The US naval buildup off Venezuela's coast is not about drug interdiction, but imperial pressure. Caracas's response, grounded in asymmetric defense and bolstered by key Eurasian alliances, has transformed a lopsided showdown into a contest of global powers.
The
US has entered a new phase in its long war on Venezuela. Having
exhausted economic and diplomatic tools, it has now turned to the
military lever, dispatching warships to the Caribbean in a naked display
of force.
This escalation caps years of imperial targeting of
the Bolivarian government in Caracas – beginning with sweeping sanctions
under former US President Barack Obama, tightened to unprecedented
levels under President Donald Trump, and sustained through bipartisan
consensus.
Officially, Washington frames this as part of a broad “counter narcotics”
campaign targeting so-called terrorist organizations. But that story
collapses under scrutiny. What the US really seeks is regime change and
regional control, thinly veiled behind drug war rhetoric.
Lawfare as prelude to war
The
legal framework underpinning the US operation began with a secret
presidential directive granting the Pentagon authority to target
designated foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs). Washington is sending
assault ships to waters off Venezuela to crack down on drug
trafficking, an anonymous American defense official said. The move,
confirmed by Trump, targets cartels he blames for smuggling fentanyl and
other drugs. Among these groups is the so-called “Cartel de los Soles”
(Cartel of the Suns), a term once used informally to describe scattered
corruption networks in Venezuela's military. Washington has now
repackaged this into a centralized cartel, with the Trump administration
labeling it a terrorist organization, though its existence is disputed.
In July, the Trump administration suggested that Venezuelan President
Nicolas Maduro led the Cartel de los Soles, with support from other
senior Venezuelan officials.
The US Justice Department doubled down, offering a $50 million bounty
for Maduro’s capture. This lawfare strategy, stripping a head of state
of sovereign immunity and branding him a narco-terrorist, is designed to
justify open aggression before domestic and international audiences.
According to Christopher Sabatini,
a research fellow at London’s Chatham House, the US deployment of
ships, the designation of the Venezuelan “Tren de Aragua” as a terrorist
organization, and the increased bounty on Maduro are all elements of a
White House strategy aimed at making “as much noise as possible” to
please Venezuela’s opposition – many of whom support Trump – and to
“scare maneuver” senior government officials into defecting.
Fictional cartels, real deployments
Expert analyses, including those by InSight Crime
– a think tank that specializes in corruption in the Americas –and
former US intelligence officers, have discredited the claim that
Venezuela hosts a state-run drug cartel. Earlier this month, InSight
Crime said US sanctions on the Cartel de los Soles were misplaced. “The
US government’s new sanctions against Venezuela’s so-called ‘Cartel of
the Suns’ incorrectly portray it as a hierarchical, ideologically driven
drug trafficking organisation rather than a profit-based system of
generalised corruption involving high-ranking military figures,” it
wrote.
Reports issued by impartial international bodies, such as
the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime World Drug Report 2025, say
that the main routes for cocaine smuggling from the Andean region to
North America are mainly concentrated in the Pacific and through Central
American corridors.
The Eastern Route through the Caribbean Sea
constitutes parts of which pass near Venezuela, a statistically
negligible proportion of the total flows. This disparity makes targeting
Venezuela as a priority in the fight against drugs disproportionate to
the size of its actual role in major smuggling networks.
Organized
crime analysts and former intelligence officials, such as Fulton
Armstrong, also question the American narrative that portrays the Carte
de los Soles as an integrated state-run hierarchical organization.
Specialized analyses, including previous reports by organizations such
as InSight Crime, suggest that the term arose informally to describe
sporadic corruption networks within the Venezuelan armed forces that
profit from illicit activities, rather than as a centralized structure
similar to Mexican drug cartels.
The American narrative seems to
have pieced together these disparate phenomena and presented them as a
single, cohesive entity to serve a political goal, which is to falsely
portray the Venezuelan state as a “narco-state.”
On the other
hand, the Trump administration has not provided any credible physical
evidence linking Venezuela specifically to the production or trafficking
of fentanyl, which is currently the highest priority for public health
and national security in the US.
Yet Washington's military
footprint tells a different story. The deployment includes Arleigh
Burke-class destroyers with Aegis combat systems, Tomahawk cruise
missiles, and the Iwo Jima amphibious assault group.
The
precedent evokes troubling historical examples, such as the Gulf of
Tonkin incident that escalated the Vietnam War, or the 1989 US invasion
of Panama to arrest president Manuel Noriega under drug trafficking
charges.
Psychological warfare, regional signaling, and oil
The
highly visible US military posture, coupled with vague official
statements, serves as a powerful tool of psychological pressure. It aims
to sow uncertainty and stress within Venezuela’s institutions,
particularly the Bolivarian National Armed Forces, by encouraging
defections or disrupting command cohesion – all without firing a single
shot. It also provides the domestic opposition with leverage to regain
political initiative after repeated failures.
By projecting
overwhelming force just offshore, Washington hopes to recreate such
fissures inside the Bolivarian armed forces, banking on history to
repeat itself. Yet unlike two decades ago, today’s command structure has
been hardened by years of siege, external training, and deepened ties
with Russian and Iranian military counterparts.
The American
operation serves multiple functions. Besides aiming to fracture
Venezuela’s military command and re-energize a failed opposition, it
also signals to regional allies of Caracas – Cuba and Nicaragua – and
international backers – Russia, China, Iran – that the US intends to
hold its so-called backyard.
Beyond Havana and Managua, other Latin American governments have grown wary of Washington’s naval assertiveness.
Reports by the military portal DefesaNet
described “Operation Imeri,” a clandestine plan allegedly floated
inside Itamaraty to extract Maduro and shield him from a US-led
intervention. Though denied officially, the leaks suggest serious debate
within Brazil’s political and security elite about how to deal with
Washington’s escalation.
Within CELAC, US gunboat diplomacy has revived fears of a return to 20th-century interventions, further eroding Washington’s standing in the region.
Yet at the heart of this is oil. Venezuela holds the world's largest proven reserves. Securing access, or at least denying it to others, remains a core tenet of US strategy in the hemisphere.
Caracas counters with asymmetry and alliances
President Maduro has responded by activating Venezuela’s defense doctrine – the “War of All People.”
This entails mobilizing up to five million fighters via the Bolivarian
Militia to create a nationwide resistance grid designed to bleed out any
invader in a prolonged war of attrition.
This doctrine, adopted
under Maduro’s predecessor, the late Hugo Chavez, after the 2002 coup
attempt, aims to turn any invasion into a drawn-out, high-cost
occupation through civilian-based defense rooted in local communities.
On
the diplomatic front, Venezuela denounced the US move as a breach of
international law and rallied support in regional and global forums,
including CELAC and the UN. More crucially, Caracas leaned into its
strategic alliances.
Russia supplies advanced arms, conducts
joint drills, and blocks US-led resolutions at the UN Security Council.
China remains Venezuela’s largest creditor and economic partner,
providing oil-backed loans and infrastructural investment. For years,
Beijing has provided billions of dollars in loans to the Venezuelan
government in exchange for future oil shipments, which has provided
urgent cash liquidity to the Venezuelan government.
Iran offers
technical know-how to rehabilitate Venezuela’s refineries, ships fuel
across blockaded seas, and stocks grocery shelves with essential goods.
The relationship between Caracas and Tehran is unique, based on
objective solidarity between two countries that are subject to maximum
pressure and US sanctions, and they share an ideological discourse
against hegemony. Together, these alliances form a geopolitical shield that has prevented Venezuela from becoming another failed state in the wake of US sanctions.
Each
player adds a layer of resilience: Russia ensures military depth, China
secures economic oxygen, and Iran delivers practical solutions for
daily survival. Together, they have transformed what could have been a
one-sided intervention into a crucial standoff in the emerging
multipolar order.
In 2022, Tehran and Caracas intensified ship‑to‑ship oil transfers,
shifting crude covertly at sea to skirt US sanctions, demonstrating the
inventive lengths they have gone to sustain bilateral energy flows.
In
Latin America and beyond, Washington’s playbook is hardly new. Panama’s
Noriega was ousted under the banner of narcotics, while in Afghanistan,
poppy cultivation was folded into the “war on terror” – despite the
fact that the country's drug industry thrived under US occupation. By recycling these tropes, Washington seeks to mask raw power projection with legalistic smoke.
Scenarios on the horizon
Three
outcomes now define the road ahead. The first is a managed crisis, in
which the US continues its military pressure campaign without initiating
direct conflict. Washington keeps its naval presence active in the
region and uses it as a bargaining chip in broader global negotiations,
especially with Russia and China. In this scenario, the standoff remains
contained, but the threat lingers.
