help them use information and to develop reason in...

Edward Curtin “The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.  One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus Really?  Or was he...

Edward Curtin On December 15, the night that the Biden administration released some of the remaining JFK files while withholding others with another half-assed excuse, Tucker Carlson, the most-watched...

“The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.” Karl Kraus, Half-Truths & One-and-a-Half Truths Things, possessions, life on the...

OffGuardian has been privileged to feature the work of David Ray Griffin several times in our history. So when we heard the sad news of his passing we decided...

Edward Curtin “There’s a blaze of light in every word It doesn’t matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah” Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah The last time I was...

Edward Curtin My title comes from a song sung by soldiers as they marched to hell in the trenches of World War I and the same song my sisters and I...

Edward Curtin “We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!” T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men” When many people share thoughts, speech,...

Edward Curtin “I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.” Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays. Let me tell...

Edward Curtin Veteran OffG contributor Edward Curtin shares his interpretation of the conflict in Ukraine It should now be quite clear to any reasonable person that the Biden administration...

Author and sociology teacher (and regular OffG contributor) Edward Curtin joins Jesse Zurawell on the most recent episode of Perspective from TNTRadio. The pair discuss Ed’s recent piece At...

In 2021, on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11, Off-Guardian asked 15 experts, including scientists, medical practitioners, journalists and activists, to share their views on 9/11 and the Covid-19 narrative....

Edward Curtin Neurosis to a greater or lesser degree is the norm in western industrialized societies. Drawing on this fact is the key to effective propaganda. It is well...