Break The Matrix!

An important conversation between Whitney Webb and Chris Hedges Under the radar, the billionaire class is building the infrastructure and models necessary to create a dystopian future in which cities become billionaire fiefdoms – completely privatized, governed by dictatorial CEOs and financed by subservient taxpayers. The buildout of data centers is one essential part of the effort to construct a totalitarian capitalist society, which is already advancing. In this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Hedges interviews investigative journalist Whitney Webb, the author of “One Nation Under Blackmail,” who unravels the complex relationships between elected leaders, the National Security State, the state of Israel and Big Tech. Webb discusses the methods being used in the Silicon Heartland, the area around Columbus, Ohio, where Les Wexner, who has ties to organized crime and was Jeffrey Epstein’s most notable benefactor, and other powerful billionaires such as Peter Thiel of Palantir, have made significant headway in creating a privately-run city — New Albany. She describes their use of innocent-sounding front groups, such as Jobs Ohio, private development corporations and political bribery to enrich themselves and create what they are marketing as Smart Cities. Hedges and Webb expose the connections between the billionaires behind this effort and the State of Israel. Webb argues that Israeli startups have been promoted to Big Tech “so that US technological infrastructure on multiple levels would be so intimately enmeshed with Israeli interests that they could never meaningfully boycott Israel.” The same technological infrastructure is also being fused with the National Security State – intelligence and the military – to also make it dependent on the private sector. The ideology underlying this new model of feudalism originates from the Neo-Reactionary Movement. Beyond that, Webb explains, the billionaires involved believe fervently in a transhumanist future where “the end goal of humanity is to have humanity merge with AI in some capacity” such that there are two classes, the wealthy and a large underclass that is either exploitable or expendable, and obedience is enforced through technology. There is still time to prevent further development of this dystopian future by, among other actions, unplugging from the very technology being employed to create it. WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qbs91ivQmg

📰 NEW — 81 Years of Annihilation: We Must Demand An End to U.S. Militarism Once And For All The vastness of the American Empire is built upon a mountain of civilian corpses and an ocean of innocent blood. Despite historical revisionism to the contrary, US imperialism remains the greatest threat to world peace. Read My Latest: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/antiwar/81-years-of-annihilation-we-must-demand-an-end-to-u-s-militarism-once-and-for-all

📰 NEW — ICE: From A Rogue Agency To A Murderous Terrorist Organization The wave of violence committed by ICE officers only continues to increase, while the agency implements new changes against transparency and accountability, and top officials blatantly threaten more bloodshed on American streets. Read my latest: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-watch/ice-from-a-rogue-agency-to-a-murderous-terrorist-organization

ROF aims to build a non-partisan, non-violent alliance of activists, advocates, independent media outlets, individuals, influencers, and organizations who are ready to hit the streets and raise our voices. We believe it's time to collectively take a stand against the rapid acceleration in data center development. "While some movements are focused on exclusively speaking to Conservatives or Liberals, we are willing to work with left, right, center, and politically homeless Americans who feel betrayed by both parties, " co-founder and independent journalist Derrick Broze said. "We are a non-violent, nonpartisan movement that opposes the expansion of data centers because of the threats to the environment and wildlife, the expansion of surveillance, and in the interest of a human-centered future." We stand for a future and a world where the health of humanity, the environment, and wildlife takes precedence over the unchecked expansion of hyperscale AI-focused data centers. We stand firmly against hyperscale data centers and AI tools which will disempower humanity, cause further destruction to the natural world, and increase the ability for state and corporate surveillance. We demand local officials implement a moratorium on the construction of new data centers until adequate protections for the people, the environment, and wildlife are put in place. These protections could include but are not limited to local ordinances establishing noise limits, water protections, and specific zoning for data centers. We are also demanding transparency from governments and corporate firms building the data centers with annual reports on air pollution, water consumption, etc. "AI power plants can't hold a candle to People Power. This is the true power we must tap into right now, and Reclaim Our Future is kickstarting the generator," says Hakeem Anwar, co-founder, CEO of @abovephone & author of the AI Data Center Ecology Report. "Thousands of activated humans across 50 states, putting their hearts and minds together to address a problem that regulations won't. Its time to step up and organize, wherever you are."

Reclaim Our Future: A Nonpartisan National Day of Action Against Data Centers Announcing Reclaim Our Future: A Nonpartisan National Day of Action Against Data Centers Join Reclaim Our Future on August 1st for a National Day of Action Against Data Centers. Visit ReclaimFuture.com for more details and to organize an event! Independent journalists and activists are coming together to launch a National Day of Action Against Data Centers on Saturday August 1st, focused on protests, rallies, marches, teach in's and educational events around the rapid build out of hyperscale AI data centers.

