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Blood Money and Broken Oaths
By Marivel Guzman | Akashma News
About the Series
This nine-part investigative series traces how U.S. wars—from Iraq to Afghanistan, from Congress to Silicon Valley—have become less about defense and more about dividends. It exposes the revolving door between military command and corporate control, the use of terror to justify mass surveillance, and the hidden ledger of war profiteers.
Table of Contents
- Part I: The War Machine’s Finest Minds – And Why They Failed Us
- Part II: Blood Money and Broken Oaths – How America’s Wars Were Lost to Greed
- Part III: The Empire’s Ledger – Mapping the Timeline of Treason
- Part IV: Collateral Empire – The Civilian Toll and the Future of Resistance
- Part V: Naming the War Lords – Profiles of Power, Profit, and Permanent War
- Part VI: Collateral Profits – How War Built Empires, Crushed Nations, and Reshaped the Global Order
- Part VII: Resistance Rising – The Return of the Unbought Voice
- Part VIII: The Patriot Act’s Children – Surveillance, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Dissent
- Part IX: The Archive of Resistance – Building the People’s Historical Memory
Coming Soon: The eBook Edition
Complete manuscript with footnotes, timelines, visual archives, and appendices. Arabic and Spanish translations will follow the English release.
Part VII: Blood Money and Broken Oaths — Resistance Rising – The Return of the Unbought Voice
By Marivel Guzman | Akashma News
“Empires are never defeated by bombs. They’re unraveled by truth.”
— Akashma News, 2025
For every general who sold his soul, there was a private who refused an order.
For every president who signed a war, there was a journalist, a dissident, a whistleblower who stood between silence and complicity.
This is their chapter—the unbought voices.
I. The Whistleblowers Who Paid the Price
Edward Snowden
In 2013, this former NSA contractor shattered the myth of democratic oversight.
Exposed NSA mass surveillance, PRISM, XKeyscore and in a corporate collusion with the U.S. intelligence apparatus unveiled a global surveillance network that targeted not only terrorists, but ordinary citizens, allies, and journalists.
Labeled a traitor by the state, a hero by the people.
From the Akashma News article, “Are Whistleblowers Heroes or Traitors?” (2017):
“What Snowden revealed was not a single violation—it was a culture of abuse. The United States had quietly converted its intelligence apparatus into a planetary panopticon.”
Snowden once said:
Now exiled in Russia, with global surveillance programs still using the infrastructure he exposed.
“Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American.”
On February 10, 2017, he posted a tweet that said it all:
“Break classification rules for the public’s benefit, and you could be exiled. Do it for personal benefit, and you could be President.” @Snowden
Forced into exile in Russia, Snowden is still hunted—not for falsehood, but for truth.
Chelsea Manning
Leaked the Iraq War Logs, Afghan War Diaries, and the Collateral Murder video—exposing war crimes and civilian deaths covered up by U.S. forces.
Imprisoned. Tortured. Silenced. Yet she never recanted.
Daniel Hale
Revealed the inner workings of the U.S. drone assassination program.
His leaks showed that 90% of drone deaths were not intended targets.
Imprisoned under the Espionage Act for telling the world the truth.
These are not criminals.
They are mirrors held to a government that has forgotten its own reflection.
Daniel Hale and The Drone Papers
“The public should know what is done in its name.” — Daniel Hale
In the pantheon of modern whistleblowers, Daniel Hale stands as a quiet but unwavering voice of conscience. A former U.S. Air Force intelligence analyst, Hale leaked classified documents exposing the stark reality of America’s drone assassination program.
The documents—later published by The Intercept as “The Drone Papers”—revealed that nearly 90% of those killed in targeted strikes were not the intended targets.
Hale showed us the system’s true face: algorithmic kill lists, metadata-driven “signature strikes,” and the bureaucratic normalization of civilian deaths. For this truth, he was not hailed as a hero. He was sentenced to **45 months in prison**.
The Espionage Act was used to punish him, even though he passed information to journalists—not enemies. The Whistleblower Protection Act didn’t apply. In the eyes of the government, exposing war crimes is more criminal than committing them.
