This week is our one hundredth edition of This Week in the New Normal! …except it isn’t really. Due to some special editions going unnumbered I think we’re actually...

Art requires the use of imagination, but so does political and social analysis. But imagination is just a first step; it proves nothing. Evidence is required. But imagination rules...

In December 2024, a Romanian court cancelled the second round of the planned Presidential election and annulled the completed first round, citing (totally theoretical) “Russian interference”. This caused massive...

There was a fight in the Oval Office! Former actor and comedian President Zelensky and former reality television presenter Donald Trump went at it. Trump made fun of his...

Donald Trump is going to end the “war” in Ukraine, one way or another, and be hailed as a peacemaker by his fans and appeaser by his foes. We...

There is history worth remembering as Trump is lauded in certain circles on the so-called “right” and “left” as a peacemaker with Russia over the US/NATO proxy war against...

Today is the day –  Trump 2.0 officially kicks off, and the drama began ahead of schedule. Over the weekend there was what we’ll chose to call “The Tiktok...

In my article predicting “The Next Pandemic”, published last April, I wrote that it would not begin until a lot of the leadership of the world had changed: [The...

Traditionally, OffG’s New Year predictions are a special edition of This Week, but 2025 looks to have such a full dance card, we thought a series more appropriate. How...

The press is reporting that President Biden gave his permission for Ukrainian forces to fire US-made missiles into Russia. Russia confirms one such launch, claiming to have shot most...

Two weeks ago, it was widely reported across all the Western legacy media that Israel had fire-bombed a hospital leaving patients to burn to death in their beds. A...

“With a click, with a shock Phone’ll jingle, door’ll knock, open the latch Something’s coming, don’t know when but it’s soon…” “Something’s Coming,” lyrics by S. Sondheim, music by...

This is Part 2 of Paul’s “Fascism 2.0” series, part one can be read HERE. In this second article in a series of three, I’m going to set the...

Now, I was looking at the cabbage. It was $7.29. It is true. The cabbage, a tiny little thing compared to the cabbages I remember flourishing in the fields...

I swear it didn’t used to be like this. I don’t remember thinking everything I looked at wasn’t real, but instead some sort of grossly manufactured “perfection.” That’s how...

I was reading an article from KW Norton Borders about AI going rogue and for whatever reason my brain responded in an odd way. Let me try to explain....

And so the Puppet Masters smiled. Now children, it is not difficult. Not difficult at all. There’s this thing called the third option. It always exists. It always has....

The ad is simple. A bus is held up in traffic after hitting a fruit cart, a young female passenger looks out her window at a handsome young man...

Two major incidents in the last week suggest we might be about to see a change in the narrative surrounding the Russian war in Ukraine. First we saw Piers...

I suppose my title could have been couched in the singular form, as Hermann Hesse, the Nobel Prize winning German/Swiss author, did with his collection of anti-war essays about...