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By Andrew Korybko, reposted with permission.
It’s unimaginable that the US would allow any competitor to reduce its enormous new market share in the European energy industry, which it plans to further expand to make Europe even more dependent on it, and that the US wouldn’t weaponize this if Europe ever defies it on anything of significance.
The US’ dispute with Europe over Trump’s planned acquisition of Greenland, in pursuit of which he even threatened punitive tariffs against several NATO allies before relenting after they agreed to a framework deal, exposed the strict hierarchical vassal-client relationship between them. This was explicitly acknowledged by Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever, who said that “Being a happy vassal is one thing. Being a miserable slave is something else” in response to Trump’s pressure upon Europe.
French President Emmanuel Macron’s speech at Davos complemented Wever’s worries when he accused the US of trying to “weaken and subordinate Europe”, in response to which he called for “clearly building more economic sovereignty and strategic autonomy”, though it’s arguably too late for that. Politico recently reported that “Fears grow over Europe’s soaring dependence on US gas imports”, which the US could weaponize amidst serious future disputes with the EU over whatever the issue might be.
Not only could it cut them off from its exports, but its blockade of Venezuela proves that it has the political will to seize energy tankers at sea, the policy of which could be employed in that scenario to ensure that other suppliers aren’t able to satisfy Europe’s needs. Likewise, the only realistic ones that could potentially do so are the Gulf Monarchies, which are all under US influence as it is. It’s therefore indeed possible that this dependence could be exploited to coerce concessions from a recalcitrant EU.
The question thus arises of how this dependence came to be, which is due to the US weaponizing Europe’s paranoia of Russia supposedly being the one to weaponize energy geopolitics as punishment for Europe’s military support of Ukraine, though nothing of the sort materialized. To the contrary, Russia remained committed to meeting its contractual obligations to Europe in spite of its energy exports literally fueling European arms factories producing weapons that are given to Ukrainians kill Russians.
In its defense, Russia’s calculations appear to be retaining its reputation as a reliable supplier in order to not scare away other clients (both current and prospective) as well as secure additional budgetary revenue, some of which is then invested in producing the weapons used in the special operation. To this day, Russia still exports energy to Europe, albeit at a much smaller scale due to Europe’s anti-Russian sanctions and its pivot away from Russian supplies to American ones.
Scaling up Russian energy imports isn’t in the cards, however, since no major European economy dares to anger the US by importing less from it. They only still import much lower levels of Russian energy due to the market’s inability to replace its exports till next year. Any move to scale up imports from Russia, such as resuming imports via the one undamaged Nord Stream pipeline or the several overland ones, could lead to their destruction as proven by the Nord Stream precedent, which is a powerful deterrent.
In retrospect, Europe ceded its sovereignty to the US by sanctioning Russian energy, which it did after the US weaponized its Russophobic paranoia. The US then replaced Europe’s dependence on Russian energy and is willing to weaponize this if Europe ever defies it on anything of significance. Had Europe and Russia maintained at scale their “Faustian bargain” of fueling each other’s arms industry, financially in Europe’s case and literally in Russia’s, then Europe would still have its “strategic autonomy
UPDATE 512PM Pacific Time! It appears that the rumors of at least 112 C-17 aircraft going to the Middle East is correct! Here’s the story from Zero Hedge. Folks they don’t bring that kind of manpower and equipment to bluff, this will be all out war soon!
China gets almost 20% of its oil from Iran so they might. The US continues its huge buildup for war in the Middle East.
Also Beijing asks banks to dump US Treasuries weeks ahead of Trump’s China visit, warns of shock swings. That’s another large blow against the dollar.
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Guest Post by Uriel Araujo at Global Research. Reposted with permission.
Among the many revelations brought by the Epstein files recently released, one has been overlooked, if not almost entirely ignored. Buried amid many sordid sex-trafficking messages, there is a set of references to biological laboratories in Ukraine. They point to experimental research of an ethically extreme nature, tied to Jeffrey Epstein’s long-documented obsessions with eugenics, genetics, and human engineering. The near-total silence of the Western press on this is mind-blowing, to say the least.
The relevant material appears in email exchanges released by the US Department of Justice. In one message (file EFTA02625486) dated August 30, 2018, Epstein’s correspondent, Bryan Bishop, writes of “proceeding with more mouse testing at my Ukraine lab (surgeries/microinjection)”.
