Resistance Media

03/10/2026

We’re watching the rise of a new anti-democratic extremism—networked, crypto-financed, and cloaked in the language of freedom. The Network State is not about liberty. It’s about power. It’s not a utopia, it’s a bunker. A fortress city with drone defense and unregulated biotech, where capital is king and citizenship is a subscription.

—Gil Duran, The Nerd Reich

On a cool, crisp March day last year, members of Elon Musk’s DODGE gang, accompanied by DC police officers and other law enforcement personnel, forced their way into the building housing the US Institute of Peace (USIP) in Washington DC. When USIP personnel refused to leave, they were cited as trespassers in their own offices and removed. The action was an illegal seizure of a congressionally chartered, quasi‑independent institution and its building.

It should be no surprise then that the building, now the home of the renamed “Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace,” was the site of the inaugural meeting of his new Board of Peace in February.

Apparently unable to seize the UN building in midtown or gain control of the world body, he has a new plan.

He has gone ahead and built his own, anointed himself chair for life and proceeded to unilaterally appoint friends, family and business associates to make up the Executive Board. He holds veto power over all key decisions including membership removal, executive board actions and charter revisions.

Even better, Trump used an executive order invoking the International Organizations Immunities Act (IOIA) to designate his new “Board of Peace” as a “public international organization” which entitles it to the same privileges, exemptions, and immunities as the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and World Health Organization.

Essentially, Trump has created the Board of Peace by fiat, designated it under a law requiring congressional authorization he never sought, and can now use that designation to shield it from the very courts that might rule on whether the designation was lawful in the first place.

The Board’s property and assets are immune from search and confiscation wherever located in the world, its officers cannot be sued, its archives are inviolable and legally shielded from subpoenas in civil or criminal proceedings, and it enjoys broad immunity in American courts.

“New Gaza” and “New Rafah”

Merrian-Webster defines “obscene” as “repulsive by reason of crass disregard of moral or ethical principles.”

The first project of the Board of Peace is obscene: a massive commercial real estate grift, under cover of implementing a Gaza ceasefire plan, built literally on top of the human remains and rubble of a fresh genocide.

There is more than meets the eye when it comes to the proposed Gaza redevelopment “master plan” promoted by Jared Kushner at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos. The Board of Peace demands an extraordinarily opaque, unaccountable legal architecture, fortified by sweeping global shields and immunity claims, precisely because it is far more than a real estate project.

On the surface it is designed to dazzle. In glossy computer renderings the scheme is centered by a new coastal tourism strip and two showcase cities, “New Rafah” and “New Gaza.” It envisions a seafront “coastal tourism” zone long enough for up to 180 skyscrapers, many of them hotels, lining Gaza’s Mediterranean shore, with an adjacent port and airport in the southwest corner near the Egyptian border. Kushner’s powerpoint shows glass towers, luxury waterfront apartments, parks, sports complexes, data centers, and large high tech zones intended to make Gaza a regional logistics and tech hub.

The flagship “New Rafah” project is described as having over 100,000 permanent housing units, around 200 education centers, roughly 180 cultural, religious or vocational centers, and about 75 medical facilities. The plan clusters Palestinian housing into four district‑like areas separated by large parks and industrial zones, and ties all reconstruction to the full “demilitarization” of Gaza.

Despite the project being nothing less than the complete reconstruction of their homeland, Palestinians have been entirely excluded from the Executive Board, the general membership, and all positions of meaningful authority or influence in the decision-making process. Benjamin Netanyahu, on the other hand, is a founding member.

Last May, while on a middle east trip, Trump revealed the real, darker nature of the project “I have concepts for Gaza that I think are very good. Make it a freedom zone. Let the United States get involved and make it just a freedom zone. I’d be proud to have the United States have it, take it, make it a freedom zone.”

The Network State

The Board of Peace is planning to build a “freedom city” in Gaza.

Curtis Yarvin’s seminal role in promoting techno fascism and the network state has been clear—his “Patchwork” essays and Dark Enlightenment writings imagine a world of thousands of such corporate city‑states, each run by a CEO‑like sovereign.

Balaji Srinivasan is the architect and marketer of the overall blueprint: his “network state” doctrine provides an ideological and technical playbook: They are pitched as semi-autonomous city-states with investor written charters, ultra low regulation and corporate style governance that replaces municipal democracy.

These are not fringe ideas. Donald Trump has long floated plans for “Freedom Cities” on U.S. federal land, while Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel have funded charter‑city schemes through Praxis, Pronomos, and even backed Greenland proposals. Elon Musk has promoted his new city Starbase, Texas, as part of a wider “startup city” vision, and seasteading advocate Patri Friedman, in partnership with Thiel, has pushed for experimental floating communities at sea.

