Missiles over meals, algorithms over aid, and empire over everything. As social programs collapse, billion-dollar contracts to Lockheed, Raytheon, and Palantir define a new era of class rule. This is austerity for the masses, enrichment for the war machine, and surveillance for the colonized. Technofascism doesn’t arrive with a bang—it’s billed quarterly.
By Prine Kapone | Weaponized Information | August 6, 2025
Missiles Over Meals: The Contract Economy of Collapse
The empire is broke, but the bombs are booming. While public schools close, bridges rot, and elders ration insulin, the U.S. government is signing billion-dollar checks to Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and Palantir like a degenerate gambler trying to bet his way out of debt. These aren’t just contracts—they’re life support systems for a dying class order, intravenous lines pumping capital into the decaying limbs of technofascism.
In July 2025, the Pentagon signed billion-dollar checks to keep the war machine humming. Lockheed Martin secured a $4.29 billion contract modification, raising its total to $9.5 billion for JASSM and LRASM missile production, arming the U.S. and allies like Poland, Japan, the Netherlands, and Finland. Raytheon (now branded RTX) bagged a $3.5 billion deal for AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles, the largest ever, supplying 19 nations from Taiwan to Ukraine. Palantir’s projected $10 billion Army agreement consolidates 75 prior contracts into a long-term deal for AI-driven war rooms—though exact figures remain murky. These aren’t just contracts—they’re siphons, draining public wealth into the empire’s veins.
These contracts aren’t one-offs. They’re architecture. As laid out in “Technofascism and the Unified Ruling Class”, we are witnessing the consolidation of a new state logic where Big Tech, Big Guns, and Big Finance no longer compete—they co-govern. Raytheon doesn’t just make missiles; it co-manages empire. Lockheed doesn’t merely supply the Pentagon; it plans the future. Palantir doesn’t just process data; it writes the software of state power. These entities aren’t adjacent to the state—they are the state, just privatized, digitized, and collateralized.
This is not Keynesianism in fatigues. There are no New Deal dams being built. This is contract capitalism, militarized monopoly technofascism: a form of class rule that redistributes public funds upward through the production of death and the management of despair. Each of these billion-dollar deals is not merely a transaction—it is a siphon. The state borrows in our name to fund technologies that repress, displace, or kill us, while hedge funds skim the guaranteed returns.
What is remarkable is not simply the scale of this war economy, but the banality of its rollout. These announcements drop without fanfare, buried in government procurement websites or coughed out in short blurbs by industry newsletters. There’s no debate in Congress, no democratic oversight, no press scrutiny—just signatures, sealed bids, and silence. Meanwhile, social workers get pink slips, public schools go dark, and entire neighborhoods are reduced to zones of “strategic neglect.” This is the stabilization logic at the heart of technofascism, as analyzed in “Shutting Down the Mind”: not stability for the people, but stability for capital, for empire, for the dictatorship of algorithms and arms.
These are not indicators of strength. As we wrote in “Empire in Default”, the U.S. war machine is a hostage of its own logistics. These contracts represent crisis management—not through repair or reconstruction, but through expansion of coercive capacity. This is not fascism with parades and torches—it’s spreadsheets, procurement codes, predictive AI, and orbital kill-chains. It is the fascism of budget reallocations, of zero-bid renewals, of tech executives drafting national security doctrine.
This is what it looks like when an empire cannibalizes itself to preserve the illusion of dominance. And while the children of Gaza and Flint choke on the residue of empire’s contradictions, Raytheon ships another crate of AMRAAMs to Taipei. Technofascism is not coming. It’s been signed, sealed, and delivered.
The Empire Has an Owner: BlackRock, Vanguard, and the Bosses of the Whole Damn Thing
Let’s quit pretending. This empire ain’t run by the president. It’s not the Pentagon calling the shots. Congress? Please. The real owners of this system don’t show up on ballots—they show up on quarterly reports. Their names don’t trend on social media—they’re printed on stock tickers. BlackRock. Vanguard. State Street. These are the landlords of the planet. The custodians of collapse. The ones who own the missiles, the media, the farmland, the warehouses, the water, the data, the surveillance software—and every single thing you need to survive.