In another message from August 5, 2018 (file (EFTA01003966), the same individual outlines a project whose ambition is, simply put, staggering:
“This gets us out of our self-funded ‘garage biology’ phase to the first live birth of a human designer baby, and possibly a human clone, within 5 years. Once we reach the first birth, everything changes and the world will never be the same again, much less the future of the human species”. The same exchange mentions the “use of funds” spreadsheet for a “designer baby and human cloning company”.
The author of these messages, Bryan Bishop, is a Bitcoin developer, self-described transhumanist, and biohacker with a public footprint in cryptocurrency and radical life-extension circles. His interest in funding cloning research has long been known, but the Epstein angle is only coming to light now. In fact, a forgotten 2019 piece by Antonio Regalado (senior editor for biomedicine for MIT Technology Review) details how Bishop was funding “a Ukrainian lab” to conduct experiments on mice connected to his “designer baby” project.
Bishop here is not a marginal crank emailing a nobody. He was actively seeking funding from Epstein, whose power, influence and financial reach was enormous, as we are increasingly learning. The correspondence suggests logistical planning rather than idle speculation, with Ukraine explicitly named as a site for laboratory work. Anyone can search for these messages in the Epstein Library.
Sputnik covered the exchange, explicitly mentioning Bryan Bishop, Ukraine, and the laboratory reference. By contrast, the Telegraph reported on the same email chain but, interestingly enough, carefully omitted any reference to Ukraine, reframing the story as a general tale of Epstein’s interest in eugenics and “designer babies”.
One may recall that Epstein’s fascination with genetics and selective breeding was already documented years ago. In 2019, before these emails were public, the Guardian reported that Epstein hoped to “seed the human race” with his DNA, allegedly planning to impregnate women at his infamous Zorro ranch in New Mexico ranch, where underage sexual abuse and human trafficking had been denounced. The New York Times also reported this, describing Epstein’s fixation on genetic engineering, and noting that prominent scientists attended his gatherings even after his 2008 conviction. No wonder: he was funding many of them.
What the newly released emails do is add is shift the story from grotesque fantasy to something that looks uncomfortably like an attempt at implementation. Be as it may, the mention of Ukraine as a site for such work inevitably intersects with a much older debate.
For years, allegations concerning biological laboratories in Ukraine have circulated, often dismissed in Western media as “Russian propaganda”. Yet the record is quite solid.
Speaking before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 8, 2022, then Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland confirmed that the US was working with Ukrainian biological research laboratories. Documents dating back to 2012 show that the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency funded bioresearch in Ukraine, and leaked materials from March 2022 indicated that an agreement under the Obama administration led to the construction of laboratories handling “especially dangerous pathogens”.
One should also keep in mind that Ukraine has long been a hub for CIA activity, as even the New York Times acknowledged when reporting on the expansion of US covert operations there for over a decade. Epstein himself was no stranger to arms-dealings and CIA connections, even including Iran-Contra links.
I have recently argued that allegations of biological and chemical weapons use in Ukraine deserve serious scrutiny. Accusations involving prohibited weapons are not new, and claims about shady biological research facilities have surfaced repeatedly over the years. Again, Western outlets have largely waved these away, yet they have occasionally surfaced in mainstream media, including reporting on documents indicating Hunter Biden’s role in introducing Metabiota to Ukraine and its ties to pathogen research (Hunter being the son of former US President Joe Biden).
In fact, Ukraine’s well documented record of human rights infringements, including abuses reported by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, makes all of it more believable.
To be clear, the Epstein-Bishop emails do not, by themselves, prove the existence of a cloning program in Ukraine. That would be a claim requiring further evidence. But they do corroborate, in a limited yet disturbing way, the notion that Ukraine has been used as a permissive environment for ethically dubious research, shielded from scrutiny and potentially intertwined with Western intelligence networks. The fact that such material is emerging from the Epstein world, a network already tied to human trafficking and other atrocities is disturbing enough.
To sum it up, the Epstein files demand more than selective outrage and police investigation. They invite serious, sustained international scrutiny of covert biological research, and the institutions and figures that potentially enable it, including shady American players with their share of ties with intelligence agencies.
This article was originally published on InfoBrics.
Uriel Araujo, Anthropology PhD, is a social scientist specializing in ethnic and religious conflicts, with extensive research on geopolitical dynamics and cultural interactions. He is a regular contributor to Global Research.
