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These 34 sexist phrases have all been banned by a university
A UK university has been accused of censoring free speech for banning phrases such as “right-hand man” and “gentleman’s agreement” in favour of more inclusive, gender neutral language.  ...[Read more]
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N. Korea Launches Missile That May Land in Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone
North Korea has reportedly launched a ballistic missile Tuesday morning, which may land in Japan's exclusive economic zone. The regime has test-fired another ballistic missile off the east coast in validation of international law, according to the South K ...[Read more]
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What happened? What happened?! You blew it, Hillary.
But the Clinton campaign didn't care. They'd drawn a wildcard: Donald Trump as an opponent! What a dream! Clinton didn't even need to campaign in August. She could just rest up and travel to a few fundraisers where she could rake in $143 million in excess ...[Read more]
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Saudi Arabia lifting its driving ban is little more than a glitzy distraction from continued geopolitical problems
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is a media-savvy man, and he has just pressed the button he knew would make headlines: Saudi women will be able to drive for the first time in the history of the kingdom. And the act begat the headlines and the headlines b ...[Read more]
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After Socialists Win 17 of 23 States, US Claims Venezuela Elections Not ‘Free and Fair’
The United Socialist Party of Venezuela, or PSUV won at least 17 of the 23 governorships, also garnering 54 percent of the vote. The PSUV candidate for Bolivar state, where no official results have been declared yet, also claimed victory. U.S. Ambassador ...[Read more]
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JFK Files: CIA Plotted To Kill Castro using Mafia
A 1975 document from the Rockefeller Commission detailing the CIA’s role in foreign assassinations said plans to assassinate Castro were undertaken in the early days of the Kennedy administration. The report said Attorney General Robert Kennedy, the Pre ...[Read more]
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Soviet Russia Had a Better Record of Training Women in STEM Than America Does Today
Russia and the United States have long been trying to one up each other, whether by way of weaponry, space travel or social policies. While Soviet Russia was, by most accounts, a pretty miserable place to live, the Soviets did beat the Americans at one th ...[Read more]
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Susan Sarandon doesn’t regret voting for Jill Stein: Hillary Clinton ‘was very, very dangerous’
Actress Susan Sarandon has no regrets about voting for 2016 Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein, saying Democratic pick Hillary Clinton was "very, very dangerous" for the country. “I did think she was very, very dangerous," Sarandon told the Gua ...[Read more]
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Why are America’s farmers killing themselves in record numbers?
We were growing food, but couldn’t afford to buy it. We worked 80 hours a week, but we couldn’t afford to see a dentist, let alone a therapist. I remember panic when a late freeze threatened our crop, the constant fights about money, the way light swe ...[Read more]
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You are Working Harder and Getting Paid Less
A research paper titled “Decomposing the Productivity-Wage Nexus in Selected OECD Countries, 1986-2013,” studied 11 advanced-capitalist countries and found that in eight of them median wages have not kept pace with growth in labor productivity. To put ...[Read more]
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How the US Swindled Russia in the Early 1990s
Due to a historic data-dump on December 10th, the biggest swindle that occurred in the 20th Century (or perhaps ever) is now proven as a historical fact; and this swindle was done by the US Government, against the Government and people of Russia, and it c ...[Read more]
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