by Dror Goldberg* Where and when did modern currency originate? My book Easy Money: American Puritans and the Invention of Modern Currency (University of Chicago Press, 2023) tackles this fascinating question. I discover and explain the origin of modern currency in 1690 in the English colony of Massachusetts Bay — an unimportant place, compared to […]
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For a long time, two of the great gerontocracies were the Roman Catholic Church and the Chinese Communist Party. It is quite a thought that if Joe Biden were a Catholic bishop, he would have been required to submit his resignation to the pope five years ago. If he were a cardinal, he would, when […]
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In this investigation, MintPress News breaks down the ten largest individual recipients of pro-Israel cash, exposing the links between the Israel lobby and the movers and shakers in Washington, D.C.
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Dive into the intricate geopolitics of Northeast Asia with Tim Shorrock in today's MintCast interview, exploring the shaping of Japan and South Korea by the United States, their complex political landscapes, and the potential for regional unification amidst growing U.S.-China tensions
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The US and Israel have been planning the construction of brand new trade routes, which are only possible through normalization agreements signed between Tel Aviv and the Arab World. So, what is the Ben Gurion Canal, India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, and why is this so important to Washington's considerations when backing the current Israeli onslaught on Gaza?
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Joe Biden’s response to the Hamas attacks of October 7 was to fuse the wars in Israel and Ukraine into a single struggle. Immediately after he returned from his visit to Tel Aviv, where he had both literally and figuratively embraced Benjamin Netanyahu, Biden addressed the US public from the Oval Office. “You know,” he […]
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Gaza has been turned into a Hiroshima as a result of Western bombs and the blank political check handed to Israel by Western governments and leaders from the onset of the war, which, in fact, began 75 years ago.
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To think that tiny little Gaza is the spark that has refocused the energies of the whole region is a political miracle that many political scientists will find difficult to understand, let alone explain.
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While Western media often portrays the conflict as an Israel-Hamas issue, it transcends the boundaries of occupied Palestine. and stands as a pivotal arena in a global struggle between the powers of the so-called East and the collective West.
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As the West Asian powderkeg inches closer to disaster over Israel's ongoing slaughter in Gaza, Craig Murray dissects the various factors at play that could push the region over the precipice.
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