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Guest Post by Colin Todhunter from Global Research. Reposted with permission.
Five years is a long time in the world of ‘independent’ media. Looking back from 2026, the issue of 2020–2022 wasn’t about a deadly virus. It was an economic lockdown and a pay-day bonanza for Epstein’s pal Bill Gates and his cronies in Big Pharma. But the period was also a stress test for the soul of the ‘alternative’ media.
Some like Off-Guardian and Global Research called the ‘pandemic’ out for what it was and paid the price:
Global Research is now the most censored news website in Canada (click the link for an excellent piece by Elizabeth Woodworth); from arguably being the top alt media site on the net (in terms of readership) pre-2017, it has lost most of its audience in the last six years. Of course, many failed the test, trading their so-called radicalism for the safety of the official narrative.
For many years, I was a consistent contributor to a couple of publications that branded themselves as sanctuaries for the counter-narrative. But as the 2020s took hold, the editorial stance shifted from critiquing state-corporate power to policing their own writers.
The transition was subtle. Work on ‘safe’ radical topics often in faraway lands was still welcomed. But anything that questioned the C-19 consensus was quietly shelved with no debate or engagement.
The breaking point for me came from a single quote. In one of my submissions, I had quoted Robert F Kennedy Jr, a prominent voice critical of Big Pharma and public health policies. At the time, he was the ultimate ‘heretic’. I received a vitriolic, unprofessional outburst from an editor who had quietly shelved all of my submitted pieces that had challenged the official narrative on the COVID event. The kind of tantrum one expects from a disgruntled teenager, not a supposed defender of free inquiry.
This is the tell-tale trait of gatekeeper hucksters. They trade on their apparent credibility, but the moment you quote the ‘wrong’ person or question the ‘correct’ narrative on public health, the mask slips. They refused to give space to challengers, aggressively policing the boundaries of acceptable discourse.
The upshot was that during that period, it became clear who was controlled opposition. Aside from the aforementioned outburst, others simply refused to respond to emails that asked why they would not publish anything by anyone that countered the official narrative. Some of the publications maintained the aesthetic of radicalism while enforcing establishment limits on the issues that mattered most.
We also saw it with celebrated ‘anti-empire’ bloggers—those who claim to dismantle the ‘narrative matrix’ every morning yet found themselves curiously silent or compliant when that same matrix deployed the most sweeping authoritarian measures in modern history.
These figures who rail against foreign wars but stayed quiet on quietly accepted domestic medical mandates, seemed more concerned about being censored, de-platformed and losing their income stream. They thundered about the empire abroad but accepted the bio-security empire at home.
The ‘alternative’ media didn’t just move; it split. One side chose the difficult path of consistent scepticism. The other chose to protect their brand.
Many of us remember those who held the line; from the editors of certain sites to the dozens of writers who accepted the cost of principled dissent. And we remember those who did not.
This critique isn’t a blanket attack on everyone who supported the narrative but a specific indictment of those who became aggressive enforcers of orthodoxy or who decided it was easier to just keep their heads down. ‘Radicalism’ is easy when it’s relatively safe or profitable, but true dissent carries a cost.
An ‘alternative’ or ‘independent’ media that collapses under pressure is not an alternative at all; it is merely a softer interface for the same system, translating authority into more palatable language while calling it resistance. In such cases, editors end up enforcing orthodoxy as zealously as any mainstream institution.
Another crisis will come. When it does, the same people will once again demand to be seen as dissidents. But the record already exists. They were tested and they failed.
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America isn’t mad enough about this and in fact I wonder if most even care about what’s being discovered in the Epstein files? Oh I know some people are very upset but not nearly enough and you can see it in the airport in Atlanta where this guy in the video was going off on people about the files. Some would say he was too extreme and yet that’s how extreme we need to get in regard to this horrific garbage we’re reading, EVERYONE should be up in arms about these files! Look at the people just stand there and tell him to be quiet. They don’t want their little reality bubbles shattered!
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I guess it shouldn’t surprise me because most of America follows a different Jesus, one that I don’t know. We could see that on display again last night for the Super Bowl 60 halftime shows. Here’s a picture I found Ryan Teaford’s FB account this morning and it sums up this different Jesus quite well.
Ryan also wrote this in regard to the picture above. There was a Super Bowl, and two halftime shows. One was Bad Bunny. He’s not a Christian. The world acting like the world shouldn’t shock believers.
