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- 1 weeks ago1h 57m
OMNIWAR 4: Roundtable
The discussion begins around the 3-minute mark following a technical glitch. SummaryUniversities have increasingly shifted from independent inquiry towards serving corporate, financial and technocratic power. Although education has historically served ruling elites, we contend that contemporary control is more extensive, with funding arrangements, career incentives and institutional priorities shaping what academics research and teach.We trace this transformation through early twentieth-century social engineering, post-war state-directed research and the military-industrial complex, followed by neoliberal reforms from the 1970s onwards. Commercialisation, tuition fees, reduced public funding and dependence on corporations and philanthropic foundations have all influenced academic disciplines and marginalised challenging perspectives.We question whether the expansion of higher education has genuinely encouraged independent thought. We argue that universities increasingly prioritise efficiency, measurable outcomes, employability and compliance over intellectual independence. We suggest that education increasingly produces predictable workers and consumers rather than critical thinkers. Students, meanwhile, are encouraged to pursue qualifications and satisfy institutional requirements rather than question existing social arrangements.The discussion criticises the marginalisation of Marxist, class-based and anti-capitalist analysis. We argue that identity-based cultural conflicts can distract from class divisions and the power of transnational elites. We express concern about AI-generated essays, educational technology and commercial online platforms, which risk weakening independent thinking while expanding institutional control and data collection.We argue that academia’s current direction results from political and institutional choices rather than historical inevitability. The broader message is that intellectual independence requires questioning dominant narratives, recovering neglected critical traditions and creating educational spaces less dependent on established sources of power.Support Our WorkIf you would like to support the work of the Study Group on Technology and Power, please consider making a donation at https://opencollective.com/omniwar. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dhughes.substack.com
- 1 weeks ago46 min
Daniel Broudy, “Controlling Concepts, Controlling the Future: The Role of the Academy in the Directed Demolition of Civilization”
AbstractIn 2015, during his tenure as Chairman of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab described the Fourth Industrial Revolution as a transformation that changes not what we do but who we are. His description of some mysterious inexorable process, which few members of the public appeared to notice at the time, offer profound insights about actors in places of power and influence and how their mental processes work to conceptualize the masses.Since concepts precede words, language serves as the common denominator for our intellectual transactions, both in the academy and in broader society, and therefore must also be the first site where the modification of meaning is made to alter basic conceptual categories. The reconstruction of society toward the “New Normal” is typified by how we think and speak about the ongoing sacrifice of the center of societal and cultural reproduction: the family unit. As envisaged by the major investors in global governance by technological means, elite institutions of higher learning such as Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Cambridge, and Oxford have lead the global campaign in dismantling key concepts that, for millennia, delineated males from females.The capture and control of academic discourse point to the successful capture of the Western academy now responsible primarily for remolding young minds to fit a future of total unquestioning servitude. This presentation considers the disintegration of the Western academy in the Covid-19 world as another causal link in the long chain of events organized to disrupt, disintegrate, and deploy anti-scientific thinking about the natural world, about creatures and creation. Enlisted in the effort to critique the reengineering of our perceptions of the human body are theories in Gestalt psychology and cognitive linguistics.Support Our WorkIf you would like to support the work of the Study Group on Technology and Power, please consider making a donation at https://opencollective.com/omniwar. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dhughes.substack.com
- 1 weeks ago53 min
Ursula Edgington, “How & Why Corruption & Propaganda Infiltrates Teacher-Education”
Abstract“How did we get into this mess?”…is a common question in this post-Covid era. The widening recognition that our current global turmoil is the result of a strategic plan, rather than a series of mistakes (and that the labelling of that strategic plan as a ‘conspiracy theory’ is itself, an intrinsic part of that same plan) often amplifies our ‘freeze’ response to fear. That’s why it’s crucial to objectively uncover the corporate playbook strategies that indoctrinate generations: teacher-education.Educational policies therefore present valuable analytical tools. Here, I take a root cause analysis approach to examine teacher-education curricula, presenting insights into how and why populations are vulnerable to the technocratic weapons of this silent war. Drawing on Australasian and UK data as case-studies, I expose how universities’ teacher education programmes suppress ‘uncomfortable knowledge’ and silence dissenting voices. Student-teachers’ access to broad curricula, good quality teaching and unbiased learning resources are restricted. The institutions that train schoolteachers are devoid of opportunities that develop critical thinking skills and authentic debate. This is because hidden forces limit, manipulate and cancel research publications and thereby skew learning resources, preventing academic freedoms. Awareness of, and ways to navigate academia’s corporate playbook, including recognition of propaganda used in behavioural science, have been censored. This exacerbates the distortion of facts for student-teachers and future pupils. The subsequent negative impacts on schools, families and wider societies are catastrophic. Finally, I suggest ways to counter this infiltration of globalist agendas in teacher-education programmes.Downloadable Materials The slides for this presentation can be downloaded below:The transcript of this presentation can be downloaded below:Support Our WorkIf you would like to support the work of the Study Group on Technology and Power, please consider making a donation at https://opencollective.com/omniwar. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dhughes.substack.com
