The New Battlefield: Cognitive/Semantic Warfare

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Neuroweapons in Cognitive Warfare
When the Battlefield Is the Human Mind
https://osintteam.blog/neuroweapons-in-cognitive-warfare-21c5f54fb20a
In the evolving landscape of global conflict, traditional weapons are being replaced by more insidious and invisible tools. Among the most dangerous are neuroweapons — technologies and psychological strategies designed to directly manipulate, disrupt, or degrade human cognition, emotion, perception, and memory.

While cyberattacks target infrastructure, neuroweapons target the brain itself — the final frontier of warfare. These tools are not theoretical. They are being researched, tested, and in some cases deployed today under the broader umbrella of cognitive warfare.

If we fail to act now, these silent weapons will undermine societies from within, subverting free will, collapsing trust, and destroying the very faculties that make democracy and human dignity possible.
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These tools may not kill but they can unmake a person, fracture a society, or erase shared reality.

Why Neuroweapons Are a Threat to Humanity

They Bypass the Body and Go Straight for the Self 
Unlike kinetic weapons, neuroweapons attack the core of identity: belief, memory, decision-making, and emotional balance. Victims may not even know they’ve been targeted until they’ve changed.
They Are Hard to Attribute and Easy to Deny
Neuroweapons leave no craters or scars. Their effects can be dismissed as mental illness, stress, or coincidence. This plausible deniability makes them the perfect tool for covert repression and political warfare.
They Can Be Used by Non-State Actors and ‘Black Sheep’ Insiders
It doesn’t take a state military to carry out neurowarfare. Rogue scientists, private intelligence contractors, criminal networks, or embedded actors in medical or tech systems can use them to target whistleblowers, activists, or civilians.
They Create Irreversible Damage to Minds and Institutions
Neuroweapons not only harm individuals; they erode public trust, delegitimize institutions, and degrade mental health at scale — leading to increased suicides, societal division, and economic collapse.

DARPA GARD: From Illusion of Defense to Semantic Weaponry – A New Era of Cyber Warfare
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/darpa-gard-from-illusion-defense-semantic-weaponry-new-katja-sidunova-kzqwe
GARD — Guaranteeing AI Robustness against Deception. The deeper I plunged into its intricacies, the clearer it became: this narrative transcends mere defense, venturing into the creation of an entirely new, unprecedented class of weaponry. The catalyst for this discourse stems from the official DARPA document HR001119S0026 and the analytical brief “GARD: The Science of Deception from DARPA”, which collectively paint a picture worthy of a dystopian thriller. The unsettling truth is, this isn’t fiction; it’s unfolding in our reality, right now.

We have grown accustomed to placing immense trust in artificial intelligence. It orchestrates our financial markets, assists in medical diagnoses, pilots aircraft, and safeguards national borders. But what if this intelligence can be manipulated to perceive what is absent? Or, conversely, to disregard an overt threat? The GARD program is not merely another research endeavor. It is Pandora’s Box, unleashing an era of semantic warfare, where the battleground is the machine’s very perception of reality.

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This journey began with what are known as adversarial examples — minute, humanimperceptible alterations within a digital image (e.g., in a few pixels) that provoke neural networks into making egregious classification errors. A quintessential illustration: a “STOP” sign, subjected to such an attack, is misidentified as an “80 km/h Speed Limit” sign. This is no longer a benign vulnerability; it poses a direct and severe threat to safety, particularly for autonomous vehicles.

However, DARPA, through its GARD program, propelled this concept far beyond its initial scope. The focus dramatically shifted from the purely digital domain to the tangible world. The official program announcement explicitly details attacks on physical objects, such as “placing stickers on a road sign”. This fundamentally reshapes the strategic landscape. Now, an adversary need not compromise code or gain access to a neural network’s internal architecture. It suffices to manipulate the very physical reality that the machine “observes.”

