On Independence Day, Foreign Agribusiness Will Be Told Get Out, “Quit India!”
On 15 August, India will celebrate its Independence Day. There will be the usual celebratory flag-waving and flypasts in Delhi along with sound bites about ‘the world’s biggest democracy’. But what has ‘independence’ come to mean?
Placing an X on a ballot paper every now and then does not constitute democracy. If people are misinformed, misled and manipulated to think and act in a certain way, while backroom deals are carried out without their knowledge, then what value ‘democracy’? Then there is no freedom, no self-determination. Someone else is determining the agenda.
The Quit India Movement was launched by…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/02/on-independence-day-foreign-agribusiness-will-be-told-get-out-quit-india/
On 15 August, India will celebrate its Independence Day. There will be the usual celebratory flag-waving and flypasts in Delhi along with sound bites about ‘the world’s biggest democracy’. But what has ‘independence’ come to mean?
Placing an X on a ballot paper every now and then does not constitute democracy. If people are misinformed, misled and manipulated to think and act in a certain way, while backroom deals are carried out without their knowledge, then what value ‘democracy’? Then there is no freedom, no self-determination. Someone else is determining the agenda.
The Quit India Movement was launched by…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/02/on-independence-day-foreign-agribusiness-will-be-told-get-out-quit-india/
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Real Holes in Neverland
Even though it isn’t a nut, reality is especially hard to crack these days. But if you closely observe daily life all around you, no matter how superficial it may at first seem, you will catch many glimpses of why this may be so. The signs of falsehood are everywhere here in the land of make-believe, for those willing to decipher them.
The big lies and deceptions of politicians, intelligence services, and their media minions have their counterparts in trivial encounters where, as Melville said, “A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities.” Such smiles plaster not…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/03/real-holes-in-neverland/
Even though it isn’t a nut, reality is especially hard to crack these days. But if you closely observe daily life all around you, no matter how superficial it may at first seem, you will catch many glimpses of why this may be so. The signs of falsehood are everywhere here in the land of make-believe, for those willing to decipher them.
The big lies and deceptions of politicians, intelligence services, and their media minions have their counterparts in trivial encounters where, as Melville said, “A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities.” Such smiles plaster not…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/03/real-holes-in-neverland/
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WATCH: How to Leave the Cage – #SolutionsWatch
Joining James Corbett for this episode is returning guest Etienne de la Boetie2. In a follow up to How to Present Info for Visual Learners, this time we discuss his new book, To See The Cage is to Leave It and the 25 techniques of control that it elucidates and demystifies.
They talk about how visually interesting information is a more effective tool for unlocking minds, how people can see through the techniques of indoctrination that the oligarchs use to get us to worship the state, and what a world free from the cult of statism…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/03/watch-how-to-leave-the-cage-solutionswatch/
Joining James Corbett for this episode is returning guest Etienne de la Boetie2. In a follow up to How to Present Info for Visual Learners, this time we discuss his new book, To See The Cage is to Leave It and the 25 techniques of control that it elucidates and demystifies.
They talk about how visually interesting information is a more effective tool for unlocking minds, how people can see through the techniques of indoctrination that the oligarchs use to get us to worship the state, and what a world free from the cult of statism…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/03/watch-how-to-leave-the-cage-solutionswatch/
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The New Gulag: Mental Health Detentions and the Criminalization of Dissent
The government’s war on homelessness—much like its war on terrorism, its war on drugs, its war on illegal immigration, and its war on COVID-19—is yet another Trojan Horse.
First, President Trump issues an executive order empowering federal agencies to clear out homeless encampments and lock up the homeless in mental institutions using involuntary civil commitment laws intended for dealing with individuals experiencing mental health crises.
Days later, a gunman allegedly suffering from a mental illness opens fire in New York City…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/04/the-new-gulag-mental-health-detentions-and-the-criminalization-of-dissent/
“There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is a dangerous activity.”