The second is a limited
intervention that spirals into chaos. This could take the form of a
targeted strike or a naval blockade, triggering fierce resistance from
Venezuelan forces and militias, sending economic shockwaves across
global energy markets, and destabilizing bordering countries – most
notably Colombia.
The third scenario is a calculated retreat.
Faced with high risks and diminishing returns, Washington could scale
back its military footprint while maintaining economic sanctions.
Caracas, in turn, survives through its foreign alliances and internal
resilience mechanisms, preserving a tense but stable status quo.
It
becomes clear that Washington’s escalation, cloaked in the rhetoric of
narcotics control, is, at its core, a multifaceted pressure campaign
with goals far beyond drug interdiction. The weak narcotics pretext,
undermined by field data and expert analysis, merely serves as a
political and legal smokescreen for a broader geopolitical and economic
offensive.
Each path carries heavy costs. But one thing is
certain: This is not about narcotics, but about empire. And Venezuela,
long marked for destabilization by Washington, has become a key
frontline in the global battle against unipolar domination.
The outcome will not only shape Venezuela’s future; it will mark a turning point in the balance of power in the 21st century.
"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
— Matthew 5:5
The Great Replacement exists. It is real. It is the logic of Capital. There are no racial motives, but rather economic ones. It is not a Jewish, Muslim, Masonic conspiracy, or anything like that, but something as simple as the slave trade to the great metropolis of Europe. Naturally, these slaves are not like Europeans. They don't think about vacations or unions, but rather about improving their lives and starting a family. Europeans don't have enough children and don't want to give up certain social benefits, so replacement is perhaps inevitable. The only short-term solution is closing the borders.
When mass immigration began in Spain more than 30 years ago, led by the right-wing PP, public opinion was misled about pensions. Demographic decline, they said, made the importation of labor essential and, moreover, provided a great service to these poor people by saving them from the poverty of their countries of origin. This turned out to be a lie. The money earned by immigrants either returns to their countries of origin, remains in the underground economy, or, due to very low wages, has no impact on the economy. The solution is for Spanish workers to grow old and die on the job, while young Spaniards must also emigrate and put their talents and energy at the service of other nations.
This phenomenon is not unique to Spain. Throughout the West, we are experiencing the same phenomenon of the Great Replacement, the great transformation brought about by the hegemonic ideology: globalism. And at the same time, we are witnessing a confrontation between two camps: the globalists and the patriots. Unfortunately, the patriotic camp has two major currents, both of them doomed to failure.
On the one hand, we have a large anti-immigration and patriotic party that unites the electorate and is represented everywhere: VOX. Its main flaw is that it belongs to the globalist movement and believes in abstract citizenship. For them, being Spanish means learning to speak Spanish, working, and behaving politely. This simply allows billions of human beings to become Spanish, if they so choose, by obtaining a residence permit. To achieve this, there's no need to be patriotic and to declare oneself against illegal immigration (but legal immigration in particular).
The other current is the identitarian current, which believes in the material existence of an eternal Spain, which yearns for the return of the Spain of yesteryear, the eternal Spain. It never existed: the Spain of yesteryear will not return. The Spain of the 1980s will not return, just like the Spain of the 1930s. Everything changes. Customs and everything have changed radically in 100 or 50 years. And it continues. Admiring the past is useless in politics. The Spanish empire to which they so often refer was not nostalgic. Everything it created was the most modern and advanced of its time. Romanesque, Gothic, and Baroque cathedrals, hospitals, roads, ships, arquebuses...
Today, being Spanish no longer means anything. It is a territory governed by an oligarchy, which in turn obeys a superior oligarchy. So, imagine the ridiculousness of an "independent" Catalonia...
Both patriotic movements emphasize, with a few exceptions, the dangerousness, criminality, and savagery of those who arrive from exotic lands, belonging to foreign cultures, who will necessarily create conflicts and be like wild animals among us. It is a well-crafted discourse, but one that distances us from reality. The mass migration phenomenon should not be seen as a public order problem, but as a spiritual destabilization and an identity earthquake with unpredictable consequences.
Criminals and savages are only the tip of the iceberg, but they will build nothing. The land will be conquered by those with a national vision, a population, and know how to manage resources. I mean, any territory not conquered militarily will be conquered by the population. But it will be a civilized, orderly, educated, and hard-working population...
Yes, many immigrants steal to survive, without papers, without family, etc. They steal like anyone, regardless of culture, would steal to survive. But most people stop stealing if they find a better situation. Meanwhile, it's the common people who suffer, not the politicians, bankers, etc., in their upscale neighborhoods. And since the migratory pressure doesn't stop, this situation persists, creating conflicts for which the political class alone is responsible, and which not only allows them, but encourages them.
The same goes for rape. Thousands of young adults without wives or families also have a different view of women. It is a different culture that is mentally shocking to Westerners. A respectable woman in her country of origin goes out covered up and/or accompanied. The way Western women walk down the street gives them ideas, but they are mistaken ideas. These ideas are wrong because they too are full of prejudices and stem from truly patriarchal societies where women are protected by men with no other life horizon than that permitted by society, or rather, they are dependent on their family, and only their family. Macho behavior is tolerated that would never be tolerated by natives (deep down, they are perceived as backward and in need of learning… Is this racism?).
In short, patriots of all stripes and ideological backgrounds must realize that the most neglected levers that drive history forward and are at the root of class and racial struggles are demographic pressure and technological progress. Enough of believing in the automatic and ahistorical naturalization of masses of foreigners, enough of always turning to the past, enough of believing in magical solutions.
Today, we must face reality. Indigenous Spaniards (and Europeans in general) are just one community among many in a territory that no longer belongs to them. Europe is another American-style melting pot, with multiracial and multiracist societies. It is impossible to know what Spain will look like in 100 years, but it will undoubtedly be very different from today. Therefore, we must not sit idly by, but rather work with a long-term vision, without historical or redemptive fetishism.
The jabs "desiccate" the body, causing "precipitation" of the
blood. This, in turn, leads to myriad health problems "Jab victims look
gray because they're suffocating at the cellular level".
This
clip of retired pharma R&D executive Sasha Latypova is taken from a
discussion with Charles Kovess et al. posted to Rumble on August 13,
2025.
Partial transcription of clip
"As
you said, there is no treatment. And I'm willing to bet it's not
possible to treat the injury that these shots induce, because it's
induced on a cellular level. And it's such fundamental, the mechanisms
of injury are so fundamental to biological nature, actual nature in
general, that it's not possible to treat. So the two main mechanisms by
which these shots destroy, and actually that's common to all vaccines.
One is loss of zeta potential, which again, very few people talk about.
"Zeta
potential is what makes clouds fluffy and what makes people look young
and beautiful, athletic and healthy. It's our electrical charge. Our
electrical charge that expands our tissues and delivers the blood and
oxygen and nutrients to all corners of the body. And incidentally,
that's how they cause bizarre weather events and destroy people's
health, is by the same mechanism injecting cationic substances into
colloids, which is clouds.
"If you inject the cationic substance,
which is metal, aluminum, or some other metals, they will collapse and
you will have a megastorm. And the same thing happens in the human body.
If you inject cationic substance into bloodstream, you cause
precipitation, just like with the cloud. You cause precipitation, which
is microclotting, fallout of various components of blood, including
lipids and proteins, deposits, cataracts, the atherosclerotic plaques,
arrhythmia, renal failure, you name it, everything. Gout, kidney stones,
gallbladder stones, all of it, they are precipitants. Precipitants are
caused by loss of zeta potential from colloid. That's how it
fundamentally destroys. So it affects everything.
"Then the
second mechanism is causing anaphylaxis to pretty much everything, every
normal proteins that you encounter. That's described by Charles Richet
in his Nobel prize winning work in 1913. So as I'm saying, vaccines have
always been a deliberate, poisoning strategy because the experts cannot
claim that they don't know something that was in their field and
received the Nobel Prize. So that's why. And that's why it's not
fixable. And it's not why RFK Jr. Is extending that declaration.
"The
whole world is a colloid. Atmosphere is a colloidal. I don't know, I
just like that. Thank you. Plants. And, and yeah. So what they caused
by, by these shots, by all of the shots, not just mRNA, but all of the
shots, they cause premature aging. Because aging is. Is desiccation.
It's drying, it's shrinking. What is it is because you're losing the.
First of all, you're losing capillaries first. You're losing the micro
circulation first. And then it affects everything.
"That's why
you have wrinkles and skin looks like crap. And, you know, so that's
why. And that's why, actually, there's one of the common things in the.
In the mRNA, injured people, they look gray because they're suffocating
essentially at the cellular level."
