Your brain is the battlespace

Space, we’re told, is “the final frontier.” And you can bet that where there’s a frontier, there’s a clutch of oligarchs looking to poke their noses in.

Therefore, it was no great surprise when the ridiculously named North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) declared in 2019 that space was one of the Alliance’s “areas of operations”, or when the NATO gang pledged one billion dollars last year to “improve the exchange of information between national and commercial reconnaissance satellites”, or when the Deputy Director of Space Operations of the U.S. Space warned that “China is practicing the use of satellites in air combat as part of its growing capabilities in space”.

However, as it turns out, space isn’t the next big theatre of war. Our inner microcosm is.

The great war of our time is not the war for the galaxy, but the war for the consciousness. This war has been going on much longer than most people realize, and recent technological developments have made the battle for your brain much more real than most people realize.

Today, let us peel back the layers of deception and reveal the main battleground of this fifth-generation war against us all: the space between our ears.

Surveying the battlefield

For thousands of years, military strategists have known that the success of an army often depends not on its size or even its armament, but on its knowledge of the enemy.

After all, Sun Tzu said:

“If you know the enemy and yourself, you need not fear the outcome of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory you win you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will be defeated in every battle.”

It follows that the success of the globalists in their fifth-generation war against us all depends on their knowledge of humanity itself. How do people tick? What motivates and demotivates them? What stimuli do they respond to, and how do they react?

From the perspective of those who seek to manipulate, control, and subjugate humanity, the knowledge of the human consciousness that can be gained from the answers to these questions is the most valuable knowledge of all.

It should come as no surprise, then, that not only scientific researchers, but also military planners and government officials have been trying for centuries to better understand humans and their behavior – and, more importantly, how to shape, influence, design, or completely control that behavior.

Everyone knows about Ivan Pavlov’s conditioning experiments. Any high school student can explain how Pavlov managed to condition dogs to salivate as soon as they heard the ringing of a dinner bell.

But how many people know that Pavlov’s research didn’t end with his observation of dogs? That he next began repeating his experiments on humans? That in these human experiments, Pavlov and his protégé, Nikoli Krasnogorsky, took orphaned children off the streets, anesthetized them, implanted saliva monitors, and force-fed them so that these children, like Pavlov’s dogs, could be trained to salivate on command?

How many people know the experimenters who followed in Pavlov’s footsteps? How many have seen the footage of John B. Watson’s “Little Albert” experiments, in which the psychologist intentionally traumatized an 11-month-old baby to refine his techniques for conditioning humans?

How many have read Watson himself, who boasted that “after conditioning, even the sight of the long whiskers on a Santa Claus mask makes the boy run away, cry, and shake his head from side to side”?

How many have followed the thread from Pavlov and Watson and the researchers of “classical conditioning” to the “radical behaviorists” like BF Skinner and his work in perfecting operant conditioning?

How many have read Skinner’s Walden Two, in which he proposes a plan to create a utopian society by conditioning children from birth to assume certain roles in society?

It’s now common knowledge that the CIA conducted consciousness control experiments like Project MKUltra, in which agents like Sidney Gottlieb and Dr. Ewan Cameron administered LSD to unsuspecting subjects and conducted other gruesome psychic manipulation experiments. But how many have heard of MKSearch, MKChickwit, MKOften, or any of the other offshoots of this nightmarish research? How many know that these experiments were “designed to destabilize the human personality through behavioral disturbances, altered sexual patterns, deviant behavior using sensory deprivation and various powerful, stress-inducing chemicals and psychic-altering substances” and were conducted on so-called “expendables,” that is, “people whose death or disappearance would not arouse suspicion”?

How many have heard of George Brock Chisholm, who served as the first Director-General of the World Health Organization and co-founded the World Federation of Mental Health? How many have read the transcript of his 1945 lecture, The Restoration of Psychiatry in Peacetime, in which he declared: “If humanity is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil, it needs to be psychiatrists who assume the original responsibility”? And how many know that Chisholm’s call to action was heeded by men like British military psychiatrist Colonel John Rawlings Rees, the first president of Chisholm’s World Federation of Mental Health and chairman of the infamous Tavistock Institute from 1933 to 1947?

