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David A. Hughes
David A. Hughes, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Lincoln and author of "Covid-19," Psychological Operations, and the War for Technocracy; host of the David A. Hughes podcast.
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Oct 10, 2026
David A. Hughes, “Academia and the National Security State”
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2:32David A. HughesGUEST
In this presentation, I trace a century of corruption of U.S. academia from its reliance on Wall Street and foundation funding through the militarization of scientific research during and after World War II, the academy's deep embeddedness in the U.S. national security state that emerged in the late 1940s up to the present day.
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2:54David A. HughesGUEST
My thesis is that academia in the United States and elsewhere has betrayed its civic duty and the public trust invested in it by becoming an embedded mercenary force serving the interests of the establishment.
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3:10David A. HughesGUEST
By the mid-1930s, all the most prestigious universities in the United States had fallen under the control of Wall Street.
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3:18David A. HughesGUEST
As the former Emeritus Professor of International Political Economy, Kees van der Peel observes, Harvard, with the largest endowment at the time, had a J.P. Morgan management.
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3:31David A. HughesGUEST
Its largest donor was Standard Oil, including its key owner families, the Whitney's, Harkness's and Rockefeller's.
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42:26speaker_0UNKNOWN
Conclusion.
Interview with Truth Action Project, September 26, 2026
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9:57David A. HughesGUEST
It is a term that I coined back in 2022, um, and I explain it in chapter one of my COVID book.
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10:06David A. HughesGUEST
Um, it's to describe the nature of the war that is currently being waged against humanity with a view to bringing in global technocracy.
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10:16David A. HughesGUEST
So what I've done, um, and this is a kind of academic side of it really, is to re-theorize the nature of war.
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10:23David A. HughesGUEST
Um, my contention is that the nature of war has fundamentally changed, um, and that it's become particularly evident since 2020 that what we are dealing with here is no longer primarily the old-fashioned concept of war, standing armies, wars between nation states, fighter jets, bullets and bombs.
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Totalitarianism, War, and Resistance in the Post-Covid Era
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0:00David A. HughesGUEST
Well, hello Ireland, and thank you for this invitation to speak today and to take part in this uplifting celebration of Irish culture and indeed human freedom.
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0:12David A. HughesGUEST
For those of you who don't know me, my name is David A. Hughes, and I'm a former academic who quit the profession in 2024 to speak truth to power regarding developments since COVID.
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0:29David A. HughesGUEST
COVID-19 Psychological Operations and the War for Technocracy, Wall Street, the Nazis and the Crimes of the Deep State, as well as a 22,000 word report that I wrote for Solari.
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0:50David A. HughesGUEST
But in this talk, I want to summarize some of the key points from those publications and to consider some more recent developments.
Interview with David Skyman and Richard House, August 13, 2026 - Part 2
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34:28David A. HughesGUEST
Yeah, so this is chapter one of the book, and this is my kind of bigger picture explanation of what's been going on in terms of global political economy.
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34:39David A. HughesGUEST
The fundamental idea is that the existing paradigms of control have been breaking down.
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34:48David A. HughesGUEST
The propaganda system, as we've been discussing, has grown less effective as more and more people start to understand what it is.
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34:56David A. HughesGUEST
The neoliberal economic system, which has generated inequalities for decades, produced mass protests all over the world in 2019, just before COVID.
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Interview with Flemming Blicher, July 6, 2026 - Wall Street, the Nazis, and the Crimes of the Deep State, Part 4b
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5:38David A. HughesGUEST
So they do all of these things to try and make sure that people don't understand the scale of the resistance to intimidate people into not resisting.
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5:54David A. HughesGUEST
We have the power, because how can a tiny minority of global technocrats control 8 billion people? And so much of it is reliant on psychological means and trickery.
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Interview with David Skyman and Richard House, August 6, 2026, Part 1
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11:45David A. HughesGUEST
So you can see how important the mainstream media is in controlling that flow of information so that the public doesn't find out.
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11:54David A. HughesGUEST
It's, it's actually quite a precarious position, in my opinion, for the transnational ruling class that are, that are, um, pulling off these operations through the transnational deep state, because more and more people are now starting to get wise to what's going on.
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12:09David A. HughesGUEST
And events like 9/11 and COVID leave so much evidence, they're on such a scale that, um, more and more people are starting to see this now.
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12:18David A. HughesGUEST
So one of the reasons that I wrote both of these books was to kind of dig deeper into this and show that these kinds of events, these kinds of behaviors by bad actors don't come out of nowhere.
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12:28David A. HughesGUEST
There's at least a 100-year history here that we can explore and, and map, and once you see the bigger picture, um, it's, it's highly, highly disturbing, uh, because you realize that, um, you know, governments are not really acting on behalf of the people, um, not, not on issues like this.