Hannah Arendt
The government’s war on homelessness—much like its war on terrorism, its war on drugs, its war on illegal immigration, and its war on COVID-19—is yet another Trojan Horse.
First, President Trump issues an executive order empowering federal agencies to clear out homeless encampments and lock up the homeless in mental institutions using involuntary civil commitment laws intended for dealing with individuals experiencing mental health crises.
Days later, a gunman allegedly suffering from a mental illness opens fire in New York City…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/04/the-new-gulag-mental-health-detentions-and-the-criminalization-of-dissent/
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NYT Op-Ed Pushes “New Definition of Death” So We Can Harvest More Organs
An op-ed in the New York Times is calling for a “new definition of death” so that we can increase the number of available donor organs.
I’m not exaggerating, it’s right there in the headline:
Sometimes you can only look at a headline and wonder.
Of course, redefining words and phrases is nothing new in the Great Reset world. “Case”, “cause of death”, “vaccine”, “terrorist”, “democracy”…all have received updated definitions in just the last few years. Rubberizing language so that words become…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/04/nyt-op-ed-pushes-new-definition-of-death-so-we-can-harvest-more-organs/
An op-ed in the New York Times is calling for a “new definition of death” so that we can increase the number of available donor organs.
I’m not exaggerating, it’s right there in the headline:
Donor Organs Are Too Rare. We Need a New Definition of Death.
Sometimes you can only look at a headline and wonder.
Of course, redefining words and phrases is nothing new in the Great Reset world. “Case”, “cause of death”, “vaccine”, “terrorist”, “democracy”…all have received updated definitions in just the last few years. Rubberizing language so that words become…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/04/nyt-op-ed-pushes-new-definition-of-death-so-we-can-harvest-more-organs/
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Quick Take…Are Digital IDs coming piecemeal?
I’m starting to think a full-scale, nationwide compulsory digital ID won’t ever be a thing. Not officially, anyway. Not for quite a while.
It’s a vibe I feel coming off the news that gels more with the current methodology – the indirect authoritarianism of the easier path. Piecemeal tyranny washed in on waves of convenience.
According to a 2023 report (which resurfaced last week for some reason), in the near future, British citizens will likely need electronic “Carbon Passports” to travel. These will be digital documents that track and limit your travel based on carbon emissions.
During…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/05/quick-take-are-digital-ids-coming-piecemeal/
I’m starting to think a full-scale, nationwide compulsory digital ID won’t ever be a thing. Not officially, anyway. Not for quite a while.
It’s a vibe I feel coming off the news that gels more with the current methodology – the indirect authoritarianism of the easier path. Piecemeal tyranny washed in on waves of convenience.
According to a 2023 report (which resurfaced last week for some reason), in the near future, British citizens will likely need electronic “Carbon Passports” to travel. These will be digital documents that track and limit your travel based on carbon emissions.
During…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/05/quick-take-are-digital-ids-coming-piecemeal/
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Precision Consumer 2030: Wellness as a Window into You
You are being watched. Not just by a camera or a satellite or a data broker.
But by your smart mirror.
Your fitness ring.
Your gut biome dashboard.
Your digital assistant that noticed you’ve been coughing more lately.
This isn’t surveillance in the dystopian, authoritarian sense. It’s subtler than that. It’s called “precision wellness”.
By 2030, so they say especially if certain think tanks have their way, it’ll be normalized. Incrementally, then all at once. After that, it’ll more than likely be dystopian but let’s take a step back.
In 2019, a cultural intelligence consultancy called…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/06/precision-consumer-2030-wellness-as-a-window-into-you/
You are being watched. Not just by a camera or a satellite or a data broker.
But by your smart mirror.
Your fitness ring.
Your gut biome dashboard.
Your digital assistant that noticed you’ve been coughing more lately.
This isn’t surveillance in the dystopian, authoritarian sense. It’s subtler than that. It’s called “precision wellness”.