Mark Lutter (Charter Cities Institute) and Nick Allen (Frontier Foundation) specifically identify Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, the Presidio in San Francisco and the Lowry Range in Denver as prime candidates for Freedom City projects aligned with Donald Trump’s federal‑land agenda.

As Gil Duran of The Nerd Reich describes it:

Trump is clearly enamored with the Network State idea, perhaps for a simple reason: real estate. Stripped to its basics, the Network State — which seeks to create a new class of privately-owned cities around the world — is digital colonialism. It’s about seizing land and creating valuable real estate, places where the wealthy can evade democracy and laws, and live like kings.

Trump’s Gaza plan fuses necropolitics with venture capital. Flatten a place, declare it “free,” and then auction it to the highest bidder. This is the Network State dream in its most ghoulish incarnation: a tech fascist casino built atop the disaster capitalism of genocide and mass displacement.

Trump sees the destruction of Gaza as a business opportunity. The same instincts that drove him to hawk steaks, casinos, and mail-order diplomas are now shaping his global policy. Gaza is just the latest dystopian canvas for Trump’s imperial real estate fantasy — a scorched-earth startup zone.

There is however, an obvious inconvenient issue with this new enterprise—current estimates suggest over 2 million Palestinians, many traumatized, homeless and suffering from extreme malnutrition, remain in Gaza.

In 2024 Doctors Without Borders observed “Over 15 months of all-out war on Gaza have left 92 percent of housing units and about 70 percent of all structures destroyed or damaged.”

Kushner’s “New Gaza” explicitly carves out multiple data‑center and high tech “campuses” in the north and center of the Strip, on land where dense Palestinian neighborhoods and refugee camps once stood. All in, the new plan will offer a fraction of the new housing necessary to house those people. Where are Palestinians expected to go?

In a March 2, 2026 statement, the UN argued “Leaders must stop speculating about Gaza as a real estate paradise and see it for what it is – the war-ravaged homeland of its residents who have the right to rebuild their lives after the enormous suffering and deprivations they have endured.”

The Dark Side of “Freedom”

Security, surveillance and control are core elements of the “New Gaza” freedom city. The plan calls for the creation of a 12,000 strong “vetted” Palestinian police force and the formation of an International Stabilization Force (ISF), a private paramilitary army of 20,000 heavily armed soldiers.

Documents describe a heavily fortified ISF base in southern Gaza, with approximately 26 armored watchtowers, bunkers, a small‑arms range and barbed‑wire perimeter. The ISF will be tasked with securing Gaza’s borders and training and overseeing the new police force rather than handing them autonomy.

“New Gaza” is being set up as a prototype for a full‑spectrum digital security regime that repurposes wartime surveillance infrastructure into peacetime “governance” tools.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been involved in the Board of Peace from its very inception through the Tony Blair Institute. His institute, bankrolled by Oracle founder Larry Ellison to the tune of $348 M, has been directly involved in designing “New Gaza’s” “data‑driven” reconstruction blueprint, deploying the Oracle‑Palantir war stack for digital identity, centralized databases, and AI‑managed public services.

Israeli military operations in Gaza rely on Palantir’s AI platforms (Gotham, AIP, Project Maven) running on Oracle’s cloud and data centers to fuse drone feeds, satellite imagery, phone intercepts, and other intelligence into automated targeting systems that generate “kill lists” at scale. Oracle built a dedicated Jerusalem “sovereign cloud” region to serve Israel’s public sector, defense, and intelligence units, including secretive IDF tech units, providing exactly the kind of hardened infrastructure that can be rebranded for “smart city” management in Gaza.

Palantir staff already sit inside the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) that oversees aid convoys into Gaza, feeding real‑time location and distribution data into Palantir systems while drones watch from above. The same architecture that optimizes convoy routing can be plugged directly into AI targeting matrices—turning every aid truck, shelter, or checkpoint in “New Gaza” into a node in a live, militarized data map.

Under the Board of Peace plan, U.S.‑managed International Stabilization Force (ISF) units will use Palantir’s Maven and similar platforms to monitor Gaza’s streets, communications, and social networks, construct detailed network graphs of civilians and suspected militants, and generate lists of people to detain, surveil, or kill. This will transform Gaza into a tightly monitored, AI‑policed enclave where every movement, transaction, and interaction can be tracked in real time.

The Grift

The Board of Peace’s “New Gaza” will also become a prototype for an entire sovereign city/state adoption of tokenized assets and stablecoin financial activity.

