Michael Lesher Maybe it’s because I’m a religious Jew and a supporter of Palestinian rights – and because it’s lonely to be both. Maybe it’s because war hysteria always disgusts me, whether it’s th…

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, we have entered a time when …

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 world. 1. Meet Homel…

Lucy Davies Now I don’t want to sound rude but seeing as pasta & toilet paper were the go-to items of the vast majority of Brits to stock up on in order to survive a global health pandem…

Kit Knightly The special “Future of the EU” Conference came to a conclusion a few days ago. There may have been a familiar veneer of “public consultation”, but the aim of th…

Ryan Matters Recently, the news broke that Elon Musk (now the world’s richest man) acquired Twitter. Musk claims that he’s a “free speech absolutist” and his takeover of the company was motivated b…

Colin Todhunter Audio Version New Feature! There is a terrifying prospect that in excess of a quarter of a billion more people will fall into extreme levels of poverty in 2022 alone. Without immedi…

Kit Knightly The latest batch of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine files just dropped. 80,000 pages of patient files and “trial data” and so and so on. You can read them all here. The questi…

Audio Version New Feature! A new report from the Bank of International Settlements estimates that up to 90% of national central banks are at least in the planning stages for launching a central ban…

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 belie…

James Corbett is joined by OffGuardian’s Kit Knightly to discuss the WHO’s proposed “Pandemic Treaty”. Its origins, its purpose and its implications moving forward. An edite…

CJ Hopkins Audio Version New Feature! I told you this part wasn’t going to be pretty. I didn’t think it would get to the point where the Wall Street Journal would go full Buck Turgidson and call on…

Have you read How to Prevent the Next Pandemic by Bill Gates yet? Well, I have, and let me tell you: it’s every bit as infuriating, nauseating, ridiculous, laughable and risible as you would …

Audio Version New Feature! The Queen’s Speech was interesting this year. For all the people outside the UK who don’t understand what the “Queens Speech” actually is, it&#821…

In two years of lies, the pandemic has revealed at least one undeniable truth – we really are living in a “new normal”. They kept telling us “Covid” would usher one in…

Back in January, the United States mission to the World Health Organisation submitted a draft proposal to the general assembly. The proposal amends the International Health Regulations (IHR) &#8211…

John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Audio Version New Feature! “The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem worse.” Milton Friedman Yo…

Joanna Sharp So what do we do on a weekend evening of the New Normal? ‘To Vac or Novak. That is the Question.’ The exhausting two years under the regime of ‘science-led’ lockdowns and other ‘health…

Edward Curtin While the so-called liberal and conservative corporate mainstream media – all stenographers for the intelligence agencies – pour forth the most blatant propaganda about Russia and Ukr…

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 world. 1. California…

  Audio Version New Feature! In his 1998 book The Common Good, Noam Chomsky describes the key role that managed disagreements play in modern politics… The smart way to keep people passiv…