Assessing “Cognitive Warfare”
https://smallwarsjournal.com/2025/11/14/assessing-cognitive-warfare/
Defining Cognitive Warfare

In Cognitive Warfare, the message is the munition, and the target is the mind of either specific individuals (e.g., elites, influencers, policymakers) or the collective population of a democratic state. Distorting what these individuals think is a precursor to how they think, and thus how they behave.

Early advocates such as the French officer, Francois du Cluzel, defined Cognitive Warfare as “the art of using technologies to alter the cognition of human targets, most often without their knowledge and consent.”[8] This early conception stressed Cognitive Warfare as an offensive form of cyber conflict; however, he recognized that countermeasures and preventive measures were required. Du Cluzel differentiated psychological operations from cognitive operations, but it is unclear whether the distinction is valid or of value. For du Cluzel, psychological warfare attempts to change what the target audience thinks, but Cognitive Warfare aims at shaping how they reason and their resultant behavior. This distinction lies at the heart of why human cognition is the central objective.

Cognitive War is the application of targeted and tailored messages and nonviolent methods used against civilian and military decision-makers or the general population of a target state to gain a positional advantage in the cognitive domain or gain desired political, military, and informational outcomes.

While Cognitive Warfare is not new, there are a number of novel technologies that significantly enhance the reach and efficacy of activities that target the way decision-makers and individuals think about a crisis situation. Some have seen this as social media-based influence operations.[9] These technologies can be combined to “assess, access, and affect the cognitive space.”[10] While our competitors think in terms of systems and confronting and deceiving us, Western militaries orient on hardware, maneuver platforms, and kinetic operations.

Further reading:

The Matrix Has Upgraded Its Security
https://neo-concepts.com/ideas/semantic-control/

Forging the Semantic Key: AI-Assisted Resilience in an Age of Information Warfare
https://neo-concepts.com/posts/forging-the-semantic-key/

The global Zionist organ trafficking conspiracy

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Ever since October 7th, credible allegations have widely circulated that Zionist Occupation Forces are illegally harvesting the organs of slain Palestinians. In November 2023, the Euro-Med Monitor published a report documenting how Israeli soldiers confiscated dozens of corpses from major hospitals in Gaza, to the extent of digging up and raiding mass graves built in their grounds to accommodate the never-ending influx of slaughtered civilians. While some bodies were subsequently handed over to the Red Cross, many were and remain withheld.

Euro-Med Monitor records how many corpses exhibited clear indications of organ harvesting, including missing cochleas and corneas, as well as hearts, kidneys, and livers. Since then, the Zionist entity has released token numbers of murdered Palestinians at intermittent intervals to their surviving relatives. Frequently, the bodies are decomposed beyond recognition, making conducting professional autopsies – and identifying whether organs have been stolen – difficult if not impossible. Sometimes, the corpses are frozen solid, again greatly complicating medical examinations, and potentially obscuring organ theft.
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In July 2015, the European Parliament issued a landmark report on organ trafficking. Its introduction notes, “before 2000, the problem of trafficking in human organs…was primarily limited to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.” However, the report noted that following the turn of the millennium, “trafficking in organs has seemingly started to spread globally, to a large extent driven by Israeli doctors.” The document went on to detail a number of high-profile organ trafficking cases.

In all but one, the evidentiary trail led directly back to the Zionist entity. An accompanying map of international organ trade routes places Tel Aviv at the very core, with its citizens both being leading customers, and heading the gangs that supply organs to overseas buyers. One cited case was the exposure in 2003 of a leading South African hospital performing over 100 illegal transplants on overseas patients – “the majority” from “Israel”.

