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Raul Diego

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

The Best Intentions of Sir Ronald Cohen: Building the Crypto-Corrals of Social Investment

It’s a tangled web but the bottom line is that social-impact investing, given a big boost by the pandemic and the “Great Reset” planned in its wake, can be made to sound so good that it’s hard to conceive what a dangerous threat it poses: it only “works” by herding and caging.

April 23rd, 2021

By Raul Diego

The Best Intentions of Sir Ronald Cohen: Building the Crypto-Corrals of Social Investment

LONDON -- Who is Sir Ronald Cohen and why should you care? To answer the first part of that question it might be useful to start with someone else – the person he is most often compared to and the original "Father of Venture Capital." Answering the second part involves asking more difficult questions, such as what is the monetary value of a human

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Raul Diego

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

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The Eruption of the Refugee Crisis and the Global Push for Vaccine Passports

The eruption of St. Vincent’s La Soufrière (Sulphur) has provided a unique opportunity to push the envelope in matters of mandatory public health policy, notably mandatory vaccination, vaccine passports, and the mass gathering of biometric data.

April 16th, 2021

By Raul Diego

The Eruption of the Refugee Crisis and the Global Push for Vaccine Passports

SAINT VINCENT, GRENADINE ISLANDS -- The controversy erupted on Twitter even as the 32,000-foot-high plume of smoke from Saint Vincent's La Soufrière volcano was still rising in the sky. The

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Raul Diego

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

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Dialogue, Displacement and Despair: Why Palestine is Burning Like Never Before

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From Lebanon to Syria, the Arab World is Failing Palestinian Refugees

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Coronavirus: How Are European Countries Treating Refugees Amid the Pandemic?

Biden Picks Kamala Harris to Carry the Carrot and Stick in Central America

With Kamala Harris now riding herd, the stage is set for a massive tech overhaul of the migrant crisis.

March 31st, 2021

By Raul Diego

Biden Picks Kamala Harris to Carry the Carrot and Stick in Central America

WASHINGTON -- The White House announced recently that Vice President Kamala Harris would take charge of the Biden administration's "efforts to deter migration to the southwestern border by working to improve conditions in Central America." The

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Raul Diego

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

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Biden’s “Diplomacy Is Back” Falls Flat as 2021 Middle East Policy a Miserable Flop

US, Lobbyists and Arm Dealers Scramble to Reposition Amid Impending Saudi Defeat in Yemen

Recent developments in the Yemen war are increasingly pointing to the possibility that Biden’s ostensible moves towards peace may simply be an attempt to control the narrative and save face around what is looking like yet another defeat in the long-running American-sponsored global war on terror.

March 25th, 2021

By Raul Diego

US, Lobbyists and Arm Dealers Scramble to Reposition Amid Impending Saudi Defeat in Yemen

WASHINGTON -- In his last months in office, former President Donald Trump gave American defense contractors like Lockheed Martin and Reaper drone manufacturer General Atomics Aeronautical Systems billions in projected earnings through a

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On Its Seventh Anniversary, Yemen Seeks to End a War the World Has Forgotten

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US Gins Up a “Credible” Iranian Nuclear Menace Befitting Its Own Stockpile

With Western intelligence sources once again stoking the flames of a nuclear Iran and the secret movement of America’s nuclear warheads across Europe, the war economy is up to its old tricks.

March 24th, 2021

By Raul Diego

US Gins Up a “Credible” Iranian Nuclear Menace Befitting Its Own Stockpile

WASHINGTON -- According to The Telegraph, "new revelations" from an unnamed senior Western intelligence source show "that Iran is trying to conceal vital elements of its nuclear programme from the outside world [and]

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Raul Diego

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

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Kyiv Independent Deep Dive: The West’s In-Kind Answer to Putin’s Propaganda 

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Mexico’s Imminent Marijuana Legalization Law Leaves US Lawmakers Holding the Joint

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is expected to make Mexico the largest legal cannabis market in the world when he signs a new marijuana law awaiting passage in the Senate. When he does, U.S. lawmakers will have to choose between the people and the prison industrial complex.

March 15th, 2021

By Raul Diego

Mexico’s Imminent Marijuana Legalization Law Leaves US Lawmakers Holding the Joint

MEXICO CITY -- For years now, dozens of pro-marijuana activists have gathered in front of Mexico's Congressional building on Reforma Avenue in the largest city in the Americas to spark up and tacitly remind lawmakers of a landmark 2012 ruling by the

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

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World Digital Divide Gapes as JPMorgan Peddles Cryptocurrency Gateway Drug

An SEC filing by JPMorgan has the financial world on the brink of opening the cryptocurrency markets wide open as digital assets on the blockchain go mainstream.

March 12th, 2021

By Raul Diego

World Digital Divide Gapes as JPMorgan Peddles Cryptocurrency Gateway Drug

NEW YORK -- Per SEC filings, JPMorgan is set to offer a new kind of derivative stock that will allow its clients to invest in cryptocurrencies and other digital assets through a special vehicle that circumvents current federal

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