Alex Gladstein
Oakland, California, United States
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Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. He has also…
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Human Rights Foundation is hiring a Communications Specialist!
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Donate your old USB drives to fight North Korean brainwashing
Donate your old USB drives to fight North Korean brainwashing
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HRF expresses concern over the recent arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov and its potential impact on the safety and privacy of millions of users…
HRF expresses concern over the recent arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov and its potential impact on the safety and privacy of millions of users…
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Education
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Tufts University
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Activities and Societies: Pi Sigma Alpha (National Political Science Honor Society) • Rho Omicron chapter, Tufts University. Henry Leir International Scholarship recipient • Awarded to outstanding Tufts undergraduate students who demonstrate exceptional commitment to the study of International Affairs.
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Check Your Financial Priviledge
Bitcoin Magazine
While those comfortable in the dollar bubble deride Bitcoin, the stories of three emerging market users demonstrate why it is so important.
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Financial Freedom and Privacy in the Post-Cash World
Cato Journal
Even in liberal democracies where citizens can — in theory — protect themselves, corruption thrives and financial privacy is on the verge of extinction.
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The Hidden Costs of the Petrodollar
Bitcoin Magazine
The world’s reserve currency relies on oil, dictators, inequality and the military-industrial complex. But a Bitcoin standard could change this.
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Bitcoin's International Impact
The Investor's Podcast
My interview with Preston Pysh about Bitcoin's international impact.
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Bitcoin is a Trojan Horse for Freedom
Bitcoin Magazine
While bitcoin is powerful Number Go Up technology that appeals to self interest, it’s also creating fortresses against authority in cyberspace.
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Can Governments Stop Bitcoin?
Quillette
Since its creation more than 12 years ago, Bitcoin is undefeated. Its price has leaped from $5 to $50 to $500 to $5,000 to now past $50,000. The number of global users has eclipsed 100 million. The system’s network security, number of developers, and new applications are at all-time highs. Dozens of companies including Tesla and Square have started to add Bitcoin to their corporate treasuries. This worldwide success doesn’t mean that people haven’t tried to stop Bitcoin. The digital money…
Since its creation more than 12 years ago, Bitcoin is undefeated. Its price has leaped from $5 to $50 to $500 to $5,000 to now past $50,000. The number of global users has eclipsed 100 million. The system’s network security, number of developers, and new applications are at all-time highs. Dozens of companies including Tesla and Square have started to add Bitcoin to their corporate treasuries. This worldwide success doesn’t mean that people haven’t tried to stop Bitcoin. The digital money project has in fact survived a variety of attacks which in some cases threatened its existence. There are two main vectors: network attacks on the software and hardware infrastructure, and legal attacks on Bitcoin users. Before we explore them and consider why they failed, let’s start at the beginning.
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Bitcoin Is Protecting Human Rights Around the World
Reason
Bitcoin has won over some of America's best-known billionaires, and institutions worldwide are treating it as a serious financial asset. But bitcoin's rising price is only one part of the story.
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In the Fight Against Extremism, Don't Demonize Surveillance-Busting Tools like Signal and Bitcoin
TIME Magazine
In the past few weeks, millions of Americans have joined Signal, a free open-source encrypted chat app. Users are fleeing from WhatsApp in droves, sparked by a pop-up disclosing that the messenger will share personal data with Facebook, and by broader concerns over big tech in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. But just as encryption is seeing its biggest breakthrough yet, a counter-narrative is rising up again: that we should be wary of privacy-protecting platforms because they can…
In the past few weeks, millions of Americans have joined Signal, a free open-source encrypted chat app. Users are fleeing from WhatsApp in droves, sparked by a pop-up disclosing that the messenger will share personal data with Facebook, and by broader concerns over big tech in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. But just as encryption is seeing its biggest breakthrough yet, a counter-narrative is rising up again: that we should be wary of privacy-protecting platforms because they can help extremists and criminals.
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Bitcoin Dissidents: Those Who Need It Most
Coindesk
I was interviewed by Coindesk for their year-end essay on pro-democracy movements using Bitcoin around the world.
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Is Bitcoin Democratic, And Is Democracy Good?
