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posted: November 23, 2025
tl;dr: Propaganda and censorship work, which is why our politicians spend so much time on them...
If you don’t know much about the history of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, you might think that Dr. Robert W. Malone, one of the original inventors of the technology, would be lauded as a hero. You would be wrong. Malone does not believe the technology can produce safe vaccines, because you can’t control the dosage of the foreign substance introduced into the body when you modify cells to produce it (in this case, the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein). Malone, like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his book The Wuhan Cover-Up, advocated the uses of anti-viral therapeutics to treat COVID-19 patients. But viable therapeutics would have eliminated the Emergency Use Authorization that was used to rush the COVID-19 vaccines to market. This not only put Malone at odds with the U.S. public health establishment, but made him the target of a U.S. government-led propaganda and censorship campaign to discredit and silence him.
PsyWar is Malone’s and his wife’s account not only of what the U.S. government did to him, but more broadly what the government has done to the U.S. public. Malone defines “psywar” as propaganda, censorship, plus psyops to manipulate public opinion. COVID-19 presented the perfect opportunity for the government to practice psychological bioterrorism: using fear of a disease to manipulate the public. Psyops are nothing new: the U.S. military and intelligence agencies have long conducted psyop campaigns against foreign adversaries.
Malone builds a case that the successful U.K. Brexit campaign convinced the U.S. and other N.A.T.O. nations of the need to start practicing psyops against their own citizenry, to prevent another disruption to the established Western order. That kicked into overdrive during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, “saving democracy” in Malone’s view really means saving our existing democratic institutions which are controlled by the existing power structure and elites. One egregious example Malone cites is the coordinated suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story and the infamous letter signed by fifty-one former intelligence officers which deflected blame from Hunter Biden to Russia. That incident completely changed how I consume media. To cite one example, I haven’t listened to National Public Radio news since that episode. I want my media to expose government corruption, not participate in it.
Malone, like me, is a strong supporter of free speech. “What censorship and propaganda do is to delay or prevent development of innovative ideas and solutions to unmet needs.” Malone argues that free speech prevents reality from drifting too far from perception, thereby allowing incremental adjustments to be made. When free speech is suppressed to support an ideology, reality will drift too far from the official narrative, eventually leading to a revolution to close the gap. This is an apt description of the fall of the U.S.S.R.
Many people who should heed the lessons in PsyWar will dismiss Malone as a far-right kook. He believes the government Deep State killed John F. Kennedy and that there were two shooters in Dallas. He opposed Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum’s transnational, transhumanist, globalist agenda. He is a strong supporter of RFK Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again campaign, believing that a healthy populace is one of the best ways to ward off disease. All this is anathema to those who, Malone would argue, have fallen victim to the government’s psyop campaigns.
PsyWar is the third book I’ve read by an author targeted by the government and the media establishment during the COVID-19 pandemic, the others being RFK Jr.’s The Wuhan Cover-Up and Alex Berenson’s Pandemia. Malone’s book does the best job of focusing on how the government conducts its psyops. He is not afraid to use powerful words and labels. The COVID-19 pandemic proved how important and impactful propaganda and censorship are, and why our politicians and government officials spend so much time crafting and pitching narratives. Malone does offer solutions, which I will not spoil by mentioning here. Read PsyWar to learn more.