How many people know the story of how Dr. Jim Mitchell, a retired military psychologist who had a contract to provide training to the CIA, took Dr. Martin Seligman’s findings on the psychological phenomenon of “learned helplessness” and used them for the CIA in the service of the agency’s illegal torture program after September 11, 2001?

Whether the general public is aware of this documented history or not, the records show that the study of the human psyche for the past 125 years has been carried out – or at least abused – by Machiavellian manipulators and secret schemers whose intent is to socially manipulate the masses.

And with the advancement of the science of the consciuousness in the 21st century, these social engineering programs are becoming more and more effective.

The information war

The alternative media certainly had reason to note that here in the 21st century, we are the (largely unwitting) targets of a large-scale information war waged against us largely (though not exclusively) by our own governments.

Occasionally, reports on some of the campaigns in this war break through the information blockade, and the public catches a glimpse of the battle being waged against them on all fronts.

In 2021, for example, confused Canadians were able to read about the Canadian military’s bizarre “wolf letter” psyop in The Ottawa Citizen. However, any concerns that this psychological operation and its wild tale of fake government letters and recorded wolf noises might have raised were soon quelled by the usual establishment lapdog journalists. We were told the whole situation was caused by “a handful of military reservists testing psychological tactics during a weekend exercise,” and “new control measures have been put in place to ensure that psychological operations exercises and influence activities do not reach unintended audiences” – so, obviously, there’s nothing to worry about!

UK residents got their own taste of infowar in 2021 when members of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behavior (SPI-B) – a group that provides “independent, expert, social and behavioral science advice” to the British government – admitted they were guilty of “using fear as a means of control.” Tasked at the start of the scamdemic with gathering insights into how to get Britons to comply with their government’s lockdown, social distancing, mask-wearing, and other restrictions, the SPI-B experts urged the government to “increase the perceived level of personal threat” from covid-19. Several members of the SPI-B team later regretted the action, calling it “totalitarian” and “unethical.”

One SPI-B member confessed: “You could call psychology ‘consciousness control.’ That’s what we do.” Another put it even more bluntly: “Without a vaccine, psychology is your main weapon. Psychology has really proven its worth in an epidemic.”

But when these operations reach the public, it’s almost always in disjointed and decontextualized stories like this one. Those Canadians who learned about the “wolf letter” psyop, for example, will likely never read about the SPI-B scamdemic psyop, let alone connect the events as evidence of the all-out information war.

In recent years, however, the existence of information warfare has not only become undeniable. It is not denied.

The cognitive domain of information warfare

In 2022, the Associated Press published the article ‘Pre-bunking’ Shows Promising Results in Fighting Misinformation, touting new research that supposedly demonstrates progress in developing new weapons of information warfare. After detailing the usual examples of the scourge of “misinformation,” i.e., observations that undermine public trust in “democratic institutions, journalism, and science,” the article then uncritically reports on new techniques being developed to get the public to regain trust in these demonstrably untrustworthy institutions.

“However, new findings from university researchers and Google show that one of the most promising responses to misinformation could also be one of the simplest.

In a paper published in the journal Science Advances, researchers describe how short online videos that teach basic critical thinking skills can better enable people to resist misinformation.

The researchers created a series of videos resembling a public service announcement that focus on specific misinformation techniques – features found in many common false claims, including emotionally charged language, personal attacks, or false comparisons between two unrelated items.

The researchers then presented participants with a series of claims and found that those who had seen the videos were significantly better at distinguishing false information from correct information.”

Although such research touted by the AP is supposedly of a civilian nature, it is now also gradually being admitted that this information campaign is part of a literal military war being waged against us.