But the other halftime show, the Turning Point USA event with Kid Rock, that’s where the alarm should’ve gone off.
Because this is what was sung on that stage:
“The midnight glancers and the topless dancers,
The Northern Lights and the Southern Comfort
And it don’t even matter if their veins are punctured
All the crackheads, the critics, the cynics
And all my heroes in the Methadone clinics”
And then, the name of Jesus is mentioned at the end.
And suddenly, for many Christians, it’s all acceptable. All forgotten. All excused. This is American Jesus.
That is the shallowness of “Christianity” in America today. As long as someone puts “Jesus” at the end of their vulgar music lyrics then it’s all good.
It’s like Trump when he mentions Jesus everyone fawns over him and thinks he’s really a Christian and is truly “God’s man”. Trump has taken hold in their hearts as an idol and it seems like no amount of spiritual discernment can break through to the deluded. You can put physical evidence in their faces and it doesn’t matter, their eyes start spinning and they say something to deflect like “CUZ MURICA” because they can’t think anymore, they’re under strong delusion.
I told my wife today that its a good thing God prepared me for this stuff ahead of time by having me read Cathy O Briens’ books like Trance Formation of America and also Access Denied: for Reasons of National Security which expose these horrific crimes. The Franklin Coverup is another book that I read 11 years ago that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up as I read it. These books, while not easy to read, definitely prepared me spiritually and emotionally for what we’re seeing now in the Epstein files. If you’re going to read them or the Epstein files please pray up before you do because they are very hard to read.
Those books also confirm what the Epstein files are now openly telling us, that the super wealthy, the mainstream media, government officials, entertainers are all in on this sick game. They think it puts them in some exclusive club and now they’re flaunting the Epstein files over all of us, by revealing what’s in them and then gaslighting the public by saying there’s there’s nothing left to investigate let alone prosecute.
It’s them telling us that “ha ha we literally got away with murder (of children and babies) and there’s nothing you can do about it”. Judging by the mute response that I’ve seen from American’s so far I’d say the so called elites have nothing to worry about because while American’s should be up in arms with pitchforks and torches, they just went back to scrolling on their phones and pretending that everything is fine. It’s anything BUT fine!
Then there’s the new code word for cannibalism, jerky. Lots of videos going up about this right now. This is one of them.
This would be the raw meat of babies and infants who were sacrificed through Satanic Ritualistic Abuse (SRA) – usually after their tiny bodies had been raped so much that they were no longer alive, and after the organs had been harvested for sale on the Black Market.
The flesh then was called “jerky” and eaten. Sick right? Keep in mind that there are millions more files (photos and videos especially) that they haven’t released yet but they might. Personally I believe they’re watching the reactions on social media and seeing what they should release next. Keep in mind they love “shock value” as it feeds the demons they pray to with emotions like fear and anger.
Of course one should feel RIGHTEOUS anger over what they’ve done and are still doing to our children! There are a lot more like Epstein out there who don’t like the spotlight but are just as dangerous and evil.
Brian over at Health Impact News wrote a piece about the Epstein files that also brought up the book called “The Franklin Scandal” by Journalist Nick Bryant. He has covered that story and others like it for years and he just did an interview with Maria Zee (which I will post below) and here is some of what was said.
Nick Bryant was just interviewed by Maria Zeee to discuss just how horrible the Epstein story is, and how what is being reported in the corporate media is really just “limited hangouts” and not the more gruesome parts that these files reveal.
One of the things Nick stated in this interview that caused me to pause the video and just weep for a few minutes, was the fact that people over the past many years just don’t want to hear about these evils of child sex trafficking, and that even members of his own family have never read any of his books over the years.
This is true for me as well, and many of us who were covering these topics long before the DOJ released these files. While we have people who read about these topics online, in our circles locally we mostly stand alone because nobody wants to talk about these topics.
Nick states in the interview:
“According to the CDC, 25% of under-aged girls have been molested, and 5% of under-aged boys have been molested. Now people in the field will say that 25% is slightly conservative for the girls, and 5% is very conservative for boy.
But if you just go with the CDC numbers, you’ve got 50 million Americans who have been molested.”
He also stated that it was his belief that “You have to be compromised to become president (of the U.S.)”
Maria sates: “This is literally the biggest story of our lifetime.”
