It was too cold. That’s all I’m saying. It has been a long and rather temperate summer and these colder nights and now days, although logically they shouldn’t be,...

The year-old Israeli-Hamas war is, we are told, spreading across the region. Following Israel’s bizarre “pager  attack” last month the IDF have “shifted focus” to Lebanon. Two days ago...

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...

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....

I refuse to raise my child to grow up to kill another mother’s child. Julia Ward Howe, founder of Mother’s Day, 1870 Originally conceived as a protest to war,...

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime” Ernest Hemingway, 1946 This tax year, the so-called Ministry of Defence will be given...

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...

UPDATED 9/10/23 [Skip] Head of IDF announces “complete siege” on Gaza. Experts cast doubt on “intelligence failure” narrative. Fake news – video game footage passed of as real. Again....

Edward Curtin I sit here in the silence of the awakening dawn’s stillness stunned by the realization that I exist.  I wonder why.  It is my birthday.  The first...

Edward Curtin Sometimes you wake up from a dream to realize it is telling you to pay close attention to the depth of its message, especially when it is...

Sylvia Shawcross There are seven types of frogs in the Ukraine. So whenever you look at the map of the Ukraine to see how the war ”They” (we can’t...

Iain Davis In 1935, Major General Smedley Butler’s seminal book “War Is A Racket” warned of the dangers of the US military-industrial complex, more than 25 years before the...

James Corbett’s latest “flashback” episode focuses on the Marine General who described war as a “racket”, and revealed an attempted coup against FDR. It’s an episode which has an...

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,...

Gavin O’Reilly In the now month-long mainstream media coverage of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine, much attention has been paid to the actions of the ‘Ukrainian Resistance’. In...

Edward Curtin Two days after Russia attacked Ukraine and the day before Vladimir Putin put Russia on nuclear alert, I wrote a little article whose first sentence was: Not wanting to...

John Whitehead at the Rutherford Institute “Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of...

Edward Curtin Experienced foreign policy analysts such as Ray McGovern, Scott Ritter, and Pepe Escobar, while agreeing that the Biden administration is clearly guilty of provoking Russia over Ukraine,...

For weeks now we have heard the US (and, to a lesser extent) the UK screeching about the (allegedly) imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russia has denied any intention...

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...