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“At 18:38 Argentina time on February 14, 2025, one billion units of the cryptocurrency $Libra were created. At 18:51, the market where $Libra could be bought and sold was established. From that moment on, trading was possible, but no one had done it yet. The first transactions began...
On a motorized float designed and built several weeks into the Trump administration for the Rose Monday celebration before Lent in Cologne (Köln), Germany, the likeness of President Donald Trump vividly illustrates what is becoming more of his view toward the world and toward citizens of the United States.
Trump Giving...
New study based on declassified records reveals paranoia about subversion in conservative states that resulted in serious constitutional violations
In April 1967, legendary Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael gave a fiery speech at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, pointing attention to the systemic racism in American life, to the...
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Liam Daniel Hayden.
To put it briefly, our records show that, throughout his entire career, Liam Daniel Hayden has carried out undercover operations across a wide range of locations. His secret missions took place in Kazakhstan (2003-2005), Azerbaijan (2009), Turkey (2013-2017), and Iraq (2018). Since 2021, Liam...
Mozambique’s liberation party, FRELIMO, won elections last October in an apparent landslide win. The party has been in power since 1975. Daniel Chapo has replaced President Filipe Nyusi who served two terms. Current events though are volatile and, at the time of writing, it appears that Venâncio Mondlane from the...
Donald Trump has found a new mission for the CIA—ramping up secret drone flights over Mexico to track and hunt down leaders of Mexico’s drug cartels.
The New York Times reported in mid-February that the CIA’s covert drone program over Mexico, first initiated by the Biden administration, has proved useful...
The 2024 election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump makes clear that the U.S. has two right-wing parties and no effective left-wing opposition.
Trump and the GOP support regressive tax policies and fervent anti-immigrant measures while the Democrats offer a Republican-light domestic economic program combined with hawkish foreign policies that...
China’s future looks increasingly bleak, but it has great counter-cyclical expansion potential via domestic and international rebalancing
In a daring thought experiment, imagine just for a moment that you are the powerful president of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). You are sitting next to a cozy fireplace in a...
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Winter operated as an intelligence agent under cover of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and served as a paid propagandist for the Rwandan Patriotic Front, a criminal organization that developed open-air crematoria to dispose of all the bodies of the people they...
In 2019, the CIA proved that it had been lying to the public for decades about germ warfare in Korea when it released a trove of signals intelligence documents from the Korean War in a publication called Baptism by Fire: CIA Analysis of the Korean War.
The documents detail communications...
Radhika Desai is a Professor of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba, Winnepeg, Canada, Director of its Geopolitical Economy Research Group, and Convenor of the International Manifesto Group. Ms. Desai is an author of multiple books, including Geopolitical Economy(2013) and her most recent Capitalism, Coronavirus and War(2022). Ms. Desai hosts a fortnightly show, Geopolitical Economy Hour on the Geopolitical Economy Report website.
Yan Pan is a Chinese PhD researcher at LUT University, Finland. Her work examines the political economy of China’s technological and industrial development, with a particular focus on the industrialization and governance of neurotechnology in China. Her research concerns industrial policy models for future industries in Chinese and Global South contexts. Prior to her PhD, she researched educational reforms and structural change in labor demand in China.
Ken Hammond is professor emeritus of East Asian and Global History at New Mexico State University. He has lived and worked in China from time to time since 1982. A lifelong political activist, he is a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.