Riley Waggaman Your Still-Very-Stranded-In-Tbilisi Correspondent mused at the end of June that the West’s never-ending barrage of sanctions might disrupt digital cattle-tagging efforts in Russia. This is probably true...

John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead “There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in our...

Todd Hayen Oc·cult (adjective) [ ə’kʌlt ] 1. supernatural or magic, 2. not understandable, 3. secret, 4. hidden, 5. difficult to see. All five of these definitions could describe...

CJ Hopkins I know, you’re probably sick and tired of hearing about the Rise of the New Normal Reich. You want it to be over. So do I. It isn’t...

Sylvia Shawcross Warning. This is a vaguely humorous piece during a time when humour has basically crashed and died a thousand deaths. If you haven’t laughed since 2019, it...

Brandon Smith The idea that there is an agenda for global government among the financial and political elites of the world has long been called a “conspiracy theory” within...

Kit Knightly Audio Version New Feature! Today is July 4th, Independence Day. And, in the world of the New Normal, maybe that’s something we should all celebrate. The United...

John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead “In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught.”Hunter S. Thompson The burden of proof has been reversed. No...

CJ Hopkins So, the government of New Normal Germany is contemplating forcing everyone to wear medical-looking masks in public from October to Easter on a permanent basis. Seriously, 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...

Dustin Broadbery Audio Version New Feature! If Extinction Rebellion is the midlife crisis of activist causes, the war in Ukraine is the crack cocaine of moral high grounds. For...

Dustin Broadbery Audio Version New Feature! CIA Director, William Casey is reputed to have said to Ronald Reagan ‘We’ll know our disinformation is complete when everything the American public...

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...

Iain Davis The word “democracy” (demokratia) derives from “demos” (people) and “kratos” (power).  Literally translated it means “people power.” It is the best model of governance ever devised. So...

Kit Knightly Did you know the economy was booming? This may come as a shock to anyone out there who a) is alive or b) has to buy things,...

CJ Hopkins Warm up the Wagnerian orchestra and call in the goose-stepping chorus girls, because … yes, that’s right, it’s Springtime for GloboCap! “The Winter of Severe Illness and Death” is...

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...

Kit Knightly Some of the UK’s “temporary” measures intended to help “deal with the pandemic” are going to be added to future legislation and made permament laws by the...

Kit Knightly In December of last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced plans for an “international treaty on pandemic prevention and preparedness”. According to the Council of Europe’s...

Remember when the World Economic Forum held a conference on “The Great Narrative”? And remember when Klaus Schwab threatened to release a book on the topic? Well, guess what?...