Local law enforcement uncovered how a criminal syndicate led by well-connected Israeli Ilan Perry recruited poor, desperate individuals from Brazil, Romania, and elsewhere who were willing to sell their organs for a token sum, then transported them to South Africa. Customers would pay vast amounts for the transplants – Perry, the “organ broker”, and his associates would pocket the bulk, with the rest paid to ‘donors’ and hospital staff to perform the illegal procedures, then keep quiet about the connivance.

https://alethonews.com/2025/11/15/the-global-zionist-organ-trafficking-conspiracy/

Illegal Israeli Settlers: Agents of State Terror Against Palestinians

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Mohammad was the 1001st Palestinian killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the occupied West Bank since October 7, 2023—among them 213 children, some as young as two years old.

His killing is not separate from settler violence. It is necessary to the colonial project. The bullet that killed Mohammad was fired by the same ideology that burned cars in Ramallah, the same system that arms settlers, the same state that authorizes terror against Palestinians as a tool of control.

Call them what they are. Israeli settlers are not civilians. They are not “fringe extremists.” They are not “nationalists.” They are a state-directed paramilitary arm deployed to ethnically cleanse Palestinian land. Every week, they burn, beat, shoot, and expel Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank, and every week they do it with government financing, military protection, and full impunity under apartheid law. The world must stop laundering their crimes. This is terrorism.

https://attackthesystem.com/2025/11/13/illegal-israeli-settlers-agents-of-state-terror-against-palestinians/

State of Siege

https://substack.com/@ahmadibsais

Why Jewish Squatter Violence in the West Bank is Skyrocketing

https://www.juancole.com/2025/11/squatter-violence-skyrocketing.html

AI resistance: Who says no to AI and why?

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From protests to policy

In the report, we recorded numerous instances of AI resistance, including protests against the environmental impacts of data centers, opposition from big tech employees over military applications of AI, public outcry over the UK’s A-level grading fiasco. While not intended to be exhaustive, we surveyed six key areas where such resistance has been particularly active:

  • (i) creative industries
  • (ii) migration and border control
  • (iii) medical AI
  • (iv) higher education
  • (v) defense and security sectors and
  • (vi) environmental activism. 

Thereby, we highlighted key actors in AI resistance, with particular emphasis on the role of civil society in mobilising public opposition. The report also looks at how governments have turned some forms of resistance into law.  One example is the EU AI Act, which prohibits certain AI systems like deliberately manipulative AI practices.

https://www.hiig.de/en/ai-resistance/

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Günter Wallraff Explained

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Research methods

Wallraff came to prominence thanks to his striking journalistic research methods and several major books on lower class working conditions and tabloid journalism. This style of research is based on what the reporter experiences personally after covertly becoming part of the subgroup under investigation. Wallraff would construct a fictional identity so that he was not recognisable as a journalist.

In the German newspaper Die Zeit of 1977 Walraff formulates a sentence that is central to his work: “If I want to make myself the mouthpiece of the voiceless who have little to say even though they have a lot to say, that means to me that I am one of them, at least temporarily.”
Undercover journalism

Wallraff first took up this kind of investigative journalism in 1969 when he published 13 unerwünschte Reportagen (“13 undesired reports”) in which he described what he experienced when acting the parts of an alcoholic, a homeless person, and a worker in a chemicals factory.

He travelled to Greece in May 1974 at the time of the Ioannides military dictatorship. While in Syntagma Square, he protested against human right violations. He was arrested and tortured by the police as he purposely did not carry on him any papers that could identify him as a foreigner. After his identity was revealed, Wallraff was convicted and sentenced to 14 months in jail. He was released in August, after the end of the dictatorship.

https://everything.explained.today/G%c3%bcnter_Wallraff/

German Journalist Once Jailed in Greece During the Junta, Revisits Korydallos Prison

Wallraff traveled to Greece in May 1974. While in Syntagma Square, he protested against human right violations in the country and was arrested and tortured by the police. After his identity was revealed, he was convicted and sentenced to 14 months in jail. He was released in August, after the end of the dictatorship.

https://greekreporter.com/2017/02/24/german-journalist-once-jailed-in-greece-during-the-junta-revisits-korydallos-prison/

Günter Wallraff: Undercover journalist

His investigative methods have led to the creation of the Swedish verb ‘wallraffa’ meaning “to expose misconduct from the inside by assuming a role” which has been officially included in word list of the Swedish Academy.

https://circleof13.blogspot.com/2008/12/gunter-wallraff-undercover-journalist.html

GREECE Interrogation Department-Military Police, Bouboulinas, KEVOP, Leros: The junta’s torture chambers and the brutality of its interrogators

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According to official records, from 1967 to 1974 more than 90,000 people were arrested. The vast majority endured beatings, electric shocks, mock executions and every imaginable cruelty.