The Stephan Livera Podcast
Is Bitcoin a democracy? Or is it more like a natural order? What about democracy in general, does that protect human rights and enable human flourishing? Saifedean and Alex Gladstein debate the question of whether democracy promotes human flourishing. This was moderated by Stephan Livera, initially on Saifedean’s online seminar.
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How Bitcoin is Helping Protesters in Belarus
What Bitcoin Did
In this interview, Peter McCormack interviews me and Jaraslau Likhachevski from BYSOL. We discuss the political situation in Belarus, the protests and how Bitcoin is helping activists.
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COVID-19 and the Normalization of Mass Surveillance
Quillette
In the past few months, governments ranging from Australia to the United Kingdom and corporations as influential as Google and Apple have pushed the idea that cellphone tracking can be used to effectively fight COVID-19. There was even an essay here at Quillette, arguing that a mandatory phone tracking app would save lives while also saving jobs as a policy alternative to economic lockdown. Unfortunately, the idea that phone apps should be popularized or even mandated to fight outbreaks is…
In the past few months, governments ranging from Australia to the United Kingdom and corporations as influential as Google and Apple have pushed the idea that cellphone tracking can be used to effectively fight COVID-19. There was even an essay here at Quillette, arguing that a mandatory phone tracking app would save lives while also saving jobs as a policy alternative to economic lockdown. Unfortunately, the idea that phone apps should be popularized or even mandated to fight outbreaks is techno-utopian, based on optimism rather than evidence. The real impact of such an approach on society wouldn’t be better immunity, but rather the acceptance and creeping growth of an even more powerful and omniscient global surveillance state.
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Do We Have to Give Up Our Personal Freedoms to Beat Coronavirus?
Singularity Hub
My interview with Singularity Hub on civil liberties and public health.
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Dictatorships Are Making the Coronavirus Outbreak Worse
WIRED
This essay for WIRED explores why authoritarian regimes around the world are bad for our global public health. They punish dissent, even if is well meaning and can save lives, even if it is sound medical advice or truth-telling, in order to preserve their power.
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How Bitcoin is being used to Promote Human Rights: Stories From Activists and Refugees
CoinDesk
CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen is joined by the Human Rights Foundation’s Alex Gladstein and Syrian entrepreneur Moe Ghashim to discuss how cultural context shapes the way people view bitcoin, including stories from the Middle East.
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A World Without Bitcoin
Unchained
The year is 2040, and cash is gone. The money you use on a daily basis has fully transitioned into a tool of surveillance and control. My essay on what such a reality would entail for our global society.
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A Human Rights Activist Explains Bitcoin’s Importance
Bloomberg
When people think about Bitcoin, they often think about neo-goldbugs who hate inflation and the Federal Reserve. But beyond the financial case for it, there’s a moral, human rights case as well. On this week’s podcast, we talk with Alex Gladstein, the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. He explains why he sees Bitcoin as an essential tool in his fight for human rights all around the world
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Dissidents and Activists Have A Lot to Gain From Bitcoin
Coindesk
This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world.
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How Bitcoin Can Protect Free Speech in the Digital Age
Quillette
My essay outlining why we need digital cash.
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Technology and Repression
The Block
My appearance on The Block's podcast. In this we discuss the important distinction between the moral and legal issues surrounding Virgil Griffith's recent arrest, Bitcoin's potential role in the modern urban protesting environment, how the IMF could, but wont, lend aid to Venezuelans in need by using Bitcoin, and the separation of money and state in a future cashless society.
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In China, it's Blockchain and Tyranny vs Bitcoin and Freedom
Bitcoin Magazine
A discussion of why and how Xi Jinping's new digital currency project aims for surveillance and control.
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Podcast: The Little Bitcoin Book
The Stephan Livera Show
Jimmy Song (Bitcoin educator, entrepreneur and developer) and Alex Gladstein (CSO of Human Rights Foundation) join Stephan Livera in this episode to talk about their fantastic new book, The Little Bitcoin Book. This is the perfect short book to give your precoiner friends! It has succinct explanations on why bitcoin is important. Listen to this episode to learn more about how this book came together, what the authors are hoping to achieve, and if you like it – then make sure you buy copies of…
Jimmy Song (Bitcoin educator, entrepreneur and developer) and Alex Gladstein (CSO of Human Rights Foundation) join Stephan Livera in this episode to talk about their fantastic new book, The Little Bitcoin Book. This is the perfect short book to give your precoiner friends! It has succinct explanations on why bitcoin is important. Listen to this episode to learn more about how this book came together, what the authors are hoping to achieve, and if you like it – then make sure you buy copies of the book to give to your friends and family.
