About OffG
”Comment is free but facts are sacred” - CP Scott, former editor of the Guardian.
We share the comment & the facts you no longer find in the MSM.
Off-Guardian.org is committed to the original vision which drew the founding editors together on The Guardian's CiF pages, as we followed the increasingly distorted and tendentious news reporting on Libya, the proxy-war in Syria, and the Ukraine Crisis in our beloved, once-upon-a-time left-of-centre newspaper with dismay and disappointment. Tired of being censored by one of the leading liberal papers of the day, in February 2015 we decided to create our own platform for airing our unacceptable opinions.
Our small group is dispersed globally, with representatives from North America, Britain, and Southern and Eastern Europe. The site is our own work, and is not supported by any governments, institutions or pressure groups.
We believe in the concept of truth itself -- not merely in that of competing narratives -- and in the sanctity of facts themselves. For that reason, we shall try to track them down, present them to the public, and preserve them as best we can. We believe in a true free press that (consistently) speaks truth to power. And we’ll be doing our little best to remind our mainstream media, including The Guardian itself, that this is supposed to be their duty. They probably won’t listen, but we’ll keep saying it anyway.
If you’re also sick of being stifled, moderated, abused or slandered as Putinbots or worse, and censored to oblivion on any of the Readers' Comments sections of our mainstream press, come and tell us about it. We have a little home for censored comments which allows people to judge for themselves whether the dear old Graun (and others) are upholding their own much-vaunted “community standards”, or engaging in Orwellian censorship of undesirable opinion.
P.S. Off-Guardian.org is the successor citizen-media organization created by the three founding members of the original OffGuardian site. As you may know, our original site suffered an act of internal sabotage on April 13-14, 2015, when it was summarily closed down on us. Fortunately, we had a back-up copy of the whole site made only a couple of days before this took place and have been able to reconstitute Off-Guardian immediately. While we might never be able to determine with any finality whether this was an act of a mentally unstable person or of a US government agent, the attempt to silence us failed. On here, neither the powers that be nor their saboteurs can take us down, slander, or shut us up.