Daniel Hale’s sacrifice is a reminder: transparency is treason in an empire built on lies. But through his courage, a new chapter in resistance was written—one where memory and morality still have defenders.
For more, read the original court records: o
II. The Journalists Who Refused to Be Bought
Julian Assange
Founder of WikiLeaks.
Published war logs, diplomatic cables, CIA hacking manuals.
Now imprisoned—not for lying, but for publishing classified truths that embarrassed empire.
Abandoned by mainstream media, yet hailed by global civil society.
Gary Webb
Exposed the CIA’s role in funneling drugs into U.S. cities to fund Contra rebels in Latin America (Dark Alliance).
Smeared, blacklisted, and driven to a suspicious “suicide.”
His findings were later confirmed—but too late to save his reputation or life.
Michael Hastings
Exposed Gen. McChrystal’s toxic command culture in Rolling Stone.
His death in a car explosion remains questioned by many.
In a media world built on corporate funding, these few told the truth without permission.
III. The Soldiers Who Said No – And Never Looked Back
Camilo Mejía, Brandon Neely, Clifton Hicks, Erik Edstrom—all former U.S. military personnel who turned against the wars they fought, and spoke out.
Each served the system, then exposed its rot. But among them, one voice thundered louder across borders:
Ken O’Keefe
Former U.S. Marine turned international activist.
Renounced his U.S. citizenship and declared himself a “world citizen” in opposition to empire.
Vocal critic of Zionism, neocolonialism, and U.S. foreign policy—long before it was fashionable.
Participated in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, risking his life to break the Israeli blockade.
Called out not just U.S. policy but the entire system of financial parasitism behind war and media manipulation.
On record stating:
“We, the people, must demand the end of the military-industrial-complex… the bankers’ wars… because they do not fight for our freedom, they fight for their power.” (@KenOKeefe1TJP)
He wasn’t just a soldier who defected in principle.
He became a symbol of radical conscience—a truth-teller across Palestine, Iraq, London, and beyond.
And while censored and demonized by media and state agents alike, his message resonated because it was never for sale.
They told stories of:
Dehumanization of civilians,
Illegal orders,
Suicidal deployments,
War as trauma without purpose.
These voices rarely make the news—but they make up the soul of resistance: those who went, and came back unwilling to lie.
Part II: Blood Money and Broken Oaths – How America’s Wars Were Lost to Greed
by Marivel Guzman | Akashma News
They said it was about freedom. They said it was about justice. They said it was about protecting American lives.
But the body count rose, the lies piled up, and the contracts multiplied.
Behind every failed operation, every smokescreen of national interest, and every “freedom mission” abroad—there was a ledger. And the names in those ledgers weren’t soldiers or widows. They were stockholders, politicians, former generals, and billionaires.
This is not anti-war rhetoric. This is forensic journalism. We follow the money. We follow the lies. And we follow the names.
I. The Bush Dynasty: Family Business Meets Foreign Invasion
George H.W. Bush – former CIA Director, oilman, war president. His company, Zapata Offshore, had connections to offshore drilling, Latin America operations, and covert interests.
George W. Bush – sat atop the nation in 2001, as oil executives and military contractors circled the wreckage of 9/11 like vultures. He handed the no-bid reconstruction contracts to Halliburton, formerly run by his vice president, Dick Cheney.
And then came the war built on a lie—Weapons of Mass Destruction—a falsehood pushed by political operatives and amplified by a willing press. The Bush-Cheney doctrine turned Iraq into a playground for profiteers.
II. Dick Cheney: Halliburton’s Shadow Commander
Vice President Cheney made millions from Halliburton stock options even after supposedly “severing ties.” In 2003 alone, Halliburton secured $7 billion in contracts from the U.S. government.
His fingerprints are everywhere:
KBR (Kellogg Brown & Root, a Halliburton subsidiary) billed billions for “reconstruction.”
Allegations of fraud, overcharging, and unsafe conditions for troops.
Private subcontractors like Blackwater (now Academi) acted as mercenary extensions of U.S. foreign policy—with legal immunity.
