Cryptocurrency is not merely a bad investment or speculative bubble. It’s worse than that: it’s a full-on fraud.

Top scientists responsible for the “Doomsday Clock” issued a stark warning about how close the world is to catastrophe due to the climate emergency, nuclear weapons, and “disruptive technologies in other domains.” Launched by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947 as a symbol for “how close we are to destroying our world,” the clock remains at 100 seconds to midnight for the third year straight.

Initial experiments show the benefits of a shortened week. But will all workers in Canada get to enjoy them?

Ideology has depleted public services, turned health care into increasingly profit-driven business

There is a long history of right-wing forces fighting against progressive educational curricula. Now, scholars like Robin D. G. Kelley are working to level the playing field against the moneyed political interests behind the attacks.

The US government gives Egypt $1. 4 billion in aid per year, most of it for the military. There is a lot of huff and puff about human rights, but no real concern for the throttling of democratic processes within the country, as 65,000 political prisoners – over half of the country’s total 120,000 prisoners – sit in jail.

As rents continue to spiral out of control amidst multiple intersecting societal crises, is Vancouver ready for a political revolution? Some local socialist organizers think so, and they’re making plans to elect some of their own to City Hall.