Bitcoin Magazine has become a refuge for shitcoiners and JPEG maximalists. But in the middle of meaningless articles are buried some gems worth having a look. I dig them out and post them here so that you don’t have to.

Through his research and articles, Alex Gladstein is doing a remarkable work to expose the hypocrisy and deadly schemes used by the Western leaders to keep the rest of the world in a state of financial colonialism. This article summarizes what for us bitcoiners was the highlight of the Oslo Freedom Forum where well known figures of the bitcoin world came to present their projects and explain how bitcoin can bring Financial Freedom to the world and help it fight against authoritarianism.

It was a refreshing session and somehow more inspiring than the previous two days which showcased the stories of people persecuted and sometimes killed by their governments. While many stories were touching and shedding light on tyrants and conflicts sometimes unknown to the public, one couldn’t stop to wonder where were the main tyrants and dictators, those who make the news every day for their crimes usually disguised under well-meaning rhetoric and false pretences?

Where were the presidents lying to the public to engage in military conflicts, escalation and forever wars (e.g., gulf of Tonkin “incident” in Vietnam, missing weapons of mass destruction in Irak), the CIA-backed regime changes to install favorable dictators or the presidents providing financial and military support to rogue states committing mass murders? Where were the Julian Assange or Gonzalo Lira who are persecuted by the West as much as the journalists featured in this forum?

Some people from the Human’s Right Foundation (HRF) do an excellent job to expose the worst behavior of world leaders but it is a shame that this forum presented a very truncated landscape of today’s authoritarianism and by doing so is robbing itself and its followers of an opportunity to expose the main perpetrators of harassment and war crimes in the world