III. Congress for Sale: The Blood-Soaked Wallets on Capitol Hill
Congress didn’t just approve the wars—they invested in them.
Senator Dianne Feinstein: Her husband, Richard Blum, had stakes in military contractors that gained from Iraq contracts.
Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH): Longtime advocate of defense expansion, recipient of funds from Raytheon and Lockheed.
Dan Crenshaw (R-TX): Public military hero, private supporter of increased private security contracting. Multiple donations from defense PACs.
And let’s not forget Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE)—our cyber subcommittee chair. With decades of military service and political clout, he embodies the revolving door. No direct link to NSO Group or Palantir yet, but his pro-surveillance stances and cyber warfare lobbying track suggest he’s under corporate gravity.
Use OpenSecrets.org and Project on Government Oversight to track the steady stream of blood money funneled through campaign donations and insider contracts.
IV. When Generals Turn Into Guns-for-Hire
Gen. James Mattis: Board member of General Dynamics after his military career.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal: Became advisor to Palantir Technologies, a CIA-seeded surveillance company.
Gen. Michael Hayden: Ex-NSA director turned private consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton—the same firm Edward Snowden worked for when he exposed global surveillance.
They fought wars. Then they sold the playbook.
V. The Tech Profiteers: From Silicon Valley to Baghdad
Bill Gates: Not just the vaccine mogul—Microsoft technology undergirded U.S. digital surveillance and logistics systems in war zones. While Microsoft didn’t profit from boots-on-the-ground war, its infrastructure contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan were extensive.
Peter Thiel: Founder of Palantir, funded by In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital arm. Palantir’s predictive policing software was deployed in Iraq and on U.S. streets.
Jeff Bezos: Amazon’s AWS cloud bid for the JEDI war cloud contract—worth $10 billion—showed that today’s wars aren’t about tanks. They’re about data.
VI. The Looting of Iraq: $6.6 Billion Gone in Cash
Between 2003–2007, the U.S. “lost” $6.6 billion in cash meant for Iraq’s reconstruction. That money was flown in on pallets—literally—in C-130s, and vanished.
Where did it go? Corrupt Iraqi officials? American contractors? Halliburton vaults?
No accountability. No charges. No return.
VII. From Patriot Act to Panopticon
With the ink still wet from the Twin Towers’ collapse, Congress passed the Patriot Act, giving birth to:
NSA mass surveillance.
Fusion centers spying on Americans.
Corporate surveillance networks with no oversight.
Big Tech, security firms, and retired brass cashed in. And the American people were told: “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.”
Meanwhile, the architects of fear had everything to gain.
VIII. Conclusion: The Road to Treason Is Paved with Contracts
America didn’t lose its wars because of incompetence. It lost them because winning was never the goal.
The Pentagon became a piggy bank. Congress a stock exchange. And the generals? Many became consultants, CEOs, and lobbyists.
They served money, not country. And money, as we know, doesn’t need a passport to move through the doors of corruption.
So we name them. We trace the dollars. And we demand that history stop calling them patriots when they were, in truth, profiteers.
In Part III, we’ll break down timelines, show document trails, and map the full revolving door from war zones to corporate boardrooms.
Welcome to Part III: Blood Money and Btoken Oaths: The Empire’s Ledger – Mapping the Timeline of Treason
Part IV: Blood Money and Broken Oaths: Collateral Empire – The Civilian Toll and the Future of Resistance
by Marivel Guzman | Akashma News
“They died for freedom,” the politician says.
But whose freedom? Certainly not theirs.
I. The Myth of Precision and the Reality of Ashes
They called it precision warfare.
They promised “smart bombs.”
But what they delivered was mass death—unaccounted, unpunished, and largely undocumented.
According to IraqBodyCount.org, between 187,499 and 211,046 civilians have been documented killed by violence since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
Further analysis of WikiLeaks’ Iraq War Logs may add another 10,000 names to that ledger of loss.
Invading armies rarely excel at local mathematics—or at honoring the logistical heartbeat of a nation.
Markets became “targets of opportunity.” Ambulances became suspicious. Homes became war zones.