According to the Financial Times, the work of introducing a stablecoin to Gaza is being led by tech entrepreneur and Israeli Cyber Command co-founder Liran Tancman. Such a proposed stablecoin regime could put nearly every transaction, salary, aid payment, and property deal inside a private financial system, routing most of the activity around traditional multilateral oversight and SWIFT‑based banking.

The most likely choice?

World Liberty Financial (WLF) runs a dollar‑pegged stablecoin (USD1) and the WLFI token; it is structurally and financially dominated by the Trump and Witkoff families. Four days before Trump’s 2025 inauguration a UAE royal‑linked consortium, led by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, closed a $500 million deal to take a 49% equity stake in World Liberty Financial.

The Wall Street Journal estimated since 2024 the Trumps generated $1.2 billion and the Witkoffs $200 million from World Liberty, making it more lucrative than Trump’s traditional real‑estate empire over the same time frame.

The conflicts of interest of such a structure would be stunning.

Steve Witkoff serving as both Trump’s special envoy and Board of Peace executive board member, is a central architect of “New Gaza.” Members of the Witkoff family have negotiated the ceasefire, are overseeing the reconstruction body and would profit from all stablecoin transactions. This positions its firms to win hotel, port, and real‑estate concessions that may be denominated in or integrated with WLF’s stablecoin rails.

A Gaza economy built around such a blockchain system could keep its internal and externally‑sourced transaction volume off conventional SWIFT‑based wires, instead settling via crypto exchanges and on‑chain transfers that are programmable by the issuer and its partners, even as the stablecoin itself is notionally backed by dollar reserves held in regulated banks somewhere upstream.

Board documents and investor decks emphasize tokenized real‑estate and digital payment rails as core to the “New Gaza supply system.”

This would make land, concessions, and rental streams in Gaza directly tradable on or connected to Trump’s crypto rails and secondary markets, turning the territory itself into a financial product inside the WLF ecosystem.

If Gaza’s economy is moved onto a programmable stablecoin managed by Trump’s venture and its Gulf partners, that model can be exported: replicate the stack—World Liberty stablecoin + friendly sovereign funds + corporate‑style governance + tech‑surveillance infrastructure—and drop it into other enclaves marketed as network state “freedom cities.”

The Dark Side of “Financial Freedom”

If USD1, Trump’s World Liberty stablecoin (or another stablecoin such as Tether) become the currency of “New Gaza,” it would turn everyday economic life into a real‑time data stream that outside actors can watch, score, and selectively control.

Residents could be forced into KYC’ed (Know Your Customer) digital wallets to receive aid, salaries, or pay bills. To receive food rations, medical care, or access utilities and public services, they would have to have their wallet scanned, making every basic necessity contingent on using the system.

Because the underlying token is programmable, authorities (Board of Peace, ISF, Israeli and U.S. security services) could attach rules to wallets: geographic limits, spending categories, curfews on use, or per‑person quotas.

In practice, the wallet becomes an ID, ration card, and movement pass rolled into one; losing access means being locked out of the core economy.

Every payment including rent, groceries, bus fare, school fees, donations, would be logged on‑chain and could be cross‑referenced with off‑chain identity data. Algorithms could flag “suspicious” patterns: frequent cash‑out at certain kiosks, transfers to blacklisted addresses, spending in neighborhoods tagged as “high‑risk.”

Those flags would feed into Palantir‑type systems already used around Gaza, tying financial behavior to location, social networks, and communications metadata. A resident wouldn’t see the scoring, only the consequences: more questioning at checkpoints, denial of permits, visits from security forces, or sudden wallet freezes.

Because the issuer and its partners control the contract, they could freeze individual wallets (a specific person, family, or business) and blacklist addresses linked, rightly or wrongly, to “terrorism” or political activism. Whole zones could be throttled, making it impossible to pay in certain districts, effectively imposing a digital siege on a neighborhood without rolling tanks.

If real‑estate contracts, hotel concessions, and business licenses are denominated or recorded via the stablecoin system, authorities could restrict who is allowed to buy property or open a business and force Palestinians to use local, tightly controlled wallets. Compliance rules could be used to screen out “undesirable” residents from exclusive and high end zones, shaping the class and political makeup of each district.

That could make “New Gaza” function like a gated financial zone: wealthy foreign and regional investors transact freely, while Palestinians navigate a fenced‑off micro‑economy where every larger purchase needs implicit security approval.

Using Trump’s USD1 as Gaza’s operating currency could amount to digital occupation by ledger: a resident’s ability to eat, travel, work, save, or own property would all depend on a programmable money system that is out of their control and can be turned against them at any time.

