We live in a broken system, that’s not to say it is beyond repair or utterly dysfunctional, but it does not work for the majority of people. We have massive wealth and income inequality here in the UK and even greater wealth and income inequality in the US. These problems have been exacerbated significantly since the…
During the lead-up to the 2017 General Election, the Conservatives mentioned proposals to heavily censor the internet in order to curb terrorism. They had already been vocal about their desires to prevent encryption on services like WhatsApp in an attempt to stop terrorists sending untraceable messages and in the wake of the Manchester Arena bombing,…
South Park may be a cartoonish, poorly drawn parody of society, but more often than not they manage to cut through and make some fantastic insights into the way in which the world works. The clip above from the season 20 finale depicted an idea called “Trevor’s Axiom” (we can’t find a source for the…
Elizabeth Vos of Disobedient Media is our guest on today’s show. Disobedient media have been doing a lot of fantastic coverage of the DNC hack, the DNC lawsuit, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz in general, so we highly recommend checking out their page if you want to read more from them! Below you’ll find our piece on…
OK, not Heaven, almost Heaven. West Virginia to be exact, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River, my home-sweet-home for a few short years. That beautiful dark and dusty state is in the grips of a brutal opioid epidemic. It seems everyone knows at least someone who’s battling an opioid addiction, and everyone else tries hard to…
Over the past year, there has been a group of Bernie Sander’s supporters fighting a class action lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee (DNC), alleging that the DNC had committed fraud by taking donations in a “rigged” primary battle. Part of the lawsuit claimed that the DNC illegally favored Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton over…