[Note: It is never mentioned that the Military Police torture facility at present-day ‘Liberty Park’ is a block away from the U.S, embassy. Or that former victims at the trials of their torturers testified that masked American interrogators would emerge from tunnel entrances to perform mock executions.]

https://en.protothema.gr/2025/11/16/interrogation-department-military-police-bouboulinas-kevop-leros-the-juntas-torture-chambers-and-the-brutality-of-its-interrogators/

A Trip Back to Bouboulinas Street, the Torture Prison During the Greek Junta [CIA daughter meets former inmate]

For seven years between 1967 and 1974 the Greek military junta used a building at Bouboulinas Street, Athens as a prison where thousands were tortured. Among them a Belgian national named Roland Baumann who recently returned to the infamous building.

https://greekreporter.com/2023/12/04/bouboulinas-street-greek-torture-prison-junta/

GREECE Why We Still Talk About the Polytechnic Uprising, 52 Years Later

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But the Polytechnic is not only the moment the tank entered. It is three days and a few hours during which tens of thousands of young people lived a revolutionary surge that swept the entire country away. Boys and girls who stood against the junta, overthrowing at the same time everything imposed on them until then by the oppressive society of their parents, with the harsh morals of the era.

For as long as the occupation lasted, the students lived a form of direct democracy. They cooked together, slept together, sang and discussed politics, and co-decided everything. At the same time, they risked everything for freedom.

https://www.tovima.com/society/why-we-still-talk-about-the-polytechnic-uprising-52-years-later/

Polytechnic Uprising 1973: The First Sparks of Defiance

In November 1973, a wave of student unrest swept through Greek universities, setting in motion the events that would ignite the Athens Polytechnic uprising and mark the beginning of the end for the military dictatorship.

https://www.tovima.com/vima-history/polytechnic-uprising-1973-the-first-sparks-of-defiance/

Who are Italy’s FAI/FRI anarchists — now designated as terrorists by the U.S.?

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Why it matters: The move targets a transnational ecosystem of anarchist cells active across Europe. The designations restrict access to the U.S. financial system and expose individuals and entities to primary and secondary sanctions.

The groups targeted:

Antifa Ost (Germany): linked to assaults on individuals identified as “fascists” or part of the far-right scene; accused of attacks in Budapest in 2023; labelled a terrorist organisation by Hungary in 2025.

FAI/FRI (Italy) is the most structured and long-standing of the designated groups, with two decades of insurrectionist activity.

Armed Proletarian Justice (Greece): responsible for attempted and successful IED attacks against government targets, including a 2023 explosive device near Greece’s riot police headquarters.

Revolutionary Class Self-Defence (Greece): claimed two IED attacks between 2024 and 2025, citing anti-capitalist motives and solidarity with Palestine.

https://decode39.com/12412/who-are-italys-fai-fri-anarchists-now-designated-as-terrorists-by-the-u-s/

The Original Jeffrey Epstein

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This is the story of George Huntington Hartford II, a friend of Hod Dibben and Stephen Ward, and a billionaire who was closely related to the intelligence-linked propaganda creators who were behind the invention of James Bond.
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Huntington Hartford, Ivar Bryce and James Bond