It’s also hard to watch other news sources just ignore the files altogether (because they don’t fit the Trump narrative) or downplay them and use dismissive techniques like “it wasn’t proven in court” to justify their continued support of Trump and his administration. The strong delusion spoken about in 2 Thess. 2:11 is here and the Trump supporters have been given over to it.
In conclusion it appears that the Bible is correct on prophecy as always. In my opinion we are at the very end of the age right before Jesus Christ returns. 2 Timothy 3:1–5 says, “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!
I submit to you that ALL OF THAT DESCRIPTION from 2 Timothy applies to the world today and America in particular! If you don’t agree with the party in power then you are scum and you should be imprisoned, deported or just executed by ICE in the streets. No, you’re not worthy of a trial in their eyes, you’re just a “looney lefty” (because you don’t agree with murder and pedophilia) and you need to be dealt with.
I pray that the Trump supporters wake up before it’s too late. He is the antichrist and I’ve been saying it for 8 years now. If you keep following him you will end up following him to the lake of fire! REPENT and turn away from Trump and this world! Jesus Christ is coming back soon and when He does it’s God’s wrath time, there will be no more second chances!
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Also Friday morning, the US issued a travel warning for Iran amid the gathering of nations for negotiations in Oman. The embassy website stated that there has been an escalation in security mechanisms, road blockades, and the ongoing blocking of internet access. As a result, airlines are reducing flights or canceling them entirely. ‘Leave Iran now,’ the embassy statement said. ‘Plan alternative means of communication, and, if safe to do so, consider departing Iran by land to Armenia or Türkiye.’
Then we talk about the state of the US Economy. Companies last month announced 108,435 job cuts, a 118% increase from a year earlier. The report on Thursday also showed hiring intentions slid 13% from a year earlier to 5,306 — marking the weakest total for any January in the firm’s records back to 2009. The US Economy has been dead since the COVID stimulus of 2020. Click this link to learn more.
Last but not least is the silver market and the COMEX. Reports are now circulating which CLAIM Hecla and other mining companies are refusing delivery to COMEX at listed prices. Why would they sell silver at the COMEX (paper) price of $77.36oz (as of 2-6-26) instead of the Shanghai physical silver price of $120oz? That’s a huge disparity in prices and if I owned a silver company I would definitely take the higher price.
Americans told to leave Iran ASAP
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The Trump admin is also demanding that social media companies turn over all info they have on you if you disagree with their current policies like not allowing guns at protests or shouting insults at law enforcement. Oh and don’t insult Kash Patel’s gf or she will sue your ass off!
That tells us they are also trying to bankrupt us if we speak out about them. It’s called lawfare. Let’s not forget that all of these clowns are protecting pedos as most of them are into it and are completely lawless! Yet they expect us to respect them? NEVER! At this point I have ZERO respect for any of them including Trump and I will only bow to the KING OF KINGS AND THE LORD OF LORDS Jesus Christ!
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By John W Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead from Global Research. Reposted with permission.
“No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.”—Albert Speer, Nuremberg Trials
In 2021, amid a global pandemic, warnings that the federal government might repurpose warehouses into detention facilities on American soil were dismissed as speculative, alarmist, even conspiratorial.
Five years later, what was speculation is a blueprint for locking up whomever the government chooses to target.
According to investigative reports, the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are actively purchasing warehouses, factories and industrial buildings across the country for use as detention centers—often with little public notice, minimal oversight, and virtually no accountability.
This is no longer a warning.
It is a five-alarm fire.
With the Trump administration moving forward with plans to rapidly acquire warehouses for what could become a nationwide mass detention network, it’s no longer a question of whether the government will expand mass detention to lock up Americans for defying its mandates but when.
This is how it begins.
The government already has the means, the muscle and the motivation. It has spent decades building a vast archipelago of prisons, detention centers, and emergency facilities capable of imprisoning large numbers of people.
Almost 70,000 people are currently being held by ICE. With $45 billion burning a hole in its budget, the Department of Homeland Security is spending big on its concentration camps in order to hold more people, for longer periods, with fewer constraints.
While the Trump administration insists that it is only targeting the “worst of the worst”—murderers, rapists, gang members, pedophiles and terrorists—most of those being rounded up have no criminal record. Being undocumented is a civil violation, not a crime.
This is where we have to tread cautiously, because authoritarian regimes love to play Orwellian word games, and the current administration is no exception.
