Cory Doctorow on Nostr: In 2023, Farrell and Newman published an important book called *Underground Empire*, ...

In 2023, Farrell and Newman published an important book called *Underground Empire*, explaining how, during the War on Terror, GWB (and then Obama) weaponized global payment processing systems (most notably SWIFT) and other boring, technical systems, and then used them to wield enormous power around the world:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/10/weaponized-interdependence/#the-other-swifties

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