- 2 weeks ago50 min
Susanne Dodillet, “From Humanist Reflection to Social-Scientific Governance: The Corruption of the Modern University”
AbstractThe university is usually pictured as a free sphere, a place of disinterested inquiry, critical thinking and individual responsibility, insulated from politics and the market. Even its critics tend to treat whatever falls short of this ideal as an unfortunate aberration rather than an expression of the institution itself. This talk takes a more sober starting point. My claim is not that particular studies are biased or particular fields compromised, but that the modern university as a whole operates as a propaganda instrument: not an autonomous sphere but both an object and an instrument of governance, and the keystone of the technocratic expert society we inhabit.Working from the Swedish case, I trace how the university was remade over the twentieth century from a site of humanist reflection into an apparatus of social-scientific governance. The decisive impulse came from American research philanthropy, whose large-scale investments built up an empirical social science designed to make society measurable and steerable: an instrument of social control. Once social questions were recast as objects of measurement, the social ceased to be a moral and political matter and became a technical one, and those who paid for the mapping also defined the problems to be mapped and the direction in which they were to be solved. A welfare state grew up around these structures that cared for people while quietly disarming their capacity to resist the concentration of power that built it. What made this possible was not any single discipline but the institution as a whole: nothing conceals an apparatus of governance better than the good name of free, truth-seeking science.This is what makes the modern university corrupt in a structural rather than an anecdotal sense: it is not the quality of thought but the interests of its funders that decide which questions are asked and which answers gain authority. Today the expansion of steerability takes new forms: information-gathering intensified through digitalization and ever denser surveillance, with the university still serving as the developer that realizes it, as newly endowed research centres present new technologies as science and public benefit that everyone is expected to welcome.This talk draws on my book Historien om det moderna universitetet. Från humanistisk reflektion till samhällsvetenskaplig styrning (Celanders, 2026).Support Our WorkThe time, expertise, and effort required to produce these presentations is considerable, and we put them out for free.If you are able to support our work financially, please consider making a donation at https://opencollective.com/omniwar. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dhughes.substack.com
- 2 weeks ago45 min
Jacob Nordangård, “The Capture of Academia – The Case of Climate Change”
AbstractIn 1988, the threat of anthropogenic climate change was declared as a common concern for mankind by the United Nations General Assembly. The same year, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was founded by WMO and UNEP to assess the science of human-induced climate change. The Cold War was about to be replaced by the “Warm War”.This marked a remarkable paradigm shift in which researchers confirming this theory would henceforth be allocated enormous resources compared to researchers questioning the “scientific consensus” and highlighting natural climate variations. The former would be heralded as heroes whereas the latter would to a large degree be ostracized and branded as climate deniers funded by the oil industry. How did this happen?My lecture outlines the roots of the anthropogenic climate change theory, its close connections to eugenics, the technocratic management of human and natural resources, and how climate change became anchored as a key concern for academic research in natural as well as social sciences. This refers in particular to how the Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund and affiliated organizations methodically worked to influence the direction of academic research —through key institutions such as the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California and the International Meteorological Institute (IMI) at the Stockholm University—since the 1950s, with the ultimate goal of establishing a world-wide digital climate mitigation system. As stated in the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s 2005 Annual Review: “The warming of the climate is […] a global issue that touches every conceivable facet of human society. Therein lies our opportunity.” Climate change is ultimately about global social, political and economic control.Downloadable MaterialsThe slides for this presentation can be downloaded below:Support Our WorkThe time, expertise, and effort required to produce these presentations is considerable, and we put them out for free. If you are able to support our work financially, please consider making a donation at https://opencollective.com/omniwar. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dhughes.substack.com
- 3 weeks ago48 min
David A. Hughes, “Academia and the National Security State”
