Mexico Wants to Decriminalize All Drugs and Get the US to Do the Same
By Elias Marat In a bold move, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador—commonly referred to by his initials AMLO—has issued a proposal that would see…
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Ecuador Has Been Hit by 40 Million Cyber Attacks Since Assange’s Arrest
By Elias Marat The government of Ecuador claims that the country has come under a broad and concerted cyber attack, with approximately 40 million attempts…
YouTube Flags Notre Dame Cathedral Fire Video as ‘9/11 Conspiracy’
By Elias Marat The world was transfixed on Monday when horrific images of Paris’ Notre-Dame cathedral engulfed in flames were broadcast across social media. Global…
Facebook Removes Page of Ecuador’s Former President Rafael Correa on Same Day as Assange’s Arrest
By Elias Marat Facebook has unpublished the page of Ecuador’s former president, Rafael Correa, the social media giant confirmed on Thursday, claiming that the popular…
Canadian Man Fills Potholes and Gets Weed, Coffee, Cash From Grateful Locals
By Elias Marat Sometimes when shiftless bureaucracy prevents crucial government work from getting done, citizens will take matters into their own hands. And one Canadian…
This Robot Head Could Be Your Job Interviewer in the Very Near Future
By Elias Marat Automation has been the driving force of the new “Fourth Industrial Revolution”—altering job markets and social landscapes as new advances in computerization…
New Jersey Town Proposes Jail Time for Owners of Barking Dogs
By Elias Marat A New Jersey town is looking to crack down on dogs who bark too much with a new proposal that could see…
Blood Money: Meet the Top 20 Companies Profiting From Endless War
By Elias Marat Military spending is growing around the world and in 2017 it increased by 1.1 percent, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research…
The Final Version of Europe’s “Meme Ban” is Here and It’s Worse Than We Thought
By Elias Marat A wide-ranging and draconian set of new rules in the European Union (EU) known as the Copyright Directive may end up destroying…
US Troops May Soon Use AI to Dominate the Battlefield With Their Thoughts
By Elias Marat The Pentagon is hoping to make telepathy a part of its arsenal in the near future. And no, this isn’t the stuff…
Tulsi Gabbard Wants to Legalize Marijuana, Punish Big Pharma and End Private Prisons
By Elias Marat Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii’s democratic congresswoman and one of many entrants in the crowded 2020 presidential race, is already turning heads thanks to…
“Medieval Siege”: In Buried Report, UN Official Slams Venezuela Sanctions as Criminal
By Elias Marat As Venezuela continues to feel the hurt amid the U.S.-spearheaded effort to unseat elected President Nicolás Maduro and replace him with opposition…
Artificial Intelligence Is Already Sending People To Jail — And Getting It Wrong
By Elias Marat As machine-learning algorithms, big data methods and artificial intelligence are increasingly used in the toolkit of U.S. law enforcement agencies, many are…
“Map of Deadbeat Debtors”: China Launches New App That Turns Citizens Into Snitches
By Elias Marat Officials in China have launched a new app that notifies users if someone within 500 yards of them is in debt. Dubbed…