Let’s talk about…Trump’s Inauguration Day
Editor
Today is the day – Trump 2.0 officially kicks off, and the drama began ahead of schedule. Over the weekend there was what we’ll chose to call “The Tiktok...
Martin Luther King, Vietnam, and Gaza
Edward Curtin
Before my mind was turned to the subject of my title, I started to write a piece called “Are the Dead Nostalgic?” It’s a touchy philosophical question that has...
We Called It: Israel-Gaza Ceasefire
Kit Knightly
Eight days ago, in our third prediction for 2025 we said… …the incoming Trump admin will be trying to score “peacemaker” points with a deal in Ukraine, that could...
Predicting 2025: Bye-bye Bibi?
Kit Knightly
In my article predicting “The Next Pandemic”, published last April, I wrote that it would not begin until a lot of the leadership of the world had changed: [The...
Technocracy Ascending-Part 2: Trust Me, I’m a Technocrat
Jesse Smith
Part 1 of this series detailed a brief history of the movement started by Technocracy Inc. in the 1930s to completely transform North America into a scientific dictatorship. Their vision...
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...
Everybody Knows: Do They?
Edward Curtin
“Everybody knows the boat is leaking/Everybody knows the captain lied” Leonard Cohen, “Everybody Knows” When the polls closed on Tuesday, November 5th, I was sound asleep, like a baby...
The Preposterous Nature of “Reality”
Edward Curtin
It is not uncommon to be doing something seemingly innocuous when one is flooded with wild thoughts, musings that seem randomly meaningless, leading nowhere. Thoughts that think us. To...
So…What’s the deal with Gaza’s polio vaccination campaign?
Kit Knightly
Two weeks ago, the first case of polio was detected in Gaza for 25 years, leaving a ten month-old child partially paralyzed and forcing decisive action from the World...
Israel Follow-up – Whistleblowers, Protests and Resignations
Kit Knightly
Two weeks ago I wrote a piece, “Are the powers-that-be preparing to cut Israel loose?”, speculating on the future of the Israel/Gaza narrative and suggesting that Israel’s days in...
If The Wars Go On
Edward Curtin
I suppose my title could have been couched in the singular form, as Hermann Hesse, the Nobel Prize winning German/Swiss author, did with his collection of anti-war essays about...
Are the powers-that-be preparing to cut Israel loose?
Kit Knightly
For decades, Israel has been “one of the club”, a proud member of the “good-guy countries”. A handful of regimes protected by a bubble that makes them almost immune...
From COVID-19 to Campus Protests: How the Police State Muzzles Free Speech
John & Nisha Whitehead
“Politicians of both parties want to use the power of government to silence their foes. Some in the university community seek to drive it from their campuses. And an...
Asymmetric Idiocy
CJ Hopkins
I miss the 1970s sometimes. Not just the music. And the sex. And the drugs. I miss the terrorists. The old-school terrorists. Or, OK, maybe not the terrorists, but...
Screams for Billions – A Topical Fantasy
Michael Lesher
Recently, billionaire Sheryl Sandberg (ex-COO of Meta/Facebook) released a roughly 60-minute film purporting to explore “the sexual violence committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023.” Though denoted a “documentary,”...
This Week in the New Normal #89
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...
Fighting Monsters
CJ Hopkins
So, I gave a little speech about art, and war. The Internationale Agentur für Freiheit, a Berlin art and cultural association, asked me to do that to open their...
[REMOVED] Zones of Interest: The Holocaust Industry in Film
Simon Elmer
The text of this article has been removed. This is not OffG’s preferred policy and is being done solely at the request of the author who felt the response...
The Palestine Congress
CJ Hopkins
Thank God for the German Hate Police! Or heil … or whatever the appropriate salutation is for these unsung heroes. They just saved us all from “hate” again! Yes,...
The CIA Does “Soulful Work”
Edward Curtin
Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a spate of books and articles extolling the word “soul” became the rage in the United States. Soul became the chic...
