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...
Kit Knightly 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...
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...
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,...
Colin Todhunter During 2011, NATO bombed a path to Tripoli to help its proxy forces on the ground oust Gaddafi. Tens of thousands lost their lives and much of...
Vanessa Beeley Four-hundred and fifty extremists from Idlib, north-west Syria have arrived in Ukraine according to Al Mayadeen. Hailing from Idlib – the “largest Al Qaeda haven since 9/11”- ...
Gavin O’Reilly Over the past two weeks, media headlines worldwide have been dominated by the Russian military intervention in Ukraine – launched in response to almost nine years of...
Kit Knightly We’re only three days into Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, and yet the propaganda cogs are whirring fast as lightning, churning out “news”, opinion and content grist...
Ibrahim Mohammad Wahdi This article was initially & inadvertently attributed to Vanessa Beeley. This was OffG’s error and we apologise to Mr. Wahdi and to Ms Beeley On January...
Ibrahim Mohammad Wahdi Turkish threats of a wide-scale military operation in northern Syria and a Syrian-Kurdish approach under Russian auspices, while al-Julani continues his plan to control Idlib. *...
Vanessa Beeley Washington and London’s latest war against Syria was incubated in CIA and MI6 offices long before the manufactured “uprising” erupted in 2011. This was not the first...