{"id":503,"date":"2026-04-22T18:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/?p=503"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:48:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:48:01","slug":"the-rise-of-the-surveillance-leviathan-ai-corporate-power-and-the-future-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/the-rise-of-the-surveillance-leviathan-ai-corporate-power-and-the-future-of-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of the Surveillance Leviathan: AI, Corporate Power, and the Future of Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Transnational Corporations such as Palantir, IBM, and Northrop Grunman (along with a handful of relatively smaller corporations), dominate the surveillance and AI technologies that are used by Western governments today against their own citizens and their foreign adversaries. These technologies facilitate unprecedented surveillance, data analytics and storage, as well as AI-driven computing, which is to say data organization and manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>This is the same technology that the IDF used in Gaza to create &#8220;hit lists&#8221; targeting not only individual Hamas fighters, but actually entire bloodlines, erasing entire Palestinian families from the earth.<\/p>\n<p>This is the same technology that facilitated the abduction of a head of state (Nicolas Maduro) from his own home in a foreign country with barely a shot fired.<\/p>\n<p>And this is the same technology being deployed today against those being scapegoated as illegal aliens here at home, and anybody and any group which opposes this government, as is our Constitutional Right, and our moral duty, if that government is oppressive and unjust. Instead, our conversations are recorded, our faces and voices recognized, our movements and interactions tracked, our privacy violated&#8211;and all of this is only possible with technologies such as those of Palantir and the like.<\/p>\n<p>As one historian once famously said: &#8220;power corrupts&#8230;. absolute power corrupts absolutely&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As for the bottom line, Palantir alone profited from $3 Billion in revenue in 2025 alone, with 55% of that being from defense contracts&#8211;paid for by the taxpayer. Of course, politicians in both parties were eager to collect nearly $5 million in campaign contributions, split almost evenly between the two parties. And then we are told by Democrats and Republicans that they stand for democracy and freedom, when it is clear that they are in bed with these economic giants, and are all in favor of the technological Leviathan that is the surveillance state. After all, this public-private alliance predates Trump 47, it predates Trump 45 and has been consistent across elected officials in both parties (with some exceptions) since at least 2001, and the ensuing Patriot Act.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Franklin once said: &#8220;Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The surveillance state, and the Military-DHS-Prison Industrial Complex, are the biggest threats to the Constitution and to civilization as we\u2019ve known it, to every right that we have been promised. Particularly given the gravity and sophistication of today&#8217;s technology, which will only further grow exponentially in fact, unless interrupted and ultimately dissembled. This is our moral and civic duty given the malignancy of this aberration.<\/p>\n<p>Do not remain silent! Our voice is our strength! Recognize and research! Knowledge is power! Organize and mobilize! Power in numbers! Resist Empire! Power to The People!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speak Truth2Power!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Transnational Corporations such as Palantir, IBM, and Northrop Grunman (along with a handful of relatively smaller corporations), dominate the surveillance and AI technologies that are used by Western governments today against their own citizens and their foreign adversaries. These technologies facilitate unprecedented surveillance, data analytics and storage, as well as AI-driven computing, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}