By 2030, so they say especially if certain think tanks have their way, it’ll be normalized. Incrementally, then all at once. After that, it’ll more than likely be dystopian but let’s take a step back.
In 2019, a cultural intelligence consultancy called…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/06/precision-consumer-2030-wellness-as-a-window-into-you/
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We Don’t Need a New Framework for AI Ethics
In June 2025, the newly mitred Pope Leo announced his support for the Rome Call for AI Ethics, issued by Vatican in 2020. The call received support in 2023 from representatives of Islam and Judaism. In July 2024 representatives from 20 global regions also signed on.
Will this document, with its six protective principles, allow us to happily run headlong into an AI future?
Ready or not, here we go AI.gov.
Ever since the appearance of ChatGPT in 2023, the phrase “AI Ethics” has peppered headlines, giving us the false impression that competent…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/07/we-dont-need-a-new-framework-for-ai-ethics/
In June 2025, the newly mitred Pope Leo announced his support for the Rome Call for AI Ethics, issued by Vatican in 2020. The call received support in 2023 from representatives of Islam and Judaism. In July 2024 representatives from 20 global regions also signed on.
Will this document, with its six protective principles, allow us to happily run headlong into an AI future?
Ready or not, here we go AI.gov.
Ever since the appearance of ChatGPT in 2023, the phrase “AI Ethics” has peppered headlines, giving us the false impression that competent…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/07/we-dont-need-a-new-framework-for-ai-ethics/
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WATCH: How to Set Up An Email Alias – #SolutionsWatch
What is an email alias, why might you want to use one, and how do you set one up? Find out in today’s important edition of Solutions Watch with special guest Hakeem Anwar of Above Agency.
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found here. Previous episodes of #SolutionsWatch can be found here andhere.
Follow us on Telegram for regular updates & commentary...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/08/watch-how-to-set-up-an-email-alias-solutionswatch/
What is an email alias, why might you want to use one, and how do you set one up? Find out in today’s important edition of Solutions Watch with special guest Hakeem Anwar of Above Agency.
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found here. Previous episodes of #SolutionsWatch can be found here andhere.
Follow us on Telegram for regular updates & commentary...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/08/watch-how-to-set-up-an-email-alias-solutionswatch/
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Deception, Trojan Horses, and the Carrot/Stick Combo
Remember the primary way people used to sell things? Particularly the tinkers and snake-oil guys. They would try to trick you into believing what they were selling was something it wasn’t. “Buyer beware” was the motto (well, not their motto, but one nonetheless).
The idea was, if you could get away with it, so be it. Getting “swindled,” “hoodwinked,” “duped,” “conned,” “bamboozled,” “fleeced,” “scammed,” or best of all, “taken for a ride,” was the name of the game. And if the tinker got you, it was your fault. The buyer had to be careful. Not too many felt sorry…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/09/deception-trojan-horses-and-the-carrot-stick-combo/
Remember the primary way people used to sell things? Particularly the tinkers and snake-oil guys. They would try to trick you into believing what they were selling was something it wasn’t. “Buyer beware” was the motto (well, not their motto, but one nonetheless).
The idea was, if you could get away with it, so be it. Getting “swindled,” “hoodwinked,” “duped,” “conned,” “bamboozled,” “fleeced,” “scammed,” or best of all, “taken for a ride,” was the name of the game. And if the tinker got you, it was your fault. The buyer had to be careful. Not too many felt sorry…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/09/deception-trojan-horses-and-the-carrot-stick-combo/
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Stirrings of rebellion in unhappy Britain
I read it right, the first time. An ‘elite police division’ has been assembled by the Home Office to monitor remarks made by social media users on immigration, at a time when the provision of over two hundred hotels for illegal migrants is causing rising tension in communities.
Of course, the Daily Mail article meant specially-skilled officers, but it is also true that the ‘elite’ is being protected. For Britain is not being run for the good of the ordinary people, but for a predatory class that is solidifying its power in an emerging global technocracy.