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Cryptocurrency and Human Rights
Reason
Since launching a decade ago, the decentralized, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency bitcoin has been lauded (and denounced) for its potential to route around traditional state-based monetary systems and allow individuals to trade directly with one another. Much of the discussion has understandably focused on how it is transforming economic exchange. But Alex Gladstein, the chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes and protects civil liberties in closed societies,…
Since launching a decade ago, the decentralized, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency bitcoin has been lauded (and denounced) for its potential to route around traditional state-based monetary systems and allow individuals to trade directly with one another. Much of the discussion has understandably focused on how it is transforming economic exchange. But Alex Gladstein, the chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes and protects civil liberties in closed societies, is interested in how it empowers people in autocratic countries to escape government control.
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The Little Bitcoin Book
Available on Amazon
You’ve probably heard about Bitcoin on the news or heard it being discussed by your friends or colleagues. How come the price keeps changing? Is Bitcoin a good investment? How does it even have value? Why do people keep talking about it like it’s going to change the world? The Little Bitcoin Book tells the story of what’s wrong with money today, and why Bitcoin was invented to provide an alternative to the current system. It describes in simple terms what Bitcoin is, how it works, why it’s…
You’ve probably heard about Bitcoin on the news or heard it being discussed by your friends or colleagues. How come the price keeps changing? Is Bitcoin a good investment? How does it even have value? Why do people keep talking about it like it’s going to change the world? The Little Bitcoin Book tells the story of what’s wrong with money today, and why Bitcoin was invented to provide an alternative to the current system. It describes in simple terms what Bitcoin is, how it works, why it’s valuable, and how it affects individual freedom and opportunities of people everywhere - from Nigeria to the Philippines to Venezuela to the United States. This book also includes a Q & A section with some of the most frequently asked questions about Bitcoin. If you want to learn more about this new form of money which continues to gain interest and adoption around the world, then this book is for you.
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The Future of Technology and Human Rights
RTP Portuguese Television
In this 25-minute segment, I'm interviewed on Portuguese television about upcoming trends in technology and finance as they relate to human rights and decentralization.
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The Moral Case for Lightning: A Global Private Payment Network
Medium
My essay on the Lightning Network and its ability to help fight the surveillance state and surveillance capitalism.
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Democratizing Information
The Mission Daily
In today’s episode, Chad and Alex sit down to discuss how cryptography is being used to help bolster privacy measures throughout the world. They also discuss how HRF is on a mission to help democratize information through cryptography and the ability to discreetly share information and money.
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Fighting the Digital Panopticon
Tales from the Crypt
Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Foundation and the Oslo Freedom Forum, to discuss how Alex ended up at the HRF, how authoritarian regimes use digital panopticons to control their subjects, why Bitcoin is such an important project, and why we can't mess it up.
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Bitcoin could change the game for foreign aid
CNN
My CNN op-ed on how Bitcoin could change the game for foreign aid through its global, neutral, peer-to-peer payment network.
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Bitcoin and Global Welfare
Off the Chain
In this episode of Off the Chain, Anthony Pompliano interviews me on bitcoin and how it can promote human rights and justice around the world.
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A Human Rights Activist's Response to Bitcoin Critics
Medium
My Medium essay on what the mainstream and establishment critics are missing when they attack Bitcoin.
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In the Smart Cities Industry, There are No Morals
Smart Cities
My interview with the Portuguese publication Smart Cities on why the architecture of the cities of the future will play a big part in determining our rights and freedoms.
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The Future of Governance
Future Thinkers
Our guest in this episode is Alex Gladstein, the Chief Strategy Officer at Human Rights Foundation and VP of Strategy for Oslo Freedom Forum. We attended and spoke at Oslo Freedom Forum last year, and it was one of the best conferences we have ever been to – it was really well produced, with amazing participants who talked about important topics and ideas.
