Iain Davis joins Whitney Webb to discuss his forthcoming book, The Technocratic Dark State, which explores how the so-called “counter-elites” and tech billionaires behind much of the second Trump administration’s policies envisage a world remarkably similar to, and perhaps even worse than, that of the globalist oligarchs long reviled by Trump’s electoral base.

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Follow Iain: Pre-Order The Technocratic Dark State : Trump, AI, and Digital Dictatorship, IainDavis.com, Iain Davis, Author at Unlimited Hangout, Substack, and Iain Davis | X.com.

Originally published 12/18/25.

The PayPal Presidency Part IV: Teaching Technocracy with John Klyczek

Whitney and John Klyczek discuss how Big Tech, led by the PayPal Mafia, and neo-conservative think tanks are converging to influence Trump administration education policy and education financing.

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Follow John: Unlimited Hangout, @ProfessorTaoist | X, School World Order.com, TrineDay

Originally published 08/22/25.

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In this episode, Whitney is joined by Mark Goodwin to discuss how the passage of the GENIUS act is the culmination of decades of the PayPal Mafia's efforts in the digital finance space.

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Originally published 07/24/25.

In this episode, Whitney is joined by Iain Davis to discuss his recent article series on the philosophy and political theories that motivate the PayPal Mafia and their most prominent members like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk.

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Follow Iain Davis: Iaindavis.com, Substack, OffGuardian, Unlimited Hangout, Geopolitics & Empire, Books by Iain Davis

Originally published 03/31/25.

In this episode, Whitney is joined by UH contributor Max Jones to discuss the influence of the PayPal Mafia's Peter Thiel on Trump's HHS, the likely policies of a RFK-led HHS, and what the expansion of the contracts between HHS and the Thiel-founded Palantir portend for the expansion of the surveillance state.

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Originally published 02/10/25.

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In this episode, Whitney is joined by Dr. Jacob Nordangard to describe the early influence of oligarchs like the Rockefeller clan in the development of the UN and other international institutions, efforts to hijack the environmental movement to further corporate control of planetary resources, and the UN policy agendas seeking to digitalize and surveil both people and planet.

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Follow Jacob: jacobnordangard.se, Amazon.com, Skyhorse Publishing, Jacob Nordangård - YouTube

Originally published 11/25/24.

In this episode, Whitney is joined by independent media veteran James Corbett to discuss the upcoming US presidential election, how it differs from previous cycles and why rejecting the corrupt political duopoly is more important than ever.

Published 10/25/24.

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In this episode, Whitney, along with UH contributor Mark Goodwin, talk to John Titus about the recent US economic crises, the role of BlackRock on US fiscal policy during crisis events, and the brazen criminality of Wall Street and how deeply corrupted financial institutions enable their plunder of taxpayer wealth.

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Originally published 10/04/24.

Whitney is joined by Unlimited Hangout contributor Stavroula Pabst to discuss Peter Thiel, the man behind Trump's VP pick J.D. Vance and the CIA-linked architect of key aspects of the technocratic surveillance state.

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Follow Stavroula: @stavroulapabst / X and Stavroula Pabst | Substack

Originally published 07/25/24.

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In this episode, Whitney and Mark Goodwin discuss their recent article on GREEN+ and its efforts to impose a carbon market on Latin America through satellite surveillance and opaque contractual agreements as well as attempts to obfuscate a shift to totalitarianism as "free market" capitalism and altruism.

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Follow Mark: @markgoodw_in, BTC Magazine.

Originally published 04/29/24.

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