By 1960, Huntington Hartford’s marriage to Marjorie was coming to an end, and he was celebrating by organising elite sex parties, as well as becoming a regular at Hod Dibben’s sordid London-based events. At the famous, sometimes satanic themed, sex parties held by Hod Dibben and Mariella Capes, aka Mariella Novotny, George Huntington Hartford mingled with the elites of London, gangsters such as the Kray twins, as well as many of the main characters involved in the Profumo Affair, an event which saw the downfall of the British government. One of the people who sometimes attended these gatherings was Stephen Ward, who was to become the main patsy in the Profumo scandal, resulting in his death by overdose while in custody during one of the most high profile court cases Britain had ever seen.
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In 1950, Ivar Bryce married into the Huntington Hartford family and wed Josephine Huntington Hartford. Like George Huntington Hartford II, his sister, Josephine Bryce, had inherited wealth from their grandfather. Yet, unlike George, she invested it well, concentrating on owning racehorses and becoming very successful in her own right. During the late-1950s, Ivar Bryce, Ian Fleming, and George Huntington Hartford also began producing films together. In April 1953, Fleming had published a novel entitled Casino Royale, which introduced his readers to a British secret agent, serving Queen and country, who went by the name James Bond. The book was successful and soon Fleming began working with Ernest Cuneo to develop scripts for James Bond’s cinematic debut. Cuneo had been an important, if not vital, figure in the operations of the aforementioned BSC during World War II. He also admitted to passing information about American decision-making onto British spies, during a time where the Brits were intent on manipulating US actions.
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Also in April 1959, Ian Fleming wrote a letter to McClory concerning potential James Bond movie ideas, with that letter also being used in a 1963 court case between Bryce and McClory after their business relationship eventually broke down. However, in August 1959, McClory and Bryce were still on agreeable terms and were reportedly about to start work on their new studio in the Bahamas.

Basing the production company and much of the development of the James Bond franchise in the Bahamas made sense for many reasons. The Huntington Hartford children had both purchased homes in the Bahamas, with George’s “Paradise Island” being located very close to Ivar and Josephine Bryce’s Xanadu villa. But the main reason for Bond being based in the Bahamas was McClory himself, who claimed that he was responsible for a large part of Ian Flemings novel, Thunderball, being set in the Bahamas. McClory claimed in the previously mentioned 1963 court case that Bryce and Fleming had tried to oust him as the producer of the proposed Bond film. Eventually, like the relationship between McClory and Bryce, the plans to build a studio in the Bahamas began to unravel.

George Huntington Hartford had promised that his redevelopment of Hog Island into “Paradise Island” was to see the creation of a “dignified vacation resort.” In 1960, the New York Times reported that the island at Nassau in the Bahamas was to be a place for “artists and writers, socialites, and diplomats, teachers and scientists, sportsmen and students” in an atmosphere of “cultural enjoyment.”

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2023/03/investigative-series/the-original-jeffrey-epstein/

Flame of liberation theology still flickers despite the rise of the religious right

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A counter-tradition of emancipation

In stark contrast to the top-down, identitarian project of the religious right stands liberation theology. Born in the slums and base communities of Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, it represented a radical rereading of the Christian gospel through the eyes of the poor.

Its foundational text was lived experience; its method was a “hermeneutic of suspicion” that questioned how traditional theology had been used to justify the status quo. It required a reading of the Bible from the perspective of a “preferential option for the poor”.

Liberation theology insisted that salvation was a holistic process of liberation from all that dehumanises – including structural sin embodied in poverty, oppression and violence. It drew heavily on Marxist social analysis to understand the mechanisms of economic exploitation, arguing that to love one’s neighbour required a fundamental transformation of unjust social structures.

Liberation theology’s power lay in its grassroots, emancipatory praxis. It was a theology not just to be studied, but to be lived and acted upon.

It empowered laypeople, fostered base ecclesial communities where the poor could read and interpret scripture for themselves, and inspired countless priests and nuns to stand in solidarity with marginalised communities, often at the cost of their lives.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2025-11-10-flame-of-liberation-theology-still-flickers-despite-the-rise-of-the-religious-right/