Raul Diego

Raul Diego

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

Public Fatigue, Distrust and Fear Taint Chauvin Trail Before it Even Begins

Jury selection in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was set to begin today, but a last-minute delay has added to the palpable tensions surrounding the case.

Public Fatigue, Distrust and Fear Taint Chauvin Trail Before it Even Begins

The Hennepin County Courthouse will soon be teeming with satellite-equipped news media trucks and throngs of reporters from around the country as the trial of former Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd is only weeks away. Charged with

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Raul Diego

Raul Diego

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

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Social Media Microtargeting and the Evolving Ministry of Truth

As social media replaces actual social interactions, our thoughts and opinions are increasingly coming under the purview of the cybersecurity industry and national security interests that want to regulate what and who can see, talk to and hear in the U.S. cognitive space.

Social Media Microtargeting and the Evolving Ministry of Truth

WEST POINT, NEW YORK -- If you've ever wondered how that cookware ad happened across your internet browser window after you'd spent ten minutes searching for a turkey baster last Thanksgiving, the answer is that you – or more precisely, the devices you use to surf the net – have been

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Raul Diego

Raul Diego

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

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Podcast: Raul Diego on the Rise of Digital Currencies and Human Capital Markets

The latest anti-Chinese lockdown narrative is obscuring a much broader effort by the financial and tech sector to create state-backed digital currency that will turn humanity into data assets.

Podcast: Raul Diego on the Rise of Digital Currencies and Human Capital Markets

 Welcome to MintCast -- an interview series featuring dissenting voices the establishment would rather silence -- I’m your host, Mnar Adley. Today we’re joined by Raul Diego, a MintPress staff writer, filmmaker and

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Raul Diego

Raul Diego

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

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The Bits and Bytes of The Great Reset: COVID-19 and the Scaling Up of Data-Capitalism

The so-called Great Reset amounts to little more than a campaign to turn humanity into datasets, which the world’s most powerful hedge funds and transnational corporations can use to create more profits for themselves and their clients.

The Bits and Bytes of The Great Reset: COVID-19 and the Scaling Up of Data-Capitalism

LONDON -- According to the Cambridge English Dictionary, an economy is "the system of trade and industry by which the wealth of a country is made and used." For the last few centuries, this system has been dominated by the paradigm of capitalism, in which

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Raul Diego

Raul Diego

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

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British American Tobacco’s Illegal Smokes Burn Through Mali’s Quest for Self-Determination

A recent investigative report reveals the extent of an illegal cigarette smuggling operation in Mali by Big Tobacco that is helping to keep European and American interests viable in West Africa.

British American Tobacco’s Illegal Smokes Burn Through Mali’s Quest for Self-Determination

Shortly after separatist militant groups took northern Mali in 2012, British American Tobacco (BAT) began flooding the West African nation with unbranded packs of cigarettes aided by another large tobacco company and the French-backed Malian state. The smuggled smokes arrive through ports in neighboring Guinea, Togo, and Benin from where they are

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Raul Diego

Raul Diego

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

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Microchips and the Macro World: Semiconductor Shortage Ushers in East-West Tech War

If Taiwan were no longer the center of the semiconductor manufacturing universe, would the U.S. relinquish its influence over the island or would it continue to use it as a pawn against the country that is increasingly being cast as the next global nemesis of the “free world”?

Microchips and the Macro World: Semiconductor Shortage Ushers in East-West Tech War

WASHINGTON -- A worldwide semiconductor shortage has upended the best laid plans of several major industries -- including automobile, TV and laptop manufacturers -- which have been forced to cut back on production and delay shipments as they try to weather the storm hitting one of the cornerstones of the

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

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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.

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

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

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

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