Ben Swann
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Founder/CEO @Truth_InMedia & @SovrenMedia, Bixon Studios
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THE PENTAGON’S SECRET INFLUENCER NETWORK: PROPAGANDA FROM INSIDE THE GOVERNMENT Americans have long worried about foreign influence. Russia, China, Israel. But what happens when the influence campaign comes directly from inside the U.S. government? In 2025, President Trump created the White House Faith Office, bringing religious media figures closer to the administration. Now, a Washington Post investigation reports that the Pentagon quietly placed conservative veterans with major social-media followings into civilian government roles. Kurt Schlichter, Rob Maness, Thomas Anderson, known online as Cynical Publius, and Jennica Pounds of Data Republican were among those tied to these Pentagon roles. While presenting themselves publicly as outside voices, they amplified Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s agenda, attacked administration critics, and called for action against alleged “disloyalists” inside the Pentagon. The public still does not know the full scope of their roles, assignments, or whether taxpayer dollars funded their work. The Pentagon has not provided clear answers. This is the line America must confront: can the government quietly place influencers on the inside, then use their platforms to push official narratives at home without disclosure? When government messaging is disguised as independent commentary, it is no longer just influence. It is propaganda.
Ben Swann66,829 views • 1 day ago
LEAKED FOOTAGE THAT DESTROYS THE OFFICIAL OCTOBER 7 STORY For years, Americans were given a highly sanitized account of October 7: Israel’s heavily funded military and intelligence apparatus allegedly failed for hours while Hamas killed and abducted Israelis. Now, new footage and reporting are raising tougher questions about what happened behind the scenes. The Hannibal Directive. A policy aimed at preventing captures, even at the risk of killing Israeli captives, was once dismissed as a conspiracy. But evidence and investigations now indicate it was used on October 7. The burned vehicles, destroyed homes, and devastating loss of life later used to justify Israel’s genocide in Gaza include damage caused by Israeli forces themselves. A new documentary shows senior Israeli officials discussing a large-scale Hannibal operation in real time. In the first hours of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, an officer speaking with Police Chief Kobi Shabtai is heard calling for the directive’s implementation, with Gaza and Israeli captives still inside. Minister Itamar Ben Gvir later appears to order the camera shut off. Shortly before his assassination, Charlie Kirk asked whether Israel had issued a stand-down order on October 7, questioning how it took hours to respond and warning Gaza could face ethnic cleansing. The footage does not settle every question, but it makes clear that those questions were never out of bounds.
Ben Swann877,539 views • 16 days ago
TRILLIONS VANISH INTO THE PENTAGON AS AMERICA’S DEFENSES FAIL The Iran war has exposed a major flaw in America’s military-industrial complex: after trillions spent on defense, Iran has still been able to damage and neutralize U.S. weapons systems and military infrastructure using far cheaper weapons. The U.S. has the world’s largest military budget, yet the Pentagon still cannot pass an audit. Meanwhile, America’s infrastructure crumbles and everyday Americans face a rising cost of living. If smaller militaries can challenge U.S. power with a fraction of the resources, what are taxpayers really getting for this massive spending? I discuss it all with Danny Jones
Ben Swann119,962 views • 5 days ago
The decision by ABC, CNN, and NBC not to carry President Trump’s primetime address on election security raises a fundamental question about the role of major broadcast networks in a democracy. This was a nationally announced speech by a sitting, duly elected president on the integrity of U.S. elections. An issue that affects every voter, regardless of party. This is not about liking or disliking Trump, or agreeing or disagreeing with his claims. The presidency is the highest elected office in the country. When a president addresses the nation in a formal, scheduled primetime speech, there is a strong public‑interest argument that news networks should air it live and in full. Citizens can’t evaluate their leaders, or their claims, if they aren’t allowed to hear those leaders directly. Editorial judgment and criticism remain essential. Networks are entirely within their rights to add clear disclaimers before and after the address, fact‑check in real time or immediately afterward, host panels that challenge, contextualize, or rebut the president’s statements. But substituting that for the speech itself, showing only handpicked clips, summaries, or commentary, shifts from informing the public to curating what the public is permitted to see. At that point, viewers are reacting to the networks’ framing, not to the president’s actual words. Even after being censored in the U.S., having its license revoked and facing sanctions, RT International chose to air the address in full. RT has publicly disagreed with the president’s policies and with parts of this speech, but it treated the event as a matter of public record. Our principle is simple: viewers should be able to watch the complete address in context, hear the arguments unedited, and then weigh both the speech and the subsequent criticism for themselves. Rather than having corporate media gatekeepers decide in advance which presidential messages are fit for broadcast.
