René Roca has a doctorate in history and is a grammar school teacher. He heads the Research Institute for Direct Democracy (www.fidd.ch).

For more than 20 years I have, with conviction, been a member of one of the 255 legally autonomous and cooperatively organised Raiffeisenbanks. However, lately, like many other members of the cooperative, I have been alarmed by certain developments in this cooperative bank. The Vincenz case, which I will not go into any further, is only symptomatic of these.

I have been studying deceit for a long time, since I can remember, I think. Not that I am a liar or was a liar. I have lied a bit like anyone else. Possibly less. I have been lied to. A lot. Lying is one of the essences of humankind, like laughter. We even lie to ourself in order to motivate our laziness into superb action.

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Kavanaugh is a Catholic and serves as a regular lector at his Washington, D.C. church, the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament. He has tutored at the Washington Jesuit Academy, a Catholic private school in the District of Columbia. He is religiously biased. We need to investigate...

An ever more vocal group of angry men is rising in an Australia where women, protesters and dissidents should be seen and not heard, writes John Passant.

A Russian delegation stepped in to right a wrong perpetrated by the Trump administration, as UN and WHO officials offered no resistance to US demands supporting big business at the expense of infant health.

I have a major problem when a so-called “philosopher” starts with a crooked stream of consciousness such as this:

OffGuardian was founded on the idea that the media should be held to account, corrected, fact-checked and interpreted. A lot of the time that’s job that needs to be done.

From the New York Times

Created by critically-acclaimed animator Bill Plympton, the cartoon is part of a three-part series entitled ‘Trump Bites’ which “riffs on Mr. Trump’s absurd utterances to illustrate the president’s tumultuous inner life of paranoia, narcissism and xenophobia.”