AbstractContrary to claims about “academic freedom,” Anglo-American academia has been deeply embedded within the national security state since World War II at least, when scientific knowledge was secretly harnessed by the military, e.g., in the Manhattan Project. After the war, 70% of research funding in the United States came from federal agencies, with most of the rest coming from foundations such as Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie. The CIA exerted a powerful influence, as, for instance, when 44 US universities participated in MKULTRA research, or through the CIA’s covert control of social science research at leading universities to find more efficient ways of controlling human behaviour through “social engineering.” A new breed of “defence intellectuals” arose whose purpose was to serve power rather than apply any kind of critical thinking that might benefit society. They included war apologists, counterinsurgency experts, and specialists in psychological operations.When the extent of these problems was revealed in 1967/68, there was an outcry, yet decades later the capture of academia remains evident in its refusal to apply critical thinking to deep structural events such as “9/11” and “Covid-19” and its cheerleader role for official narratives. This marks a significant failure in academia’s much-vaunted civic duty and gives the lie to the idea that academia speaks truth to power in any fundamental sense.Downloadable MaterialsThe slides for my presentation can be downloaded below:The transcript of my presentation can be downloaded below:Support My WorkIf you have not done so already, please consider taking out a subscription to davidahughes.net or upgrading an existing one – free, paid, or gold-tier.If you valued this content and are not a paid subscriber, please consider leaving a one-off tip for an amount of your choosing.If you would like to make a one-off or recurring donation to help fund my work in general, I would be most grateful. There are numerous ways of doing so, including wire transfer, Paypal, UK cheques, and Buy Me A Coffee. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dhughes.substack.com
- 4 weeks ago2h 13m
Interview with Truth Action Project, September 26, 2026
Watch this interview on my websiteMany thanks to Chuck Fall of Truth Action Project for interviewing me about a wide range of subjects. We discussed:* the Mise Eire festival;* the Omniwar concept; * the upcoming Omniwar 4 symposium, titled The Capture of Academia* continuities between the “9/11” and “Covid-19” operations; * academia’s failure to speak truth to power and the irresponsibility of intellectuals; * what would it take for academics to address the evidence regarding the events of “9/11”?;* the three camps of awareness framework and why it is self-reflexive; * should “9/11” be classed as a state crimes against democracy?; * the lack of effective legal challenges re: “9/11”;* the military dimension of the “Covid-19” operation; * the “AI going rogue” narrative — what is really about?; * the aggressive build out of AI server farms; * classified military technology; * the utility of Marxist class analysis and a brief history of transnational class relations;* Q&A: “9/11” justice; depopulation; the TV series Utopia; Reiner Fuellmich; manufactured division within “the truth movement”; secret meetings on Abby Rockefeller’s farm; and* resistance in the Omniwar.Support My WorkIf you have not done so already, please consider taking out a subscription to davidahughes.net or upgrading an existing one – free, paid, or gold-tier.If you valued this content and are not a paid subscriber, please consider leaving a one-off tip for an amount of your choosing.If you would like to make a one-off or recurring donation to help fund my work in general, I would be most grateful. There are numerous ways of doing so, including wire transfer, Paypal, UK cheques, and Buy Me A Coffee. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dhughes.substack.com
- Sep 25, 202649 min
Totalitarianism, War, and Resistance in the Post-Covid Era
Many thanks to Stephen Kerr for inviting me to give a keynote presentation for the Mise Eire festival last week. It was a very peaceful, friendly, and uplifting event with not a single fascist in sight. Thanks also to all the kind folk of Ireland who came to listen to me and to those who spoke to me afterwards. I really enjoyed getting to meet so many new people and to hear everything they had to say. And thank you to the other speakers (Melissa Ciummei, Ivor Cummins, Simon Elmer, and Neil Oliver) for some really great talks. Plenty of food for thought, as well as intellectual and spiritual nourishment!Below is the abstract for my talk, which was titled “Totalitarianism, War, and Resistance in the Post-Covid Era.”Since 2020, it has become undeniable that an attempt is underway to manufacture a novel, biodigital form of totalitarianism on a global scale, the operating system for which is technocracy. The implications of this are historic, namely, the end of the nation-state and the rights of citizenship as we have known them since the French and American Revolutions, and their replacement with a global system of total control facilitated by digital technologies and AI. The ruling classes of the world are united in this project, which can only be achieved through world war: not the kind of war that looks anything like WWI or WWII, but rather a new kind of war – Omniwar – that is being stealthily waged against the people across all areas of human existence. As a globally interoperable all-digital financial system is being built; as ministries for digital transformation spring up in every country seeking to turn political decision-making over to AI; and as data centres for powering the AI control grid appear all over the United States, a technocratic future no longer seems like science fiction. Yet, as more and more people around the world begin to see through the psychological operations used to render them passive while the architecture of their oppression is invisibly scaffolded around them, resistance is mounting. In the final analysis, the attempt by a miniscule proportion of the world’s population to subjugate and enslave the rest of humanity is doomed to failure. The people will rise, and a new era of human freedom awaits those brave enough to put down the global technocratic coup. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dhughes.substack.com
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