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OffGuardianQuick Take…the Fauci Diaries and the Lab Leak renaissance
Dr Anthony Fauci is testifying in front of congress today. Waiting for him, teeth bared, is his nemesis Rand Paul, armed with incriminating e-mails and…
OffGuardianThe Latest Wildfire Panic is Refuted by Data
Wildfires are in the news. With a hot, dry summer it was bound to happen. And, naturally, this is bringing with it talk of climate change. The Independent is…
OffGuardianWhy Do We Love Sad Songs?
“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.” A Chinese Proverb The titular question appropriately arose as our spirits rose…
OffGuardianI No Longer Trust Anyone
Sad, but true. Since the Covid fiasco, I’ve seen the true nature of people—or at least the nature they were willing to show once the fear got turned up and the…
OffGuardianManufacturing Inevitability: Breaking the Myth of No Alternative
The following is an extract from the new open access book The Great Flattening: Enclosure, Extraction and the New Age of Concentrated Power, which can be…
OffGuardianLet’s talk about…Andy Burnham, the UK’s Newest Puppet-in-Chief
As of yesterday morning, the United Kingdom has a new Prime Minister, and his name is Andy Burnham. In a startlingly low-Democracy effort, even by modern…
OffGuardianFaking “Water Bankruptcy” Part 2: Climate Change
The narrative being sold is that the world wide water supply is under threat in some new and critical way, and drastic – potentially global – action is…
OffGuardianWhile the Political Circus Distracts Us, Flock Builds the Digital Police State
“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement…
OffGuardian“Fantasia Americana”
A new collection of art works telling the two-hundred-and-fifty year story of the United States of America, from OffG’s unofficial artist in residence…
OffGuardianScrewing in a Mirror While the World Smokes
We were screwing in a mirror when we realized our mistake. Since the handyman was unavailable, we had to do it ourselves. Certainly it was very pleasurable to…
OffGuardianA Communiqué from an Author of Harmful and Undesirable Literature
So I have been indicted by the Berlin District Prosecutor for authoring, publishing, and advertising a book. I’m not joking. The District Prosecutor is…
OffGuardianThe Eclipse of the Soul
Humanity is unravelling. In the span of just a few generations—scarcely a century—we have witnessed a precipitous decline in the quality of our shared life…
OffGuardianFlashback: The “Climate Lockdown” Origin Story
If you look up “climate lockdown” with Google – or some off-brand Google substitute that pretends to independence until it actually matters…
OffGuardianWiddecombe Murder Means Attacks on Free-Speech Swap Sides
Left, then right. Right, then left. That’s the way these days. First, they pitch their solution to an imaginary or exaggerated problem from the left-wing…