📰 NEW: Technocracy Arrives in Gaza Amid U.S.-Zionist Backed Power Transfer Technocratic regime change under the guise of a Zionist backed peace plan is soon to reshape the political reality of Gaza following years of devastation. Read my latest: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/international-news/technocracy-arrives-in-gaza-amid-u-s-zionist-backed-power-transfer

📰 NEW: Don't Be Fooled By The "Democratic Socialists", More State Bureaucracy Won't Fix Our Problems The new way forward posited by so called democratic socialists is nothing more than another false dichotomy within a political establishment offering more of the same collectivist tyranny. True liberty comes from opposing the state! Read My Latest: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/the-state/dont-be-fooled-by-the-democratic-socialists-more-state-bureaucracy-wont-fix-our-problems

📰 NEW: Chilling Report Finds Israel Deliberately Targeting Children As Genocide In Gaza Continues A new report from the United Nations Human Rights Council has documented systemic human rights abuse is targeting Palestinian children. ⚠️ Due to disturbing subject matter reader discretion is advised ⚠️ https://thefreethoughtproject.com/new-study/chilling-report-finds-israel-deliberately-targeting-children-as-genocide-in-gaza-continues

This most recent article written by our friend and colleague John Vibes is incredibly important for people to read. https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-corruption/the-first-amendment-is-dead-rigged-trial-sentences-peaceful-activists-to-decades-in-prison We have now reached the stage of the regime in which people who did not participate in any criminal activity, but merely expressed dissent against the regime, are being charged as terrorists and sentenced to decades in prison — falsely justified by ambiguous "pre crime" and "thought crime" legislation made so deliberately vague as to effectively label any political dissident as an extremist, putting millions of Americans at risk. I covered this in my own previous reporting in May, in my article titled "White House 2026 Counterterrorism Strategy Makes Millions of Americans Potential Targets" (read the report here — https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-surveillance/white-house-2026-counterterrorism-strategy-makes-millions-of-americans-potential-targets) This trial is the first successful attempt by this Administration at criminalizing an ideology, effectively rendering the First Amendment moot.

📰 NEW: One Year Old Shot Dead In Walmart Parking Lot By Police Department With A History Of Abuse A one year old child is dead and a community is left reeling after an officer involved shooting during an encounter with the notorious Senatobia Police Department. Read my latest: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-watch/one-year-old-shot-dead-in-walmart-parking-lot-by-police-department-with-a-history-of-abuse

📰 NEW: Paramedics Who Fatally Injected Elijah McClain Have Their Convictions Overturned In yet another example of systemic corruption, the former EMTs responsible for administering a fatal dose of ketamine to Elijah McClain face no real accountability. Read my latest: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-watch/paramedics-who-fatally-injected-elijah-mcclain-have-their-convictions-overturned

NEW: All Roads Lead Back to Reagan: The Reagan Era Policies Still Haunting America Decades Later Many of the policies initiated during the Ronald Reagan administration have left a perpetually destructive legacy. READ: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/the-state/all-roads-lead-back-to-reagan-the-reagan-era-policies-still-haunting-america-decades-later

Due to personal reasons I've been forgetting to upload my recent articles from the past couple of weeks. Here is the first of two — Three Stories You Missed While The White House Parades The UFC On The Front Lawn While the public's attention is drawn towards pointless theatrics, here are three important stories that actually deserve attention. READ: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/news/three-stories-you-missed-while-the-white-house-parades-the-ufc-on-the-front-lawn

📰 NEW — Rampant Kleptocracy Feeds Wealth Inequality In A Crumbling American Empire Government spending is out of control, robbing the American people blind to fund the endless excess of a ruling class drunk on power. Read my latest: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-corruption/rampant-kleptocracy-feeds-wealth-inequality-in-a-crumbling-american-empire

📰 NEW — War Against The Homeless Continues As Louisiana Cruelly Criminalizes The Unhoused Aggressive anti-homeless legislation only serves to further exacerbate an increasingly inhumane approach to the homeless crisis. Read my latest: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/homeless/war-against-the-homeless-continues-as-louisiana-cruelly-criminalizes-the-unhoused

📰 NEW — And A Very Important Read: White House 2026 Counterterrorism Strategy Makes Millions of Americans Potential Targets A new counterterrorism strategy for 2026 released by the Trump administration on Wednesday continues to ramp up despotic rhetoric targeting political adversaries and any Americans opposed to authoritarianism. Read my latest: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-surveillance/white-house-2026-counterterrorism-strategy-makes-millions-of-americans-potential-targets

📰 NEW: Palantir Manifesto Shows The Clear Convergence Of Technofascism With Technocracy A 22 point manifesto recently published by tech giant Palantir reads like a villainous plot for dystopian domination. Read my latest: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/deep-state/palantir-manifesto-shows-the-clear-convergence-of-technofascism-with-technocracy

📰 MY LATEST — With Class Consciousness On The Rise, It Must Be Accompanied With An Embrace of Anti-Statism While many are undergoing a mass awakening of class politics, opposition to the coercive control of statism must remain the central focus of any successful revolution. Read more: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/the-state/with-class-consciousness-on-the-rise-it-must-be-accompanied-with-an-embrace-of-anti-statism

📰 MY LATEST — Pyramid of Power: The Must-See Docuseries For All True Crime and Conspiracy Realists This 17 part documentary series takes a hard look at what many call "conspiracy theories", and with thorough investigation backed by empirical evidence sheds light on the organizations, institutions, and individuals that seek to exude power over society. An absolute must watch for anyone who considers themselves a proponent of truth and liberty. READ: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/deep-state/pyramid-of-power-the-must-see-docuseries-for-all-true-crime-and-conspiracy-realists

Casual reminder for the "But what can we do!?" folks. Exit and build. https://theconsciousresistance.com/exb/