OffG’s Tribute to David Ray Griffin
OffGuardian has been privileged to feature the work of David Ray Griffin several times in our history. So when we heard the sad news of his passing we decided...
Dear Guardian Media Group…
Philip Roddis …in light of yesterday’s news – which ought to have been emblazoned across your front page in three inch block letters but mysteriously wasn’t – that the...
Lest we forget…
Philip Roddis And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon...
Three(ish) New Reads – March
Philip Roddis Just two reads this month. (You’ll see why when you clock the word count of the first one.) This past year I’ve been in an uncomfortable place vis-a-vis CV-19....
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...
Three New Reads – December
Philip Roddis What would you do if stuck in a lift with John Pilger? Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, in a new book reviewed here by Media Lens, quotes...
Three New Reads – November
Philip Roddis At the beginning of this month the most dangerous nation on earth held the four yearly circus[1] by which presidents and other occupants of high office are chosen....
Three New Reads – October
Philip Roddis China leads the race for 5G leadership, a fact not only deeply alarming to Washington and Wall Street but with dire implications for a Europe left in...
The Powerful and Obnoxious Odor of Mendacity
Edward Curtin “Mendacity is a system we live in.” Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof A profusion of philosophical, psychological, and political ink has been spent on the...
Three New Reads – September
Philip Roddis Some folks – I’m tempted to call them psychological sectarians, more interested in ‘othering’ those outside their cosy club than effecting change in this Vale of Tears...
Assange: Ask not for whom the bell tolls
Philip Roddis I began a recent post with this assertion: The western world is inhabited by those who know we are ruled by sociopaths … and that much larger group which,...
Three New Reads – August
Philip Roddis There’s been more than one reason for my long silence on CV-19, so readers might forgive me – if they forgive me on nothing else – for...
Our beautifully democratic wars
Philip Roddis Of course the people don’t want war. That is understood … But after all it is the leaders who determine the policy and it is a simple...
Three New Reads – July
Philip Roddis I won’t beat about the bush. The West is inhabited by two groups: those who know that we are ruled by sociopaths, by the criminally insane[1]; and...
Three New Reads – June
Was Pyongyang’s destruction this month of a border town ‘liaison office’ – touted as symbol of reconciliation but in reality lacking the truth component – a further manifestation of...
Caesar’s Palace: 5 questions on America’s latest round of Syria sanctions
While debate rages on whether the statues of colonial plunderers should be tossed into rivers or otherwise removed as blots on civilised landscapes – and as we progressives virtue-signal...
Three New Reads – May
As I had last month, I’d wanted in my three reads this month to start addressing the alarming bellicosity of Washington in respect of several nations, but most frighteningly...
An open letter from Philip Roddis to OffG
Dear Off-Guardian This comment was made by a reader, below a recent post on my blogsite. There’s just as much fear porn bandied about in regard to narratives pushing...
Three New Reads – April
Philip Roddis For weeks my political focus has narrowed almost exclusively to Covid-19. It’s not that I haven’t noted other things. Increased Washington bellicosity over China, Iran and Venezuela...
Three New Reads – February
Philip Roddis Reshaping global food production in the image of corporate imperialism, a brief and bloody history of capitalism in its lead nation and the pillorying of the world’s...
