The scientists had done it. They had solved world hunger, they had ended farming as we know it and they had rid the world of animal cruelty. It wasn’t...

Aaaaaaand now, from the subterranean depths of a conspiracy realist’s worst fever dream come to life, it’s the 8th Annual Fake News Awards? What crimes against humanity did the...

People are wearing things. They’re sporting blue bracelets and outrageous tattoos and bald heads or beards or flags or make-up or decals or pins or memes on teeshirts and...

Are you an aspiring oligarch, dictator or autocrat? Do you want to wield power whilst maintaining a façade of popular support and democratic mandate? Do you want to make...

As of today, the UK’s “Chicken License” is in full effect. October 1st marked the deadline for registering your chickens with the proper authority. Moving forward anyone caught with...

Please note this is a humour piece which is not something people may want to read depending on the state of your country and how demoralized/angry you may be...

Recently, billionaire Sheryl Sandberg (ex-COO of Meta/Facebook) released a roughly 60-minute film purporting to explore “the sexual violence committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023.” Though denoted a “documentary,”...

1. Try not to get born in the first place. * 2. If born, don’t expect that the mere happenstance of your birth entitles you to be an idiot....

And now, from a deep underground military base on the other side of the flat Earth, it’s time for the 7th Annual Fake News Awards! How did the disinformation...

Sylvia Shawcross Well, heaven help us—the Gods of Mount Davos are meeting again. We’re now at Wefcon2. Run! Run! But I digress. Not. So let us just examine this...

Fall is here, which means the silly season of news is over and there’s suddenly stuff to satirise again. The leaves are turning. The weather is chilling. The memes...

Sylvia Shawcross Okay. The important thing is not to panic. It’s all going to be fine. We of the world may be going down in blazes not of glory...

Sylvia Shawcross The foolish-hearted people exist in this world more than we really know. The foolish-hearted people do foolish-hearted things because their heart has its own language and sense...

CJ Hopkins So, the quadrennial simulation of democracy in the USA is getting underway, and personally, I couldn’t be happier. It’s been a challenging few years for unincorporated political...

Our first memes in many a moon, and it’s fittingly space-themed. As expected, the US Congress’ “UFO hearings” sparked a rash of meme activity. Enough to spark this back...

Sylvia Shawcross Well its enough to drive you around the bend and put bubbles in your veins trying to understand the world as it is unfolding. Watching Mattias Desmet...

Sylvia Shawcross Well it is possible to be optimistic about the future really. I know that’s a ridiculous statement but truly, if we look at the span of time...

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...

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...

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...