Alex Bartlett 2020 staggers on, each month becoming more bleak, tiresome and increasingly onerous. In the early winter months we paid scant attention to the Coronavirus story developing in China. A…

Do you know what it means when the Managing Director of the IMF warns of a “new Bretton Woods moment?” How about when the head of the BIS revels in the total surveillance power that dig…

Every week we like to highlight three or four stories that go full-Guardian, but don’t require an entire article of refutation. We encourage reader-participation here, so if you come across s…

Edward Curtin “They call my people the White Lower Middle Class these days. It is an ugly, ice-cold phrase, the result, I suppose, of the missionary zeal of those sociologists who still think you c…

Michael Lesher As the year 2020 expires in an embattled welter of politicized suffering, I feel I need to address my fellow advocates for Palestinian rights, too many of whom seem not to notice – o…

Christine E. Black A man in a white lab coat with advanced degrees in medicine sexually abused hundreds of young girl gymnasts in his office, sometimes while their parents stood nearby. Michigan St…

CJ Hopkins All right, that’s it. I’ve run out of patience. No more excuses. Where’s the Hitler? Yes, you heard me. I’m talking to you. You respectable journalists and political pundits. You Intelli…

Binoy Kampmark These are things that might have been done earlier. During the last, flickering days of the Trump administration, activity is being witnessed across countries which have a US troop p…

Oracle Films, a Bristol-based production company, has released a video called Ask The Experts (Covid-19 Vaccine), uploaded on 7 December. The video, made in collaboration with Fiona Hine, Founder o…

So – is the vaccine safe? The only rational answer is “we don’t know”. In the final analysis, you have to ask yourself a simple question: Do you feel safer taking an unteste…

Cat McGuire & Colleen McGuire With a noscript like The Great Reset Conspiracy Smoothie, it appears Naomi Klein is trying too hard to recapture her prowess at defining a meme. Her buzz-concept, &#…

This has been a personal bugbear of mine since I grew old enough to detect subtext, but long before I could articulate exactly why: The pervasive and destructive idea that there are too many people…

Edward Curtin He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise. – William Blake, Eternity Great songwriters, like great…

Gillian Dymond In the morning, the world is as the world should be.  The sun rises, as predicted for this part of England in early December, at around twenty past eight.  Shortly after this, I get …

Sean Stinson To suggest that there has been an overreaction to the coronavirus pandemic may be the understatement of the century. The spark that began as a rational fear of disease has been fanned …

by Insight History Although people have tragically died from Covid-19, the way the Covid-19 death data is recorded in many countries around the world has produced, and continues to produce, an infl…

Kit Knightly So, the electoral college cast their votes, and they handed Joe Biden the Presidency. The decision was never in any serious doubt. We’ve been over the evidence the election was r…

Ian Fantom Ludwig van Beethoven was baptised on 17 December, 1770, and so was probably born on the 16th. I remember the fuss made by the mainstream media on the occasion of his 200th anniversary ju…

2020 was GloboCap Year Zero. The year when the global capitalist ruling classes did away with the illusion of democracy and reminded everyone who is actually in charge, and exactly what happens whe…

Warnings concerning high CT value of tests are months too late…so why are they appearing now? The potential explanation is shockingly cynical.