Digital Chains: How Central Banks Are Building a No-Escape Economy

 

Digital Chains: How Central Banks Are Building a No-Escape Economy By Mark Keenan For generations, money was something people held in their hands — a tangible symbol of work, value, and exchange. Today, money is becoming something else entirely: a digital leash. The transformation is happening quietly, without consent, and most people will not recognize what has been built until the gate locks behind them. Read here

Global Transformation of Food Systems – The Killing Off of Food Sovereignty By Julian Rose A significant event took place last month at the Stockholm Food Forum, based on a recently published ‘global health’ document by ‘EAT-Lancet Commission 2.0’ calling for a top down “global transformation of food systems”. Read here

Ukrainian Troops Abandoning Front in Large Numbers By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida The number of desertions in Ukraine has been growing for a long time. As a natural consequence of the brutal process of forced mobilization and the high intensity of hostilities on the battlefield, more and more Ukrainians are simply fleeing their ranks as soon as they have the chance to evade the authorities. Read here

Dangerous Edits: The BBC’s Foolish Gift to Donald Trump By Dr. Binoy Kampmark It began with a revelation in The Telegraph on November 3. The paper had seen an internal memo in the BBC pointing to editing on its October 2024 Panorama programme of two parts of US President Donald Trump’s speech in January 2021. The sin was not in the editing but its liberal manner, suggesting that Trump had explicitly incited the Capitol Hill riots of January 6. Read here

Tony Blair Is Back to Finish the (Zionist) Job By Vanessa Beeley and Crispin Flintoff Investigative journalist Vanessa Beeley discusses Tony Blair’s re-emergence in Middle East politics – from Lebanon to Gaza – and what it reveals about Britain’s ongoing role in the region. Read here

Unprecedented Failure of Russian Leadership By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Why has Putin maximized Russian casualties, provocations and humiliations of Russia, and disregard of Russian red lines by keeping a war going for four years that should have been won in one week? Read here

The Economist Wants the EU to Spend $400 Billion More on Ukraine. Why? To Trigger a Banking Crisis in Russia? By Andrew Korybko While it’s unlikely that Ukraine would ever team up with Russia to threaten any NATO state, Ukraine might blame Poland for its loss, after which Ukraine might back a terrorist-separatist campaign in Poland waged by its ultra-nationalist diaspora as warned about here. Read here