In 2023, for example, the Japanese military officially added the “cognitive domain” as the newest combat domain to the guidelines of Japan’s National Defense Program. In addition to the traditional domains of territorial land, water, and airspace, and newly added domains such as outer space, cyberspace, and the electromagnetic domain, the Japanese defense authorities now also claim the cognitive domain as part of their purview.

According to The Global Times:

“The development of such cognitive capabilities would also be included in the National Security Strategy, one of the three major diplomatic and security documents to be amended by the end of 2022, VOA Chinese reported, citing the theory that Japan’s defense agencies and Self-Defense Force attach great importance to ‘misinformation’ from Russia and China, the view that the dissemination of Chinese-language information is a global trend, and that Taiwan Island’s cognitive warfare against mainland China provides valuable experience for research and study.

According to analysts, cognitive warfare is a combination of digital information, media and espionage technology that exaggerates public opinion to influence the foundations of diplomacy between countries and achieve the goals of political manipulation, citing the infamous US strategy of ‘peaceful transfer of power’ in other countries as an example.”

However, the realization that the “cognitive domain” is a veritable battlefield is not limited to the Japanese Defense Forces. In 2019, the Chinese State Council Information Office published a white paper titled China’s National Defense in the New Era, which argued that “the form of war is evolving toward informationized warfare, and intelligent warfare is on the horizon.”

In 2022, Motohiro Tsuchiya, a professor at Keio University, wrote an article on Governing Cognitive Warfare for Governing the Global Commons: Challenges and Opportunities for US-Japan Cooperation (a publication of the German Marshall Fund of the United States), warning that the threat of “smart warfare” from China and other US State Department bogeymen requires US cooperation to “create and promote rules and norms that can effectively govern cyberwarfare.”

And it didn’t take long to realize that the real threat in this new “cognitive realm” didn’t come from the ChiComs or the CRINKs or any other external force, but……. from online conspiracy theorists!

That’s right, in 2023, Tomoko Nagasako, a research fellow at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation wrote the article The Threat of Conspiracy Theories in the Battle for the Cognitive Domain – A Review of the Status of Conspiracy Theories in Japan Based on Attempts to Destroy Regimes Abroad. As the title suggests, the article provides an overview of the state of conspiracy theories abroad and in Japan, describes how these insidious conspiracy theorists pose a threat to national security “from the perspective of cognitive warfare,” and proposes countermeasures to address these grave dangers to the nation.

And what “conspiracy theories” does Nagasako cite in her article? That there’s a “deep state” that extends beyond the superficial level of government, that the covid vaccines were harmful, that the US has been researching biological weapons in Ukraine for the past few years……. You know, the usual ideas that only “crazy” conspiracy realists would even consider.

But here’s more bad news: new technologies are being developed that make all of this – from Pavlov to Skinner to Mitchell to SPI-B – and all of these secret operations – from MKUltra to MKChickwit – and all of these military campaigns – from Chisholm and Rees and the machinations of the Tavistock henchmen to the ChiComs and the Japanese and the development of cognitive warfare – look like small fry.

Brain Chips for Everyone!

By now, everyone knows that Elon Musk is the public face of the drive to brain-chip the human population. In 2017, he unveiled his transhumanist project to the world: Neuralink, a private company dedicated to creating a working brain-computer interface.

By 2021, Neuralink had something to show for its efforts: video of a monkey playing “Pong” with its mind. Not shown in that video were the more than 1,000 animals that Neuralink tortured and slaughtered in the name of their gruesome quest to merge man and machine.

Given the catalogue of horrors that is the annals of the Neuralink experiments, one would expect that the research would have been shut down immediately upon the exposure of these crimes. But one would be wrong.

In January 2024, Scientific American crowed that Elon Musk’s Neuralink has Implanted its First Chip in a Human Brain and invited its readers to ponder: “What’s next?”