The US Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) has urged consumers not to eat, sell, or serve a certain brand of
frozen raw shrimp, warning it may contain a dangerous radioactive
isotope.
The FDA detected cesium‑137 in a shipment imported into
the US by Indonesian firm PT. Bahari Makmur Sejati (BMS Foods) and
distributed under Walmart’s Great Value label in 13 states, including
Texas, Florida, and Pennsylvania.
While no confirmed contaminated product has entered American stores, authorities have urged caution.
“If
you recently purchased one of the impacted lots of Great Value raw
frozen shrimp from Walmart, throw it away. Do not eat or serve this
product,” the FDA said in a statement on Tuesday. “Distributors and retailers should dispose of this product and should not sell or serve this product.”
Customs officials first flagged the problem after detecting
cesium‑137 in shipping containers at ports in Los Angeles, Houston,
Savannah and Miami. The FDA confirmed that at least one sample of
breaded shrimp tested positive for the isotope. Though levels were below
the agency’s Derived Intervention Level, it denied entry to all suspect
shipments.
Walmart has removed the frozen shrimp from its stores and instructed customers to discard them or seek a refund.
Cesium-137 is a radioactive isotope produced by nuclear fission that can damage DNA and increase the risk of cancer if ingested.
Abu Dhabi’s global mercenary network deploys foreign
fighters to crush dissent, pursue expansionist ambitions, and support
Israel's regional geopolitical agenda.
Fleeing its
notorious record and mounting international legal scrutiny, Blackwater,
the world's most infamous private military company, found safe harbor in
the Persian Gulf. There, the UAE opened its coffers, welcoming the
mercenary firm with open arms. A new empire was forged on a brutal
foundation: safeguarding monarchies and executing foreign agendas in
exchange for cash, immunity, and impunity.
In 2009, Blackwater rebranded as Xe Services LLC after a string of war crimes in Iraq, notably the Nisour Square massacre
in Baghdad two years earlier. The cosmetic change masked a continuity
of purpose, which is circumventing international law and orchestrating
illicit operations from the shadows.
Founder Erik Prince officially stepped down but relocated
to the UAE in 2010, where he launched Reflex Responses (also known as
R2) and retained a 51 percent stake, ushering in a new era of
industrial-scale mercenary recruitment.
City of Mercenaries
By
2011, the outlines of a covert UAE mercenary army had emerged, tasked
with exerting influence across West Asia and Africa. This was no
accident as Blackwater played a central role, with then-Abu Dhabi Crown
Prince Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ) serving as one of its chief patrons.
A
host of enabling conditions made the project viable. Abu Dhabi had
become a haven for fugitives and illicit finance. South America's
Colombia became the recruitment bedrock through an agreement to build a
mercenary force led by former FBI agent Ricky Chambers, a close Prince
ally. These mercenaries received the “Rincón” designation, granting them immunity from prosecution under the UAE's military intelligence apparatus.
In May 2011, the New York Times
(NYT) exposed details of 800 men who entered the Persian Gulf state
disguised as construction workers but were swiftly transferred to Zayed
Military City via a Prince-run company, forming part of a $500-million
deal. By July 2017, LobeLog
reported hundreds of foreign fighters had been deployed to Yemen,
including 450 Latin Americans from nations like Panama, El Salvador, and
Chile.
By 2022, the Washington Post
revealed that over 500 retired US military personnel had been hired as
contractors by Persian Gulf states, including the UAE, for salaries up
to $300,000 per year. Colombian fighters continued to arrive via GSSG
and A4S International, then were dispatched to frontlines across West
Asia.
From internal repression to regional conquest
The UAE's first contract with Blackwater in 2010 focused on protecting the sheikhdom. MbZ, skeptical
of his own army's loyalty, brought in foreign officers to secure
palaces, oil infrastructure, and suppress dissent. These mercenaries
tortured political detainees, maintained weapons systems, and served as a
Praetorian Guard for the Emirati elite.
Erik Prince personally
oversaw the training of 2,000 Somali fighters in 2011 as part of a
US-backed, UAE-funded anti-piracy campaign. Simultaneously, Yemen became
a testing ground for these mercenaries, particularly in resistant and
hard-to-reach border areas like Saada and Najran.
UAE-aligned
forces drew on contract soldiers from Chad, Chile, Colombia, Libya,
Panama, Niger, Somalia, El Salvador, Sudan, and Uganda. Spear Operations Group,
notorious for its Yemen assassination program, coordinated many of
these missions. Meanwhile, Lancaster 6 DMCC and Opus Capital Asset Ltd
FZE – both registered in UAE free zones – operated under the so-called
“Opus Project” to back Khalifa Haftar's Libyan campaign.
As
its regional footprint expanded, this military-corporate network played
a prominent role in protecting a string of UAE-run ports, in efforts to
establish a base in Eritrea in East Africa, and in plans to set up a
base in the secessionist Somaliland.
Blackwater,
which had transformed yet again into Academi, had recruited some 43,000
fighters across the region, becoming a major arm of Abu Dhabi's
military adventures from the Persian Gulf to the Horn of Africa.
Sudan: Mercenary proxy war
In
mid-2023, the war in Darfur escalated amid credible allegations that
Abu Dhabi was arming and funding Libya's controversial Rapid Support
Forces (RSF), accused of systematic atrocities. A January 2024 UN
Security Council report confirmed Emirati networks were deeply embedded
in RSF supply lines. In March 2025, the Sudanese government launched a case
with the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing Abu Dhabi of
supporting these militias in committing crimes in Darfur and other
regions.
Colombian newspaper La Silla Vacia
documented a UAE recruitment network operating via the firm A4SI, led
by retired Colombian Colonel Alvaro Quijano. These mercenaries, promised
salaries of up to $3,000 per month and $10,000 bonuses, were equipped
with drones, rocket launchers, and smuggled into Sudan via Somalia and
Chad. Injured fighters were covertly evacuated to Emirati military
hospitals.
On 10 August 2025, an Emirati plane crashed in Darfur, exposing the death of 40 Colombian mercenaries.
Footage later confirmed an entire UAE-backed Colombian battalion
fighting alongside the RSF near Al-Fasher mosque. The scale and
brazenness of UAE involvement was undeniable.
These scandals
prompted Colombian President Gustavo Petro to issue an official
condemnation, declaring “no more merchants of death,” following reports
of the killing of dozens of Colombians in Sudan.
Meanwhile,
the Sudanese Foreign Ministry warned of a “cross-border mercenary war”
that threatened the country's sovereignty, accusing the UAE of financing
and deploying these fighters to support the militias.
Gaza: Mercenaries under the occupation's banner
In October 2024, reports
surfaced that the UAE was financing the recruitment of African
mercenaries to fight for the Israeli army in Gaza and Lebanon. Abu Dhabi
leveraged its alliance with Addis Ababa to draw fighters from Ethiopia,
contracting with firms like Raven and Global CST, which have
long-standing ties to Tel Aviv.
Eyewitnesses have spotted tanks
bearing both Israeli and UAE flags, and testimonies from Gaza detainees
described interrogations by soldiers speaking in Emirati-accented
Arabic. According to Western diplomatic sources, these movements are
part of the UAE and Israel’s “day after” arrangements for an ethnically-cleansed Gaza Strip.
Further evidence emerged when a deputy commander of the Abu Shabab group,
an Israeli-backed militia in Gaza with ISIS links, posted photos next
to UAE-plated vehicles. Palestinian resistance intelligence confirmed an
Arab intelligence agency was training and equipping pro-Israel
mercenaries in Rafah who received funding, off-road vehicles,
surveillance gear, and media tools to facilitate internal coordination.
‘Port-au-Prince’
Erik
Prince has now signed a 10-year deal with Haiti's interim government to
deploy nearly 200 foreign fighters under his new firm, Vectus Global.
These forces, recruited from the US, Europe, and El Salvador are tasked
with combating gangs and collecting tax revenue. They will operate with
helicopters, drones, snipers, and naval units, echoing the same
structure and impunity Prince perfected in the UAE.
This
expansion into the Caribbean is not a deviation but a continuation of
the same blueprint, which is to circumvent local sovereignty, deploy
foreign troops under private command, convert collapsed states into
private ventures of outsourced violence, and provide deniability for
foreign interests funding these initiatives.
Port-au-Prince is
merely the latest testing ground for a model cultivated under Emirati
patronage. What began as palace protection has metastasized into a
global enterprise. While Prince fronts the operations, it is the UAE
that bankrolls, plans, and propagates this empire of outsourced warfare,
now embedded in conflicts spanning three continents.