Ben Swann1,177,424 views • 1 month ago
IRAN’S RAIN RETURNS, AFTER A STRIKE ON A UAE CLOUD-SEEDING BASE For decades, large parts of Iran have suffered through severe drought, parched farmland, and dwindling water supplies. Now, areas that have struggled for generations are seeing rain and snowfall at levels not recorded in more than 60 years. The timing is raising serious questions. The shift came shortly after a reported strike on a secret weather-modification and cloud-seeding facility in the UAE. If the region had the capacity to alter precipitation, what exactly was that technology being used for, and who controlled it? Was this simply a natural weather cycle finally turning in Iran’s favor? Or was outside interference involved all along? Were the U.S., Israel, and other adversaries quietly using weather technology to block rain and snowfall, deepening Iran’s drought and putting further pressure on its people? The rain may have returned, but the questions behind it are only growing.
Ben Swann328,172 views • 19 days ago
USAID ENDS, RAP DISAPPEARS: WAS THE CULTURE BEING ENGINEERED? For the first time in 35 years, rap has disappeared from Billboard’s Top 40. The timing has sparked a bigger question: was USAID funding used to prop up rap music and shape culture, and is that operation now collapsing? If so, this is bigger than music charts. It raises questions about whether rap, degeneracy, and other cultural narratives were artificially amplified to influence public taste and social behavior. With Operation Mockingbird, the CIA infiltrated media and cultural institutions to shape narratives, normalize war, and manufacture consent for expanding government power. There is no proven link between USAID funding and rap’s chart decline. But the coincidence has people asking whether culture has been more engineered than organic all along. Alex Stein (Alex Stein #99) joins me to break it down.
Ben Swann130,204 views • 9 days ago
10 years ago Pizzagate was by far the number one trending topic on twitter, but the claim of pedophile elites who preyed on children was so insane that Pizzagate was shrugged off as was a wild, fever dream, of a conspiracy theory. But then, just days ago… the largest dump of Epstein files revealed what some of us had been telling you for a decade, that Pizzagate is real. Not that there is a pizza parlor at the center of a child trafficking ring. But child trafficking rings run by some of the most powerful people in the world do exist. Tonight , I want to remind you of what I told you then and compare that to what we have now learned.
Ben Swann3,376,272 views • 7 months ago
Total power move. Zelenskyy attempts to meet with Trump at Saint Peter‘s Basilica, but wanted President Macron there as well. Three chairs were set up when Trump arrived. Then he tells Macron to leave and that he’ll meet with Zelenskyy one on one. This is how you end the war,,.cut out those who want to keep it prolonged and deal with Zelenskyy and Putin directly.
Ben Swann5,387,674 views • 1 year ago
🚨The Case Against Tyler Robinson Is Collapsing in Plain Sight! The Tyler Robinson hearing is an absolute joke, and the record so far makes that painfully clear. The state’s key evidence, a “surveillance compilation” edited by the Utah Attorney General’s office, was rejected for alterations, and there is still no raw, uncut footage of the assassination. The officer on scene couldn’t even recover the shell casing from Robinson’s alleged rifle, and the DNA on the towel is 95% linked to Lance Twiggs, not Tyler Robinson. To make matters worse, the officer’s bodycam was conveniently turned off at the most critical moments. As it stands today, the state has zero solid evidence actually tying Tyler Robinson to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. 🇺🇸Lionel🇺🇸 joins me to break down how a case this weak ever made it into a courtroom.
Ben Swann309,222 views • 1 month ago
USAID Ends, Rap Falls Off the Charts: Was the Culture Being Engineered? A Billboard report says rap music has now disappeared from the charts for the first time in 35 years. It raises serious questions: if USAID helped prop up rap music all along? Now that funding is gone, the culture operation is collapsing along with it. If that’s true, then this isn’t just about music. It’s about whether rap, degeneracy, and culture-shaping narratives were being astroturfed to engineer public taste and social behavior. CIA’s Operation Mockingbird is infamous for infiltrating media institutions to shape culture, push preferred narratives, normalize war crimes, and manufacture consent for expanding government control. The timing looks too perfect to ignore. Alex Stein #99 joins me to break it down.