Precisely one year later, it was time for the Associated Press to blow Elon’s horn, reporting that “Elon Musk says a third patient got a Neuralink brain implant” and duly noting, “The work is part of a booming field.”

In March of this year, the establishment stenographers took a turn for the biblical, with Newsweek uncritically quoting the State Department contractor’s claim that he will “Restore [a] Blind Person’s Sight With [a] Brain Chip This Year.” (And we all know how utterly accurate the Technocratic Huckster is with his timeline predictions!)

Recently, the Men’s Health penned “Yes, He Let Elon Musk Put a Chip in His Brain,” in which they introduced the world to Noland Arbaugh, a quadriplegic who can now surf websites with his brain because of the Neuralink implant in his skull.

You may think I jest when I say the coverage of these developments in the mainstream press smacks of idolatry, but I assure you I do not.

Of course, like every other “amazing” development associated in the popular imagination with the real-life Tony Stark, Musk is not the progenitor of this technology, nor is he even its most important proponent.

We could point to other supervillains in the globalist ranks who have touted the brain chip technology in the past, including Klaus Schwab and Regina Dugan. But then, this technology didn’t start with these super-gophers and globalist stooges, either. It starts in an altogether darker and less-examined corner of the global power structure.

This Is Your Brain on DARPA

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, is – as long-time conspiracy researchers know by now – the research and development wing of the US Department of Defense. Formerly known as ARPA, it sponsored the development of the “ARPANET,” which was the technological basis for what we now call the internet. But DARPA has been involved for decades in many nightmarish, weird, creepy and downright zany ideas for weaponizing cutting-edge technologies, from synthetic blood to cyborg insects to smart dust to plant-eating robots.

Perhaps one of DARPA’s most concerning projects is its ongoing attempt to map, control and manipulate the human brain.

That DARPA has been obsessed with brains since its very inception is a matter of public record. In a detailed report for Propaganda In Focus last year titled The Rise of Big Mind and Nano-Totalitarianism, investigative journalist John Hawkins explains how this obsession goes right back to the founding director of the agency, J. C. R. Licklider.

It is reasonably commonplace knowledge that the Pentagon gifted the Internet to its partners in commerce and academia to further expand its influence around the world. This came as the result of a visionary experience that ARPA’s first director, Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider had for the use and future of the Internet. Licklider only stayed two years at ARPA but he foresaw how the Internet could be used as “consciousness-computer symbiosis,” a system he outlines in his 1960 paper. As one summary of his work tells us, “Licklider posited the then-radical belief that a marriage of the human consciousness with the computer would eventually result in better decision-making.”

This interest in “consciousness-computer symbiosis” has persisted to the present day.

In 2013, then-US President Obama launched The BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative, a $100 million public-private research project to “accelerate the development and application of new technologies that will enable researchers to produce dynamic pictures of the brain that show how individual brain cells and complex neural circuits interact at the speed of thought.” Unsurprisingly, DARPA was a key contributor to that initiative, providing researchers with tens of millions of dollars in grants to develop “the technologies needed to reliably extract information from the nervous system” and other methods of probing and mapping the brain.

And in 2018, DARPA launched The Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3) program with the explicit aim of developing “high-performance, bi-directional brain-machine interfaces.”

So, has the decades-long DARPA-sponsored research brought the US military closer than ever to the realization of Licklider’s dream of “consciousness-computer symbiosis”? Of course it has!

In 2016, DARPA bragged about the creation of implantable “neural dust,” a “millimeter-scale wireless device small enough to be implanted in individual nerves [that is] capable of detecting electrical activity of nerves and muscles deep within the body and that uses ultrasound for power coupling and communication.”

In 2017, DARPA unveiled its Neural Engineering System Design (NESD) program with the purported goal of developing “high-resolution neurotechnology” capable of “mitigating the effects of injury and disease on the visual and auditory systems of military personnel.” In reality, that meant creating “neural implants that can record high-fidelity signals from 1 million neurons” and that are bi-directional, i.e., able to not only record signals from the brain, but also transmit signals to the brain.