Is it…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/10/stirrings-of-rebellion-in-unhappy-britain/
I read it right, the first time. An ‘elite police division’ has been assembled by the Home Office to monitor remarks made by social media users on immigration, at a time when the provision of over two hundred hotels for illegal migrants is causing rising tension in communities.
Of course, the Daily Mail article meant specially-skilled officers, but it is also true that the ‘elite’ is being protected. For Britain is not being run for the good of the ordinary people, but for a predatory class that is solidifying its power in an emerging global technocracy.
Is it…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/10/stirrings-of-rebellion-in-unhappy-britain/
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What Autism Is
Imagine that we do not know what blindness is. Imagine that we describe people as blind very often, but that we do not know what blindness is. Imagine that blindness is increasing so that, in some districts, three in ten children are diagnosed as blind. But that we do not know what blindness is.
Imagine that we can name many symptoms of blindness. Disinclination to shake hands. Tendency to fall over. Timidity of posture. Slowness of gait. But that we do not know what blindness is.
Imagine that there is posited a spectrum of blindness, including those who sometimes…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/10/what-autism-is/
Imagine that we do not know what blindness is. Imagine that we describe people as blind very often, but that we do not know what blindness is. Imagine that blindness is increasing so that, in some districts, three in ten children are diagnosed as blind. But that we do not know what blindness is.
Imagine that we can name many symptoms of blindness. Disinclination to shake hands. Tendency to fall over. Timidity of posture. Slowness of gait. But that we do not know what blindness is.
Imagine that there is posited a spectrum of blindness, including those who sometimes…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/10/what-autism-is/
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Canada’s Climate Lockdown Pilot Scheme
Six days ago, the Canadian province of Nova Scotia announced a total ban on hiking, camping, hunting or other human activity in the forest.
A breach of this new rule is punishable by a fine up to 28,000 Canadian dollars.
Then, yesterday, New Brunswick decided to enforce a similar ban in their forests.
The aim, proponents claim, is to prevent wildfires. However, in years past, a ban on campfires was deemed good enough during wildfire season or periods of drought. A full ban on all human activity is unprecedented.
Nevertheless, there is a rather…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/11/canadas-climate-lockdown-pilot-scheme/
Six days ago, the Canadian province of Nova Scotia announced a total ban on hiking, camping, hunting or other human activity in the forest.
A breach of this new rule is punishable by a fine up to 28,000 Canadian dollars.
Then, yesterday, New Brunswick decided to enforce a similar ban in their forests.
The aim, proponents claim, is to prevent wildfires. However, in years past, a ban on campfires was deemed good enough during wildfire season or periods of drought. A full ban on all human activity is unprecedented.
Nevertheless, there is a rather…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/11/canadas-climate-lockdown-pilot-scheme/
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Theft of a Nation: How the Deep State Swamp Is Stealing the People’s Power
What on earth is happening to this country? How, over the course of 250 years, did we go from prizing self-government to allowing a corrupt, self-serving ruling elite to dominate us with terror campaigns, brute force, and psychological warfare?
Don’t be fooled: the madness, mayhem and malice unfolding in America is not politics as usual. It’s not…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/12/theft-of-a-nation-how-the-deep-state-swamp-is-stealing-the-peoples-power/
“Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.”
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
“Power to the people.”
John Lennon
What on earth is happening to this country? How, over the course of 250 years, did we go from prizing self-government to allowing a corrupt, self-serving ruling elite to dominate us with terror campaigns, brute force, and psychological warfare?
Don’t be fooled: the madness, mayhem and malice unfolding in America is not politics as usual. It’s not…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/12/theft-of-a-nation-how-the-deep-state-swamp-is-stealing-the-peoples-power/
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Celebrating Independence: Comforting Myth in a Dispossessed Reality
As India celebrates its 78th Independence Day on 15 August, the tricolour will flutter proudly across the nation. Speeches will echo the triumphs of freedom, resilience and progress. But beneath the patriotic fervour will lie an uncomfortable truth: independence means little if the nation’s food, land and farmers are being surrendered.
