“The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important la…

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. Atlantic c…

The following article is adapted from the author’s new book The Agrarian Imagination: Development and the Art of the Impossible, which is freely available to read online or download here. At its be…

Host Ryan Cristian is joined by IMA members Iain Davis, Catherine Austin-Fitts, Steve Poikonen and Jason Bermas, as well as new face Tim Hinchcliffe. They  explore the growing public awareness of t…

The UK’s Covid Enquiry has published its second report, and its conclusion is as relevant as it is predictable. To quote Sky News: The response of the UK’s four governments to the pande…

The UK’s Covid Inquiry just published their Module 2 report, and though it’s over eight hundred words long, most people only really seem interested in this short quote from Baroness Hal…

When people talk about “getting off the grid,” the image that usually springs to my mind is the full-on pioneer fantasy: selling the house, buying 40 acres in the bush, installing solar panels, dri…

If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gurgling from the froth-corrupted lungs […] My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The…

From Iain’s website: I was delighted that Dr David A. Hughes asked me to join him to discuss my forthcoming book The Technocratic Dark State. You can read John Titus full review of the book H…

“It’s not personal, Sonny. It’s strictly business.” Michael Corleone, The Godfather Pay-to-play schemes. Protection rackets. Extortion. Corruption. Self-enrichment. Graft. Grift. Brutality. Roaming…

‘The Agrarian Imagination: Development and the Art of the Impossible’ (2025), published by The Critical Globalisation Collective (UK & India), is available on Figshare. All the aut…

We don’t get much engagement on Twitter (X, whatever). At ~63,000 followers we’re hardly a huge account, but an engagement rate of around 0.07% is incredibly low. Our content generally …

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. Guess who&…

There is no fool like an old fool, I was thinking, standing on the deck in the cooling night air with a plate of cat food. I called out, and they came—the three of them—soft violet shadows emerging…

Another thing you hear all the time from the sheep grazing complacently on the other side of the hill is, “It just isn’t that big of a deal,” or “It just won’t get to that,” or “Why do you always t…

The anti-war crowd likes to ask: What if they started a war and no one showed up? So, perhaps statists should be asking: What if they held a (s)election and no one voted? Join James today for an ex…

“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constituti…

Gleaming office buildings, concrete flyovers and ever-sprawling housing developments and industrial parks, the modern city is increasingly presented as a symbol of progress. But what if this very ‘…

Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my wife, and confiscated my computer. The se…

The recent changes being made to British law are undermining the rights of citizens to a fair trial and presumption of innocence, and could turn our legal system into a truly dystopian nightmare. H…

British people are glum and grumbling after Rachel Reeves’ budget, but what did they expect? They should know by now that government is an extortion racket. While many voters regret their decision …