In December 2024, a Romanian court cancelled the second round of the planned Presidential election and annulled the completed first round, citing (totally theoretical) “Russian interference”. This caused massive protests in Romania, as you can imagine. The first round had been won by right winger Călin Georgescu following a social media-based campaign, and he was predicted to […]
Just over ten years ago, February 10th 2015, OffGuardian published its first ever article. This month, we are celebrating the OffGuardian anniversary. This one. It is a single paragraph 55 words long, has no featured image and I’m afraid the name of the author is lost to time (it was probably Systematic, a founding editor who […]
The UK’s Assisted Dying Bill will no longer require cases be signed off by a high court judge, but rather by a “panel of experts”, according to changes inserted in the wording yesterday. The controversial bill was subject to a last-minute “update” when Kim Leadbetter – the MP pushing the new law – announced the revisions […]
The UK’s Labour government announced plans this week that would further erode civil rights in the country, this time in the name of “preventing benefit fraud”. The plans include revoking the driver’s licenses of those convicted of benefit fraud, “early morning raids” by “crack teams” from the DWP, and – most shockingly – permitting the government access to […]
It is now almost five years since the start of the COVID event. The public was told there was a deadly disease that would affect the entire population, and everyone was at risk. However, in order to truly understand COVID, that event must be situated within a framework that examines the underlying economic determinants. In fact, many […]
Eight days ago, in our third prediction for 2025 we said… …the incoming Trump admin will be trying to score “peacemaker” points with a deal in Ukraine, that could extend to Israel-Gaza too. A negotiated release of all hostages is also possible. We already predicted, in our first such article, that Trump was going to […]
Derrick Broze, The Conscious Resistance Network Today the Independent Media Alliance brings you a panel focusing on the incoming Trump administration, its cabinet picks thus far, and the policy positions they are proposing, as well as those officially put forward by Trump’s administration itself. We discuss the possibility of the senate not confirming Trump’s original […]
Kit Knightly, Off-Guardian We haven’t published anything about bird flu since June. There hasn’t been much to say. Nevertheless, I still regularly comb through journals and news sites, ensuring we don’t miss anything potentially important. During one such search yesterday evening I found this article in the journal Science, its title asking simply: Why hasn’t the bird flu […]
Kit Knightly, Off-Guardian As the embers of 2024 spit out their dying sparks and tendrils of smoke corkscrew into 2025, I want to ask: what were the important news stories of this year? Most people will say something international. The war in Ukraine, the atrocities in Gaza, the fall of Assad. Maybe some will cite […]