Sylvia Shawcross I am living out my days in what once was a forested community but now a growing suburbia of machines and city noise. It is and was...

Sinéad Murphy The University of Sunderland is advertising ‘masterclasses’ in ‘Menopause in the Workplace.’ The ad has been running on Smooth Radio, a station under the umbrella of Global...

Edward Curtin “The technical achievement of advanced industrial society, and the effective manipulation of mental and material productivity have brought about a shift in the locus of mystification. . ....

Sylvia Shawcross Waking up to the red sun in the morning when sailors take warning is a miracle nevertheless. The world turns as it always has. Early in June...

Todd Hayen It has always been astounding to me that people think for even a second that their government makes decisions to help the people—that has never been the...

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...

When I was a young lad of 11, I was fascinated with computers, or what little there was of them at the time. It was about 1966, and I...

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...

Todd Hayen I keep trying to feel good, and I try to see the good in my life, the things that I am grateful for, and the beauty all...

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...