In this interview we discuss why civil liberties make a country better for its people, what the future of governance, internet and…Our guest in this episode is Alex Gladstein, the Chief Strategy Officer at Human Rights Foundation and VP of Strategy for Oslo Freedom Forum. We attended and spoke at Oslo Freedom Forum last year, and it was one of the best conferences we have ever been to – it was really well produced, with amazing participants who talked about important topics and ideas.
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The Importance of Private Money
Monero Talk
Interview on Monero talk about the importance of private digital money.
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Impact Investing in DemTech
Seeking Alpha
Threats to democracy and human rights must be faced together. As investors we can play a critical role when we allocate our capital. Democracy tech is a form of impact investing that focuses on resisting authoritarianism.
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Why Bitcoin Matters for Freedom
TIME
My column in TIME on why bitcoin is a useful financial tool for people who can't trust their rulers or who can't access the banking system.
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Democracy Tech
What Bitcoin Did
In this interview, I talk about why Bitcoin matters for Freedom with Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. We discuss what fundamental human rights are lost under authoritarian regimes, how Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies increase freedom and how Dem Tech (Democracy Tech) could lead to a wave of investment in cryptocurrencies.
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Anti-Authoritarian Technology
Epsilon Theory
This is my interview with Epsilon Theory on technology and freedom. It was conducted by the CEO of Kiva, Neville Crawley. Here's his description of our chat:
"This week I am interviewing Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer of Human Rights Foundation and guest lecturer at Singularity University. I met Alex a couple of years ago when he was moderating an exceptionally interesting and lively Human Rights Foundation (HRF) panel on identity, distributed systems and human rights. Alex’s…This is my interview with Epsilon Theory on technology and freedom. It was conducted by the CEO of Kiva, Neville Crawley. Here's his description of our chat:
"This week I am interviewing Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer of Human Rights Foundation and guest lecturer at Singularity University. I met Alex a couple of years ago when he was moderating an exceptionally interesting and lively Human Rights Foundation (HRF) panel on identity, distributed systems and human rights. Alex’s work has helped me gain a deeper appreciation for how fundamentally identity and human rights are tied together, and the importance of considering freedom and control of the most vulnerable populations when designing technology infrastructure. Alex is a deep thinker on the intersection of technology, freedom and decentralization and so I am very pleased to welcome him to Epsilon Theory." -
Personal data, Bitcoin, and the Future of Human Rights
The Mission Daily
Chad sits down with Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation. In this conversation, they discuss the work Alex does at the Human Rights Foundation, the two kinds of technology that are changing society and one man’s story about defecting from North Korea that will leave you in awe.
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Human Rights and Technology
Ketagalan Media
Alex, as Chief Strategy Officer of HRF, believes that Taiwan is in the position to lead the world in non-authoritarian technology, or more aptly named, freedom technology, in which civil liberties are promoted and individuals—not governments—are empowered.
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Taiwan Can Inspire Change
Taipei Times
Alex Gladstein, chief strategy officer at the New York-based Human Rights Foundation, which hosts the annual Oslo Freedom Forum, in an interview with ‘Taipei Times’ staff reporter Stacy Hsu said that he plans to build a community of people who care about freedom and civil liberty in Asia using Taiwan as a base.
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Bitcoin and Freedom
Noded
In this podcast with Noded, I spend an hour talking about bitcoin, human rights, and freedom with Michael Goldstein and Pierre Rochard.
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Why Cryptocurrencies are Crucial to the Future of Freedom
Singularity Hub
Bitcoin has steadily grown in popularity since its inception in 2009. We hear about how many people are getting rich quick from it, and how much energy it’s consuming, and how complex it is to mine. But what we haven’t heard much about is how Bitcoin can play a role in human rights, and can give people who use it more financial and political freedom. [This is a recap of my keynote talk at SU Global 2018]
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Checks and Balances
Bitcoin Magazine
In this new podcast, I talk about HRF's work around the world and also the intersection of bitcoin and decentralized blockchain technology and human rights and freedom.
