Rare Earth Investment by Paul Mason - A Novel Review

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"Rare earth rocks have become crucial not only to some of our most advanced technologies like the cloud, but there are also fundamental elements in the invisible and immaterial networks of global power," he says. "These men don't care if the story is positive or negative. Any story will do."

Our series concludes with some revelations. Metahaven uses the story of Wikileaks to show us the infrastructure of the cloud and its super-jurisdictional powers. The BBC’s Paul Mason takes us on a wild tour of China in his novel Rare Earth. And a pile of iPhones brings your host a moment of clarity.

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