Today,
the UAE has cemented itself as a global hub for mercenary warfare,
weaponizing wealth to crush dissent, destabilize rivals, and assist
Israel. From Yemen to Sudan to Gaza, each revelation strips away another
layer of Abu Dhabi's shadow empire, an enterprise of covert violence
and regional subjugation.
It means showing support for the group is illegal under the Terrorism Act in the UK, punishable by a maximum of 14 years in prison.
In an impassioned piece published in the Irish Times, the writer hit out at the arrest of more than 500
“brave individuals” holding placards declaring “I oppose genocide, I
support Palestine Action” in London’s Parliament Square last weekend.
“In
this context I feel obliged to state once more that – like the hundreds
of protesters arrested last weekend – I too support Palestine Action,”
she wrote.
“If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK
law, so be it. My books, at least for now, are still published in
Britain, and are widely available in bookshops and even supermarkets.
“In
recent years the UK’s state broadcaster has also televised two fine
adaptations of my novels, and therefore regularly pays me residual fees.
“I want to be clear that I intend to use these proceeds of my
work, as well as my public platform generally, to go on supporting
Palestine Action and direct action against genocide in whatever way I
can.”
She said she would happily publish the same statement in a UK paper, but noted that would now be illegal.
More than 500 people were arrested on Parliament Square last weekend (AFP/Getty)
Ms
Rooney accused the British government stripping its citizens of basic
rights and freedoms “in order to protect its relationship with Israel”.
“The
ramifications for cultural and intellectual life in the UK – where the
eminent poet Alice Oswald has already been arrested, and an increasing
number of artists and writers can no longer safely travel to Britain to
speak in public – are and will be profound,” she added.
Ms Oswald,
58, who won the TS Eliot prize in 2002 and was professor of poetry at
the University of Oxford, was among those detained in central London
last week.
Afterwards, she said her motivation for taking part
included the very personal experience of giving online poetry classes
regularly to young people and children in Gaza.
Half of the
protesters arrested and now facing potentially life-changing terror
convictions were over 60, Metropolitan Police figures show.
Huda Ammori is challenging the ban at the High Court (PA)
Ms
Cooper said counterterrorism intelligence showed the organisation
passed the tests to be proscribed under the 2000 Terrorism Act with
“disturbing information” about future attacks.
“Protecting public safety and national security are at the very heart of the job I do,” she wrote in The Observer.
“Were there to be further serious attacks or injuries, the government
would rightly be condemned for not acting sooner to keep people safe.”
Protesters
have vowed to continue defying the ban as Huda Ammori, the group’s
founder, brings a legal challenge to the High Court in November.
As many are unfortunately keen to
forget, in 2020, the world was locked down for the claim of a deadly
pandemic that still only exists in words. We were then coerced into
taking an experimental mystery shot that genetically alters us and
contaminates us with nanotech. In July of 2020, an accomplished
class-action lawyer who beat Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank, Reiner
Fuëllmich assembled the Corona Committee to help build a case against
those responsible for the greatest crimes against humanity.
For a
little over three years, Reiner Fuëllmich and his committee collected
interviews and testimony from whistle-blowers, experts, and witnesses up
until October of 2023, when he was kidnapped in Mexico, deported to
Germany, and detained on allegations of embezzlement. After his arrest,
committee member, Viviane Fischer, began publicly attacking Fuëllmich.
A
leaked dossier from German intelligence instructed agencies to seize
control of the Corona Committee, to silence Reiner Füllmich, and to
disqualify him from running for public office.
“An analysis should be carried out to assess the possibilities of a declaration of incompatibility that purely prohibits holding political offices due to proven anti-democratic tendencies. Preparation must be made for the initiation of criminal proceedings based on the evidence collected against Reiner Fuëllmich. This entails collaborating with prosecutors and preparing charges for established legal violations and offenses. If necessary, constructions are to be weighed and suitable third parties are to be recruited.”
~Dr. Christof Miseré reading the leaked document
To accomplish their task of destroying Reiner Fuëllmich, the German Intelligence apparatus utilized core members of the Corona Committee.
After years of work, personal money was depleted and a loan was drafted
to borrow money from donations. Fuëllmich used his own money as
collateral to repay the loan. This official documented loan was made
between Viviane Fischer and Reiner Fuëllmich and the court had no way of
proving embezzlement. And so they claimed that it was not a loan, but
rather, ‘trust agreements.’ A claim that relies solely on the testimony
of Viviane Fischer, who claims that they were “sham contracts,” which
should implicate her as well. But she is not being prosecuted.
Fischer
was paid a 70,000 euro advance for a fantasy book she is writing. Other
members conspired with a notary to steal the one-point-one-five-eight
million euros that Fuëllmich was putting up as collatoral. Money that
they admitted in court to still having access to.
Despite the
sloppy lies, the judges go along with it. Last month, Reiner Fuëllmich
was convicted and sentenced to 3 years and 9 months in prison for
embezzlement of donations. The year and a half he’s already spent in
jail is not being considered for time served. The German intelligence
services have deployed everyone from bottom feeding child-traffickers
working for the police, to the politicians and Judges to derail the
efforts of Reiner Fuëllmich. Which should be of no surprise. The tens of
millions murdered by a coercive mystery shot are not making the history
books. This massive crime is still ongoing. The COVID shots are still
on the child vaccine schedule. And people are still dying of heart
attacks and turbo cancer.
Sometime after the COVID phenomenon began, I started my own podcast. Among other highlights, I have had the privilege of interviewing some of the world’s leaders in what I call “the new biology of water” (1). In reality, the new biology isn’t actually new—many indigenous peoples were well aware of the biology of water—but now it is time for this way of thinking to be understood clearly, consciously and in full awareness. For me, “COVID” is many things, but, fundamentally, it is a crisis of how we see biology; that is, how we view life. We have two clear paths ahead of us. Which one humanity chooses will determine our future.
One of my favorite interviews has been with a woman named Veda Austin, who, following on the groundbreaking work of Masaru Emoto (2), learned how to “make” crystal images form in water. Austin’s technique is very simple. She places pure water in a shallow petri dish, then exposes the water to various influences—either sounds, words, photos or her own thoughts. She then puts the water in a freezer at a specific temperature. A short amount of time later, she removes the petri dish with the partly frozen water from the freezer and examines and photographs it, looking for any image that formed in the crystal lattice in the water. What she finds is nothing short of astonishing (3).
One of my favorite images emerged when she put the petri dish of water on top of an invitation she had received for a friend’s wedding. She asked the water to show her animage of the invitation. In the usual number of minutes, she removed the dish from the freezer, and there, unmistakably, was the clear image of a wedding ring. You can see photographs of this on her website or by watching our interview (3,4).
It seems that when the water received a very sophisticated abstract concept—that of marriage—it immediately came up with an image that in a clear, brilliant and innovative fashion conveys the essence of this concept.
That simple and astonishing capacity to create an image conveys exactly the role water plays in biology and in the human being. Water’s role is to collect all the influences from the world—some chemical, some hormonal, some wavelengths of light, some thoughts, some feelings, some resonance frequencies from other living beings—and organize them into a coherent whole. We are the coherent whole.
Proteins are the physical building blocks of any biological structure and are the medium that water uses to create this coherent whole. Scientists have discovered that at least 250,000 separate proteins exist in the human being. The various proteins include enzymes, hormones, “neurotransmitters,” structural proteins like collagen, antibodies and on and on. These proteins carry out all of the activities that we associate with life. They provide structure, detoxify us, and make every reaction in our body work properly.
Without these myriad proteins, life cannot exist. But the questions arise, “Where do the proteins come from? What is the impulse for their formation?” In answering these questions, we come to the essence of the split between the old versus the new biology. We also come to the essence of the “COVID” plot.
The old-biology answer is that all proteins are coded for by a specific segment of our DNA, which is called a gene. This gene is transcribed in the nucleus into mRNA, after which it travels (somehow) from the nucleus to the ribosomes, where it is translated into a specific protein that was embedded in the DNA code.
For years, this process was thought to be a one-way street—always from DNA to RNA to protein—although we now know this idea, called the central dogma of genetics, is incorrect. Any change in the DNA code, called a mutation, will naturally create a variation of the protein, and this mutation process is considered to be the raw material upon which natural selection works. That is, when an “adaptive” mutation arises in the DNA, this confers an advantage to the organism in that it ends up with a more “effective” protein, and this altered DNA provides an advantage to all its offspring. This is the core principle of the old biology: the controlling principle is the gene sequences found in our DNA.
Then came the Human Genome Project. Shockingly, the main finding of this project, whose aim was to map the entire human genome, was that the human genome consists of about 20,000 to 30,000 genes. This finding clearly means that somewhere around 200,000-plus proteins are created that do not correlate with any known gene sequence. In other words, although it appears that a core number of proteins are coded for by specific genes, the vast majority of our proteins are made de novo (anew) with no genetic blueprint.