Food, Dependency and Dispossession: Resisting the New World Order (2022) presents India as a frontline in the global struggle for food sovereignty. That book reveals how multinational corporations, backed by neoliberal policy frameworks and international financial institutions, are reshaping India’s agricultural landscape—threatening farmer livelihoods and the very…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/13/celebrating-independence-comforting-myth-in-a-dispossessed-reality/
As India celebrates its 78th Independence Day on 15 August, the tricolour will flutter proudly across the nation. Speeches will echo the triumphs of freedom, resilience and progress. But beneath the patriotic fervour will lie an uncomfortable truth: independence means little if the nation’s food, land and farmers are being surrendered.
Food, Dependency and Dispossession: Resisting the New World Order (2022) presents India as a frontline in the global struggle for food sovereignty. That book reveals how multinational corporations, backed by neoliberal policy frameworks and international financial institutions, are reshaping India’s agricultural landscape—threatening farmer livelihoods and the very…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/13/celebrating-independence-comforting-myth-in-a-dispossessed-reality/
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What Is Democracy?
Based on the original article I published in 2022, in light of the subsequent shift away from “representative democracy,” we need to be clear about what democracy really is. Otherwise, how can we know what we want or what we are willing to defend?
Let’s start by discussing what democracy is not. Most people think democracy has something to do with electing leaders or “representatives.” This is called “representative democracy” (RD) and it is practically the polar opposite of “democracy.”
As a concept, RD immediately falls flat on its illogical face. The whole point of RD is…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/14/what-is-democracy/
Based on the original article I published in 2022, in light of the subsequent shift away from “representative democracy,” we need to be clear about what democracy really is. Otherwise, how can we know what we want or what we are willing to defend?
Let’s start by discussing what democracy is not. Most people think democracy has something to do with electing leaders or “representatives.” This is called “representative democracy” (RD) and it is practically the polar opposite of “democracy.”
As a concept, RD immediately falls flat on its illogical face. The whole point of RD is…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/14/what-is-democracy/
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Trump Said It: “There’s No Better Word Than Stupid.”
For anyone who still thinks Donald Trump does not represent the interests of what is called “the deep state” but is actually the shallow or official US state, it is time to think again. If he is not a figurehead for those alleged hidden forces, then he will agree to a Russia-Ukraine settlement on Russia’s fundamental terms – that is, a mutual security agreement that stipulates the pulling back of US/NATO forces encircling Russia, etc. – when he meets with Putin in Alaska today.
There will be no further delay.
This, however, is extremely unlikely. Trump knows little but…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/15/trump-said-it-theres-no-better-word-than-stupid/
For anyone who still thinks Donald Trump does not represent the interests of what is called “the deep state” but is actually the shallow or official US state, it is time to think again. If he is not a figurehead for those alleged hidden forces, then he will agree to a Russia-Ukraine settlement on Russia’s fundamental terms – that is, a mutual security agreement that stipulates the pulling back of US/NATO forces encircling Russia, etc. – when he meets with Putin in Alaska today.
There will be no further delay.
This, however, is extremely unlikely. Trump knows little but…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/15/trump-said-it-theres-no-better-word-than-stupid/
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The Forbidden Question
My personal experiences seem to lag a bit behind the general population. I have not, until recently, noticed too many people succumbing to strange cancers. Now, quite a few have come up in my personal life, as well as in my professional life (experiences of my psychotherapy patients).
We have, of course, heard for years that one of the fallouts from the irresponsible release of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine was the possibility of increased cases of all sorts of cancers. Reports from doctors to support this reality have increased over the years, and of course, our personal experiences with…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/16/the-forbidden-question/
My personal experiences seem to lag a bit behind the general population. I have not, until recently, noticed too many people succumbing to strange cancers. Now, quite a few have come up in my personal life, as well as in my professional life (experiences of my psychotherapy patients).
