Korvus Korax TAKE 1 In the bread and circuses phase                             of an empire’s waning days   skillfully framed  spin-riddled reports devised and arranged to shape   not r…

James Corbett Imagine you find a prisoner in an unlocked jail cell. Confused, you ask him why he’s sitting there when the door to his cell isn’t even locked. “Oh, it’s unloc…

Michael Lesher Seek thou the Covid Jab, my son! The genes that morph, the fraud that hypes! Let Pfizer have its way, but shun Those frivolous skeptic types! (Big Brother has said, ‘Tis good, ‘tis g…

Colin Todhunter The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and an assortment of high-profile figures and policymakers are pushing for unregulated gene-editing technologies, the rollout of bio-synthetic …

What is a zero-carbon future? What does it look like? To imagine, turn off your heater. No airports. No shipping. No animals. Perfect surveillance state. In this Ice Age Farmer special report, Chri…

Jenn Smith Abstract: There are important parallels between the 1963 case of the self-immolation of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức and the recent case in British Columbia (2021) of a fathe…

Rosemary Frei, via her website Three days ago I posted this tweet: How do you know whether information from someone 'on our side' – whether me, or Tom Cowan, or Dolores Cahill &#821…

David Perez Hardly a day goes by without news of the multi-sided impact of the digital world, how it shapes our individual lives and our collective future. Curse and cure and contradiction, it’s al…

Someone sent Off-Guardian this animation today which, we feel, very much sums up our shared mood on this warm Spring Sunday afternoon. The animation’s author appears to be twitter user Sye Te…

Thomas Harrington They are the stewards Of the whole universe Masters by force Commanders without laws. […] They eat everything They eat everything They eat everything And leave nothing. José…

Vanessa Beeley A recent sting operation carried out by the Commission for International Justice and Accountablity (CIJA) entrapped an unsuspecting academic member of the Working Group on Syria Medi…

Cynthia Chung The Eisenhower presidency would see Washington taken over by business executives, Wall Street lawyers, and investment bankers—and by a closely aligned warrior caste that had emerged i…

The mouthpieces of the scientific establishment have identified the latest global security threat: antiscience. So what does that mean, exactly? Whatever they want it to mean, of course!

Andrea Halewood ‘All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.’ Frank Herbert, Dune Many of us want to be led. As children we look to our parents to protect…

Rosemary Frei, via her website The cadence is increasing of jurisdictions introducing, normalizing and expanding laws allowing doctors to help people commit suicide. Is this purely in the service o…

Rachel Allen The Kill the Bill movement has recently emerged in the UK in response to a proposed piece of legislation called the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. The bill seeks to amend a…

Jerry Bernini Dear Josef K, Several weeks have passed since you told me that you “tested positive” for what was initially and briefly called Sars-CoV-2 and then quickly became the more euphonious a…

Edward Curtin In March of last year as the coronavirus panic was starting, I wrote a somewhat flippant article saying that the obsession with buying and hoarding toilet paper was the people’s vacci…

Colin Todhunter We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agrifood chain. The high-tech/data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook a…

Andrew Korybko Czechia’s surprise decision to expel a whopping 18 Russian diplomats on alleged espionage pretexts reeks of British meddling behind the scenes. Strategic Context All of Europe …