Sleepwalking into Tyranny: How Power is Silently Being Seized
John & Nisha Whitehead
“This is what militaries do during coups: you capture the major targets, with government buildings high on the list, and you take over communications and other systems.” Ruth Ben-Ghiat,...
Heil to the Chief
CJ Hopkins
Guess what time it is, boys and girls. Did you guess it? I’m pretty sure you did. That’s right, it’s time for the Big Switcheroo! It’s Morning in America...
AI Law and Order
Todd Hayen
Artificial Intelligence, AI, is such the “in” thing now. You just can’t get away from it. AI art, AI music, AI writing. It is everywhere. And let’s not forget...
Predicting 2025: Trump the Peacemaker
Kit Knightly
Traditionally, OffG’s New Year predictions are a special edition of This Week, but 2025 looks to have such a full dance card, we thought a series more appropriate. How...
How Do We Escape the Panopticon?
VN Alexander
Now that tech billionaires Elon Musk and Peter Thiel (who backed J. D. Vance) have bought the free and fair election of President Donald Trump for us in the...
The Year of the Zealot
CJ Hopkins
It was the best of years, it was the worst of years, it was a year of brilliance, it was a year of buffoonery, it was a year of...
Technocracy Rising – Part 1: Why It’s Crucial to Understand the End Game
Jesse Smith
Major shake-ups are occurring across the global stage. History is replete with examples of breaks with the past from major political, economic, technological, and social upheaval. Throughout the ages,...
“The Mainstream Media is Dead! Long Live the Mainstream Media!”
Kit Knightly
The old mainstream media is dying, and has been for years. This has only become more apparent in the weeks since Donald Trump was re-(s)elected. News that CNN is...
Transhumanism, the Death of God, and Eternal War
Todd Hayen
It seems that the idea of transhumanism as a major force in this current global debacle is often put on the back burner and is considered a bit too...
A Tale of Two PSYOPS
CJ Hopkins
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...
The Revenge of Trumpenstein
CJ Hopkins
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!...
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...
AUDIO: Kit Knightly on Reality Check Radio – September Edition
OffG editor Kit Knightly’s latest monthly chat with Paul Brennan on Reality Check Radio’s Breakfast Show. Kit and Paul talk about the looming US election, the rise of genetically...
Quick Take: Elon Musk vs Brazil more fake “free speech” theatre
Kit Knightly
Recently we were asked on Twitter to comment on the Elon Musk/Brazil situation. At the time we didn’t really see the point, coming so hot on the heels of...
How (and why) they sell X as a “bastion of free speech”
Kit Knightly
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...
Stabbings to Show Trials: 9 Simple Steps to Criminalize Free Speech
Kit Knightly
In the wake of the Southport attack and ensuing riots, we wrote that the agenda had become clear – it was about attacking free speech. Little did we suspect...
Bringing Transhumanism Down to Earth – Part 1
Lissa Johnson, Daniel Broudy & David A. Hughes
Originally published by Propaganda in Focus “All of our exalted technological progress, civilization for that matter, is comparable to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal”. Albert...
Neuralink Does Not Read Minds and Never Will
VN Alexander
The headlines scream: “AI Mind-Reading Has Arrived!” “Neuralink Allows Man to Control Computer with his Thoughts! “Chinese Soldiers’ AI Implants Enhance Abilities and Reaction Times.” Every neural implant, whether...
Unlocking the Black Box
Karen Hunt
“…there is no sound for we all live underground… now every mother can choose the color of her child, that’s not nature’s way, there’s nothing left to do but...
This Week in the New Normal #86
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...
