Bugs and Goo: Welcome to “alternative protein”
Kit Knightly
Sometimes it feels like writing for OffG has fallen into a recognizable pattern the last two years, one that could be best summed up “as ignoring the (mostly) fake...
To Live Forever
Karen Hunt “Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won’t matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.” Gary Shteyngart, Super...
A Closed System
Todd Hayen There is so much going on we don’t know about. Like I’ve said before, we definitely have reached that critical point of being a “closed system.” The...
The Banners of the King of Hell Advance
Edward Curtin “Vexilla regis prodeunt Inferni” Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: The Inferno Audio Version New Feature! Try to look ahead and see if you can see what’s been coming...
The Fear Pandemic and the Crisis of Capitalism
Colin Todhunter In October 2019, in a speech at an International Monetary Fund conference, former Bank of England governor Mervyn King warned that the world was sleepwalking towards a...
Amazon, “Economic Terrorism” and the Destruction of Competition and Livelihoods
Colin Todhunter Global corporations are colonising India’s retail space through e-commerce and destroying small-scale physical retail and millions of livelihoods. Walmart entered into India in 2016 with a US$3.3...
The Woking of Tolkien: don’t let identity politics infect Middle Earth
JR Leach It is 20 years since the premiere of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. I’d argue that it is one of...
Three New Reads: February
Philip Roddis This month brings that rarest of occurrences. I’m recommending a Guardian piece: a tour of the mind of Jeff Bezos. You wouldn’t want to live there but...
Morning in Hell
John Steppling “it’s the proper morning to fly into Hell.” Arthur Miller (The Crucible) “One of the greatest delusions of the average man is to forget that life is...
Corporate Mammon: Amazon and the Seattle Council Elections
Binoy Kampmark An enduring US political tradition was in evidence in Seattle recently. Amazon had decided that the city council elections would be too important to leave alone. Seattle...
Class Contempt: A Washington Post Reporter’s Prison Diary
Rostam Pourzal Journalist Jason Rezaian, born in California to Iranian immigrant parents, was arrested with his wife in Tehran midsummer 2014 on suspicion of espionage. He had a government-issued...
Washington Post reporter spreads blacklist of independent journalist sites
by Pam Martens and Russ Martens, December 1, 2016, via Wall Street on Parade Craig Timberg, a Washington Post reporter with an interesting history (which we’ll get to shortly),...
