In his final RCR guest spot of the year, Kit Knightly and Paul Brennan talk Syria, cow farts and how “the next pandemic” is queued up for 2025. Reality...

First in a new series highlighting comment and discussion below the line. We kick off with the recent events in Syria which have generated a lot of competing analyses....

“Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night: it’s spritely waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy;...

In the two days since Damascus fell to the “liberating” rebels, the Syria situation has moved on apace. Bashar al-Assad and his family – rumoured to have been in...

Syrian “Rebels” have declared total victory after claiming to have taken Damascus. In a television broadcast on Syria’s state broadcaster opposition leaders said Syria has been “liberated”. President Bashar...

It’s been a long time but worth remembering, if you can, that when the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center collapsed on September 11, 2001,...

Rolling out of my crib before dawn today (I was in it long before the charlatans Harris and Trump began their theatrical “debate”), it being another September 11th, I...

To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It’s irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie...

Edward Curtin “You used to be so amused At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used Go to him now, he calls you, you can’t refuse When...

There’s a lot of “World War Three” in the news right now. Grant Shapps, the UK’s defence minister has claimed we have “moved from a post-war to a pre-war...

Dr Piers Robinson & Vanessa Beeley This piece – originally published by UKColumn – challenges the position of OffG (and others) on the conflicts in Ukraine and Israel. The...

Brandon Smith Editor’s Note: It’s not often we publish an article written before OffG even existed, but this one – written over a decade ago in September 2013 and...

Iain Davis Kit Knightly, from the OffGuardian, recently published ISIS are back and they are faker than ever. He explored the apparent return of the ISIS bogeymen and the media...

In just the last few days ISIS – Islamic State or ISIL or Da’esh or whatever – have hit the headlines in publications from all over the world. A...

On 7 April 2018 reports emerged from a suburb of Damascus, Douma, claiming that a chemical weapons attack had occurred. Images of dead women and children inside an apartment...

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...

Edward Curtin My title comes from a 19th century author whose name does not matter nor would it mean much if I mentioned him.  It’s an old truth that has...

Gavin O’Reilly In the lead up to the 2022 Qatar World Cup, the hosting of the tournament by the conservative Muslim state has been the source of much controversy...

Edward Curtin “Nothing is more real than nothing.” Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies Those who are never lost are forever lost.  Only those who know they are lost and that life...

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...