David SkymanHOST
And I think that's, that's one of the concerns because once you get the first shock, whether it's 9/11, COVID, whether it's learning about the, the Nazis or IBM, once you get that first shock, then I think it takes you into a different space where you, you lose trust in the people that you had trusted, and then you can start to, to, to, uh, to perceive events around the world w- from different perspectives.
Interview with Flemming Blicher, July 6, 2026 - Wall Street, the Nazis, and the Crimes of the Deep State, Part 4a
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26:12David A. HughesGUEST
Yes, there are several aspects to this, and this is my attack on the green agenda today based on knowledge of the Nazi past.
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26:27David A. HughesGUEST
So everyone is familiar with the Nazi concept of Lebensraum, living space, and we know that that was all about imperialism.
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26:34David A. HughesGUEST
But originally, as it emerged in Nazi Germany, it was linked to good things like organic land use planning and sustainability.
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26:45David A. HughesGUEST
But as critics have written, over time, it came to provide what one critic calls green camouflage for the colonization of Eastern Europe.
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26:55David A. HughesGUEST
In other words, this kind of green rhetoric that the Nazis used, and they were really the first to kind of tie politics with ecologism and the whole kind of blood and soil idea, etc.
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Interview with Flemming Blicher, June 29, 2026 - Wall Street, the Nazis, and the Crimes of the Deep State, Part 3b
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2:03Flemming BlicherHOST
Please enlighten us to, uh, how these subjects fit together and how that relates to what you call intelligence crime, the name of the chapter.
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2:16David A. HughesGUEST
So the concept of intelligence crime, first of all, um, was, uh, coined by a scholar called Willem de Lint in 2021.
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2:27David A. HughesGUEST
Um, he defines intelligence crime as crime committed by, uh, dark actors operating in the highest echelons of power, who furtively manipulate national security apparatuses to advance agendas that benefit themselves, while, if required, inflicting near unimaginable harm on others.
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2:51David A. HughesGUEST
Um, and so what's important, and what I try to draw out in this chapter, I mean, last time round we discussed Gladio, but actually this deep state structure has been at the heart of US foreign policy since the late 1940s at least.
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And US foreign policy since then has in many ways just been a catalog of war crimes and atrocities that have been masked by various forms of propaganda and exceptionalist narratives.
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3:24David A. HughesGUEST
And the scale of these atrocities is so great, it's almost impossible to, for any ordinary person to, to conceive of, or the fact that the public has just been lied to about the true purposes of, of US foreign policy.
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23:31Flemming BlicherHOST
You write that, uh, quotation mark, uh, "The so-called COVID-19 pandemic," quotation mark ending, "bears all the hallmarks of intelligence, uh, crime." Please explain, David, what makes this an intelligence crime.
Interview with Flemming Blicher, June 29, 2026 - Wall Street, the Nazis, and the Crimes of the Deep State, Part 3
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10:23Flemming BlicherHOST
David, can you please elaborate on what this dual state actually is? Is it the same as the deep state?
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10:35David A. HughesGUEST
So we're referring to the international relations scholar Hans Morgenthau as opposed to the politician Henry Morgenthau, just to be clear about this.
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10:42David A. HughesGUEST
And the reason I cite him is he's one of the earliest authors that I know of to start using this language.
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10:56David A. HughesGUEST
But I mean, various terms have been described, have been used to describe essentially the same kind of entity and processes that we saw emerging, particularly around the middle years of the 20th century in the US.
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Interview with Flemming Blicher, June 25, 2026 - Wall Street, the Nazis, and the Crimes of the Deep State, Part 2
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1:38Flemming BlicherHOST
Did Wall Street really finance Hitler? Is this common knowledge, academia knowledge or scientific knowledge at all? If it is a real knowledge, a fact, then where's the most smoking gun in this?
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2:04David A. HughesGUEST
And it's often been revealed by revisionist historians such as Charles Hyam, Anthony C. Sutton, and John Loftus, who have really had to go digging for this information.
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2:22David A. HughesGUEST
General Motors, Ford, General Electric, DuPont and the handful of US companies intimately involved with the development of Nazi Germany were, except for the Ford Motor Company, controlled by the Wall Street elite, the JP Morgan firm, the Rockefeller Chase Bank and, to a lesser extent, the Warburg Manhattan Bank.
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2:43David A. HughesGUEST
So one of Sutton's points here is it's not kind of just the banking community in general in the United States that was exerting significant influence over Nazi Germany.
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Interview with Flemming Blicher, June 18, 2026 - Wall Street, The Nazis, and the Crimes of the Deep State, Part 1
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27:47Flemming BlicherHOST
Um, so, so, so these are the, um, similarities in 2000 and, uh, '20s to what actually took, uh, place in, uh, Nazi Germany and, uh, fascist, uh, Italy.
