{"id":315745,"date":"2026-05-04T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=315745"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:58:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:58:26","slug":"the-11th-hour-us-imperialism-israels-mein-kampf-in-reverse-palantirs-oligarchic-techno-fascism-unprecedented-challenges-to-peace-thinkers-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/05\/the-11th-hour-us-imperialism-israels-mein-kampf-in-reverse-palantirs-oligarchic-techno-fascism-unprecedented-challenges-to-peace-thinkers-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"The 11th Hour US Imperialism, Israel\u2019s \u201cMein Kampf in Reverse\u201d, Palantir\u2019s Oligarchic Techno-Fascism: Unprecedented Challenges to Peace-Thinkers\/Makers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All news these days are bad news for average persons.<\/p>\n<p>Millions grit their teeth and pin their\/our hope in the acts of resistance from below against corporate, statist and ideological forces &#8212; \u201cthe Epstein Class\u201d \u2013 that are prime drivers behind daily bad news, or one feels resigned in the face of overwhelmingly powerful state and corporate actors.<\/p>\n<p>Here is my cursory glance at everyday news over an early morning cup of coffee:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Israel\u2019s \u201cpermanent wars\u201d in its biblical neighbourhoods of Lebanon, Syria, and occupied Palestine, in pursuit of \u201cMein Kampf in reverse\u201d, in Gaza, as the former Chief of General Staff of the \u201cIsraeli Death Force\u201d (IDF) Moshe Yaalon put it last year, or Israel\u2019s own \u201cHolocaust\u201d as observed by former Mossad chief Padri last week;<\/li>\n<li>Washington\u2019s war of aggression against the oil rich, geographically important and politically resistant Iran, both at the behest of Israel, and as a last-ditch American effort to shore up their evaporating monopoly over world affairs;<\/li>\n<li>the sinister American tech-oligarchy made up of sadistic and neo-Fascist megalomaniacs who line their pockets with billionaires in CEO pays while their AI is destroying the livelihoods of thousands of their skilled labourers;<\/li>\n<li>the continuing genocidal calamity in Sudan;<\/li>\n<li>the clear indications of German-led European militarism tinged with Western Europe\u2019s signature Russophobia post-Bolshevik Revolution;<\/li>\n<li>NATO\u2019s frozen proxy conflict with Moscow in Ukraine;<\/li>\n<li>the deepening economic instability worldwide triggered by the war-shocked flow and supplies of oil, natural gas, fertilizer, and helium on which the livelihoods of billions of humans depend;<\/li>\n<li>the discernible neo-Fascist transformation of <strong><em>relatively<\/em><\/strong> liberal democratic states in the West where <strong><em>Israel-First<\/em><\/strong> policies, increasingly misframed as \u201canti-Semitism\u201d, are deployed to accelerate the neo-<em>Totalitarianisation <\/em>all public institutions including universities and colleges and hitherto independent judiciary;<\/li>\n<li>the near total eclipse of any public or policy discussion, let alone pursuit, of measures to address the very real challenge of Global Warming, and its predictable consequences for all living species, not just humans;<\/li>\n<li>the ever-present threat of the use of the so-called \u201ctactical nuclear weapons\u201d, when the two nuclear-armed rogue states such as the United States and Israel openly demand and pursue a total defeat and destruction of any of its adversaries \u2013 states and non-state actors, namely Iran and the Lebanese resistance Hezbollah;<\/li>\n<li>and finally, against this backdrop, international law, the United Nations and its constitutive organs including the Security Council and the International Courts of Justice have proven utterly impotent to confront, manage and resolve any of the unprecedented crises which are identified here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Beyond the post-World War II global governing institutions and the architecture, the so-called Global South, or more accurately, the Global Majority, as this bloc of states in formerly Euro-colonized world represent the majority of human populations on earth in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding these interlocking challenges, let alone finding viable solutions, demands a tremendous daily amount of self-educational efforts even from those who are privileged enough to concern him- or herself -with public or world affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Israel \u2013 and the \u201csettler-colonized\u201d Palestine \u2013is a perfect case of causal relations between what goes in in genocidal killing fields of Gaz and, increasingly, the West Bank and the neo-Totalitarianization of democracies in the West \u2013 not to mention the already authoritarian states globally, where many of us live and work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPalestine-tested\u201d killer AI and surveillance technologies either by the Silicon Valley\u2019s Palantir (or developed by Israeli Death Force\u2019s electronic intelligence Unit 8200), among others, are globally marketed for huge profits.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth pointing out that the old perspective that technology is inherently neutral, but it is the users who put these presumably innocent technologies to nefarious ends is no longer valid.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Thiel, the founder of Palantir, whose AI-generated target is vital for Israel\u2019s ongoing genocide in Gaza, was on the record articulating his unilateralist\/totalitarian vision for the Dark New World as early as 2010, at Libertopia conference.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the young Mr Thiel in his own chilling words:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>But the basic idea was that we could never win an election on getting certain things.