This gives rise to an obvious question: “Where do these proteins come from?” In a desperate attempt to rescue the theory of genetics and natural selection, scientists postulated that enzymes cut and splice the 20,000 genes, rearranging them according to some direction to make those proteins that are missing their codes. This theory could be correct; however, another simpler explanation exists that potentially changes everything.
The fact that the water created a wedding ring in Veda Austin’s experiment gives us an idea of how the majority of proteins can be made without a genetic blueprint. The water is presented with an idea, a thought, an intention, or, in more scientific language, an aspect of consciousness. Through its living-crystal structure, the water senses this idea—this aspect of consciousness—and “collects” the free amino acids that are always dissolved in the cytoplasm of the cell or in the “body” of the watery syncytium. Using no blueprint other than water’s remarkable ability to translate energy into matter, it creates this new protein to carry out its life tasks.
We can define health, then, simply as being an ever-changing state in which one’s water is able to freely translate the world into the physical body. This translation process must in some mysterious way align with the highest intention of the coherent whole that is you. If that is the case, the outcome is health in the largest and truest sense.
Disease, on the other hand, occurs as a result of any breakdown of this system. It could be that the signals from the outside are toxic, destructive or directly harmful to the coherence of your body’s water. An example is constant exposure to abusive language, threats, demands, lies or fear-inducing messages. This energetic input will shape the body’s water into an incoherent crystalline structure.
Another example is the switch wrought by modern lifestyles, replacing regular exposure to life-giving wavelengths from the sun—and the rest of the natural cosmos—with exposure to the intense, pulsed, narrow band of wavelengths that carry our Wi-Fi signals or 5G. This switch from a broad array of natural, non-pulsed wavelengths to simple, pulsed, high-intensity signals constitutes a toxic exposure (5). Water has never before been exposed to such a thing, and the evidence for what happens is clear: Our cells and tissues become disorganized, chaotic and incoherent, and disease is the inevitable result.
A specific example of how the integrity of our crystalline water is the key to understanding health and disease comes from looking at acute illness. In the new biology of water, we understand that the coherence and structure of our internal water is the basis of life. This coherent water acts like a radio receiver, translating the broadcasted wavelengths of the world into proteins to structure our bodies and to create our life. Disease is an out-of-tune radio. If we dissolve toxins such as glyphosate, cyanide, arsenic and deuterium in our water, we distort it and make it hard for us to hear the music of the spheres, the sounds of the world. Our body, in its inherent wisdom, uses warmth to dissolve this distorted crystalline water and then uses mucus to flush out the toxins. Unfortunately, we call this “sickness.” It is not. It is the road to the restoration of our health.
This simple model explains the entire philosophy underlying every natural healing method that has ever been used. It explains fever therapy, sweat lodges, homeopathy, herbal medicine, Chinese medicine and modern energy healing. These modalities are all fundamentally about restoring the coherence of our water using a combination of detoxification and the introduction of the energy of the natural world into the human organism. This is the blueprint for the medicine of the future.
In contrast, the practitioners of the old biology—culminating in the “COVID” injections—are fundamentally attempting to replace the wisdom of water with the misguided ideas of scientists. Every injection is based on the concept that scientists know better than your water which protein you need to make to be healthy. The big picture of the “COVID” story is that in various labs around the world, scientists came up with the blueprint for the synthesis of a toxin called a “spike protein.” The current evidence is this protein has a specific toxic effect on blood vessels, nerves, lung tissues and possibly many other tissues.
Could the toxic wavelengths known as 5G play a role in creating more sickness? Electromagnetic frequencies have been shown to create sickness by interfering with the coherence of the water in your body (6). And could the virus narrative be a cover story to explain how this spike protein enters your body? Once the virus and spike protein narrative became fixed in people’s minds, the “COVID” injections were put in place, the goal of which is to use stabilized mRNA sequences to direct your body to synthesize the toxic spike protein. You become the vector of your own demise, with no possible recourse to undo this pathway. This is the path our scientists and world leaders have taken. It is a path that leads away from life. It is the path of synthetic biology—not the biology of water and life.
References
(1) Cowan T. Cancer and the New Biology of Water: Why the War on Cancer Has Failed and What That Means for More Effective Prevention and Treatment. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2019.
(2) Emoto M. The Hidden Messages in Water. New York, NY: Atria Books, 2005.
(3) Austin V. The Secret Intelligence of Water: Science, Art & Consciousness. https://www.vedaaustin.com/.
(4) Conversations with Dr. Cowan and Friends | Ep13: Veda Austin. https://www.bitchute.com/video/WidMJTGIVyHO/.
(5) Pall M. Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health. Environ Res. 2018;164:405-416. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2018.01.035.
(6) Phillips JL, Singh NP, Lai H. Electromagnetic fields and DNA damage. Pathophysiology. 2009;16(2-3):79-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pathophys.2008.11.005.
“Gluten-free water.” “Cholesterol-free bananas.” “Non-GMO salt.” Walk
through any grocery store today and you’ll find these absurd labels –
marketing gibberish that reveals how far we’ve strayed from
understanding why certain foods might harm us.
The gluten-free movement has become so commercialized, so diluted by
fad dieters and opportunistic marketing, that we’ve forgotten the
science that started it all.
Worse yet, many “gluten-free” alternatives – laden with refined
starches, inflammatory lectins from rice and potato, and industrial
processing – may be more harmful than the wheat they
replace. The pendulum has swung so far that people now mock gluten
sensitivity as a trendy affliction of the worried well, even as chronic
disease rates continue their inexorable climb.
It’s time to return to the research – to reground this conversation in the science that revealed wheat’s dark side 17 years ago when I first published “The Dark Side of Wheat.”¹
Back then, the idea that wheat could be harmful to everyone, not just
celiacs, was heretical. Today, with over 17,000 studies on gluten in the
medical literature and mounting evidence of wheat’s broader toxicity,
that “radical” thesis looks increasingly more evidence-based and
grounded in practical, direct experience, now that hundreds of millions
have adopted and live a gluten-free life.
But the story goes deeper than gluten. My research,
along with that of many others, has uncovered that wheat contains
multiple harmful compounds – from opioid-like exorphins to the
particularly insidious Wheat Germ Agglutinin (WGA), a
lectin so small and sturdy it can penetrate virtually any tissue in the
body. WGA alone has been linked to over 20 different diseases and
adverse effects, from thyroid cancer to insulin resistance.²
This updated exploration will cut through both the marketing hype and
the skepticism to reveal what the science actually says about wheat,
examining not just gluten but the full arsenal of potentially harmful
compounds in this “staff of life.” Because while “gluten-free”
has become a punchline, the evidence that wheat may be fundamentally
incompatible with human health continues to mount.
Wheat – The “Staff of Life” with a Dark Side
Every day, billions partake in wheat – from morning
toast to pasta dinners – trusting this ancient grain as the very “staff
of life.” Wheat built civilizations, feeding empires from ancient Egypt
to Rome, and remains a cornerstone of modern diets. It’s woven into our
language (“our daily bread”) and culture (think of communion wafers or
the Roman “bread and circuses” policy of appeasing the
masses with grain handouts).³ Yet what if this staple of human
civilization has been quietly undermining human health all along? What
if, behind wheat’s wholesome image, lies a global experiment in human nutrition gone awry?
Modern science and ancestral wisdom are converging on an unsettling truth: wheat may be inherently harmful not just for the 1% with celiac disease, but for all of us.
Emerging research in biology, neurology, and immunology suggests that
the human body is fundamentally incompatible with key components of
wheat. From the gut to the brain, wheat’s proteins and anti-nutrients
can trigger inflammation, autoimmunity, and even addictive responses.
Some scientists now go so far as to compare wheat proteins to pathogens –
invoking prion-like misfolding mechanisms and viral mimicry – to explain the breadth of damage they wreak.⁴
When I first laid out this argument over 17 years ago, I provocatively suggested that what we call “gluten intolerance” might be a universal human problem –
that celiac disease is merely the tip of a much larger iceberg of
wheat-induced ailments.⁵ Today, mounting evidence gives weight to those
words. We’ll explore how modern wheat differs from its ancient ancestors
biologically and metabolically, why our bodies often react to it as a
hostile invader, and how removing wheat from the diet has transformed
lives.
In this article, we’ll blend historical narrative with
cutting-edge research – maintaining journalistic balance and academic
rigor while channeling the urgency of the original “Dark Side of Wheat”
thesis. Prepare to see your daily bread in a new light, and perhaps
to question whether this grain truly deserves its foundational place on
our plates.