Image: Official portrait of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem (Public Domain)
Case in point: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem claims that every single individual arrested or detained has committed a crime, but being charged with or even suspected of a crime is very different from being convicted of a crime.
When the Secretary of Homeland Security equates an arrest with a crime, she isn’t just playing word games—she is effectively nullifying the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments’ guarantee of due process and the presumption of innocence.
If the bar for being arrested is merely committing a crime, we’d all be locked up.
It may come to that eventually.
Given the over-criminalization of the American legal code, which contains over 5,000 federal criminal statutes and hundreds of thousands of regulations—translation: every single American unknowingly commits at least three crimes a day—every American can be rendered a “criminal” at the government’s whim.
When you have a government in the business of rounding people up in order to fill warehouses and play to the optics of being tough on crime, it won’t just be undocumented immigrants getting rounded up.
In The Origins of Totalitarianism, political theorist Hannah Arendt warned that concentration camps were not built primarily for criminals. They were built to imprison the innocent—people rendered “criminal” by the state simply for who they were or what they believed.
These camps functioned as laboratories for total domination, where guilt was irrelevant and innocence offered no protection. Individuals were stripped of rights, reduced to categories, and rendered expendable.
That is the danger we are facing now: rightlessness in an age of rights.
When detention quotas replace due process, when people are locked up not for what they have done but for who the government decides they are, the machinery of authoritarianism is already in motion.
Reports of ICE smashing car windows, grabbing people off the streets, and detaining American citizens despite proof of legal status offer a preview of what lies ahead.
We’re not supposed to live in a “papers, please” society, and yet under Trump’s leadership, America is rapidly becoming one.
History has a name for what happens when governments abandon due process and begin locking people up for who they are rather than what they have done.
The next step is always logistical. Once the decision is made to detain people en masse, the state must find places to hold them—out of sight, out of reach, and outside the law.
That is where the warehouses come in.
Make no mistake: these are concentration camps in their earliest form, rebranded and revived for a new age.
“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” ICE director Todd M. Lyons said of deportations. “Like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings.”
This language has been used before.
Concentration camps were not initially designed as extermination centers. They were built to intimidate, isolate, and neutralize those deemed undesirable—political dissidents, religious minorities, social outcasts, and anyone perceived as a threat to the regime.
As the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum explains,
“The term concentration camp refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy.”
That is the point.
This is not about immigration.
It is about what happens when any government claims the power to decide who belongs, who poses a threat, and who can be disappeared for the sake of order.
The legal framework already exists.
Under the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the President and the military are authorized to detain individuals—including U.S. citizens—without access to family, legal counsel, or the courts if the government labels them terrorists.
That label can now be applied so interchangeably with the terms anti-government and extremist that it doesn’t take much to be considered a terrorist anymore.
The Department of Homeland Security, for example, broadly defines extremists as individuals and groups that are “mainly antigovernment,” reject federal authority, or question the legitimacy of government power. Military veterans have been flagged as potential extremist threats simply for being disgruntled or disillusioned. Ordinary Americans exercising their constitutional rights—speaking freely, protesting, criticizing the government, owning firearms, or demanding warrants—can find themselves on a government watch list.
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Protest at Los Angeles City Hall (January 30, 2026) (CC BY 4.0)
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As a New York Times editorial once warned, you may be viewed as an anti-government extremist (a.k.a. domestic terrorist) if you are afraid that the government is plotting to confiscate your firearms, believe the economy is about to collapse, suspect the government will soon declare martial law, or display too many political bumper stickers on your car.
According to the FBI, espousing conspiracy theories or holding views that are contrary to the government’s can also qualify someone as a domestic terrorism concern.
This is what happens when you put the power to determine who is a potential danger in the hands of government agencies, courts, and police, but also give those agencies sweeping authority to detain individuals and lock them up for perceived wrongs without due process.
It is a system begging to be abused. And it has happened here before.
In the 1940s, Japanese-Americans were rounded up and imprisoned in concentration camps based solely on their ancestry. The Supreme Court upheld the policy in Korematsu v. United States (1944), concluding that national security concerns outweighed individual liberty.
Courts have a habit of recognizing injustice only after the fact, and the government has a tendency to sidestep the rule of law when it suits its purposes. As Justice Scalia once warned, “In times of war, the laws fall silent.”
The groundwork has been laid.
The infrastructure for domestic concentration camps has existed for decades.
FEMA—the Federal Emergency Management Agency—has long been tasked with emergency planning that includes large-scale detention capabilities.