These firms aren’t just investors. They don’t just “influence” the economy. They are the economy. They own 15–20% of Lockheed Martin. They hold massive stakes in Raytheon, Exxon, Amazon, and Palantir. Together, they manage over $26 trillion in assets—more than the GDP of every country on Earth except China and the United States. This isn’t investment. This is technofascism’s bankroll—owning the arteries of empire from missiles to media.
And don’t let the suits and ties fool you—this is gangsterism in its final form. What used to be decided in smoke-filled backrooms is now handled through AI trading algorithms and defense contracts. You don’t need a coup when you’ve already bought the state. You don’t need a dictator when you control the infrastructure. BlackRock doesn’t have to pass a law. They just move capital, and the world bends.
This is the heart of what we’ve been calling technofascism: not just a political regime, but an integrated ruling bloc where finance, tech, and state violence function as one system. The government doesn’t regulate Amazon—it runs on Amazon. Police departments don’t just buy Palantir software—they plan raids with it. Tech CEOs sit on Pentagon advisory boards. Hedge funds pick cabinet members. Billionaires write foreign policy. This isn’t lobbying. This is ownership.
And BlackRock sits at the top like the high priest of empire. They own shares in everything from detention centers to drone manufacturers. They decide what gets built, who gets bailed out, who gets bombed. Vanguard backs it up. State Street co-signs. Together, they manage the balance sheet of global capital and the architecture of war. You want to understand power? Follow that money.
They don’t care about democracy. They care about dividends. And when consent stops working, they move to control. When elections don’t deliver, they install algorithms. When public anger rises, they give the cops more toys. When the empire starts to wobble, they don’t fix it—they securitize the collapse and call it investment.
This is what it means to say the ruling class is unified. Not because they all think the same, but because they all profit the same. Yankees, Cowboys, Digerati—finance, fossil fuel, and surveillance tech—owned by the same funds, feeding from the same trough. The contradictions are real, but the profits keep them in line. For now.
So don’t let them play dumb. Don’t let them hide behind complexity. This isn’t some faceless system. This isn’t chaos. It’s design. And the people who designed it live in Manhattan high-rises, fly private to Davos, and sit on boards of everything from ICE to Facebook to the Department of Defense.
They wrote the contracts. They cashed the checks. They built the machine. And they’ll run it over every single one of us if we don’t get organized. Technofascism is not a glitch. It’s not a mistake. It’s the plan.
Contracts and Chokepoints: Coercion as Capital Strategy
The logic of these contracts cannot be understood as mere military spending—they must be grasped as the strategic infrastructure of an empire in decline. When the Pentagon hands out awards to Lockheed for missiles or Palantir for battlefield software, it is not “stimulating the economy.” It is building scaffolding for a world economy governed by coercion, where logistics replaces law, and supply chain dominance replaces diplomacy. This is the political economy of imperialism under duress—a system that no longer secures consent, only compliance.
In “The Empire Has No Rules”, we traced how the U.S. has abandoned even the pretense of multilateral order. Instead, it now governs the globe through chokepoints—missile corridors, currency sieges, sanctions regimes, and techno-blockades. Every new missile system mapped by Lockheed, every data pipeline controlled by Palantir, every AI-fed surveillance dragnet deployed on the border, serves not only to dominate enemies abroad, but to pressure allies, discipline subordinates, and strangle competitors. This is not war as policy—it is economics by other means.
That is the deeper significance of the “Golden Dome”—the proposed $175 billion space-based missile shield. It is not just a boondoggle for defense contractors; it is a planetary gun pointed at the arteries of global commerce. As more nations attempt to break from dollar hegemony and realign with BRICS+, the U.S. answer is not diplomacy—it is denial. And these contracts are the blueprint.
Just look at the rollout: while New Orleans schools flood, while Appalachian hospitals shutter, Lockheed’s long-range missiles sail out across the Pacific. These weapons are not built to protect the American people—they are built to enforce American primacy in a multipolar world. This is the imperial equivalent of kneecapping your own population so you can keep swinging at your enemies. Austerity for the domestic underclass; limitless funding for global escalation.
