Vice, “This Tabletop Game Forces You To Confront Humanity’s Future Threats”
The game explores the impact of technological changes, addressing genetic modification of humans, artificial intelligence, and non-hierarchical political models (i.e., anarchism). “These sort of decentralized, self-empowered social models are going to be crucial for our species going forward, unless we want to suffer under the induced-scarcity yoke of life-extended capitalists or techno-fascists and their killer […]
The Sacramento Bee, “Amador County resident volunteering for Kurdish military group killed abroad”
A former Amador County resident and local labor activist was killed abroad while volunteering for a Kurdish group fighting the Islamic State, according to a post from the group’s Facebook page. The People’s Defense Units, an armed service of the Federation of Northern Syria’s Rojava region also known as YPG, identified Michael Israel, 27, as […]
subMedia: Anarchy in Rojava: A libertarian revolution in the Middle East
subMedia: Anarchy in Rojava: A libertarian revolution in the Middle East reposted from subMedia In this sedition, we look at the fierce men and women, who have been fighting the head chopping Islamists of I.S.I.S. to create libertarian commune along the border between Syria, Iraq and Turkey. On the music break we have Kurdish rapper […]
CVLT NATION, “Anarchists vs. ISIS: The Revolution in Syria Nobody’s Talking About,” February 6, 2015
Anarchists vs. ISIS: The Revolution in Syria Nobody’s Talking About by Gareth Watkins, CVLT NATION, February 6, 2015 Despite all the obstacles facing them, the people of Rojava are, right now, the only large-scale movement on the entire planet implementing a real, working alternative to the state and capitalism. Like the Spanish anarchist federations and […]