Civilization’s Double-Edged Sword
Wheat’s story is the story of civilization itself. Around
10,000–12,000 years ago, humans transitioned from hunter-gatherers to
farmers during the Neolithic Revolution, domesticating wheat and other
grains.⁶ In one sense, wheat was the catalyst of civilization:
its cultivation supported population growth, permanent settlements, and
empire-building. But wheat enabled something else unprecedented – a
form of social control previously impossible. Unlike hunted game or
foraged foods, wheat could be stored and controlled by elites, creating artificial scarcity. It could be taxed at predictable intervals (harvest time), used as currency to bind populations to centralized power, and withheld as punishment or granted as reward.
The Roman Empire perfected this system of biological statecraft. The
Empire was called the “Wheat Empire” for good reason – its expansion was
literally fueled by grain. Rome imported an astonishing 400,000 tons of
wheat annually, mostly from Egypt and North Africa. The entire imperial
military and administrative apparatus existed largely to secure these
grain supply lines. When those lines failed, empires fell – the Vandal
conquest of North Africa in 429 CE, cutting off Rome’s wheat supply,
arguably triggered the Western Empire’s final collapse. Roman soldiers
were paid in wheat rations, and military forts doubled as granaries
holding a year’s supply of grain. Emperors pacified the urban masses
with free wheat handouts through the Cura Annonae (grain dole) – this wasn’t charity but calculated control. The original bread in “bread and circuses” (panem et circenses) reveals the cynical truth: wheat was a tool of behavioral control as powerful as any army.⁷
Wheat even achieved something no other food has: sacred status across multiple religions.
In Christianity, wheat bread literally becomes the body of Christ.
Judaism’s Passover centers on wheat matzah. Islam’s zakāt (obligatory
charity) was historically paid in wheat. This religious entrenchment
wasn’t accidental – wheat-based agricultural societies needed
ideological justification for the suffering agriculture caused. By
making wheat sacred, religions transformed a biological colonizer into a
divine gift. To reject wheat became not just antisocial but sacrilegious.
But this civilizational bargain came at a terrible cost. As humans leaned into wheat for cheap calories, signs of declining health emerged in the archaeological record.
Skeletal analysis shows that early farming communities were
shorter-lived and sicker than their hunter-gatherer predecessors –
height dropped by 5-6 inches, life expectancy fell by seven years.
Studies of prehistoric skeletons reveal a nearly 50% increase in signs of malnutrition (like enamel defects in teeth) and a fourfold rise in iron-deficiency anemia when
agriculture took over.⁸ Infectious disease and bone degeneration
increased as well – a strong hint that the grain-centered diet was
compromising immune resilience and overall vitality. As Pulitzer-winning
author Jared Diamond famously quipped, agriculture may have been “the
worst mistake in the history of the human race,” giving us cheap calories at the cost of nutrition and health.⁹ And of the staple crops responsible, wheat was (and remains) front and center.
Modern history, too, illustrates wheat’s double-edged nature as both
sustainer and controller. The U.S. PL-480 program (Food for Peace) has
dumped surplus wheat on developing nations since the 1950s, destroying
local agriculture and creating permanent dependency. The Green
Revolution of the 1960s-70s, funded by the Rockefeller and Ford
Foundations, spread high-yield wheat varieties across the developing
world. Norman Borlaug’s dwarf wheat, while preventing famines, also
destroyed agricultural biodiversity, created dependency on Western seeds
and chemicals, displaced traditional nutritious crops, and increased
wheat consumption in populations with no evolutionary adaptation to it.
Countries like Egypt now import 50% of their wheat, making them
vulnerable to price shocks and political manipulation.
In ancient Rome, the Cura Annonae (grain dole) kept
citizens docile – a populace filled with bread was less likely to
revolt.¹⁰ Today, global powers continue to leverage wheat surpluses as
political currency, fostering dependency through food aid. The phrase
“bread and circuses” has become shorthand for placating a population
with cheap food and entertainment, eroding civic engagement. It is
sobering to consider that a food capable of dulling hunger and even behavior
(as we’ll see with wheat’s drug-like compounds) can be an instrument of
quiet control – from Rome’s grain doles to modern food aid programs,
wheat has been humanity’s most effective tool of bio-political
management.
Beyond Celiac: A Universal Intolerance?
For decades, celiac disease – a severe autoimmune
reaction to gluten in wheat – was thought to be extremely rare, a
genetic fluke afflicting only about 1 in 10,000 people of European
descent. That old view has crumbled. Celiac disease is now known to
affect about 1 in 133 Americans (roughly 1%) and occurs worldwide.¹¹
Improved screening uncovered many “silent” cases beyond the classic
emaciated patient, leading experts to envision celiac as just the tip of
an immense iceberg. Above water, the tip represents those with obvious digestive symptoms who get diagnosed. Below the surface lies
a far larger population with milder or atypical wheat reactions – from
asymptomatic individuals with intestinal damage, to people suffering
mysterious ailments that improve off wheat despite negative celiac
tests.
This realization birthed the concept of non-celiac gluten sensitivity (NCGS) – now often termed simply non-celiac wheat sensitivity, since other components of wheat can be culprits. By some estimates, NCGS may affect at least 6% of the population (tens
of millions of people) – potentially far more, since there is no
definitive lab test and diagnosis is often by exclusion.¹² These
individuals test negative for celiac but experience fatigue, pain,
digestive disorders, neurological or dermatological symptoms tied to
wheat consumption, which resolve on a wheat-free diet. Mainstream
medicine was initially skeptical, even dismissive: if you didn’t have
celiac antibodies or villous atrophy on biopsy, any trouble with wheat
was deemed “in your head.” As I’ve wryly noted, simply feeling better off gluten isn’t considered proof of anything by conventional standards – many patients who insist wheat is a problem despite negative tests get referred to a psychiatrist.
Skepticism is fading as scientific evidence mounts
that gluten sensitivity exists on a spectrum. In 2011, a double-blind
trial finally validated NCGS in a subset of patients.¹³ More strikingly,
research shows that even in people without any diagnosable intolerance, wheat can provoke innate immune reactions. A groundbreaking 2007 study published in Gutasked a bold question: “Is gliadin (the major gluten protein) safe for non-celiacs?” Researchers
took intestinal tissue samples from healthy individuals without celiac
and from confirmed celiac patients, and exposed them to gluten peptides.
The result: all samples – including those from non-celiacs – released the inflammatory cytokine IL-15 in response to wheat gliadin.¹⁴ In plain English, everyone’s gut immune system recognizes gluten as a threat to some degree.
This finding supports what I and others have theorized: celiac
disease might be the extreme tip of a spear that’s jabbing all of us.¹⁵
In this view, the celiac patient’s dramatic reaction (diarrhea,
intestinal damage, malnutrition) is not an “abnormal immunity” so much
as a normal defensive response – a healthy response to an unhealthy food. Their
bodies are essentially sounding an alarm and ejecting the toxic
substance. By contrast, those of us who tolerate wheat better may
actually fare worse in the long run, because the damage accrues
silently.
Indeed, celiac disease can be reframed as the body’s last-ditch effort to protect itself: some
researchers hypothesize that when faced with persistent wheat toxicity,
the body of a person with the “right” genes chooses to sacrifice the
gut (by destroying its own nutrient-absorbing villi) in order to halt
the absorption of wheat’s harmful components, thereby sparing other
organs.¹⁶ Diarrhea and malabsorption, in this light, are the body’s emergency detox mechanism –
better to starve a bit than allow continual poisoning. This is actually
very similar to my xenohormetic/detoxification explanation for
exosome-mediated ‘viral infection,’ which you can learn more about here.
This paradigm shift – viewing wheat/gluten issues as a spectrum and
possibly universal – is supported by a burgeoning field of research. By
2022, there were over 17,000 studies on “gluten” indexed in the medical literature,
and the number of publications on gluten intolerance has skyrocketed in
the past two decades.¹⁷ Clinicians are recognizing links between wheat
and a bewildering array of conditions, often without classic
gut symptoms. For example, gluten sensitivity has been implicated in
neurological disorders (like ataxia, neuropathy, even some cases of
epilepsy and schizophrenia) and psychiatric conditions (depression,
anxiety) that improve on a gluten-free diet.¹⁸ Autoimmune diseases such
as Type 1 diabetes, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, and psoriasis have all been
linked in some patients to wheat consumption.¹⁹ In fact, the research
archive at GreenMedInfo has cataloged 230 distinct health conditions and adverse effects associated with wheat in
the scientific literature – from the obvious (celiac, wheat allergy) to
the surprising (schizophrenia, heart disease, liver inflammation,
etc.).
