Can Bitcoin Defeat Terrorism?

And cryptocurrency has such amazing potential for change. Instead of buying into the mainstream narrative that Bitcoin is dangerous and unregulated, blah blah blah, the very fact that terror groups have become early adapters to it should give you some idea of just how monumentally cryptocurrency can force social change and revolutionize the international economy.

The Normalization of Torture and the Impact on the Collective Consciousness

In December, the CIA torture report became available.  Jack Daniels and I spent time pouring over the contents of the long redacted senate report over Christmas  chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/study2014/sscistudy1.pdf  I read it because I have been interested in the study of torture and justice since childhood and because I have a very unique insight into this world, […]

The Power of The Word

Earlier this week I read that the leader of the Somali people have requested that the press no longer use the name Al-Shabaab to refer to the terror cell, but rather “the people who massacre the people of Somalia.” I admit, that’s quite the mouthful, and when typed it is one of the clumsiest sentences […]

Human Trafficking and Terrorism

While I was chasing a rabbit earlier on Boko Haram, I got lost in a deep hole having to do with illegal oil, small and large arms trafficking, and the trade of human beings.  ISIS – what I know as the D’aasch.  What I learned though was that the trade and trafficking human beings is […]