In 2019, IEEE Spectrum revealed the true purpose of the N3 program: not to help crippled vets control prosthetic limbs with their brains, but to allow soldiers to control weapons with their consciousness. “By simply popping on a helmet or headset, soldiers could conceivably command control centers without touching a keyboard; fly drones intuitively with a thought; even feel intrusions into a secure network,” the publication gushed at the time.

LiveScience was even more straightforward in its assessment of the N3 program and its ultimate goal. In The Government Is Serious About Creating Consciousness-Controlled Weapons, Edd Gent revealed that DARPA’s quest for thought-directed weapons systems was no mere sci-fi fantasy.

DARPA, the Department of Defense’s research arm, is paying scientists to invent ways to instantly read soldiers’ consciousness using tools like genetic engineering of the human brain, nanotechnology and infrared beams. The end goal? Thought-controlled weapons, like swarms of drones that someone sends to the skies with a single thought or the ability to beam images from one brain to another.

And how will the DARPA-funded eggheads accomplish this? By genetically engineering human brains, of course!

Specifically, the plan calls for DNA to be inserted into specific neurons that will make them capable of producing two types of proteins: one that “absorbs light when a neuron is firing, which makes it possible to detect neural activity” and one that “tethers to magnetic nanoparticles, so the neurons can be magnetically stimulated to fire when the headset generates a magnetic field.”

Naturally, most of DARPA’s research projects are sold to the public under the same cover as Neuralink: it’s meant to help the unhealthy, not control the masses! How dare you stop cripples from surfing Twitter with their brains, you cad!

In reality, of course, the potential good that could come from these technologies is an afterthought. The true purpose is not to help the disabled to type or the blind to see, but to be able to manipulate, influence and even control the consciousness of the public. This is, after all, why these N3 devices contain the ability to both record brain activity and transmit signals to the brain.

The good news is that brain chips and neural lace and other implants are, at this point, still obvious and invasive technologies that require surgical intervention. These technologies are hardly stealthy. Even if the targets of such interventions were not cooperative, they would at the very least be aware that they were being chipped.

But the bad news is that militaries around the world are busy developing neuroweapons that will influence, disrupt, control or completely disable brains without the consent or even the knowledge of their targets.

If You Can’t Join ‘Em, Beat ‘Em!

The annals of military history boast their fair share of mad scientists. Take for example Herman Kahn, the RAND Corporation stooge whose ruminations on how to “win” a thermonuclear war served as an inspiration for Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove.

Or take Andrew Marshall, the octogenarian affectionately known in defense circles as “Yoda,” who spent half a century as the Pentagon’s “futurist-in-chief” and whose fever dreams of climate change and resource wars guided military planners for decades.

But none of these characters seem quite as off-the-wall as the new batch of mad scientists in the US Army’s Mad Scientist Initiative. No, that’s not a colourful nickname, that’s the actual name of a real initiative by the US Army that – in the Army’s own words – “shapes future multi-domain (i.e., Land, Air, Sea, Cyber, and Space) operations.”

The initiative hosts conferences and events envisioning future military scenarios and strategies around themes such as 2050 Cyber (“cyber capabilities will be accessible to states, non-states, and super empowered persons”), Enemy after Next (“today’s conflict is about electron vs. electron and in the future it will be about algorithm vs. algorithm”), and, of course, Human Dimension (“measuring cognitive potential, man–machine interface (centaur chess), genome sequencing, wearables/embeddables, continuous diagnostics, and performance enhancers”).

The concept of the consciousness-computer symbiosis is right up the Mad Scientists’ alley, so naturally it’s a common topic of discussion on their podcast, The Convergence. One episode of that podcast, “One Brain Chip, Please! Neuro-AI with two of the Maddest Scientists”, featured Dr. James Canton and Dr. James Giordano discussing the latest advances in neuroweaponry in the age of AI.

