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Whitney Webb: The Rise of the Thielverse & the Surveillance State "In this interview on The Chris Hedges Report, investigative journalist Whitney Webb traces what she sees as a decades-long evolution of the American surveillance state—from Iran-Contra and John Poindexter, through the post-9/11 Total Information Awareness program, into Palantir, predictive policing, the PayPal network, AI-enabled government systems, autonomous warfare, and the increasing fusion of Silicon Valley with national-security power. Chris Hedges opens the program with a strongly critical political argument. He rejects the idea that the Trump administration is dismantling what critics call the “deep state.” Instead, he argues that state power is being reorganized around a new alliance of political leadership, intelligence infrastructure, surveillance technology, and billionaire-controlled private companies. Webb’s contribution is narrower but closely..." https://ironcountynews.org/the-rise-of-the-thielverse-the-surveillance-state/