Raul Diego

Raul Diego is a former MintPress News Staff Writer, independent photojournalist, researcher, writer and documentary filmmaker.

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.

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Fintech Feature photo

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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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.

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China Opium Capitalism Feature photo

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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A Good Start: Minnesota’s Return of Dakota Land Makes Space for Healing

While most Native communities in Minnesota, such as the Ojibwe and others fighting pipeline projects through their land recognize that their fight for sovereignty is far from over, the land transfer to the Lower Sioux is a good, if small start in countering centuries of whitewashed history.

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Minnesota Dakota

The state of Minnesota returned 114 acres of land to the Lower Sioux tribe after the final vote of the Minnesota Historical Society completed the last step in a four-year process that capped off a long fight by the sovereign Dakota nation to recover official title to their original home. Mni Sota Makoce is the Dakota phrase that the name for

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Prisons Prime Testing Ground for Dehumanizing Hi-Tech “Advances”

A new form of exploitation, known as “stakeholder capitalism,” is already being tested in many places around the world and prisons are among the main targets for its implementation, as they provide an ideal and literally captive market for its proof of concept. 

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Prison technology Feature photo

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is coming under fire again from Democratic lawmakers, as well as from the American Postal Workers Union, who are calling for President Joe Biden to pave the way for DeJoy's removal after the Trump-appointee announced higher mailing fees and logistical changes that could further slow down mail. The US Postal Service

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DARPA’s New Space Program Stirs Worldwide Concern

A new space technology exploration program announced by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency is riling up international opposition as the race to mine space heats up

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NASA Moon mining Feature photo

On the same day that Joe Biden obtained the Electoral College majority needed to become president of the United States, a metallic asteroid roughly half the size of New York City made its closest approach to earth. Far from indulging in apocalyptic visions of cosmic destruction, mining company executives like Bob Goldstein of US Nuclear Corp. were

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Atlantic Council Braces for Opportunities of Potential Bioterror Attack  

Bill Gates’ prediction that the next threat to humanity will come from a bioterror attack is giving war hawks and corporate America a reason to get excited.

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Bioterrorism Feature photo

Less than a month away from the one-year anniversary of the pandemic's official declaration, policy wonks at the Atlantic Council together with former and current government officials are dissecting the "lessons" of the Covid-19 epidemic to advise the Biden administration on the steps to take in order to avert the next disaster. Following a

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The Questionable Characters Behind the Kushner-Linked Insurance Giant Oscar Health

Oscar Health, a tech-based telehealth insurance mishmash co-founded by Joshua Kushner is about to go public with a massive IPO underwritten by the gods of Wall Street and backed by Silicon Valley titans.

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Oscar Health Feature photo

Why are the founders of the largest gaming company in Latin America building a telehealth giant in the United States? The answer to this question will not be readily apparent for another few years when the links between big business and the gamified marketplace are clear for everyone to see. In the meantime, Oscar Health, a health insurance

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