Our new series of micro-articles deals with the newly everyday occurrence of the modern media simply changing what a word means. Today’s word is “recession”. The United States is …

Colin Todhunter Prior to the Industrial Revolution, most humans were engaged in agriculture. Our relationship with nature was immediate. Within just a few generations, however, for many people acro…

Suzie Halewood The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia indictment of Julian Assange is a curious document.  By the end of it you can’t help feeling that if anyone is t…

It’s difficult for us to appreciate just how incredible it was for those who first witnessed communication from a distance with a disembodied electric ghost. In fact, it was almost impossible…

In September 2021, Bob Moran – then busy balancing his unlikely dual roles of Chief Political Cartoonist at the Daily Telegraph and Unofficial Cartoonist Laurette of the Great Awakening™ – got into…

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 the totalita…

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 society is the diminution o…

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. Hollywood …

Sophie Green It’s been half a year since our memer-in-residence Kim Usbourne moved on to (definitely) bigger and (arguably) better things, and in that time there have been a LOT of requests t…

Iain Davis Audio Version New Feature! In my previous article I committed the journalistic sin of predicting the future. I anticipated that the BBC’s proposed documentary, “Unvaccinated with Profess…

We stand at a precipice. On one side is “reality”: the original, authentic, lived human experience. And on the other side is the metaverse: the world of constantly mediated experience. …

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. T…

Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan yesterday. It was quite an event. People were asking “is this brinksmanship dangerous?”, or “Will the Chinese shoot down Pelosi’s plane?” P…

Margaret Anna Alice When the world needed them, the people of South Africa rose up with their fellow Africans to help defeat the proposed International Health Regulations (IHR) amendments that woul…

Addison Reeves I did not comply with the unjust and tyrannical vaccine mandates imposed by politicians in New York, and as a result my life has dramatically changed, mostly for the better. As soon …

Catte The ‘COVID’ scam was/is a shell game with three parts. The alleged “new virus” The alleged test for the “new virus” The alleged “new disease” c…

Todd Hayen Are we expected to live the “positive” life? A life of denial? Are we expected to ignore what the thousands of doctors, scientists, researchers, are saying about the vaccines, the effect…

Part 2 of Riley Waggaman’s recent interview with Jesse Zurawell on Perspective, discussing his article “Resetting Without Schwab: Russia & the Fourth Industrial Revolution” (…

Aruna Rodrigues John Leake is a best-selling an “experienced non-fiction, true crime author”. Having just read what must be described as an extraordinary ‘telling’ of the COVID-19 saga, this book i…

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. VISA TO be…

Well it’s Monday again and, for now at least, that means more memes. Yes, Meme Mondays two weeks in a row! Isn’t that a treat? Don’t get used to it. You just know there’s an…