War

Laserkid via Pixelfucks in GifPorn on Facebook

Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Oct 6

By raincoaster on October 6, 2015 • ( 0 )

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 ›

Taliban Attack on Afghani Parliament via TRACTerrorism on Facebook

Taliban launch attack on Afghan government

By raincoaster on June 22, 2015 • ( 0 )

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 ›

Weather in Syria by Noura Aljzawi on Twitter

Interwebbed Cyber & Crypto News for June 8

By raincoaster on June 8, 2015 • ( 0 )

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 ›

Swedish Singing Sailor Subsurface Defense System

Set a Course for “Fabulous”: Sweden’s Innovative Singing Sailor Subsurface Defense System

By raincoaster on May 15, 2015 • ( 0 )

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 ›

The Peshmerga Enter the Propaganda Video Wars

By raincoaster on May 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

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 ›

On Omar Khadr and being Canadian since the summer of 2002

By raincoaster on May 5, 2015 • ( 1 )

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 ›

Exploration of the Source of the Orinoco River by Remedios Varo via LES ENFANTS DE MARX ET DE COCA-COLA on Tumblr

Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for April 24

By raincoaster on April 24, 2015 • ( 1 )

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 ›

MOAS search and rescue infographic by Robert Young Pelton and Andre Novak for Moas.eu

A Deadly Crossing: Migrant Search and Rescue, an Infographic

By raincoaster on April 21, 2015 • ( 0 )

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 ›

Omar Khadr: On Trial for Thirteen Years

By raincoaster on March 31, 2015 • ( 5 )

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 ›

Disney - General George Washington at Valley Forge - 1777 by Joe Penniston on Flickr

Understanding the AUMF and the 9/11 Attitude by AnonyÓðinn

By raincoaster on February 18, 2015 • ( 0 )

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 ›