We have, of course, heard for years that one of the fallouts from the irresponsible release of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine was the possibility of increased cases of all sorts of cancers. Reports from doctors to support this reality have increased over the years, and of course, our personal experiences with…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/16/the-forbidden-question/
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Race, Segregation, and Sectarianism in American Cinema
Due to the capitalistically orchestrated scourge of illiteratization and the machinations of the mass media, only a small percentage of Americans understand Washington’s penchant for launching illegal wars of aggression, and with the exception of the Gaza genocide and the Vietnam War the overwhelming majority of the population seldom has any understanding of what their army and intelligence services do abroad.
Even less understood – and this is a global phenomenon – is that while Washington delights in stoking sectarianism in Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Syria and Iraq they are equally fond of stoking ethno-sectarian hatreds at home. This is because…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/17/race-segregation-and-sectarianism-in-american-cinema/
Due to the capitalistically orchestrated scourge of illiteratization and the machinations of the mass media, only a small percentage of Americans understand Washington’s penchant for launching illegal wars of aggression, and with the exception of the Gaza genocide and the Vietnam War the overwhelming majority of the population seldom has any understanding of what their army and intelligence services do abroad.
Even less understood – and this is a global phenomenon – is that while Washington delights in stoking sectarianism in Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Syria and Iraq they are equally fond of stoking ethno-sectarian hatreds at home. This is because…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/17/race-segregation-and-sectarianism-in-american-cinema/
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The Police State Has a New Playbook: Martial Law, One City at a Time
Let’s not mince words: every American should be alarmed by President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tactics, theatrics and threats.
What is unfolding in the nation’s capital is a hostile takeover of our constitutional republic.
This is no longer about partisan politics, wag-the-dog distractions from the Epstein debacle, or even genuine national security concerns.
This is martial law disguised as law-and-order—the oldest trick in…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/18/the-police-state-has-a-new-playbook-martial-law-one-city-at-a-time/
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
H.L. Mencken
Let’s not mince words: every American should be alarmed by President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tactics, theatrics and threats.
What is unfolding in the nation’s capital is a hostile takeover of our constitutional republic.
This is no longer about partisan politics, wag-the-dog distractions from the Epstein debacle, or even genuine national security concerns.
This is martial law disguised as law-and-order—the oldest trick in…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/18/the-police-state-has-a-new-playbook-martial-law-one-city-at-a-time/
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The Sacred and the Sick: The Rhythm of the Lanes and the Repercussions of Progress
A lot has been written on the global food system—its industrialisation, ecological consequences and the erosion of cultural, economic and food sovereignty. Despite this onslaught, however, traditional rhythms and communal resilience persist in the countryside, especially in countries like India. Cultural practices continue to foster a sense of rootedness. What’s more, this is also reflected in the back lanes of towns and cities.
Life in the Lanes Documenting Chennai is an open-access e-book that uses visual-based storytelling via low-res street photography. It conveys a narrative about the endurance of communal life and sacred practice amid the everyday pressures…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/19/the-sacred-and-the-sick-the-rhythm-of-the-lanes-and-the-repercussions-of-progress/
A lot has been written on the global food system—its industrialisation, ecological consequences and the erosion of cultural, economic and food sovereignty. Despite this onslaught, however, traditional rhythms and communal resilience persist in the countryside, especially in countries like India. Cultural practices continue to foster a sense of rootedness. What’s more, this is also reflected in the back lanes of towns and cities.
Life in the Lanes Documenting Chennai is an open-access e-book that uses visual-based storytelling via low-res street photography. It conveys a narrative about the endurance of communal life and sacred practice amid the everyday pressures…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/19/the-sacred-and-the-sick-the-rhythm-of-the-lanes-and-the-repercussions-of-progress/
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