Check out this bad boy, the perfect pressie for the gaudy Bond villain in your life! For only £60,500.00 or $91,960.00 (tax included! but what dictator pays taxes???) it can be yours, or your boss’s, or Eric Prince‘s although surely he already… Read More ›
Happy Monday, kittens! Today, we’re thinking of the poor MENA-region city of Agrabah, which is completely imaginary, and which 41% of Trump supporters support bombing. We are also thinking of the Marx Brothers’ famously tasty Duck Soup, and of not… Read More ›
We’ve all seen Facebook, festooned since the Paris attacks with both legitimate grief for the victims of the attacks, and with the inevitable and regrettable guilt-shaming coming from those who believe that compassion is some kind of zero-sum game. This… Read More ›
As France rains bombs on Syria, as states, countries, continents close their borders to refugees fleeing civil war and terrorism, as the world reels from underreaction to overreaction in the wake of the Paris and Beirut suicide attacks, men and… Read More ›
Two days into the week and already I’m dreaming of being rescued by Laser Girl here. You can tell she’s badass by the rollerskates. Badasses love rollerskates. FACT. Until she skates into each of our lives, we have the soothing… Read More ›
The Taliban, presumably jealous of the attention ISIS has been getting, attacked the Afghani Parliament today. Eighteen civilians, no members of parliament, were wounded, and all seven attackers were killed by the police. Except, presumably, the suicide bomber, who took… Read More ›
Okay, so it’s Monday, and that’s never good, but at least you’re not in Syria, right? 22 air strikes and counting. Well, back here where it’s comfy and safe, sometimes too comfy and safe, we can read the news instead… Read More ›
This is a real thing, people. A. Real. Thing. Real gay. Sweden has a problem: somebody’s sending subs into their waters without permission, and all fingers point to Russia. The neutral Scandinavian country has a vast and resource-rich coastline in… Read More ›
Social media: it’s the latest front in war, whether it’s Congress claiming they’ll meme ISIS back to the Stone Age or the Kurdish fighting force called the Peshmerga taking to Vimeo to do some cheerleading for the boys (and girls!)… Read More ›
This article originally appeared on GeorgieBC, and is reprinted here with permission of the author, Heather Marsh, who is a semi-regular contributor to the Cryptosphere, and a leading activist on behalf of Omar Khadr, who has been a prisoner of one… Read More ›
We made it to Friday, kittens, by the skin of our teeth and the sweat of our brow and the duke of our earl and where were we? It’s been a long week. We won’t prolong it any more than we… Read More ›
With increasing tensions in Australia over the issue of migrants, as well as the recent sinking of a boatload of Libyan refugees, with an estimated death count of 800, the issue of water-borne refugees is one the world is finally… Read More ›
This is a first-person report by citizen journalist Sandra Der from the scene of Omar Khadr’s bail hearing in Edmonton. Khadr was only 15 when the actions which led to his detention took place in Afghanistan. Khadr was apprehended by American forces… Read More ›
This is another in AnonyÓðinn‘s ongoing series of essays examining the political and economic underpinnings of our current, and somewhat fraught, situation. Socioeconomic assumptions that lay unexamined for the past forty or fifty years must now be reviewed, tested against current… Read More ›
“The only objects of practical reason are those of good and evil.” — Immanuel Kant How do pimps beseech and praise their god? In the sky, the temple doors are charred And all the cafes are ghosted with the dead…. Read More ›
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