This Week in the New Normal #82
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...
Who are ISIS?
Iain Davis Kit Knightly, from the OffGuardian, recently published ISIS are back and they are faker than ever. He explored the apparent return of the ISIS bogeymen and the media...
ISIS are back…and they’re faker than ever.
Kit Knightly
In just the last few days ISIS – Islamic State or ISIL or Da’esh or whatever – have hit the headlines in publications from all over the world. A...
From Ghweran to Al-Tanf the ISIS play is directed by the CIA
Ibrahim Mohammad Wahdi This article was initially & inadvertently attributed to Vanessa Beeley. This was OffG’s error and we apologise to Mr. Wahdi and to Ms Beeley On January...
On the Ground in Syria: Terrorist groups, Turkish threats & Russian overtures
Ibrahim Mohammad Wahdi Turkish threats of a wide-scale military operation in northern Syria and a Syrian-Kurdish approach under Russian auspices, while al-Julani continues his plan to control Idlib. *...
BEST OF OFFG: “Questions you aren’t supposed to ask about ISIS”
Catte Black Republished as part of our ‘Best Of’ series, revisiting some of OffG’s Pre-Covid editorials – either because they help remind us of important realities easily overlooked nowadays,...
Syria’s so-called ‘cradle of the revolution’ has been liberated
Vanessa Beeley After three years of a fragile ceasefire and a campaign of assassinations of Syrian government ‘loyalists’ by embedded fundamentalist armed groups, the Syrian flag has once more...
AUDIO: Afghanistan unpacked – the “new” Taliban, ISIS imports and the Chaos strategy
vanessa beeley · Afghanistan unpacked – the "new" Taliban, ISIS imports and the Chaos strategy OffG’s own Kit Knightly sits down with the brilliant Vanessa Beeley to talk about...
Afghanistan: Answering Kit Knightly’s “6 Questions”
Andrew Korybko This article was originally published on One World Press in response to this piece by one of our editors. But in the interests of promoting honest debate...
6 Questions we NEED to ask about Afghanistan
Kit Knightly Afghanistan has “fallen”, that’s the line. The Taliban forces have taken the opportunity of US/NATO withdrawal and swept across the entire country, taking every major city within...
Panic Pandemic – Why are people who should know better buying the Covid19 hype?
Catte Black The only certainty about the ‘novel’ virus is that a great deal of nonsense is being talked about it by people who really ought to know better,...
The Syrian Army in Idlib
Philip Roddis This video may cause distress. Taken by their Isis captors in May 2016, it shows the humiliation of two Syrian soldiers prior to their roadside execution. Now...
Could Ankara’s temper tantrum lead to escalation in Syria?
Andre Vltchek So far Turkey, militarily the second mightiest NATO country, has been able to get away with virtually anything it has chosen to brew in the Middle East....
Goldstein 2.0: ISIS has a new big bad leader
Kit Knightly The fast-paced world of geopolitics can be disorienting to follow and unsettling to witness. The US Empire teeters on the brink of total collapse, and lashes out...
UPDATED: London Bridge – Evolving Narrative
The final, official story of the London Bridge attack is beginning to take shape. More information is coming together all the time, the very efficiently edited Wikipedia page for...
Knocking off the Odd Man Out
David Macilwain Following the alleged US raid and destruction of a house in NW Syria on 28th October where the notional leader of Da’esh was allegedly living, I spent...
How will History Remember Russia’s Role in Syria?
Ahmed al-Khalid The former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer, and former United Nations Weapons Inspector, Scott Ritter puts the question in his article: how will historians come to appreciate...
WATCH: Something Big Has Happened!
The Dissembler-in-Chief took to Twitter this past weekend to let the world know that “Something very big has just happened!” We now know that that something was a daring...
Al-Baghdadi Raid is the US Empire “Creating Reality”
Kit Knightly Apparently the United States killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi yesterday. US Special Forces allegedly killed the ISIS leader during a raid on a stronghold in Idlib. As far...
The “ISIS Resurgence” is Fake News
Donald Trump's decision to "withdraw" from Syria has kicked up a lot of dust - there's sympathy for the poor Kurds, concern for the stability of the region, fear...