The Plot to Destroy the United Nations

The formation of the Board of Peace comes while the Trump administration is withholding over $4 billion in back dues from the UN while withdrawing the United States from a wide cross-section of UN-related entities.

In January he signed an executive order suspending U.S. support for 66 more organizations, agencies, and commissions, many affiliated with the United Nations.

The order directed the United States to withdraw from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the foundational 1992 climate treaty ratified by the U.S. Senate and joined by nearly all countries, which underpins the Paris Agreement—an unprecedented move, as the U.S. is the first country to initiate withdrawal from this framework.

It also withdrew US participation in the Office for Children and Armed Conflict, Office on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Office on Violence Against Children, the Peacebuilding Commission and the Peacebuilding Fund.

The administration had previously suspended support for agencies like the World Health Organization, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), the U.N. Human Rights Council and the U.N. cultural agency (UNESCO).

According to the UN, the United States owes $2.196 billion to the organization’s regular operating budget and an additional $1.8 billion to the peacekeeping budget.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated in January, “Either all member states honor their obligations to pay in full and on time–or member states must fundamentally overhaul our financial rules to prevent an imminent financial collapse.”

Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares wrote recently:

Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ is a blatant repudiation of the United Nations. Trump has made that explicit, recently declaring that the Board of Peace ‘might’ indeed replace the United Nations. This statement alone should end the conversation for any serious national leader. Participation after such a declaration is a conscious decision to subordinate one’s country to Trump’s personalized global authority.

The New Axis of Evil

Like any exclusive club, membership is a privilege only extended to those deemed worthy. In this case, the countries that Trump has decided meet some secret criteria suggested by the voices in his head. And who will drop a cool billion into his pocket.

The list of those disinvited is a very, very, short: one. As the President “truthed” on his social platform: “Dear Prime Minister Carney: Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time.”

It is hardly a surprise that none of the “shithole” countries from Sub-Saharan Africa were invited.

Of course, when you think of peace there are two champions that stand head and shoulders above all others: Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin. They share a special distinction—both have been indicted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. Netanyahu was an immediate and enthusiastic yes, Putin is acting coy.

The list of those who have refused is growing. France, Germany, Spain, the UK, Norway, Sweden, Slovenia, New Zealand, Ukraine, and the Vatican have all declined or rejected invitations outright. Greece and Italy have expressed reluctance but stopped short of a definitive refusal. BRICS members China, Brazil and India as well as the asian democracies of Japan, South Korea and Australia are watching from a safe distance.

Far more revealing is the list of countries that have jumped in. The Board of Peace currently includes a collection of some of the most notorious human rights abusers found on the planet.

It is quite an accomplishment to be able to bring together such an impressive list of world leaders, hated and feared across the globe, in one common effort.

Meet Trump’s New Axis of Evil

Select Founding Members of the Board Of Peace

SAUDI ARABIA — Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was directly implicated in the October 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, a killing the UN special rapporteur called a premeditated assassination, with the crown prince’s personal security team dispatched to carry it out. In 2025 Saudi Arabia broke its own record for executions for the second consecutive year, executing at least 347 people, including some sentenced to death for social media posts, while authorities sentenced a mother of two to 27 years in prison for sharing tweets supporting women’s right to drive.

ISRAEL — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry concluded in September 2025 that Israel committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, finding that Israeli authorities committed four of the five genocidal acts defined by the 1948 Genocide Convention, including killing and seriously harming unprecedented numbers of Palestinians, imposing a total siege that caused starvation, and systematically destroying Gaza’s healthcare and education systems. Human Rights Watch’s World Report 2026 found that Israeli forces killed more than 69,000 Palestinians including more than 19,000 children, while in May 2025 Israeli forces killed hundreds of Palestinians seeking food aid at distribution sites. A UN Commission found that Israel’s security forces deliberately killed, detained, and tortured medical personnel and targeted medical vehicles while tightening a siege on Gaza, acts the commission found constitute the war crimes of willful killing and the crime against humanity of extermination, while Palestinian detainees held by Israeli forces were subjected to electric shocks, burning, sexual humiliation, and deprivation of food and water, with deaths in custody amounting to the war crime of willful killing.

UAE — President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

In 2025 an Emirati court upheld the convictions of 53 human rights defenders following the UAE’s second-largest mass trial, sentencing 43 people to life imprisonment in proceedings shrouded in secrecy where defense lawyers were barred from receiving copies of the judgment and families were banned from the courtroom. Amnesty International uncovered visual evidence that UAE-manufactured armored personnel carriers were being used by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces, which have committed ethnically motivated mass murder and rape in Darfur on a scale described by UN investigators as genocide. The UAE is recognized as one of the world’s most surveilled societies, deploying advanced technologies including Pegasus spyware to monitor activists and journalists internationally.