To hear them talk about this topic in such a straightforward way is as chilling as it is enlightening. The idea of using neurotech such as brain chips and cognitive weapons to “instrument humans” – i.e., to puppeteer or manipulate them into helping the military achieve its objectives with or without the knowledge of those being manipulated – is treated as somewhat old hat by these veterans of the neurowars. They’ve already moved beyond such basic concepts and instead deliberate – as the podcast’s own write-up on the official Mad Scientist blog site admits – on deploying cyber weapons on other species to assist the military in its operations as needed: “Opportunities exist outside of instrumenting just humans. Other species could be used as cooperatives or proxies for human engagement, or even non-human entities such as biomimetic drones.”

These self-proclaimed “mad scientists” are not hiding their agenda or the nature of the weaponry they are developing for the Pentagon’s arsenal. In fact, they write and publish articles about these very technologies.

Take Redefining Neuroweapons: Emerging Capabilities in Neuroscience and Neurotechnology, for example. Penned by Joseph DeFranco, Diane DiEuliis, and James Giordano and published in PRISM – “a premiere journal offering provocative articles relating to national and international security affairs” – the article argues: “Ongoing developments in neuroscience and technology (neuroS/T), which trend toward 5 to 10 year trajectories of progression, make the brain sciences valid, viable, and of growing value for operational use in warfare, intelligence, and national security (WINS) applications.”

The authors then casually itemize the “Current and Near-term NeuroS/T Approaches to Influencing/Impairing Opponents,” including:

• Neuropharmacological agents (tranquilizing agents, mood-altering agents, dissociative agents, hallucinogens, etc.);
• Neuromicrobial agents (viruses, bacteria, prions, gene-edited novel microbial agents);
• Organic neurotoxins (bungarotoxins, conotoxins, naja toxins, saxitoxins, etc.); and
• Neurotechnological devices (directed energy delivery systems, transcranial neuromodulatory systems, neuro-nanomaterial agents).

That these types of weapons and agents are being actively researched and developed by the US military (and, needless to say, by other major military powers) will be shocking only to those who haven’t listened to Giordano delivering his well-rehearsed patter on the “drugs, bugs, toxins and devices” that can either enhance or disrupt the cognitive functions of their target, like the “high CNS aggregation” nanoparticulates that, according to Giordano, “clump in the brain or in the vasculature” and “create essentially what looks like a hemorrhagic diathesis.”

There is doubtless much more advanced neuroweaponry being developed under cover of secrecy in the recesses of the Pentagon and DARPA-funded laboratories.

As interesting as it is to discuss what type of neuroweapon research may be going on in secret, however, it is even more remarkable to note that so much about these devices, agents, weapons and programs, from neural dust to N3 to NESD, is being publicly admitted and openly discussed by the self-proclaimed Mad Scientists of the US Army and detailed in papers and reports on various military websites. It’s enough to make one wonder if the trumpeting of these neuroweapons is itself part of the infowar.

The Fight Is On

Whether we know it or not, we are at war. There is a fierce battle going on for our consciousness. Our enemies in that battle – the technocrats, social engineers and would-be rulers of humanity – have been prepping for over a century, carefully mapping, researching, prodding and analyzing the brains of the public to determine what makes us tick, what makes us talk, and what vulnerabilities can be exploited to influence, manipulate and disrupt our cognitive processes.

Our cognitive sovereignty is paramount. The would-be rulers of the world may be trying their best to undermine our sovereignty, but, at least for now, we still control what we think.

We still have the ability to make up our own choices. To weigh information for ourselves and come to our own conclusions. To live as sovereign human beings, not transhuman cyborgs on the way to a “consciousness-computer symbiosis.”

So, while we still have the opportunity to think for ourselves, each of us can ask ourselves this question: “When Elon’s brain chip is available at my local Tesla dealer and everyone is getting it, will I be lining up to have it put in my skull?”

Author: James Corbett

 

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April 25, 2025