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Q/A: Bitcoin Versus Authoritarianism
The News Lens
Early in July, The News Lens sat down with Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation (HRF), a nonprofit that advocates for human rights in closed societies, to discuss the potential importance of Bitcoin as a counter to authoritarianism.
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In Trust We Trust
Udacity
A documentary from Udacity about the technology and history behind blockchain. I appear in the first episode -- In Trust We Trust -- to describe the history and politics of bitcoin.
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Dictators and Development Statistics
The Arab Tyrant Manual
My interview with Ahmed Gatnash on the history of the Oslo Freedom Forum and why the event is a reaction to how the world's agenda is too often set and guided by dictators.
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Flash Drives for Freedom
Fox Business
My interview on Fox Business about HRF's Flash Drives for Freedom program and the ongoing talks between the U.S., South Korean, and North Korean governments.
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How the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals undermine democracy
Quartz
Believe it or not, the UN Sustainable Development Goals are pushing an agenda carefully calibrated to avoid upsetting the world’s dictators, kleptocrats, and human rights offenders.
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The First Crypto War
Unconfirmed: Insights and Analysis From the Top Minds in Crypto
Think Bitcoin and crypto assets are just vehicles for speculation? They're already having both a positive impact and negative impact when it comes to human rights, says Alex Gladstein, chief strategy officer for the Human Rights Foundation. Gladstein talks about how he first became enamored with Bitcoin because of its potential to solve hyperinflation, and why he believes Venezuela is the site of the world's first crypto war. He also covers why repressive governments are excited by centralized…
Think Bitcoin and crypto assets are just vehicles for speculation? They're already having both a positive impact and negative impact when it comes to human rights, says Alex Gladstein, chief strategy officer for the Human Rights Foundation. Gladstein talks about how he first became enamored with Bitcoin because of its potential to solve hyperinflation, and why he believes Venezuela is the site of the world's first crypto war. He also covers why repressive governments are excited by centralized cryptocurrencies, why impact investing focused on the UN sustainable goals will not address human rights issues, and why blockchain-based elections, which many believe could be fair and transparent, could instead be terribly corrupt.
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The Problem With Development Statistics
The New Republic
Would you trust Assad to accurately report health data? What about Castro for educational statistics? Putin for economic numbers? In reality, the World Bank, UNESCO, World Economic Forum, and other organizations trust socio-economic data on an ongoing basis from these tyrants plus dozens of other dictatorships, and those numbers end up driving billions of dollars of aid, trade, and even the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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Resist
BBC Radio 4: Digital Human
This BBC Radio 4 segment explores how the technology and tools around us might be re-purposed to make the world a more free place. I am interviewed about how USB drives are being disseminated throughout North Korea under cover of darkness, showing the people a glimpse of the outside world and a spark of hope.
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North Korea flooded with illicit information
The Telegraph
My interview with The Telegraph on HRF's Flash Drives for Freedom program.
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Can the Blockchain Tame Moscow's Wild Politics?
City Lab at The Atlantic
My interview with The Atlantic's City Lab project on why the Moscow government's plan to use blockchain for municipal voting is nothing more than a propaganda stunt aimed at whitewashing repression.
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Russia’s blockchain e-voting is “lipstick on a pig”
The Memo
Interview on Russian propaganda efforts in The Memo
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Flash Drives for Freedom
CBC News
Interview about HRF’s work on the “Day 6” program of CBC News, aired across Canada and the U.S. by PRI
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NowThis interview on sending outside information into dictatorships
NowThis
Interview with NowThis about HRF's work sending outside information into dictatorships.
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Oslo Freedom Forum interview in The Monocle
The Monocle
My interview with The Monocle during the Oslo Freedom Forum in New York
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Importing hope into North Korea, one USB drive at a time
New York Post
My interview in the New York Post about HRF's Flash Drives for Freedom program.
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North Korean defectors have smuggled in thousands of USB sticks to fight the regime
Business Insider
My interview with Business Insider about Flash Drives for Freedom
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The Atlantic Council's questionable relationship with Gabon’s leader
The Hill
A closer look at the Atlantic Council's financial ties with dictatorships in Bahrain, Gabon, Eritrea, and Kazakhstan.