QATAR — Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani

Despite Qatar’s promises of reform, Human Rights Watch’s 2026 World Report found that migrant workers, who comprise over 91 percent of Qatar’s population, continue to face widespread abuse under the kafala sponsorship system, including wage theft, unexplained deaths, dangerous working conditions, and continued exploitation that persisted after the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Qatar is an absolute monarchy with no elected parliament, no legal political parties, no trade unions, and laws criminalizing same-sex relations with up to seven years imprisonment, making it, in the words of the UN Human Rights Committee, “structurally incompatible with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”

EGYPT — President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi

Egyptian security forces killed at least 1,300 people in anti-government protests in summer 2013 after Sisi’s military coup, and in the decade since, security officers have routinely committed extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances in near-complete impunity. From 2015-2022, under Sisi, Egypt’s counter-terrorism laws have been used to place 4,620 Egyptian citizens including peaceful politicians and human rights defenders on terrorism lists without trial. Tens of thousands more have been held in prolonged pretrial detention, with Terrorism Circuit courts in 2022 alone extending detention for nearly 25,000 individuals. Human Rights Watch declared by 2017 that torture in Egypt had reached “epidemic” levels.

TURKEY — President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Hundreds of Kurdish activists and former parliamentarians, mayors, and party officials remain imprisoned in Turkey after being convicted of terrorism offenses for nonviolent political activities, speeches, and social media posts. Kurdish detainees have reported being beaten, subjected to electric shocks, threatened with sexual assault, and bitten by police dogs during raids. In March 2025, Erdoğan had Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, his main presidential challenger, arrested on corruption charges while simultaneously having his university degree retroactively annulled to disqualify him from running for president.

AZERBAIJAN — President Ilham Aliyev

As of 2025, Azerbaijan holds 375 documented political prisoners, including journalists, activists, and elected politicians arrested on fabricated charges. In the 2023 lightning military offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan’s forces drove out the entire ethnic Armenian population of approximately 100,000 people within 24 hours, the largest single act of ethnic cleansing in Europe since the Balkan wars. In December 2024, police raided one of Azerbaijan’s last independent TV channels, Toplum TV, detaining its founder and journalists on fabricated currency smuggling charges.

KAZAKHSTAN — President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev

Freedom House notes that Kazakhstan’s government exerts enormous influence over political processes. Security forces enjoy impunity for indiscriminate or extralegal use of force, no opposition parties are permitted to operate and critical journalists face arrest, physical assault, and in some cases suspicious deaths.

BELARUS — President Alexander Lukashenko

After the disputed 2020 presidential election in which Lukashenko claimed victory despite overwhelming evidence of fraud, security forces conducted a campaign of mass violence against protesters, beating, torturing, and raping detainees in detention centers that eyewitnesses described as functioning like concentration camps. An estimated 30,000 people were arrested in the weeks following the election.

HUNGARY — Prime Minister Viktor Orbán

Since 2010, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has used his parliamentary supermajority to systematically dismantle democratic checks and balances. He has undermined judicial independence, eliminated media pluralism by transferring approximately 500 media outlets to a pro-government foundation and governed by decree under continuous declared states of emergency since 2020. In April 2025, Orbán rushed constitutional amendments through parliament without public debate, banning Pride-related events and introducing provisions enabling the government to suspend the citizenship of dual nationals deemed security threats, a power critics warn will be used against journalists, activists, and opposition politicians.

EL SALVADOR — President Nayib Bukele

Since 2019, Bukele’s government has presided over one of the world’s highest incarceration rates, jailing more than 75,000 people under a rolling “state of exception” that suspends basic due process guarantees, allows mass arrests without warrants, and normalizes detention based on secret evidence and anonymous accusations. Human rights organizations and UN experts have documented thousands of arbitrary detentions, widespread torture, deaths in custody, the systematic dismantling of judicial independence and checks on executive power under the banner of a “war on gangs.”

ARGENTINA — President Javier Milei

Since taking office in late 2023, Milei has pursued a shock‑therapy program of deep deregulation, mass privatization, and drastic cuts to social spending, triggering soaring poverty, food insecurity, and unprecedented declines in real wages. He has concentrated power in the presidency through rule‑by‑decree and attempts to bypass Congress. His government has criminalized and violently repressed street protests, smeared human rights organizations rooted in Argentina’s struggle against dictatorship and aligned foreign policy tightly with Washington and Israel.

BONUS: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights