Raul Diego

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

Digital Health Pass: IBM and Moderna Hook Up to Capitalize on COVID Reset

Using what have already become clichéd industry buzzwords like “transparency,” “trust,” and even “privacy,” IBM’s Digital Health Pass marketing describes the mass tracking app as a “smart way to return to society” that allows people to “return to the activities and things they love.”

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New York vaccine pass

ARMONK, NEW YORK -- IBM is partnering with Covid-19 mRNA vaccine maker Moderna to track vaccine administration in real time through its various blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, and hybrid cloud services. According to a company press release, the collaboration will "focus on exploring the utility of IBM capabilities in the U.S.," such as a

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Massive Secret UK Propaganda Campaign in Former Soviet Republics Seeds Contempt

From the Skripal affair to Navalny’s rise to the Russian Olympic doping scandal, these damning revelations should be enough to dispel any notions of truth in what the UK and allies tell their citizens through mainstream media outlets and the social media landscape they control.

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UK FCO Russia Feature photo

LONDON -- Standing against the scorching blue backdrop at the EU podium in late 2017, then British Prime Minister Theresa May mendaciously promised to "counter [Russian] disinformation" in all the former Soviet republics of Eastern Europe, Eurasia and the Baltics by pledging €110 Million ($130 Million) over five years to fight the Kremlin's

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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.

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George Floyd Feature photo

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 two counts of second-degree manslaughter and second-degree unintentional

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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.

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Cyberattacks Feature photo

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 microtargeted. People's search habits, social media post

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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.

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Great Reset: COVID-19 Feature photo

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 the private owners of capital, and not the state, control the trade of goods and

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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.

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By Raul Diego
Mali illicit tobacco

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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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”?

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China Feature photo

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 global supply chain. On Wednesday,

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