Created by executive order in the 1970s, FEMA’s mandate expanded quietly. By the 1980s, it was involved in classified military-type training exercises carried out in conjunction with the Department of Defense. Code named Rex-84, federal agencies, including the CIA and the Secret Service, were trained on how to respond to domestic unrest and carry out mass round-ups.
FEMA’s role in planning for domestic internment and mass detention is well-documented.
Now if you’re going to have internment camps on American soil, someone has to build them— or repurpose existing structures to serve that function—and then staff them—and eventually fill them.
In 2006, the government awarded a Halliburton subsidiary a $385 million contract to build American detention facilities for use during “emergencies,” including mass immigration, “natural disasters,” or to support the rapid development of new programs in the event of other emergencies.
That rationale has now been updated for a new era.
Today, DHS and ICE are buying up and converting warehouses, factories, and industrial spaces across the country into detention facilities. These buildings—designed for storage and logistics, not human beings—are being outfitted with fencing, surveillance systems, holding areas, and makeshift sleeping quarters. Many operate outside the standards that apply to traditional correctional facilities, with fewer inspections, limited oversight, and little public visibility.
The government insists these warehouse detention sites are necessary to handle prisoner overflow, respond to emergencies, and maintain flexibility.
History tells a different story.
What begins as temporary becomes permanent. What is justified as exceptional becomes routine. And what is done to non-citizens has an uncanny way of expanding—especially when dissent, protest, or noncompliance are rebranded as threats to national security.
Once again, the language of emergency is being used to normalize extraordinary abuses of power.
Now, detention camps require not only buildings but lists of potential detainees, and here, too, the government is prepared.
For decades, the government has acquired and maintained, without warrant or court order, databases of individuals considered threats to national security. One such database—reportedly known as “Main Core”—contains millions of names and is intended for use during national emergencies to locate and detain perceived enemies of the state.
As Salon reports, this database, reportedly dubbed “Main Core,” is to be used by the Army and FEMA in times of national emergency or under martial law to locate and round up Americans seen as threats to national security.
In 2026, the static lists of the past have been replaced by “living” databases.
Fueled by agentic AI and mass data-scraping, the government’s surveillance architecture no longer relies on manual updates. These AI systems autonomously crawl social media, financial records, and geolocation data in real-time, creating high-accuracy “threat profiles” that are virtually impossible to escape.
Once you are flagged by an algorithm that operates without human oversight, you aren’t just a name on a list—you are a permanent node in a digital dragnet that follows you from your keyboard to the warehouse door.
This AI-driven dragnet is on the hunt using a specific, long-established ideological map. The technology has simply caught up to the government’s decades-old desire to categorize dissent as a national security threat.
Remember back in 2009, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released two reports, one on “Rightwing Extremism,” which broadly defines rightwing extremists as individuals and groups “that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely,” and one on “Leftwing Extremism,” which labeled environmental and animal rights activist groups as extremists.
Incredibly, both reports used the words terrorist and extremist interchangeably.
That same year, the DHS launched Operation Vigilant Eagle, which calls for surveillance of military veterans returning from Iraq, Afghanistan and other far-flung places, characterizing them as extremists and potential domestic terrorist threats because they may be “disgruntled, disillusioned or suffering from the psychological effects of war.”
These reports indicated that for the government, so-called extremism is not a partisan matter.
Anyone seen as opposing the government—whether they’re Left, Right or somewhere in between—is a target.
Which brings us to the inevitable conclusion: when the government claims the authority to broadly define who is a threat, uses taxpayer funds to erect a network of concentration camps across the country, and methodically builds databases identifying anyone seen as opposing the government as an extremist, the question is not if that power will be abused—but when and how often.
As I make clear in Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, this is the slippery slope.
If the price for fighting illegal immigration is the complete abdication of our constitutional republic, that price is too high.
The means do not justify the ends.
The police state’s solutions to our so-called problems pose the greatest threat to our freedoms.
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Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His most recent books are the best-selling Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the award-winning A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, and a debut dystopian fiction novel, The Erik Blair Diaries. Whitehead can be contacted at staff@rutherford.org.
Nisha Whitehead is the Executive Director of The Rutherford Institute. Information about The Rutherford Institute is available at www.rutherford.org.
Featured image: Clashes occur during an ICE protest in Chicago (June 10, 2025) (CC0)
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