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/

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 irgconnection.org/quotable-quotes-from-the-sage-of-baltimore/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">s 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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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.

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/08/watch-how-to-set-up-an-email-alias-solutionswatch/

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/

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/

Assuming the Worst

I used to think that people were pretty smart. Meaning if I were walking down the street, or through a crowded mall, I could be pretty certain that most people I ran into were at a certain level of intelligence.

What do they say? That the average IQ is 100? And when you start getting really low in IQ, the number of people who have that lower IQ gets smaller and fewer in number. It is like the classic bell curve. The middle of the bell curve is the number of people with an IQ of 100; outliers on…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/02/assuming-the-worst/

Quick Take: Global “Age Verification” Rollout Has Normies Noticing

We covered the UK’s Online Safety Act Age Verification clause going live earlier this week. We’ve also covered the fact the UK is far from alone in this.

Australia launched their “social media ban”, which is in reality just an age verification system, back in the spring. Now they’re expanding it to include search engines, and YouTube as well. The EU hasgiven tech firms 12 months to enforce “strict” age verification measures and is testing their own app across five nations as we speak. Mexico, Ireland, Canada and at least…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/01/quick-take-global-age-verification-rollout-has-normies-noticing/

PANEL: Psychological warfare and the power of positive thinking

New face Carey Wedler joins regulars Ryan Cristian, Derrick Broze, Kit Knightly, Steve Poikonen, Catherine Austin Fitts and Hakeem Anwar to discuss her personal journey of stress, sickness and healing. The wide-ranging talk also touches on the impact of emotional stress on physical health, the consequences of engaging with a 24-hour news cycle, the concept of manifestation, the role of religion (for good and bad) and the things we can all do to preserve our own calm.

You can watch all the previous IMA Panels HERE and read our mission statement HERE....

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/01/panel-psychological-warfare-and-the-power-of-positive-thinking/

Unacknowledged False Flags: The October 7th Hamas Attack – Part 3

In Part 1 we looked at the official account of the October 7th Hamas Attack. In Part 2 we examined the official narrative claiming the attack came as a complete surprise to the Israeli authorities who, as a result, were not prepared to defend the people living, working and partying on the Israeli side of the “Iron Wall.”

In Part 1 we remarked on Hamas’ incredible military feat. Hamas—primarily the Hamas’ al-Qassam Brigades and its elite Nukhba Squads, plus a contingent of Islamic Jihad’s al-Quds Brigades—breached the Iron Wall in 29 locations…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/07/28/unacknowledged-false-flags-the-october-7th-hamas-attack-part-3/

WATCH: Stablecoins Are WORSE Than CBDCs! with Mark Goodwin

House Republicans just celebrated their “Crypto Week” with the passage of an Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act and the passage of a stablecoin-promoting GENIUS Act. And, whether you know it or not, this new stablecoin regulatory regime is going to transform your life and the entire global monetary order.

Here to fill us in on all the details is Mark Goodwin, co-author with Whitney Webb on a series of articles about this new blockchain regime and the powers-that-shouldn’t-be who are behind it.

Conversation recorded July 17th 2025.

Sources, shownotes and audio-only options are available HERE. For more Corbett…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2025/07/27/watch-stablecoins-are-worse-than-cbdcs-with-mark-goodwin/