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28:01David A. HughesGUEST
I mean, this is essentially about the, the production of ideological conformity, and we saw it in 1930s Nazi Germany, and we saw it again in 2020.
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28:14David A. HughesGUEST
Um, the citizenry, the professions, the churches, the political left, the trade unions, all of it fell into line with the official COVID ideology and offered virtually no resistance.
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28:32David A. HughesGUEST
I mean, part of it involved the fear of being switched off or silenced in various ways from losing jobs or being censored or having businesses shut down or whatever.
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28:45David A. HughesGUEST
Um, and so when you think about it, um, scientists and academics and lawyers, they essentially all collaborated with the authoritarianism of the COVID years to push towards and help to implement a biosecurity state which will remove human rights and, and, and civil liberties.
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43:00Flemming BlicherHOST
Can you really make that case that Roosevelt built the foundation for a fascist, uh, US hegemony?
Interview with Flemming Blicher, May 21, 2026
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3:54Flemming BlicherHOST
So for people who do- don't know, uh, actually what you have, uh, written, what is the, the, the, the main, um, points of, uh, critique against Reiner Fuellmich, uh, being, uh, uh, an activist, uh, uh, freedom, uh, and libertarian activist?
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4:13David A. HughesGUEST
Well, I, I wrote a four-part series on Fuellmich, um, not because I had set out to do so, but because somebody, um, had accidentally forwarded me, uh, the legal judgment against him.
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4:27David A. HughesGUEST
Um, and of course, we're all curious, um, about the Corona Investigative Committee and what really went on there.
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4:35David A. HughesGUEST
So I was curious to read the legal judgment against him, uh, which, uh, finds him guilty of embezzling €700,000.
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4:44David A. HughesGUEST
And I read it with an open mind, um, but in my opinion, there is sufficient hard evidence in there.
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4:51David A. HughesGUEST
For example, um, relating to flows of money and what money was spent on and used for, um, communications from Fuellmich himself to other members of the committee, um, uh, statements that he himself made in court.
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67:51Flemming BlicherHOST
Uh, so, so you, you, you told me that there's, uh, s- some other, um, uh, comments from, uh, UK Column on, uh, the connection to Marcel, uh, Janke be- besides this int- this interview or this, uh, rant, uh, banter as they, uh, weekly banter as, uh, as they call it.
Interview with Dennison Joyce, April 16, 2026
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1:18David A. HughesGUEST
Yes, so you talk about how people struggle to get their head around the idea that we might be facing a form of totalitarianism again today, and that has a lot to do with 20th century propaganda, that there was a very black-and-white distinction between the evil totalitarian regimes and the virtuous West.
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1:42David A. HughesGUEST
Um, much of that, I think, goes back to President Truman and his famous 1947 address, uh, in which he drew, uh, very strict, um, divisions between the way things work in the United States and the way things work in the Soviet Union.
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1:58David A. HughesGUEST
And so for many decades, Western populations have been conditioned to believe that they live in, um, countries which are fundamentally, uh, premised on freedom, uh, and democracy, and so on.
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2:12David A. HughesGUEST
And so therefore, it comes as a great shock, particularly given everything that happened with COVID, when highly authoritarian measures were rolled out, and governments all across the world, including all Western governments, really revealed, uh, their, their true colors, to see that actually the situation is, is rather different from how we have been led to believe it to be.
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2:41David A. HughesGUEST
So the main reason, I think, why it's hard for people to understand this i- is that the, the forms of totalitarianism that were witnessed in the 20th century were national stroke imperial.
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2:58David A. HughesGUEST
What we're looking at today, however, is a global version of totalitarianism.
Interview with Per Shapiro, March 26, 2026
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13:11David A. HughesGUEST
Um, and my experience has been very much as you describe, uh, that it isn't what it seems.
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13:16David A. HughesGUEST
So my three camps of awareness framework is an attempt to, to make sense of this.
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13:21David A. HughesGUEST
So camp one, um, is for the normies, the ordinary people who essentially believe whatever they hear on the television and the radio and the so-called news.
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47:16Per ShapiroHOST
Uh, so tell us, how did you start to become suspicious of, of him, and, and, uh, what did you find?
Interview with Maryann Gebauer, April 9, 2026
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Hmm.
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36:50David A. HughesGUEST
But when you add that up, uh, for a 19-month period, you've got 570,000 euros.
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36:57David A. HughesGUEST
So 700,000 for the embezzlement, 570,000 for the email answering, uh, service.
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37:04David A. HughesGUEST
So Fuellmich has tried taking their at least 1.27 million euros, and that's just what we know about because we haven't seen, uh, his accounts or those of the Corona Investigative Committee.
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