Two Wars. One New Money System. If You Own Nothing You Will Not Be Happy.

The Ukraine and Iran Conflicts are being used to usher in a new, tokenized global econnomy.

Ukraine and Iran are not two wars. They are one crisis with two fronts, and the banking giants/elites are using both to force you into a tokenized economic replacement. Make no mistake, while governments talk pause and peace, the institutions that clear oil, debt, and reconstruction, who control currencies and the global flow of assets…

Read More

Protecting the Self from Identity Capture

Identity Capture is a real threat. Protecting yourself againmst it is an essential act of self defense

How Political and Digital Tribes Colonize the Self, and How to Keep Your Mind Your Own. If you haven’t been completely captured yet you’ll have long-since realized that “power operates through information systems and mass psychology.” Within those systems identity capture is probably one of the most effective and least examined forms of control in…

Read More

When AI “Safety Tests” Breach Your Data… Is It “REALLY” an Accident?

AI breaking out of its sandbox and invading real world systems... Is it "really" an accident?

Everything is NOT what it seems… As Usual. A couple of days back CNBC ran a news piece reporting that three of the world’s top AI companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta) had all admitted to the same problem within days of each other: Their most advanced systems had broken out of controlled security tests, reached…

Read More

Israel-Connected VPNs: Why I Treat Them as an Automatic Risk

Israel-connected VPNs are an automatic threat to privacy

During my career in disaster prevention/recovery I’ve spent years dealing with real-world threat models, both at the corporate and personal levels. And, based upon my extensive professional experience I cannot emphasize strongly enough that: I treat any VPN with meaningful Israeli ownership, founding, or operational ties as an elevated risk by default. This is not…

Read More

Propaganda: “The Daily Manufacture of Consent” And How To Resist It

Governments and media are trying to propagandize you daily. BackToFreedom shows you how to resist.

“How Governments and Media Propagandize Populations… And How Ordinary People Can Protect Their Psychological Independence“ I’ve quite literally spent decades working with and building information systems, and examining the intersections between technology, state power, and mass psychology. So I cannot and will not treat propaganda as the historical curiosity or as a tool reserved solely…

Read More

July 2026 Freedom Update: Borders, Phones, and the Shrinking Private Sphere

Back To Freedom Monthly Freedom and Privacy Update: 2026/07/30

The last few weeks have delivered a clearer signal than usual. There’s no longer any doubt that what seem like “isolated policy moves” are forming a consistent pattern: the zone of private life is being narrowed, one legal ruling, technical feature, and “safety” measure at a time. I write this as someone who has spent…

Read More

Rapid Signal – Privacy (July 26 2026): Your Work To Retain Privacy Is Now “Probable Cause” Of Criminality

AI now watches all the borders and labels you as a terrorist

This is NOT the Future. This IS happening NOW. Federal prosecutors are trying to put a man in prison for the crime of protecting his private data. Samuel Tunick was flagged by AI-assisted surveillance systems for the sole offense of political association, detained at an Atlanta airport without a warrant, denied a lawyer, and ordered…

Read More

Persistent Tracking: Even “Hardened” Android Phones Still Spy On You

Android OS spies on you 24/7. GrapheneOS sets you free from the constant tracking and surveillance

I need to take a moment to talk about Android, its role in the global surveillance society we live in, and the alternatives available to ordinary people like you. In case you don’t know, I spent 15 years troubleshooting for Google while watching it turn from the world’s big, friendly librarian into a global data-harvesting…

Read More

Rapid Signal – Privacy (July 13 2026): EU Sneaks “Chat Control” Through Parliament

Ursula von der Leyen's Europe will soon be spying on the entire world

This Is A Direct Threat to Encryption Worldwide, Including for Americans On July 11, 2026, the European Parliament advanced the “Chat Control” regulation using an “urgent procedure” pretext while many Members of the European Parliament were already away on summer recess. The proposal, which requires messaging platforms to scan private communications for Child Sexual Abuse…

Read More

Palantir’s Silent Invasion Threatens Every Aspect Of Your Everyday Privacy and Liberty

Palantir's tentacles invade every aspect of your daily life

I have spent decades protecting individuals, dissidents, and families from the creeping overreach of surveillance systems, both on and offline. And what I see crystalclear is that Palantir Technologies is not just another tech contractor operating internationally. The truth behind Peter Thiel’s AI spy operation is far more sinister than most people realize. Palantir’s technologies…

Read More