And in every crater, a truth buried:
This was not precision. This was policy.
Afghanistan: At least 70,000 civilians killed.
Syria, Libya, Somalia, Yemen: death tolls climbing, often uncounted.
Drone strikes: 90% of victims in some campaigns were not the intended targets.
“Collateral damage,” they called it.
Entire villages vaporized. Weddings bombed. Hospitals shelled.
No apologies. No trials. Just silence and the next press conference.
II. The Refugee Crisis: Manufactured Exodus
By 2022, U.S.-backed wars and destabilization campaigns had displaced over 38 million people—more than any conflict since World War II.
Iraqis flooded Jordan, Syria, and Europe.
Afghans clung to C-17s during evacuation.
Libyan migrants drowned off the Mediterranean coast after NATO’s intervention.
Syrians sought refuge from both U.S. airstrikes and U.S.-armed militias.
And while borders closed, the same governments who caused the exodus tightened asylum laws.
Militarized borders became the next frontier for profit.
III. Psychological War: Civilian Trauma as Policy
It’s not just bombs that wound. It’s what comes after.
PTSD rates among civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan exceed those of U.S. veterans.
Suicide, drug addiction, domestic violence—a quiet epidemic in rubble cities.
Schools bombed. Power grids sabotaged. Childhoods swallowed by sirens and fear.
This isn’t war. It’s social engineering through destruction. Break a population’s spirit, then offer “reconstruction” tied to debt, surveillance, and privatized aid.
IV. The New Colonies: NGOs, Contractors, and Vultures
After the last Humvee rolls out, the real occupation begins.
USAID becomes the soft hand of the Pentagon.
NGOs distribute food—but collect data.
Western contractors rebuild what they helped destroy—on the same taxpayer tab.
In Iraq, U.S. firms made $138 billion during “reconstruction.”
In Afghanistan, $19 billion went missing through fraud, waste, or abuse.
The locals get checkpoints and corruption.
The West gets contracts and stock options.
V. Domestic Casualties: The Forgotten Veterans and Homeland Decay
The war came home, too.
Over 30,000 U.S. post-9/11 veterans have died by suicide.
The VA is underfunded, overrun, and riddled with bureaucracy.
Tens of thousands of veterans live homeless, addicted, or disenfranchised.
While Boeing builds bombs, American bridges collapse.
While Palantir surveils war zones, U.S. schools go unfunded.
While Raytheon stock rises, insulin prices keep climbing.
This isn’t defense. It’s organized theft.
Part V: Blood Money and Broken Oaths —Naming the War Lords – Profiles of Power, Profit, and Permanent War
Part IX: Blood Money and Broken Oaths — The Archive of Resistance – Building the People’s Historical Memory
By Marivel Guzman | Akashma News
“The most revolutionary act is to remember what they want you to forget.”
— Akashma News, 2025
History is not just what happened. It’s what survives.
And in a world engineered for forgetting—of crimes, of war, of complicity—resistance begins with remembering.
This exposé is not just a series of investigations. It is an archive. A repository of the betrayed, the unbought, the assassinated, and the whistleblown. A defiant act of record-keeping against empires that thrive on amnesia.
I. Empire’s Greatest Weapon: Erasure
Libraries burned in Iraq, archives bombed, and museums looted.
Emails deleted, war logs classified, and FOIA requests denied.
Journalists silenced, platforms deplatformed, history textbooks rewritten.
Empires don’t just bomb cities. They bomb memory.
And when they can’t erase you, they bury you under entertainment, fear, and the distraction of the next outrage.
II. The People’s Memory: Analog and Digital Resurrection
From the archives of:
WikiLeaks, The Intercept, Akashma News, Cryptome, and Truthout,
To the voices of Snowden, O’Keefe, Assange, Manning, Hale, and Hastings,
To documents salvaged from hard drives, leaked by patriots, and preserved by the persistent,
the historical record lives outside the institutions meant to protect it.
Every censored article. Every pixelated war video. Every leaked memo.
All of it must be remembered—not to relive trauma, but to deny empire its victory lap.
III. Decolonizing Memory: Whose History Survives?
Palestinians record their own massacres in whispers and phone footage.