Palantir’s expansion into U.S. infrastructure—through its military and civilian contracts—only confirms what we wrote in “The New Ministry of Truth”: the infrastructure of war is now also the infrastructure of everyday life. Your hospital data. Your tax returns. Your biometric records. All routed through the same platforms used to kill insurgents in Helmand. The difference between “domestic” and “foreign” operations is obsolete. The enemy is whoever can no longer be pacified by propaganda alone.
In this system, the missile becomes a message. The algorithm becomes a weapon. The contract becomes a doctrine. As we exposed in “The Tariff Wall and the Sanction Noose”, the goal is not free markets or national security—it is control. Strategic contraction disguised as strength.
And what makes this new regime so lethal is its seamless integration of tech and violence. Palantir does not just process battlefield intelligence—it preemptively defines who might be a threat. Lockheed doesn’t just make missiles—it builds predictive maintenance platforms that ensure they never fail mid-air. This is a class dictatorship reprogrammed for the twenty-first century, where repression is not a reaction—it is the business model.
Bringing the War Home: Counterinsurgency as Domestic Infrastructure
If Part I exposed the looting, Part II mapped the coercion, and Part III mapped the economic architecture then this section turns inward—to the internal colony. Because technofascism is not only about missiles and satellites. It is also about raids in the fields, data sweeps in the ghettos, and predictive policing in the projects. It is about the empire’s colonial war machine being turned against the domestic poor. And the contracts signed with Palantir, Anduril, and their ilk aren’t just for military readiness—they’re for ruling class peace of mind. They are how the state prepares for what it sees as the inevitable: revolt.
As laid bare in “Farm Raids and the Colonial Border Regime”, the infrastructure of border enforcement is no longer human—it’s algorithmic. ICE doesn’t just show up with guns; it shows up with Palantir’s tools. Facial recognition, license plate readers, biometric registries, and AI-driven dragnet models now structure the movement of labor and life along the racial frontier of the United States. And who builds this system? The same companies arming the Indo-Pacific and automating Israeli checkpoints in Gaza.
This is not a convergence of domains; it is the normalization of colonial war. It confirms what we diagnosed in “The Think Tank Purge”: the Trump regime is not merely reshuffling bureaucrats—it is reprogramming the ideological code of empire. Surveillance is not an exception to liberty. It is the core operating system of technofascist rule. And its targets are not just terrorists or traffickers or foreign agents—they are the poor, the brown, the dispossessed, the landless, the defiant.
Palantir’s war room tech, battle-tested in Kandahar, now stalks the domestic poor. In Los Angeles, its Gotham platform fuels predictive policing, targeting Black and Latino youth in neighborhoods like Compton for minor offenses. ICE uses the same AI to run biometric dragnets, deporting thousands from Texas border towns. This isn’t security—it’s colonial war on the homefront.
The Pentagon doesn’t just make war—it manufactures enemies. And in the eyes of the Trump 2.0 regime, the greatest threat to empire is not China or Russia. It is the ungovernable at home: teachers on strike, migrants in caravans, youth in rebellion. That is why education budgets are being gutted, as we outlined in “Shutting Down the Mind”. The goal is not simply to defund learning—it is to prevent insurgent consciousness. A people that can’t read won’t organize. A people that can’t think won’t resist. Or so they hope.
This is how counterinsurgency becomes national policy. Not just through tanks in the street, but through software in the cloud. Not just through bullets, but through buzzwords: “resilience,” “readiness,” “domestic security.” The contracts we’re analyzing aren’t just about making weapons—they are about defining enemies. And increasingly, those enemies are you and me.
Looting by Ledger: Crisis as Opportunity for the War Profiteers
There is a reason why every headline reads like a contradiction. Food insecurity is rising, but military budgets are breaking records. Schools are collapsing, but defense firms are thriving. Public housing is condemned, but Palantir’s valuation is sky-high. This is not incompetence. It is design. We are not witnessing failure—we are witnessing the economic logic of technofascism operating exactly as intended: siphoning capital away from the needs of the people and into the coffers of the war machine.
