Palantir

April 19, 2026 — Palantir published a 22-point 'mini-manifesto' on its own corporate channels, co-authored by CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska, Palantir's Head of Corporate Affairs & Legal; a condensed version of their 2025 book 'The Technological Republic,' the document openly asserts that 'certain cultures...have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful,' dismisses 'the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism,' argues the postwar 'neutering of Germany and Japan' was a mistake, and states that 'the question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose' — published, in other words, on the letterhead of a company that sells targeting software to the IDF, investigative-case-management software to ICE, the $480M+ TITAN platform to the US Army, and the £330M Federated Data Platform to NHS England

Engadget described the manifesto as reading 'like the ramblings of a comic-book villain'; Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins observed that the 22 points 'aren't philosophy floating in space, they're the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it's advocating' — Palantir has not contested either characterization and has left the post online with full corporate attribution

Peter Thiel published 'The Education of a Libertarian' in Cato Unbound in April 2009, stating plainly that he 'no longer believe[s] that freedom and democracy are compatible' and describing the goal of libertarian activism as 'an escape from politics in all its forms' — Palantir has been the infrastructure buildout for that thesis ever since, with Thiel still chairman and the single largest voice at founder-level governance; the April 2026 Karp-Zamiska manifesto is the same thesis, seventeen years later, promoted from sidebar to letterhead

ICE Investigative Case Management (ICM) and FALCON — per ACLU and Mijente FOIA documents, Palantir's systems were used to target the parents and other relatives of unaccompanied children crossing the border under the May 2017 'Unaccompanied Alien Children Human Smuggling Disruption Initiative,' a direct precursor to the 2017-2019 family separation policy; the ICM database ingests license-plate-reader data from 80+ local jurisdictions in violation of local law and ICE's own policy (this one's not funny, just true)

August 2019 Mississippi raids — FALCON Tipline was used to conduct the largest single-state ICE workplace raid in a decade; 680 people arrested in one day; hundreds of children returned from school to find no parents at home (this one's not funny, just true)

January 12, 2024 strategic partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Defense — announced three months into the Gaza war; Palantir's Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) deployed into targeting and operational-intelligence workflows; CEO Alex Karp on the Q4 2023 earnings call: 'exceedingly proud that after Oct. 7, within weeks, we are on the ground and we are involved in operationally crucial operations in Israel' (this one's not funny, just true)

LAPD LASER predictive policing (2011–2019) — Palantir Gotham produced documented disproportionate targeting of Black and Latino neighborhoods in South LA; independent audit by the LAPD Office of Inspector General in 2019 found the underlying methodology 'unsound,' LAPD shuttered the program that April — eight years and thousands of racially biased stops later

NHS Federated Data Platform (November 2023, £330M over seven years, beating Oracle and IBM) — awarded over objections from UK medical professional bodies, privacy advocates, and civil liberties groups; grants Palantir operational access to the data platform underpinning NHS trusts serving ~66 million patients; most hospitals initially declined to onboard

Project Maven succession (2019) — picked up the Department of Defense computer-vision AI contract after ~3,100 Google employees signed a petition and Google withdrew; Palantir's pitch was effectively 'we will build what Google won't,' turning other engineers' ethical objections into a direct sales opportunity

US Army $480M+ TITAN contract (2024) — primary contractor for the Army's next-generation intelligence ground station; awarded via a procurement structure that shields the deployment footprint from FOIA and continues to expand annually without competitive rebid

Stock-based compensation engineered against common shareholders — diluted share count has expanded substantially since the September 2020 direct listing while insiders including Karp and Thiel have systematically sold into the retail-fueled run-up that took PLTR's market cap above $200B; the 'PLTR army' is funding an ownership transfer out of the company it is long