The world’s largest live central bank digital currency (CBDC) program has so far been a destructive flop. And that is probably the last thing the editors of the New York Times want its readers to know.More
Milei’s Latest Plan to Embroil Argentina in Ukraine Conflict Involves Sending Five French Fighter Jets That Cannot Fly
Milei’s government appears to be determined to turn Argentina into the first Latin American country to send weapons to Ukraine.More
Mastercard Launches Its Biometric Retail Payment System in Europe, Using Poland As a Testing Ground
“Buy with your eyes, pay with your glance!”More
X Premium Users Face Stark Choice: Hand Over Biometric Identitifiers to “Spooky” Israeli Firm or Get Demonetised
“The personal data processed by this X subcontractor includes data of a sovereign nature. An identity document is a sensitive document. This raises a number of questions…”More
Some Initial Thoughts on Mexico’s Genuinely Historic Election
Claudia Sheinbaum’s epic electoral victory would not have been possible without AMLO’s enduring — indeed, ripening — popularity. The question is: what will she do with her newfound power after the hand over on Oct. 1?More
From Debunking to “Pre-bunking”: EU Opens Up Another New Front in Its War on Information
“If you think of information as a virus, instead of treating an infection once it has taken hold — that is, debunking — it is much better to vaccinate so that the body is inoculated.” Welcome to pre-bunking.More
Are European Politicians Beginning to Worry About Their Own Possible Complicity in Israel’s War Crimes?
“If you are encouraging a party to undertake a war crime you become complicit in that crime itself.”More
SouthCom Commander Laura Richardson Just Described “Plan Colombia” as a Success, a Model for the Region
Even the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee has admitted that Plan Colombia was a resounding failure from a counter-narcotics perspective while providing short-term benefits from a counter-insurgency perspective. More
Why Is It Taking So Painfully Long for Spain, Ireland and Other EU Countries to Recognise Palestinian Statehood?
“We have found ourselves in a situation where we feel the need to move forward unilaterally because the European response has been so weak.”More
EU Commission Plans to Strip Funding From Public Prosecutors Investigating Ursula von der Leyen’s Pfizergate Scandal
Surely just a coincidence!More
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