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Archives for February 2021

For FinTech Magnates: Digital Dollars for the Poor, Exponential Profits for the Rich

The recent incursion by FinTech companies into the banking sector and Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen’s implicit endorsement of a fully digital currency might be the end of banks as we know them.

Raul Diego
By Raul Diego
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In a virtual conference hosted by The New York Times, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen gave her nod of approval to the idea of "sovereign digital currencies" to solve the riddle of financial inclusion in America. According to recent data, approximately 7.1 million, or 5.4 percent of households, in the United States have no access to a bank

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Twitter Deletes Dozens of Russian Accounts for “Undermining Faith in NATO”

A propaganda system is far more effective — and dangerous — when those inside are unaware of it and believe themselves to be free from influence.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
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Social media giant Twitter announced yesterday that it has deleted 373 accounts it claims were linked to Russia, Iran, and Armenia. In a blog post entitled “Disclosing networks of state-linked information operations,” it claimed that it had taken the decision to remove 69 Russian accounts primarily because they were “undermining faith in the NATO

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The Empire’s Hidden Hand: How The US Established, Sustains and Benefits From Morocco’s Occupation of Western Sahara

Over the decades, the Moroccan settler population expanded while the United States and European Union have illegally exploited the Western Sahara’s resources, mining phosphates, fishing in its waters, and in recent years, drilling for oil and gas.

Dan Cohen
By Dan Cohen
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 WESTERN SAHARA -- On November 13, 2020, commanders from the United States and Morrocan militaries met to plan annual joint exercises. The following day, 1,000 Moroccan soldiers and 200 vehicles stormed into the Guerguerat border crossing – a key highway in the occupied Western Sahara that connects Morocco to Mauritania, built in violation of

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Twitter’s Attempt to Suppress Grayzone Reporting Backfires as Warning Label Becomes Meme

“The new Twitter scare label illustrates the threat our kind of factual reporting presents to a national security state that must employ social media censorship to conceal its agenda from the public.” — The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
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SAN FRANSICO -- “These materials may have been attained through hacking.” That is the warning message that any Twitter users coming across a recent Grayzone investigative report are met with, replete with a large exclamation point (!) signaling danger. The report, penned by Grayzone’s editor Max Blumenthal, exposes how influential media outlets

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What Planet Is NATO Living On?

Despite its recent failures in Afghanistan and Libya, NATO is turning its military madness toward two more formidable, nuclear-armed enemies: Russia and China.

Medea Benjamin
Nicolas Davies
By Medea Benjamin
And Nicolas Davies
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The February meeting of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Defense Ministers, the first since President Biden took power, revealed an antiquated, 75-year-old alliance that, despite its military failures in Afghanistan and Libya, is now turning its military madness toward two more formidable, nuclear-armed enemies: Russia and China. This

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Part II – Western Capital’s Long Chinese Mission: From Opium to COVID Vaccine Credentials

We examine the virtually unbroken history between American power-brokers and the highest echelons of power in China — a history that harkens back to the earliest days of capitalism, slavery, and the opium trade.

Raul Diego
By Raul Diego
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WASHINGTON -- In “The Disarticulation of Pandemic War Propaganda,” a transparent attempt to frame China as the instigator of worldwide lockdown policies was revealed to be the work of a group of self-styled libertarian-minded individuals. Their links to the UK, the United States, and Canadian governments tie a neat Pentagon-size bow around ongoing

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