Turkey is preparing to attack the semi-autonomous leftist enclave of Rojava in northern Syria. The people there have been fighting ISIS for years while trying to build a progressive, egalitarian community

My poem "If it's love you're looking for" is part of the Poetry on the COMET series this year. Poetry on the COMET takes poems written by local poets and places them inside COMET buses in the

Countries that don’t eagerly follow the U.S.-led global order make prime targets for American-led invasions, particularly when those countries challenge the status of the U.S. dollar. Right now, Venezuela

 Last month, a press leak revealed that  Google has been working with the U.S. Department of Defense on a drone  program called “Project Maven,” which is being developed to scan images  in

By Brandon Turbeville As the recent Russian elections conclude and current President Vladmir Putin has been re-elected and confirmed as the clear winner, the United States continues its hysterical claims

A high-ranking staffer from the Obama campaign in 2012 has come forward with massive revelations exposing an alleged partisan bias on Facebook's behalf which paved the way for special privileges granted

The anti-apartheid country has long held itself as a beacon of human rights and individual freedom. AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND — If we were to truly honor the late, great Stephen Hawking, perhaps it would pay

The story of the San Patricio Battalion is one of my favorite moments from US history, though perhaps the US doesn't deserve to claim the story since most of its heroes were recent immigrants from Ireland.

By Nicholas West I've recently been covering the widening use of predictive algorithms in modern-day police work, which frequently has been compared to the "pre-crime" we have seen in dystopian

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At this critical juncture in modern history where tensions run at an all-time high between world powers that possess extensive nuclear weapons supplies, the United States and the United Kingdom would do

Hello, Steemians! Today I’ve visited MOCAK for the first time. To say that I really like it - means to say nothing! I was (actually I’m still) in this cultural shock. Just look... Don’t try to understand,

Current Affairs editor Nathan J. Robinson has written a lengthy (and I do mean lengthy) intellectual takedown of pop "psychologist" and lobster worshiper Jordon Peterson. Robinson's main critiques

This shit looks like something out of the movie Maximum Overdrive. So far it appears that there have been ten injuries but no fatalities, thankfully.

Site has been lagging real bad on my Mac since last night, and not all the data (followers/following etc.) is loading. Other sites are working fine. This just me or is everyone experiencing it?

For Democrats, it’s never too early to start bad messaging. Already parroting losing strategies for 2020. ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

China is in the process of building a fleet of giant drones for the sea, Forbes reports. According to Forbes, China is working on creating remote-controlled “ghosts ships” that would send containers around