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. “new…

A failed assassination attempt on a presidential candidate. An incumbent president withdrawing his re-election bid at the 11th hour. A politicized judiciary that fails to hold the powers-that-be ac…

Praising the “efficiency and functionality” of the Bank of Russia’s CBDC, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed his government on Wednesday to prepare for the widespread introduction of the d…

In late June, Kenyan President William Ruto backtracked on a tax-hiking finance bill after protests left at least 20 people dead and more than 150 injured when police opened fire with live ammuniti…

Iain Davis sits down with Mel K from the Mel K show to discuss his latest book – The Manchester Attack: An Independent Investigation. The book explores the evidence unearthed and reported by …

Those outside the UK might not have heard, but it’s been a violent week in the UK. Here’s a quick rundown of the official story so far: Four days ago a 17-year-old allegedly walked into…

It is quite amazing how close people are to serious mental illness. What is serious mental illness? Suicidal depression, psychosis, anxiety that requires hospitalization, and frankly anything that …

Have you heard of the “Sentient World Simulation”? Do you know that the US Defense Department revealed two decades ago that they were working on putting together a real-time model of the earth and …

As the global machine steamrolls through entertainment at the same relentless pace as it does everything else, we invite you to explore the pitfalls of storytelling to today’s ‘modern a…

“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing…

So, my second trial for alleged thoughtcrime-tweeting is going ahead as planned on August 15 in Berlin Superior Court (Das Kammergericht). Full-blown anti-terrorism security protocols will be in ef…

There are a variety of debates that one can jump into concerning the alleged pandemic. The viruses don’t exist crowd say that no scientific evidence exists that any virus has ever been isolated, so…

In every community, in every corner of the land, the time has come to fight. It is time to stand up against the forces destroying our “way of life.” Now is the moment to stand against our oppressor…

So I was watching the UN Security Council Emergency Meeting on the situation in the Middle East and I thought, “what is this?” Maybe the question “why” would have been more apt. We see it time and …

If you’re like the majority of the population in this post-literate age of TikTok videos and never-ending social media feeds, you don’t read books anymore. But you should. Join James for this simpl…

To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It’s irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to t…

The latest “Dude, eating insects is so hip and cool” article dropped this week, this time from The Guardian, and with a little twist thrown in. It’s pushing the idea of “ent…

How unnatural does it need to be before we humans realize this environment is not one in which a human animal will do well in, yet alone even survive? It seems that we should, by now, be very aware…

Politics has become our national religion. While those on the Left have feared a religious coup by evangelical Christians on the Right, the danger has come from an altogether different direction: o…

The World Health Organization has officially declared “Mpox” (formerly monkeypox) a global emergency…again. Speaking to the media less than an hour ago, WHO Director-General Tedro…

In the wake of the Southport attack and ensuing riots, we wrote that the agenda had become clear – it was about attacking free speech. Little did we suspect how quickly they would move, and h…