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‘Independent’ Think Tank Honors African Dictator as ‘Global Citizen’
Foreign Policy
Gabon's president is an outlandishly corrupt autocrat who probably just stole an election. Why is the Atlantic Council toasting him at a black-tie gala?
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Meet the group trying to take down North Korea with USB sticks
Business Insider
An interview I did recently with Business Insider about HRF's educational work.
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Human Rights Foundation mulling forum in Taipei
Taipei Times
An interview I did on human rights in Asia and on Human Rights Foundation's plans to bring the Freedom Forum conference series to Taipei.
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Speaking Freely at SXSW
Newseum
My interview with Newseum at the 2016 SXSW festival on the power of information to open closed societies.
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Smuggling the outside world into North Korea
ABC News
My Australian TV interview with "The World" on HRF's Flash Drives for Freedom campaign.
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Flash Drives to Open up North Korea
BBC World Service
My Newsday interview on HRF's Flash Drives for Freedom initiative. Learn more at flashdrivesforfreedom.org
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Bomben som reddet Terje Håkonsen
Aftenposten
Det måtte en kjernefysisk bombe til for hindre at Norges største snowboardstjerne, Terje Håkonsen, havnet på listen over kjendiser som kaster glans over Nord-Koreas diktatur.
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How North Korea's Marchers for Peace Became Fellow Travelers
Foreign Policy
In May, a group calling itself Women Cross DMZ carried out a highly publicized “peace march” across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separates North Korea from South Korea. The thirty women activists called for an end to the Korean War — the two sides of the conflict signed an armistice, but not a peace treaty, in 1953 and remain technically at war — and argued that the crossing was a bold new way to push for peace and unification. Their goal of bringing female perspectives into a…
In May, a group calling itself Women Cross DMZ carried out a highly publicized “peace march” across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separates North Korea from South Korea. The thirty women activists called for an end to the Korean War — the two sides of the conflict signed an armistice, but not a peace treaty, in 1953 and remain technically at war — and argued that the crossing was a bold new way to push for peace and unification. Their goal of bringing female perspectives into a male-dominated discussion was an admirable one. And yet, the women became, willingly or unwillingly, shills for North Korea’s dictatorship...
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North Korea's Fellow Travelers
Foreign Policy
Gloria Steinem, two Nobel Laureates, and 26 other women will be making a big mistake if they march across the DMZ with Christine Ahn.
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Erykah Badu’s Oppressively Apolitical Stance on Human Rights
TIME
The singer claimed ignorance, then got defensive, about her performance for an African dictator--and is scheduled to sing for another dictator later this month.
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Why did Tufts give a platform to a dictator?
Tufts Daily
Despite all of the widely-available evidence, President Kagame did not have to face a single question at Tufts' April 22 event about human rights, attacks on dissidents, massacres or his support for armed groups. To the great disgrace of Tufts alumni, parents, donors and current students, the administration chose to genuflect before a man who should have been taken to task.
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Africa's Game of Thrones
The Atlantic
The hazards of human-rights work in the continent's last absolute monarchy
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Mourning a Musical Dissident
Foreign Policy
The story of Cameroon's late 'Guitar Man,' who spent his life fighting to take down a brutal autocrat.
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Requiem for a Reprobate: Ethiopian Tyrant Should Not Be Lionized
Forbes
With the dust beginning to settle on yesterday’s death of Meles Zenawi—ruler of Ethiopia since 1991—Western leaders have been quick to lavish praise on his legacy. A darling of the national security and international development industries, Zenawi was applauded for cooperating with the U.S. government on counter-terrorism and for spurring economic growth in Ethiopia—an impoverished, land-locked African nation of 85 million people. In truth, democratic leaders who praise Zenawi do a huge…
With the dust beginning to settle on yesterday’s death of Meles Zenawi—ruler of Ethiopia since 1991—Western leaders have been quick to lavish praise on his legacy. A darling of the national security and international development industries, Zenawi was applauded for cooperating with the U.S. government on counter-terrorism and for spurring economic growth in Ethiopia—an impoverished, land-locked African nation of 85 million people. In truth, democratic leaders who praise Zenawi do a huge injustice to the struggle for human rights and individual dignity in Ethiopia.
