Sylvia shawcross So I was on the phone to a government department and was speaking to the computer. Or rather the computer was speaking to me. Going on and...
CJ Hopkins Roll up, roll up, because it’s time once again for The Anti-Anti-Semitism Follies! That’s right, folks, it’s everyone’s favorite unintentionally slapstick theatrical revue, featuring an all-star line-up...
Todd Hayen I must be missing a chip in my brain or something. Why have I never been blown away by the advances in technology that attempt to replace...
Sylvia Shawcross So we’re having a Dogwood Spring some would say here in this part of the world. Early in the morning the ground frosts the edges of leaves...
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...
Sylvia Shawcross Welcome to your Off-Guardian Friday/Saturday opinion piece. Also known as the placeholder for the discussion that might ensue which hopefully will have nothing whatsoever to do with...
Edward Curtin The world has been haunted by human violence since time immemorial. There are untold millions (billions?) of people all over the world who have been scarred by...
CJ Hopkins Robert Kennedy, Jr. is running for president. I could not possibly be more excited. So, I’m going to give Bobby some unsolicited advice, which, if he knows...
Todd Hayen I have stolen this title from the stage play of the same name based on Christopher Isherwood’s 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin. The title is taken from...
Todd Hayen It is curious to me that people do not understand that historically, perpetrators of evil have always made an effort to convince people in general that what...
Edward Curtin It has been fifty-five years since Senator Robert F. Kennedy stepped onto the presidential nominating stage to try to mend the massive breach that had opened in...
John whitehead We’re not living the American dream. We’re living a financial nightmare. The US government is funding its existence with a credit card. The government—and that includes the...
Todd Hayen There is a strange idea hovering about that if you don’t know something then it doesn’t exist. Kind of like the image of the proverbial ostrich with...
Sylvia Shawcross Here in the northern hemisphere winter mourns its way to spring with tears that sometimes freeze on the ground and crystallize on the white snow still high...
Todd Hayen There’s a clinical term in psychology, which in the vernacular would be described with the phrase, “I think I am going crazy.” This is “cognitive dissonance.” I...
Sylvia Shawcross Some days I convince myself that nothing is actually happening and all we have is a whole bunch of people convincing us that things are happening. I...
Simon Elmer “It is in the ranks of the Party, and above all the Inner Party, that the true war enthusiasm is found. World-conquest is believed in most firmly by...
John Whitehead “This country has been having a nationwide nervous breakdown since 9/11. A nation of people suddenly broke, the market economy goes to shit, and they’re threatened on every...