Ben Swann298,586 views • 2 months ago
October 7’s Sanitized Story Just Cracked Open, And the Footage Is Damning For years, Americans were fed a heavily sanitized version of what really happened on October 7. One of the most advanced military and intelligence apparatuses on Earth stood down for seven hours while its own citizens were slaughtered and taken hostage by Hamas. The Hannibal Directive, once dismissed as a fringe conspiracy theory, is now being confirmed as fact. The burned cars, flattened homes, and devastating human toll that were used to justify Israel’s military response, to justify mass devastation in Gaza, are now being confirmed as engineered by the Israeli government itself. A new documentary is now surfacing footage of senior Israeli officials appearing to coordinate a mass Hannibal event in real time. In the opening hours of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, while speaking with Israel’s Police Chief Kobi Shabtai, a senior officer is heard calling to implement the Hannibal Directive, ordering Gaza destroyed along with the Israeli captives still inside. Minister Itamar Ben Gvir then walks in and orders the camera turned off. Charlie Kirk, shortly before his assassination, questioned: “Was there a stand-down order given by Israel on Oct. 7th? Six hours to respond? I don’t believe it. They’re going to ethnically cleanse Gaza.” The new footage now proves these questions weren't out of bounds.
Ben Swann265,373 views • 2 months ago
Lebanon is home to one of the largest remaining Christian populations in the Middle East, with many historic and sacred sites in the south. As Israel intensifies its bombing in the region, questions are growing about the impact on these communities and holy sites. Are these landmarks and communities being sacrificed for the greater Israel project? And why are Christian leaders around the world silent on this destruction? I discuss this and more with Clayton Morris and Natali Morris on Redacted.
Ben Swann630,913 views • 4 months ago
OCTOBER 7 COVER-UP: ISRAEL HAD THE BLUEPRINT. EGYPT SOUNDED THE ALARM. WHAT WENT WRONG? Egypt had warned Israel of a coming Hamas attack two years before October 7. Israel also possessed a detailed blueprint outlining key elements of the operation well before October 7, yet the attack still unfolded. Reports indicate Israeli intelligence had deeply monitored Hamas for years. Warnings of unusual activity were raised, but Israeli officials dismissed them. Citizens were also barred from monitoring Hamas radio traffic in the days before the attack. Then came the use of the Hannibal Directive: an order intended to prevent captives from being taken into Gaza, even at the risk of Israeli lives. Accounts and investigations have raised questions about Israeli helicopter and tank fire during the chaos, including incidents involving Israeli civilians and hostages. Why were warnings ignored? Why was the attack allowed to unfold? Were Israeli citizens left exposed as bait for Hamas, creating the pretext for a devastating war on Gaza? I discuss the unanswered questions around October 7 with Natali Morris on Redacted News.
Ben Swann11,622 views • 2 days ago
The U.S. operation, presented as a mission to rescue the downed F-15 pilot, was never really a recovery mission at all. Instead, it was an operation to seize Iran’s enriched uranium, one that went badly wrong. This story of a heroic pilot rescue was then used to cover up the failure, while questions remain about what actually happened and why the pilot's identity has not been revealed since the operation. I discuss how this narrative was sold to the world and why so many details remain unanswered with Danny Jones
Ben Swann287,352 views • 2 months ago
ISRAEL IS RACING TO LOCK IN THE ALLIANCE BEFORE AMERICA TURNS. JOHN KIRIAKOU SOUNDS THE ALARM. A recent CIA assessment says Israel is racing to make the U.S.-Israel alliance irreversible. A CNN poll reported a staggering 67-point swing in Americans’ net favorability toward Israel, from plus 51 eight years ago to minus 16 today. That is not a minor dip; it is a historic collapse in public support. The concern now is that Israel is moving quickly to embed itself deeper into America’s intelligence and defense industrial base, creating a structure that future democratically elected administrations may not be able to unwind. The House has already passed the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act with Section 219, which creates a permanent U.S.-Israel defense technology cooperation initiative inside the Pentagon. CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou joins me to break it down, including why the U.S. intelligence community has long viewed Israel as a critical threat.
Ben Swann107,859 views • 1 month ago
This is Xiongan City, one of the world’s largest construction sites. The CCP is building it to be a “15-minute city”. They plan to relocate ≈4 million people from Beijing to Xiongan under a mixed system of both voluntary and coercive measures. Every lamppost in the city will be equipped with facial recognition cameras. Every entrance and exit will be have checkpoints placed on them.
Ben Swann3,052,911 views • 2 years ago
Bill Gates: “I don’t plant trees.” Interviewer: “Some people would even say that if you just planted enough trees, it could take care of the climate issue altogether.” Gates: “And that's complete nonsense.” “I mean, are we the science people, or are we the idiots? Which one do we want to be?”
Ben Swann2,528,452 views • 2 years ago