Off Guardian

1. “A Victory for Farmers”: Supreme Court Halts Genetically Modified Rice

On 19 April 2024, the Philippines Supreme Court issued a cease-and-desist order on the commercial propagation of genetically modified (GM) Golden Rice and GM eggplant in the country. The Stop Golden Rice Network says that the court decision is a victory for farmers and consumers everywhere as the decision goes beyond Golden Rice and insecticidal …

2. Divide and Conquer: The Government’s Propaganda of Fear and Fake News

"It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, racial, political. Stir them up. Set one against the other. Divide and conquer. That's the way to soften up a democracy." J. Edgar Hoover, Masters of …

3. Zones of Interest: The Holocaust Industry in Film

It should surprise no-one that, in the middle of the 6-month liquidation of the Gaza concentration camp by the Israel Defense Forces, the UK film industry released not one but two films about the 'Holocaust'.[1] One Life, a UK film about a British man who helped Jews from German-occupied Czechoslovakia, was released in the UK …

4. Humanity is Messy

One thing that really annoys me is this idealistic quest for a perfect society. Whether this quest comes from the ultra-religious or from the maniacs heading up the New World Order or even from average everyday folks who think that humans can all be herded into some ideal group of nice neighbourly Mr. Rogers types. …

5. Quick Take: So…what’s with all the spying?

Breaking news, from just a couple of hours ago, is that five British men have been charged with "conducting hostile activity in the UK to benefit Russia". Details are still scarce, but the charges are said to be linked to a fire in March, which the Crown Prosecution Service described as "an arson attack on …

6. WATCH: The Age of Neurowarfare

Stavroula Pabst joins James Corbett to discuss her recent article, "Weaponizing Reality: The Dawn of Neurowarfare." From the military origins of brain-chip interfaces and neuroscience to the geopolitical ramifications of neuroweapons to the suspicious characters forwarding the controlled opposition "neurorights" movement, Pabst dives deep into the history and future of the age of neurowarfare. Sources …

7. OffG Recommends…Last Will & Testament

Today is St George's Day, and it's also Shakespeare's Birthday …not really. The truth is it's a guess. William Shaksper, "the man from Stratford", is known to have been baptised on April 26th and since babies of that time were generally baptized quite quickly, it stands to reason he was born sometime in the preceding …

8. This Week in the New Normal #88

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world.

9. Down with Big Brother: Warrantless Surveillance Makes a Mockery of the Constitution

"Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference … The Thought Police would get him just the same … the arrests invariably happened at night … In the vast majority of cases there was no trial, no report of the arrest. People simply disappeared, always during …