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.”Can …

Restrictions on how digital rubles can be spent will be gradually introduced after the Bank of Russia’s CBDC enters mass circulation, Anatoly Aksakov, head of the State Duma Committee on Financial …

The unprecedentedly speedy development and approval of the various Covid “vaccines” – most using previously unsuccessful mRNA technology – is considered a scientific miracle…

From the depths of the scamdemic to the craziness of the trade wars, we’ve seen the economic destruction and disruption of our daily lives that can be caused by authoritarians who presume to rule o…

I was at the ballet the other night, yes, the ballet. It was the Canadian Ballet Company’s production of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. Before the ballet started, the orchestra struck up a thundering ver…

“Accomplished fingers begin to play. Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes, Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.” WB Yeats, Lapus Lazuli The old man in the Irish cap sat on a chair on the si…

“Once the principle is established that the government can arrest and jail protesters…officials will use it to silence opposition broadly.” Heather Cox Richardson, historian You can’t have it both …

OK, this one is for all the professional “sensitivity editors” out there, and for the US Department of Homeland Security, and President Donald Trump, and the European Union censors, and all the oth…

Last night Donald Trump’s administration released two-thousand files, totaling over 60,000 pages, pertaining to the assassination of President John F Kennedy. You can read them all here. The …

I’m not talking about Adolescence, I’m talking about the people talking about it. That might seem like a paper thin distinction, but it is an important one, in my mind at least.

Yes, I know the world is going to hell and it is all very ugly so all we’re left with is banality. And so that is what this writer is left with. It is what it is… Now, we all know that proces…

I have touched on this before in several articles. But it seems to be an itch I can’t scratch. Ever have one of those? An itch you think you are scratching, but you really are not in the right plac…

As transpired in Weimar Germany, cataclysmic times invariably induce great suffering, yet they can also serve as inspiration for poignant and moving works of art. What follows is a discussion of si…

Ode to the Young Doctor in Gaza To the Muslim doctor in Gaza, his soft, dark eyes, gloved hands gently placed on a dusty, bloodied Palestinian child, with matted hair, who is screaming. To his coll…

President Trump’s declaration of war as a justification for using wartime powers to sidestep constitutional protections is indeed a war, but it is a war waged by the president against dissent, agai…

My understanding of the world in which we live has undoubtedly increased greatly since I wrote the material which formed the first of a series of compilations, Fascism rebranded: exposing the Great…

People like Dominic Cummings, chief advisor to former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, have a habit of revealing things we’re not supposed to know about how government operates. They often expose t…

In Technocracy Ascending Part 3, the dots were connected linking together technocracy, UN Agenda 2030, and the environmental movement. This installment investigates how technocracy is encroaching u…

The War on Whatever is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous, which it is. Like the never-ending war in Orwell’s 1984, it is waged by the empire against its own subjects, but not only t…

You’ve all heard tales of the face of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, the Pope, or maybe even Trump, showing up on the surface of a potato, on a burnt piece of toast, or even a kumquat or some other odd fr…

Algocracy means “rule by algorithm,” and, as James details in this important episode of The Corbett Report podcast, it’s a word that we would do well to become acquainted with. And, as you will dis…