Whitney Webb EXSPOSES How Intel Agencies Fund Sex Trafficking, Fascism and Organized Crime // Katie Halper

Katie Halper | Trusted Newsmaker

w/Guest Whitney Webb

If you’ve ever wondered why the same criminal institutions keep evading justice while ordinary people get crushed for minor infractions, it’s not incompetence. It’s not a bug in the system. It’s the system functioning exactly as designed.

What we’re watching unfold globally—and especially in the United States—is a convergence of organized crime, intelligence agencies, corporate oligarchy, and government power into a seamless structure. What some call corporatism or “public-private partnership” is, in practice, indistinguishable from fascism. And this isn’t speculative. This model has a name and a history—Mussolini called it corporatism for a reason: a fusion of state and corporate power for mutual protection and profit.

That model has always been convenient for intelligence agencies. You want an unaccountable power structure? Build it out of legally untouchable corporations working hand-in-hand with covert agencies. Look at who the CIA and other agencies have historically supported: dictatorships, not democracies. Authoritarianism gives the national security state room to operate without scrutiny.

The U.S. intelligence community didn’t just tolerate organized crime—it partnered with it, particularly during WWII and throughout the Cold War. Why? Because they had mutual interests: suppressing dissent, laundering dirty money, and expanding influence abroad.

And once those relationships formed, they never really ended. They just evolved. Today, major multinational banks like HSBC get caught laundering billions for drug cartels—and nothing happens. They get a fine and move on. Why? Because to prosecute them would expose just how interdependent our financial systems are with criminal economies. We’re not talking about rogue actors. We’re talking about the infrastructure.

Consider BCCI—the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. It was literally built to facilitate arms deals, drug running, sex trafficking (including of children), and intelligence operations. It was a “development bank” on paper, but its true function was to serve as the financial arm of covert power. And while it exploded publicly in 1991, no one truly responsible faced consequences. The system was protected, because too many powerful institutions depended on it.

That protection continues. You can’t surgically remove organized crime from the intelligence and banking sectors without detonating the entire architecture of global finance. It’s not a shadow network—this is the network.

And that’s why we now live in an environment where real journalism is being algorithmically buried. You don’t need censorship overtly anymore when platforms like X and YouTube use AI to suppress human-made investigative work while boosting mass-produced synthetic content. These algorithms are not neutral—they’re shaped by political interests and billionaire investors.

That brings us to Peter Thiel.

Thiel is often branded as a libertarian, but his track record says otherwise. He’s built monopolies, not markets. Palantir, a company he co-founded, is the embodiment of public-private fascism: a surveillance empire built with government contracts and zero democratic oversight. The house philosopher of his circle, Curtis Yarvin, advocates for a dictatorship run like a corporation. That’s not anti-state—it’s the merger of the state and the boardroom.

If that sounds like dystopian fiction, understand this: it’s already happening. Thiel-backed platforms are being positioned as alternatives to Big Tech, but they’re funded by the same military-adjacent networks. Rumble, for instance, isn’t some bastion of independent media—it’s a playground for Thiel’s ideological interests.

Meanwhile, media that exposes these interconnections gets suppressed, not debated. We’re told to worry about state censorship, but what’s more dangerous is privatized censorship masquerading as moderation—especially when it’s enforced by venture capitalists with Pentagon ties.

The goal isn’t simply profit. It’s control. A kind of neo-feudalism enforced by surveillance tech, militarized policing, and endless war narratives. And anyone who dissents—whether journalist, student, or whistleblower—gets rebranded as a threat to national security.

I don’t publish leaked documents. I use public records, court filings, historical documents—things anyone can verify. And yet, even this level of truth-telling is being increasingly throttled. That’s why I live in South America now. That’s why I use RSS feeds to bypass algorithmic propaganda. And that’s why I keep writing—because if people don’t start understanding this convergence now, we won’t have the luxury of independent inquiry much longer.

This isn’t about left vs. right. It’s about top vs. bottom. And the top doesn’t care which puppet party is in power—as long as the racket keeps running.

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