Black radicals are erased from civil rights textbooks while lobbyists praise “reform.”
Antiwar soldiers, from Vietnam to Fallujah, are airbrushed out of the national narrative.
Historical memory is a battleground.
To win it, we must:
Name the names that were buried.
Preserve the files they tried to erase.
Teach the children what the state will not.
IV. The Archive as Act of War
“The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us.”
We carry these names.
These stories.
These truths.
We build the people’s archive because the state has abandoned truth in favor of power.
V. Conclusion: From Memory to Movement
To remember is to resist.
To preserve is to prepare.
To build an archive of betrayal is to build a roadmap out of empire.
The war doesn’t end when the troops leave.
It ends when the lies no longer work.
And that day begins with a record like this.
Echoes from the Ice: When Whistleblowers Confirm the Obvious
By Marivel Guzman | Akashma News
In the echo chamber of modern whistleblowing, where controlled leaks masquerade as revelations, Eric Hecker’s Antarctic confessions have stirred fresh waves among conspiracy circles and truth-seekers alike. But beneath the dramatic delivery and chilling claims lies a sobering reality: most of what Hecker reveals is not classified. It’s public—hidden in plain sight.
From patents filed by Bernard Eastlund to DARPA’s openly available documentation on Extremetly Low Frequencies (ELF) and neurostimulation experiments, Hecker’s disclosures about IceCube’s alleged weaponization and HAARP-like technology echo what investigative journalists, independent researchers, and even curious readers have known since the late ’90s. He speaks of directed energy weapons, atmospheric manipulation, and mind-altering technologies as if unveiling a secret, when in fact he’s reciting the table of contents of public domain patents.
The real story is not what he said—but that it needed saying at all.
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica, funded by the NSF and constructed with Raytheon oversight, has long raised eyebrows among researchers studying military dual-use facilities. And yes, seismic soundings have been documented. Yes, ionospheric heating has military utility. Yes, patents exist for hurricane steering, cloud seeding, and tectonic vibration. And yes, the same names—Raytheon, Lockheed, DARPA—keep showing up.
What makes Hecker’s testimony compelling isn’t novelty; it’s timing. His voice joins a growing chorus of scientists, journalists, and former insiders who’ve dared to break the mold of silence. But even then, we must ask: Is this courage, or is it a soft disclosure?
In the age of cognitive overload, the truth isn’t suppressed—it’s shouted from so many rooftops, it disappears into static. That’s why Akashma News exists: to filter signal from noise.
So when a whistleblower repeats what the evidence already screams, we welcome it. Not as new proof, but as a reminder: those who control the narrative know the power of repackaging. It’s our job to remember where the real story began—and where it must go next.
Stay tuned for Part II: HAARP, DNA Markets, and the Hidden Economy of Biological Material.
Because as we always say at Akashma: “Truth is the news, and you the readers are the opinion maker.“
Closing Reference:
Explore the full investigative series:
Echoes from the Ice: When Whistleblowers Confirm the Obvious
HAARP and Earth’s Magnetic Field: Tuning the Frequencies of a Living Planet(Part I)
A foundational exposé on the ionosphere, resonance interference, and the secrets encoded in Eastlund’s patents.
HAARP, DNA Markets, and the Hidden Economy of Biological Material (Part II)
Explore the speculative yet disturbingly plausible theory of underground biological trafficking, human energy extraction, and how HAARP-like tech might interface with it.
Lake Vostok’s Secret: Beneath the Ice, Above the Law (Part III)
A deep dive into seismic soundings, magnetic anomalies, and rumors of ancient or artificial intelligence beneath Antarctica.
HAARP, Ice, and Echoes of Power: Part I
by Marivel Guzman | Akashma News
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Introduction: Scraping the Ice
Beneath Antarctica’s frozen stillness lies more than ancient ice. It holds encrypted layers of power, silence, and experiments unseen by public eyes. From high-frequency ionospheric heating arrays to seismic pulses bouncing beneath the ice, the Earth hums with technologies that test her patience. This is a journey into HAARP’s real capabilities, buried magnetic secrets, biological speculation, and the voices of those silenced in the name of progress.
