Edward Curtin “Begin then with a fracture, a cesura, a rent; opening a crack in this fallen world, a shaft of light.” Norman O. Brown, Love’s Body Being sick for...
“Prices are more or less 78% higher than average in 2021, and this is cracking up the production side of agriculture. In many regions, farmers simply can’t afford to...
Riley Waggaman Audio Version New Feature! Citing the imposition of western sanctions, the Bank of Russia announced on Wednesday that it was accelerating the rollout of its Central Bank...
The World Economic Forum’s annual Davos conference enters its fourth day today, and the rampant agenda peddling shows no sign of slowing down. We’ve already seen the powers-that-be roll...
Monkeypox – it’s the hip new disease sweeping the globe. Allegedly appearing almost simultaneously in over a dozen different countries on four different continents. As we wrote in the...
Edward Curtin While the so-called liberal and conservative corporate mainstream media – all stenographers for the intelligence agencies – pour forth the most blatant propaganda about Russia and Ukraine...
Kit Knightly Audio Version New Feature! The Queen’s Speech was interesting this year. For all the people outside the UK who don’t understand what the “Queens Speech” actually is,...
CJ Hopkins Audio Version New Feature! I told you this part wasn’t going to be pretty. I didn’t think it would get to the point where the Wall Street Journal would...
Kit Knightly Audio Version New Feature! A new report from the Bank of International Settlements estimates that up to 90% of national central banks are at least in the...
Kit Knightly The special “Future of the EU” Conference came to a conclusion a few days ago. There may have been a familiar veneer of “public consultation”, but the...
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...
Edward Curtin Audio Version New Feature! Isn’t it always? With the start of World War III by the United States “declaring” war against Russia by its actions in Ukraine,...
Kit Knightly It’s no secret that, according to politicians and the corporate press, “food shortages” and a “food supply crises” have been on the way for a while now....
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...
Gillian Dymond Audio Version New Feature! When I arrived in Shanghai for a few weeks at the end of 1989, it was a heady time. Over the previous months...
Kit Knightly Italy is officially becoming the first country to start rationing energy after cutting their supply of Russian gas and oil. From next month, until at least March...
Michael Lesher In one sense, I don’t have much to say about the newest chapter in the eight-year-old American war against the people of Ukraine – nothing that you...
Iain Davis Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine has been presented to us, in the West, as unprovoked and unjustified. We have not been told about Russia’s legitimate security concerns...
OffGuardian has teamed up with Unlimited Hangout to host our first-ever panel discussion: “Russia & the Great Reset – Resistance or Complicity?” Is the war in Ukraine an “extension...