Whitney Webb

Thiel-Linked HHS Nominee Threatens MAHA Ambitions With Biotech Stance

Biotech investor and Peter Thiel associate Jim O’Neill is poised to usher in a deregulatory paradigm that would allow a proliferation of dubious products on the US market under the guise of “innovation” and “efficiency.” Late last November,…

Palantir: The Paypal-Offshoot Becomes A Weapon In The War Against Whistleblowers & Wikileaks

Peter Thiel, who once compared writers at Gawker to Al Qaeda after they wrote about his sexuality, is a close confidant of Donald Trump — who, as president, continues to crack down on whistleblowers (even denying them bail) and whose administration…

Howard Lutnick & The Commandeering Of The Department Of Commerce

Trump’s pick for Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, is poised to further facilitate the now long-standing, commandeered use of the Department of Commerce to engineer the rise of a global financial control system in private hands that runs on…

The Chain Of Command: How Facebook’s Libra, Bank Regulators, & PayPal Built A New World Currency

The initial trio of pieces in The Chain series have focused on the three essential pillars for creating a new digital monetary system. The first, The Chain of Custody, examined the construction of novel custodial infrastructure to enable the secure holding…

“Sustainably” Surveilling & Tokenizing Nature: The Case of O.N.E. Amazon

A satellite surveillance company with links to U.S. intelligence, former Trump administration officials, U.S. government debt barons and the stablecoin Tether (USDT) announced plans earlier this year to build the “Internet for Forests” in the Amazon rainforest. The satellite company,…

The Chain Of Issuance: The People & Patents That Built The Financial Surveillance Network

The patent hoarding developers and investors associated with PayPal and Google who built the first iteration of e-commerce and digital advertising have turned to the blockchain to fulfill their vision of total financial surveillance and the circumnavigation of…

Trump Embraces the “Bitcoin-Dollar”, Stablecoins to Entrench US Financial Hegemony

This past Saturday, former president Donald Trump addressed the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tennessee, expounding upon the crypto and bitcoin policies likely to be implemented as part of a likely future Trump administration. Speaking in front of a banner…