1. HAARP and Earth’s Magnetic Field: Tuning the Frequencies of a Living Planet
Officially, the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) exists to study the ionosphere. But declassified patents, whistleblower claims, and DARPA contracts reveal far more. ELF/VLF waves generated by HAARP can penetrate deep into the Earth and oceans. Stanford’s VLF group and experiments by Dr. Umran Inan confirmed energy emissions capable of disturbing subterranean and atmospheric systems. Beyond weather modification, these frequencies could resonate with the Earth’s magnetic heartbeat—with unknown consequences.
Key References:
US4686605A Patent (Eastlund)
Stanford VLF Group
DARPA NESD & N3 Programs;
NESD: Neural Engineering System Design
Summary (DARPA NESD Program):
DARPA’s now-completed Neural Engineering System Design (NESD) program aimed to create ultra-high-resolution brain-machine interfaces that could translate neural activity into digital signals. Designed to interact with thousands of neurons simultaneously, NESD focused on restoring vision, hearing, and communication for wounded service members by merging neuroscience with advanced electronics, photonics, and algorithms.
Source: DARPA NESD Program Overview
(Archived content — page no longer maintained)
II. Earth Resonance and Atmospheric Pulse
Researchers like Dr. Nick Begich Jr. have long warned that HAARP’s real danger lies in its ability to generate extremely low frequency (ELF) and very low frequency (VLF) waves. These frequencies can penetrate earth and water, altering tectonic stress points, and possibly triggering earthquakes or volcanic activity.
A study by Stanford’s VLF Group and data from the DEMETER satellite have shown that ionospheric heating produces geomagnetic effects beyond the ionosphere.
Scientific Source: Stanford VLF Group
III. Lake Vostok: Under Ice, Over Silence
Buried beneath 3.7 kilometers of Antarctic ice lies Lake Vostok, a sealed ecosystem untouched for millions of years. Russian drilling efforts, U.S. satellite overflights, and sudden restrictions in fly zones raise questions.
What we know:
Anomalous magnetic readings above the lake.
Speculation of microbial or exotic biological materials.
Presence of symmetrical heat sources and unnatural structures observed via radar imaging.
Sources: NASA MODIS Imagery, Declassified DOD maps
IV. The Whistleblowers and the Silences
From Eastlund’s technical admissions to whistleblower claims by insiders like Eric Hecker, a common thread emerges: claims of psychological targeting, subterranean facilities, and sensor arrays capable of full-spectrum dominance.
Many whistleblowers have recanted, disappeared, or gone silent.
Suggested Reading: “Angels Don’t Play This HAARP” by Nick Begich Jr. and Jeane Manning
V. Follow the Money
The Alaska-based HAARP facility was originally funded by the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and DARPA through contracts with ARCO Power Technologies Inc. (APTI), a subsidiary of Atlantic Richfield Company. Eventually, Raytheon acquired APTI, and then control shifted to the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Funding Trail:
ARCO → APTI → Raytheon → University of Alaska
DARPA → Joint research under dual-use classification
Sources: GAO Reports, Congressional budget allocations
VI. Stan Stephens and the Echoes of Oil
In Alaska, boat operator and environmental activist Stan Stephens documented the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster. His journal, retrieved from public archives, captures the negligence, deception, and institutional silence around environmental catastrophe. His name surfaced in congressional hearings about journalist surveillance conducted by Wackenhut under Alyeska Pipeline contracts.
This isn’t merely about oil. It is about power: of states, of corporations, and of the ability to silence truth.
Document Source: UAF Oral History Jukebox
Conclusion: Listening for the Echoes
As HAARP’s hum rises and global magnetic disturbances intensify, Akashma News invites you to read between the wavelengths. Part I opens the investigation. In Part II, we follow the trails of biological material trafficking, subterranean labs, and the Dark Web of modern experimentation.
We do not claim certainty. We offer questions, data, whispers—and ask you to listen.
Next in Series: Part II: Beneath Ice and Flesh – The Biological Trade and Subterranean Networks
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