A Biological Mismatch: We Are Not Wheat Eaters by Design
Humans evolved over ~2.5 million years as omnivorous
hunter-gatherers, subsisting on meats, fish, fruits, vegetables, nuts,
and seeds – but not grains.²⁰ Grains like wheat belong
to the grass family and were essentially inedible to humans until we
developed the tools of agriculture (and cooking techniques to process
them). Our paleolithic ancestors almost certainly did not consume wheat;
it wasn’t part of the available food ecology in any significant amount.
The human genome and digestive system were forged in this grain-free
context. From an evolutionary perspective, 10,000 years (at most ~500
generations) is a blink of an eye – not long enough for full adaptation to a radically new food source like wheat in the entire population.²¹
Consider lactose intolerance as an analogy: drinking animal milk was
unknown before animal domestication, and to this day a majority of the
world’s adults lack full ability to digest lactose (milk sugar). They
aren’t “diseased” – rather, digesting milk into adulthood is the aberration,
a genetic adaptation that arose in certain pastoralist groups.
Similarly, it may be that the ability to tolerate wheat without
immediate illness is a relatively unusual adaptation, while sensitivity is
the norm. I’ve speculated that populations with celiac-associated genes
represent a “vestigial” subset of humanity that simply never adapted to
grains – survivors of history who avoided wheat long enough that, when
exposed in modern times, their bodies still mount the ancient rejection
response.
Moreover, modern wheat is not the same beast our ancestors first cultivated. Through
millennia of selective breeding – and especially through intensive
hybridization and agronomic techniques in the 20th century’s Green
Revolution – wheat has changed dramatically.²² Today’s common bread
wheat (Triticum aestivum) is a genetic monstrosity compared to ancient einkorn or emmer wheat. Modern wheat is polyploid, containing six sets of chromosomes (three ancestral genomes’ worth of DNA) and capable of producing an enormous array of proteins – over 23,000 distinct proteins have been catalogued in wheat.²³ That’s far more proteins than
the human genome encodes. Each of those proteins is a potential antigen
– meaning our immune system might see it as foreign and react.
Notably, modern wheat has been bred for higher gluten content to
improve baking quality. Some varieties contain up to 50% more gluten
than traditional strains.²⁴ The very property bakers prize – the gluey,
elastic protein that makes dough rise – is what makes wheat doughy and
indigestible in our guts.
Another modern wrinkle is chemical exposure. While
wheat itself is not (currently) a genetically modified crop, it is often
doused in agrochemicals. Perhaps most concerning is glyphosate (the
herbicide in Roundup®), which is sometimes sprayed on wheat pre-harvest
to dessicate and synchronize ripening.²⁵ Glyphosate residues have been
detected in conventional wheat products, and some have hypothesized that
glyphosate is a key driver of the rise in gluten-related disorders
since the 1990s.²⁶
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The Offending Agents in Wheat
Wheat is not just empty carbs and calories; it comes loaded with
biologically active molecules. Three classes of wheat components get the
most attention for their human health impacts:
Gluten Proteins (Gliadin & Glutenin) – the storage proteins in wheat endosperm, which form gluten.
Exorphins – opioid-like peptides derived from partially digested gluten.
Lectins (esp. Wheat Germ Agglutinin, WGA) – defensive proteins that protect the wheat plant.
1. Gluten (Gliadin): A Gut Offender and Immune Trigger
“Gluten” refers to a network of proteins in wheat dough; chief among them is gliadin,
a prolamin protein rich in the amino acids proline and glutamine.
Gliadin is the primary trigger of celiac disease: it survives digestion
partially intact (thanks to those proline-rich segments that resist our
enzymes), and in susceptible individuals its fragments dock onto immune cells,
inciting a full-blown T-cell attack on the gut lining.²⁷ But even
outside the context of celiac, gliadin is trouble. Research shows that
gliadin can directly damage intestinal tissue and increase gut permeability in everyone.²⁸
Another study by Dr. Alessio Fasano’s team demonstrated that gliadin binding to the gut wall triggers an overproduction of zonulin,
a protein that regulates the tight junctions between intestinal
cells.²⁹ The result is that these junctions open up – gliadin literally makes the gut lining leaky in
both celiacs and non-celiacs. Through this mechanism, wheat consumption
can allow toxins, microbes, and undigested food molecules to seep into
the bloodstream, potentially igniting systemic inflammation and
autoimmunity. As Fasano put it, gliadin activates zonulin signaling “irrespective of genetic expression of autoimmunity,” meaning you don’t need the celiac genes for this effect to occur.³⁰
Beyond the gut, gluten fragments can prompt mischief elsewhere. One
infamous 33-amino-acid fragment of gliadin (the “33-mer”) not only
resists digestion but also mimics the protein sequence of a bacterial pathogen.³¹ Specifically, this gliadin peptide has a striking homology to pertactin, a virulence factor of Bordetella pertussis (the
whooping cough bacterium). This molecular mimicry suggests that when
our immune system sees that fragment, it might mistake it for an
infection and mount an attack that inadvertently harms our own tissues.
2. Gluten Exorphins: Opioids in Your Bread
When gluten is not fully broken down (which is often, due to those hard-to-cleave proline-glutamine bonds), it yields peptides that act like opiates in the brain. These fragments are dubbed gluten exorphins or gliadorphins, because they exert morphine-like activity.³² One such peptide, a 7-amino-acid sequence named gliadorphin-7,
can be absorbed into the bloodstream and cross into the brain if the
gut is leaky enough. There, it attaches to opioid receptors and can
disrupt normal neurotransmitter balance. Research has detected multiple
distinct gluten exorphins (A4, A5, B4, B5, C, etc.), and they have been
implicated in conditions like autism, schizophrenia, ADHD, and mood
disorders.³³
Even in ordinary individuals, these opioid peptides may produce subtler effects. Why do we crave bread and pasta, and describe them as comfort foods? Perhaps
because wheat quite literally can comfort (or rather, dope) the brain. I
noted that just below the waterline of the “gluten iceberg” might lurk
these opiate effects that everyone experiences to varying
degree. If one person gets a schizophrenia-like level of cognitive
impairment from wheat, another may just feel a pleasant sedation or
craving for more. Anthropologists Greg Wadley and Angus Martin once
argued that cereal grains’ narcotic properties made them uniquely suited
to domestication of humans: unlike obvious drugs, they feed us while subtly drugging us, and can be stored and meted out daily, “the ideal facilitator of civilization”.³⁴
3. Wheat Germ Agglutinin (WGA): A Trojan Horse Lectin
While gluten often steals the spotlight, wheat harbors another villain in its ranks: wheat germ agglutinin (WGA). WGA is a type of lectin,
which is a plant protein that binds to specific carbohydrates
(sugars).³⁵ Plants often use lectins as a defense mechanism – a built-in
pesticide of sorts to deter predators. WGA is concentrated in the wheat
kernel’s germ and bran, the parts that even whole wheat aficionados
consider “healthy.” Yet gram for gram, WGA is extraordinarily potent on
a biochemical level – active in the microgram range – and highly resistant to cooking and digestion.³⁶
My research has shown that WGA can cause widespread damage:³⁷
Direct Tissue Damage: Studies indicate that WGA binds to the gut’s epithelial cells, particularly to the glycoprotein receptors that line the intestinal microvilli.³⁸ This binding can damage the brush border, causing the gut cells to slough off at a faster rate. Essentially, WGA acts like a chemical sandpaper on our intestinal wall. It also has a mitogenic effect, meaning it can stimulate cell proliferation inappropriately.³⁹
Systemic Effects: Even more alarming, WGA doesn’t
stay in the gut. It can cross into the bloodstream and travel to distant
organs. Researchers have found WGA accumulating in places like the
joints, pancreas, kidneys, and brain in animal studies.⁴⁰ In fact, WGA
can even cross the blood-brain barrier through a process called
adsorptive endocytosis.⁴¹
Hormonal Disruption: In the bloodstream, WGA can bind to insulin receptors, acting as a hormone imposter. It has been shown to exhibit insulin-mimetic activity,
meaning it can bind insulin receptors and activate them improperly.⁴²
It can also bind the leptin receptor in the hypothalamus, potentially
inducing leptin resistance (making the brain deaf to
the “I’m full” signal).⁴³ This double meddling – mimicking insulin,
blocking leptin – is a recipe for weight gain and metabolic dysfunction.
