What does Palantir really do? It profits from war and mass surveillance

by Geopolitical Economy Report

Palantir is the corporate Big Brother. The CIA-backed company gets most of its revenue from government contracts. It profits from war, mass surveillance, and even dystopian “predictive policing”. Ben Norton shows how Palantir is run by extreme hawks who insist the West is “superior” to the rest of the world, and seek an “unfair advantage” to maintain US hegemony.

Topics
0:00 (CLIP) Palantir executives push war
2:11 What does Palantir do?
3:06 Palantir prepares for World War Three
3:54 Palantir helps Trump with mass surveillance
4:43 Investors bet against overvalued Palantir stock
5:31 (CLIP) Palantir CEO Alex Karp freaks out
6:05 Palantir executives sell their shares
6:54 Military-industrial complex
7:32 CIA funded Palantir
7:48 Billionaire oligarch Peter Thiel
8:59 Silicon Valley loves monopolies
9:58 Why US Big Tech oligarchs hate China
10:36 Silicon Valley cartel for Pentagon contracts
12:00 The PayPal Mafia
12:43 Mass surveillance of Americans
13:32 Palantir works with ICE
14:19 Palantir helps US facial recognition
14:50 Dystopian “predictive policing”
15:39 Libertarian authoritarianism
16:03 Alex Karp: “the world’s scariest CEO”
16:59 Alex Karp loves war
17:53 Blatant imperialism
18:30 (CLIP) CEO: “The West is superior”
18:56 Threatening US “enemies”
19:17 (CLIP) Scare and k*ll enemies
19:42 US Department of War
20:21 (CLIP) “Support our warfighters”
20:37 US supremacy
20:57 (CLIP) CEO: “We are superior”
21:34 Weaponizing fear
21:48 (CLIP) Palantir profits from fear
22:59 AI arms race with China
23:39 (CLIP) CTO Shyam Sankar: “We are at war with China”
24:03 Cold War Two
24:47 (CLIP) Mike Gallagher on new cold war
25:12 Preparing for war with China
25:25 (CLIP) Palantir serves US “warfighters”
25:42 Palantir UK run by fascist leader Mosley grandson
27:13 Fascism and imperialism
28:05 Outro