The UK government’s relationship with Palantir has always been controversial, and it’s looking worse and worse by the day:

The UK Ministry of Defence signed a £240 million contract with Palantir last month. https://t.co/51ArogysfA

— Ross Greer (@Ross_Greer) January 6, 2026

Palantir: American psycho

Joe Lonsdale is an American venture capitalist. As you can see from his Wikipedia, he looks like the result of Captain America inbreeding with himself for several generations:

While Lonsdale is no longer part of Palantir, he was indeed a founder, and as such he should have some knowledge of its founding principles. It’s also entirely believable that Palantir was established to maximise human misery given what we know about the company.

As Joe Glenton reported for the Canary in December 2025, a new book claimed that Israel used Palantir tech in its 2024 pager attack:

The Israel pager attack killed twelve, including two children, and injured nearly 3000 people. The second Israeli attack with weaponised walkie-talkies killed twenty five and injured 600 people.

Reporting on an anti-Palantir protest in October 2025, HG wrote:

The company won a controversial £330m contract to create a centralised data management platform for the NHS. It also won contracts with British police departments and social services. The NHS contract caused outrage amongst health workers who are forced to witness the relentless killing of their Palestinian colleagues, and the targeted destruction of all health infrastructure in Palestine.

Additionally:

In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital arm, helped fund the creation of Palantir. The Co-founder, Peter Thiell, has a long history of financial support for politicians who promote Christian nationalist and white supremacist politics. The firm also plays a central role in Trump’s White House. This includes taking on a recent $10bn contract with the US army, and a $30m contract to play a central role in ICE’s brutal immigration crackdown.

We also reported on how Peter Thiel – another bigwig – was an associate of Jeffrey Epstein.

So that’s good.

The military industrial complex

It’s important to remember that America doesn’t have military contractors to support its wars; it has wars to support its military contractors.

Famously, president Dwight D. Eisenhower described this phenomenon in 1961, calling it the ‘military industrial complex‘:

A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction. . . .

American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. . . .

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. . . .

Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. . . .

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Eisenhower’s warning came to pass, and Palantir is the very embodiment of it.

For more on the industrialised murder of communists, we’d advise familiarising yourself with the rise of the German Nazi Party.

Featured image via Holocaust Encyclopedia / Tech Crunch

By Willem Moore

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