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Hope for Obiang, but Not Equatorial Guinea
World Policy Journal
Beginning next week on August 20 in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea the world's longest-ruling non-royal—Teodoro Obiang Nguema—will host a "human rights" summit. It is being organized by a US-based charity, the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation, which is headed by Hope Sullivan Masters and includes president Bill Clinton as co-chairman of the board and former UN Ambassador Andrew Young as its other co-chairman. The effort is part of Obiang's systematic effort to whitewash his repressive regime and sweep 33…
Beginning next week on August 20 in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea the world's longest-ruling non-royal—Teodoro Obiang Nguema—will host a "human rights" summit. It is being organized by a US-based charity, the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation, which is headed by Hope Sullivan Masters and includes president Bill Clinton as co-chairman of the board and former UN Ambassador Andrew Young as its other co-chairman. The effort is part of Obiang's systematic effort to whitewash his repressive regime and sweep 33 years of dictatorship and 44 years of human rights violations, under the rug as his government continues to amass oil wealth.
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Taiwan Fails to Learn From Its Own History
The Huffington Post
The Ma administration might turn its back on human rights because of narrow realpolitik, but it shouldn't discourage or prevent Taiwanese civil society from promoting these values by interacting with global activists such as Ms. Kadeer. It's thanks to human rights, after all, that Taiwan is as free, as open, and as prosperous as it is.
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Malaysia's Bridge is Falling Down
The Huffington Post
The farcical trial of Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim resumes this week in Kuala Lumpur. This is the second time that the country's ruling establishment has tried to destroy Anwar's career with trumped-up allegations of sodomy. It succeeded 12 years ago, when he was imprisoned for six years on similar charges. Now Anwar faces up to 20 years in jail and whipping if convicted.
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Inspiring Change in North Korea Through Information
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A talk I recently gave at the School of Visual Arts in NYC about the work that we at the Human Rights Foundation are doing in helping North Korean defectors get outside information, technology, and culture into their homeland, which has no public internet and is the most closed society in the world. Today, these materials and knowledge of the outside world are driving change in North Korea.
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We are glad to announce that Bernard Parah will be one of the speakers at the upcoming Africa Bitcoin Conference.✨ Bernard Parah is the CEO of…
We are glad to announce that Bernard Parah will be one of the speakers at the upcoming Africa Bitcoin Conference.✨ Bernard Parah is the CEO of…
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Georges Azzi is a global expert on the intersectionality between sexuality, gender, migration, and health. He took to the 2024 #OsloFF stage to shed…
Georges Azzi is a global expert on the intersectionality between sexuality, gender, migration, and health. He took to the 2024 #OsloFF stage to shed…
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Each month, Human Rights Foundation and PubKey bring powerful stories directly to our audience about how #bitcoin and #FreedomTech advance…
Each month, Human Rights Foundation and PubKey bring powerful stories directly to our audience about how #bitcoin and #FreedomTech advance…
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The heat has been enjoyable upnorth this summer and Hattvika Lodge have been rock solid Still some work to do and autumn is always full of great…
The heat has been enjoyable upnorth this summer and Hattvika Lodge have been rock solid Still some work to do and autumn is always full of great…
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Every week, the Financial Freedom content team publishes a newsletter that explores how traditional financial systems can be turned against us and…
Every week, the Financial Freedom content team publishes a newsletter that explores how traditional financial systems can be turned against us and…
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Here I am #Taiwan! Glad to be back promoting my second book in Chinese, “When the Wind Blows — The Struggles for Freedom of Hong Kong.” Excited to…
Here I am #Taiwan! Glad to be back promoting my second book in Chinese, “When the Wind Blows — The Struggles for Freedom of Hong Kong.” Excited to…
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I want to thank the ₿trust board for entrusting me to lead ₿trust; I am truly honored 🧡 I look forward to solidifying ₿trust's role in Bitcoin's…
I want to thank the ₿trust board for entrusting me to lead ₿trust; I am truly honored 🧡 I look forward to solidifying ₿trust's role in Bitcoin's…
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Looking forward to speak at the Africa Bitcoin Conference - a continent where some of Bitcoin's most interesting technical and economic developments…
Looking forward to speak at the Africa Bitcoin Conference - a continent where some of Bitcoin's most interesting technical and economic developments…
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