The Post-Partisan Emporium

  As CBDCs Roll-Out, Elite-Backed Digital Payment Systems Vie to Build the “Global Payment Standard” As Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilots proliferate, a myriad of elite-gilded and blockchain-powered digital payment networks are vying for their technologies and payment systems to be incorporated in the developing digital currency infrastructures of tomorrow. Their end game? A digital financial grid prime for abuse. BY STAVROULA PABST Idris Elba stars in a promotional video for Stellar’s “ Real World ” campaign, where he touts Stellar’s more “equitable” vision of finance, a future where opportunities are “borderless.” “If ideas are borderless, opportunities should be too,” A-list actor Idris Elba recently exclaimed in a video for cryptocurrency player Stellar’s “ Real World ” campaign. In the elaborate promotional video featuring Elba, traditional currencies are portrayed as unreliable and especially detrimental to marginalized people. An immigrant, working class-coded woman in

  Has America Been Set Up As History’s Ultimate “Bumbling Villain”? Brandon Smith Editor’s Note: It’s not often we publish an article written before OffG even existed, but this one – written  over a decade ago in September 2013  and brought to our attention by  Mark Gresham  – is both interesting and prescient. It discusses the decline of US power, the rise of BRICS, and plans for a global currency  seven years  before COVID brought all those plans center-stage. It also warns of a false or exaggerated US-Russia binary and Putin’s globalist tendencies. * The high priests of academic and “official” history love a good villain for two reasons:  First, because good official villains make the struggles and accomplishments of good official heroes even more awe-inspiring.  And, second, because nothing teaches (or propagandizes) the masses more thoroughly than the social or political lessons inherent in the documented rise and fall of the world’s most despicable inhabitants. We get shivers of