As we dissected in “Wall Street Harvests the Collapse”, technofascism is not just an ideology—it’s a business model. Crisis is the raw material. Whether it’s border chaos, inflation panic, or the collapse of public services, every breakdown is an investment opportunity for the ruling class. Palantir sells software to “solve” the very dysfunction neoliberalism created. Lockheed builds weapons to manage the instability imperialism unleashed. The state’s job, under technofascism, is to engineer chaos and outsource its containment.
War contracts—like those fueling Lockheed’s missiles—launder capital while schools starve. In 2025, Philadelphia’s public school system faced a $442 million deficit, forcing officials to drain reserve funds and prepare staffing cuts. This isn’t failure—it’s technofascism’s business model: crisis as profit, austerity as strategy.
Technofascism is not simply fascism with gadgets—it is the economic doctrine of a ruling class that can no longer rule through consent. The welfare state is over. Redistribution is over. The social contract has been shredded, digitized, and replaced with Terms of Service. In its place is a new contract regime, literally: contractual arrangements between empire and its corporate functionaries. Not legislation. Not rights. Just procurement codes and fulfillment schedules.
In this landscape, there are no citizens—only consumers and threats. If you can’t be monetized, you will be surveilled. If you can’t be pacified, you will be policed. And if you can’t be controlled, you will be criminalized or eliminated. This is the logic embedded in every Palantir contract, every Lockheed award, every RTX amendment. The missile is not just for Tehran or Pyongyang. The database is not just for Kabul or Tijuana. These are assets in the management of a collapsing global system where the only remaining growth sector is repression.
As we revealed in “The Empire Has No Rules”, the ruling class is no longer interested in legitimacy. It is interested in leverage. In chokepoints. In vertical integration between the Pentagon, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and the Department of Homeland Security. The goal is not to fix society—it is to monetize its ruin. And these contracts are the ledgers of that looting.
So when they tell you there’s no money for food programs, for housing, for education—remember this: there’s always money. It’s just already been allocated. Not to you. But to your masters. And they’ve already signed the contract.
The Contract State Must Be Broken: Toward Revolutionary Refusal
This is the truth behind the headlines, the budget sheets, the bipartisan votes and Pentagon briefings: the United States is no longer governed through law or democracy, but through contracts—classified, automatic, enforceable. It is no longer a state in the classic sense, but a procurement regime managed by a technocratic caste of financiers, generals, and machine-learning priests. Wall Street underwrites the deals. Silicon Valley writes the code. And the rest of us are left to survive the fallout.
This is what we mean when we call it technofascism. It is not a return to the brownshirts. It is not mass rallies in stadiums. It is a quieter, colder, more calculated consolidation of class power, engineered through surveillance infrastructure, militarized logistics, and economic collapse. It is fascism in a suit, fascism in a server room, fascism that doesn’t goose-step—it gets granted and awarded. As we wrote in “Technofascism and the Unified Ruling Class”, this is not the failure of the American system—it is its final form.
There will be no reversal, no reform, no bipartisan detour. These contracts are the scaffolding of the future they are building—a future of permanent surveillance, algorithmic discipline, supply chain imperialism, and digitized domination. The longer we accept their logic, the narrower our political horizon becomes. As we exposed in “Empire in Default”, even the war machine is now a hostage to its own complexity. The system is so automated, so ossified by contract and code, that no one is driving it anymore—it drives itself.
But history is not a closed loop. And every empire, no matter how armored or digitized, still runs on stolen labor, stolen land, and stolen time. And that means it can be stopped. But only if we refuse the foundational lie that there is no alternative. Only if we break with the imperial realism that calls this looting “security,” this repression “stability,” and this debt-financed militarism “strength.”
This is the task before us. To expose the contract state for what it is: a machine of expropriation and repression. To call it by its name: technofascism. And then to organize—not as consumers or taxpayers or voters, but as revolutionary subjects prepared to sabotage the machinery of collapse and build something human in its place. Teachers striking in Chicago. Coders building encryption to defy surveillance. Neighborhoods pooling food and survival in defiance of austerity. These are more than gestures. They are blueprints.
Because the ruling class may have their contracts. But we have history. And it does not belong to them.
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