\u00a0\u00a0 Because we were in such a small minority.\u00a0 But maybe you could actually unilaterally change the world without having to constantly convince people and beg people, or plead with people who are never going to agree with you through a technological means.\u00a0 This is where I think technology is the alternative to politics.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A year earlier in 2009, Thiel wrote an essay for Washington DC-based libertarian Cato Institute, that he no longer believed that freedom and democracy are compatible.\u00a0 Five years earlier in 2004m Thiel identified the U.S. Constitution as the obstacle for \u201cany single ambitious person from reconstructing the old Republic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On his Substack (dated 21 April 2026), Dean Blundell has detailed the ideological root of the terrifying new technology with built-in totalitarian orientation in an essay entitled,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Peter Thiel\u2019s \u201cPalantir,\u201d the Company That Owns the Trump Regime, Just Published Their 22-Point Manifesto for America and It\u2019s Terrifying<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To belabour the obvious, the ruling class of policy and decision-makers in the United States have long been captured by \u201cIsrael-Firsters\u201d, not just Trump\u2019s real estate buddy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner but also by the Zionist billionaires who are the real Whips behind the majority of the American politicians and officials in the legislature and the executive branches.<\/p>\n<p>In 2026, the United States, importantly the world\u2019s biggest economy with the biggest imperialist killing machine, is undergoing a neo-Totalitarian transformation along Fascist lines, led by powerful megalomaniacs who do NOT believe in dialogue, democracy, or civil liberties.<\/p>\n<p>The earth-shattering events (mass firing, wars, genocides, insider trading, nuclear-threats, etc.) that we are all living through today, with varying degrees of impact on our lives result from men like Peter Thiel. Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu, all of whom are part of the Epstein Class.<\/p>\n<p>Among this overwhelming majority of only modestly ambitious humans on earth are activists and scholars, like us, who write for, read or support our late friend, mentor and colleague Johan Galtung\u2019s <em>TRANSCEND Media Service<\/em> weekly updates, and, needless to say, the 99% of fellow earthlings.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the numbers, frequencies of protests and numerous acts of non-violence resistance against the aforementioned Dark Actors with disdainful views towards moral sentiments of the human majority, we the resisters are finding ourselves on our backfoot as the techno-politics of men with totalitarian Fascist values relentlessly pursue their values and material interests, be they revenues, contracts, land, strategic resources, data or deadly new technologies.<\/p>\n<p>I feel sure that even our late friend and teacher Johan would find peace-making exceedingly difficult in this deeply distressing chapter of human follies. As <em>TRANSCEND<\/em> community worldwide this might be a time for us to bang our heads together to process many of these interlocking challenges that have, in effect, brought our collective humanity on the brink of conceivable catastrophes, mostly Made in Israel-First USA.<\/p>\n<p><em>___________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/maung-zarni-1.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-121061\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/maung-zarni-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> A Buddhist humanist from Burma (Myanmar), Maung Zarni, nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, is a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/\" ><em>TRANSCEND Media Service<\/em><\/a><em> Editorial Committee, of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a><em>, former Visiting Lecturer with Harvard Medical School, specializing in racism and violence in Burma and Sri Lanka, and Non-resident Scholar in Genocide Studies with Documentation Center \u2013 Cambodia.\u00a0Zarni is the co-founder of <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/forsea.co\/\" >FORSEA<\/a><em>, a grass-roots organization of Southeast Asian human rights defenders, coordinator for Strategic Affairs for <\/em>Free Rohingya Coalition,<em> and an adviser to the <\/em>European Centre for the Study of Extremism<em>, Cambridge<strong>. <\/strong>Zarni holds a PhD (U Wisconsin at Madison) and a MA (U California), and has held various teaching, research and visiting fellowships at the universities in Asia, Europe and USA including Oxford, LSE, UCL Institute of Education, National-Louis, Malaya, and Brunei. He is the recipient of the &#8220;Cultivation of Harmony&#8221; award from the Parliament of the World&#8217;s Religions (2015). His analyses have appeared in leading newspapers including the <\/em>New York Times, The Guardian <em>and<\/em> the Times<em>. Among his academic publications on Rohingya genocide are <\/em>The Slow-Burning Genocide of Myanmar\u2019s Rohingyas<em> (Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal), <\/em>An Evolution of Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar: From Strategic Embrace to Genocide<em>, (Middle East Institute, American University), and <\/em>Myanmar\u2019s State-directed Persecution of Rohingyas and Other Muslims<em> (Brown World Affairs Journal). He co-authored, with Natalie Brinham, <\/em>Essays on Myanmar Genocide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All news these days are bad news for average persons.  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