Disease Associations: The GreenMedInfo database has catalogued WGA’s association with over 20 different diseases and conditions, including:⁴⁴
Thyroid cancer and thyroid nodules (WGA receptors are overexpressed in pathologic thyroid tissue)
Rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis (WGA binds to inflamed synovial tissue)
Gastrointestinal diseases and increased intestinal permeability
Blood-brain barrier disorders
Insulin resistance and metabolic dysfunction
To summarize WGA in human terms: imagine a tiny biochemical ninja that
sneaks through your gut lining, irritates and erodes your tissues,
messes with your metabolic signals, and potentially incites
autoimmunity. And because WGA is so small and sturdy, our usual cooking
and digestive processes don’t easily disarm it. This is why I’ve called
WGA “the invisible thorn” of wheat – you can’t detect it with standard
allergy or celiac tests, but it can still cut you.
The Lectin Connection: Beyond Wheat
My research has revealed that WGA is not alone in its harmful
effects. Other foods contain structurally similar lectins, particularly
chitin-binding lectins that share WGA’s affinity for
N-acetylglucosamine.⁴⁵ These foods include:
Potato (potato lectin)
Tomato and other nightshades
Rice (yes, the “safe” gluten-free grain)
Barley and rye
This discovery helps explain why some people who eliminate gluten
still experience inflammation when consuming these “gluten-free”
alternatives. Rice, which has become the poster child for gluten-free
products, contains lectins that can bind to the same tissues as WGA.⁴⁶
The nightshade vegetables (potato, tomato, peppers, eggplant) contain
not only lectins but also glycoalkaloids that can disrupt intestinal
permeability and exacerbate inflammatory conditions.⁴⁷
One way to gauge the pervasiveness of these effects is the popularity
of glucosamine supplements – a quarter billion dollars worth sold
annually in the USA. When we consume glucosamine (derived from chitin in
shellfish), the chitin-binding lectins in our foods bind to it instead
of our tissues, sparing us their full impact. Many Americans who reduce
pain with glucosamine might be better served by removing these
lectin-containing foods from their diets entirely.⁴⁸
When Food Acts Like a Pathogen
Our
immune system evolved to fight pathogens – viruses, bacteria,
parasites, and yes, misfolded proteins like prions. Normally, food is
recognized as benign nourishment, not an enemy. But wheat seems to be an
outlier. Researchers have pointed out eerie parallels between what happens in celiac disease and an actual infection.⁴⁹ A 2008 article in PLOS Pathogens drew a side-by-side comparison: an infectious microbe evades barriers, resists degradation, triggers immune alarms, and damages tissues – and a fragment of wheat gluten does the same in a celiac patient.⁵⁰
Perhaps most striking is gluten's structural kinship to certain pathogenic proteins. Remember those glutamine-rich repeats in gluten that make it hard to digest? Similar sequences are found in the proteins of some microbes and also in prion diseases.⁵¹
Prions (the infamous agents of mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease) are misfolded proteins that cause chain-reactions of protein
clumping. They tend to feature repetitive amino acid motifs (often rich
in glutamine or proline) that confer unusual stability and resistance to
proteolysis – just like gluten fragments. In fact, a scientific
analysis found certain gluten peptides have a high sequence and structural similarity to bacterial proteins and even form amyloid-like aggregates under certain conditions.⁵²
It's Not Just the Gluten (and Not Just the Glyphosate)
At this juncture, it's clear that wheat is a complex offender
– not a single toxin but a package deal of problematic compounds.
Often, debates around wheat's harm get oversimplified: is it the gluten
or is it something else?
Let's disentangle a few threads:
Gluten vs. Other Wheat Components: We've seen that gluten (gliadin) definitely has intrinsic toxicity (IL-15 and zonulin upregulation) even in non-celiacs.⁵³ However, other components like WGA lectin and amylase-trypsin inhibitors (ATIs)
can also trigger innate immune responses.⁵⁴ In people with NCGS, it
might be these non-gluten components setting off gut inflammation.
Wheat vs. Glyphosate/GMOs:
Glyphosate and GMO byproducts (like Bt toxin) may indeed amplify
wheat's harms by damaging our gut barrier and microbiome.⁵⁵ That said, wheat has been causing illness long before these chemicals existed.
Celiac disease was clearly described in the 2nd century AD by Aretaeus
of Cappadocia, who noted it was triggered by consumption of cereal
grains.⁵⁶
Modern Wheat vs. Ancient Wheat:
Some heritage wheats (einkorn, emmer, heirloom strains) have different
gluten compositions that may be slightly less immunoreactive.⁵⁷ However,
ancient wheat is not gluten-free – celiacs cannot safely consume it. And all wheat contains WGA and other lectins.
The Wheat-Free Revolution: Reclaiming Health
If
all this sounds grim, there is a silver lining: unlike so many complex
health threats, this one has a straightforward (if not necessarily easy)
solution – stop eating wheat. Around the
world, thousands upon thousands of individuals have reported profound
improvements in health after eliminating wheat and gluten from their
diets.⁵⁸
Through the GreenMedInfo archive I've compiled, along with other sources, here are notable health turnarounds associated with going wheat-free:⁵⁹
Improved Digestive Health:
Even people without obvious gut issues often report less bloating, more
regular bowel habits, and relief from reflux or indigestion once off
wheat.⁶⁰
Autoimmune Disease Relief:
Patients with autoimmune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis,
Hashimoto's thyroiditis, psoriasis, or ulcerative colitis sometimes see
reductions in antibody levels and flares after cutting out wheat.⁶¹
Metabolic and Weight Benefits: In his book Wheat Belly,
cardiologist Dr. William Davis famously claimed that wheat elimination
leads to weight loss even without calorie counting.⁶² A large analysis
in China found that populations eating more wheat (versus rice) had
significantly higher rates of obesity.⁶³
Mental and Neurological Wellness: People commonly report enhanced mental clarity, better mood, and stable energy.⁶⁴
In clinical contexts, gluten-free diets have been used as adjunct
therapy in conditions like schizophrenia and autism with some success.⁶⁵
Overall Inflammation Down: Many who drop wheat experience relief from aches, joint pains, and migraines.⁶⁶
Challenging the "Daily Bread" Narrative
Despite
the evidence, suggesting that "wheat is bad for everyone" remains
heresy in many nutrition circles. After all, dietary guidelines
worldwide still place grains (with wheat chief among them) as the
foundation of a "healthy diet."⁶⁷ Yet, science progresses by challenging
assumptions, and public health guidance must evolve with evidence.
Importantly, the conversation is moving away from blaming the "victim" (the person with the sensitivity) and toward scrutinizing the "aggressor" (the food).
For years, if someone complained that bread made them ill, the response
was "What's wrong with you? Why is your body overreacting?" Now, we're
starting to ask, "What's wrong with bread that it makes so many people ill?" This reframing is vital. It shifts the onus from individual defect to potential species-level incompatibility.⁶⁸
Conclusion: Rethinking Our Daily Bread
In
closing, the dark side of wheat is a story about listening – listening
to our bodies, to the lessons of history, and to the emerging science
that challenges nutritional orthodoxies. It urges us to reconsider the
comforting narrative that has placed wheat on a pedestal. Yes, wheat
nurtured civilizations and fills bellies in a hungry world. But it may
also underlie a great deal of the chronic illness that plagues those
very civilizations in the modern era.
What can you do?
You don't have to take any of this on faith. Consider conducting your
own personal experiment. Go without wheat (and its gluten-containing
cousins barley and rye) for a month or two – a sufficiently long trial
to clear your system and observe changes. Be aware that many gluten-free
products contain other problematic lectins from rice, potato, and corn.
Fill the gap with truly nutrient-dense foods: vegetables, fruits,
legumes (properly prepared), nuts, seeds, and clean proteins. Pay
attention to your digestion, energy, skin, mood, joint comfort – any
chronic niggles. Then reintroduce wheat and see what happens.
Finally, there's a broader call to action: let's push for a paradigm shift in how we think about diet and chronic disease. Just as we've started to question excess sugar and ultra-processed foods, we should apply the same scrutiny to the refined and
whole wheat products that dominate our food pyramid. The gluten-free
movement may have become commercialized and trivialized, but the
underlying science remains solid and growing stronger.
In the end, examining the dark side of wheat is liberating.
It empowers individuals with knowledge to make informed choices for
their health, and to really become aware of the way in which common
foods affect their consciousness and sense of well-being, rather than
simply following food fashions or industry-influenced guidelines. Your daily bread may be doing you more harm than good – but you have the power to find out and the freedom to choose differently.
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Disclaimer:
This article synthesizes findings from various scientific studies and
perspectives on wheat consumption. While compelling evidence exists for
wheat-related health issues in many individuals, responses to wheat vary
widely. Readers should consult with healthcare professionals before
making significant dietary changes, especially those with diagnosed
medical conditions.
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