by Adrian Rossi, Sanaa, Yemen, October 2, 2017 I will start this by saying I'm not a very sentimental person. Perhaps it has to do with not having reached a certain emotional maturity yet in order to feel at ease with being publicly vulnerable, so this post will be a bit of that in the hope that I will be able to offer all of you, a glimpse into the horrors Yemenis experience on a daily basis, at what is an emotional and psychological level. [ 953 more words ]

http://off-guardian.org/…/10/03/a-doctors-report-from-yemen/

by Denis Churilov, October 2, 2017 ISIS/Daesh is likely to be defeated in Syria and Iraq very soon. But will it bring peace to the region? No. There are many potential local conflicts that can break out in the nearest future. Some of them are already going on, some of them are in the dormant state, waiting to be triggered. Other conflicts might be created spontaneously out of thin air. [ 715 more words ]

http://off-guardian.org/…/middle-east-post-daesh-some-poss…/

"This extreme situation was unthinkable less than a decade ago. According to the Catalan public polling body, only 15% of Catalans wanted an independent state when the economic crisis broke out in September 2008. Six years later, that number was up to 48%. Given the entire population of Catalonia (7.5m), this would mean that close to 2.5 million Catalans switched in favor of independence in over just six years. Why?"

by Marcus Papadopoulos, October 2017 edition of Russian Mind This month, commemorations will be held in towns and cities across Russia to mark the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Whilst the state and system that the revolution gave birth to - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Soviet communism - is no longer in existence today, the positive legacy of this pivotal event in history has endured in modern-day Russia. [ 2,051 more words ]

http://off-guardian.org/…/the-centenary-of-the-bolshevik-r…/

by Kit That a protest Facebook/twitter account focusing on the mistreatment of black people by American police was actually a fake account run by Russians to make the US look bad and spread division in the West...is one hell of a claim. If you were to make it, you'd probably be expected to supply evidence to back up your accusation. That's only reasonable. [ 355 more words ]

http://off-guardian.org/…/the-problem-with-modern-journali…/

by Jan Zielonka, August 14, 2015, OpenDemocracy The EU looks increasingly like an empire, having just created its third protectorate in the Balkans. Greece will effectively be run by the EU the way Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina already are. The EU looks, walks and talks like an empire. After extending its borders into Central and Eastern Europe, the EU has just created its third protectorate in the Balkans. [ 789 more words ]

http://off-guardian.org/…/greece-has-become-the-eus-third-…/

"As Michelle Obama gaslights and guilt trips America's women, a reminder that her husband's entire cabinet was chosen by Citibank execs."

by John Helmer, via Russia Insider A Toronto newspaper has revealed that Canada’s leading Russia hater, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, had a deal with George Soros (lead image) to write his biography after she had lost her journalist jobs at the Financial Times and Reuters, and before she started her run for election to the Canadian parliament. On August 16 the Toronto Globe and Mail reported Soros is a “close friend” of Freeland, and that with her he has “very great hopes for Canada”. [ 1,363 more word ]

http://off-guardian.org/…/canadian-fm-freeland-was-slated-…/