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Geopolitics

The Fracturing Façade: How Western Financial Weaponization is Forging a New, Perilous Global Economic Order

The US has weaponized international financial systems like SWIFT and FATF to enforce its foreign policy, compelling nations to build alternative payment systems that risk creating governance gaps vulnerable to financial crimes. This blatant financial imperialism by the West is fracturing the global economic order and threatening the financial sovereignty and security of the Global South, forcing a necessary but perilous decoupling from a system designed to suppress their growth.

US Politics

Missouri's AI Regulation Dilemma: Balancing Victim Protection with Corporate Accountability

Missouri lawmakers are considering legislation to regulate AI by enabling deepfake victims to claim damages for nonconsensual sexual images while also potentially limiting company liability if they follow federal guidelines. It is profoundly troubling that we must legislate protections against technology being weaponized to violate human dignity, yet critical we establish clear accountability to prevent corporations from evading responsibility for their creations.