Governments Used ‘Fifth-Generation Warfare’ During COVID, Robert Malone Tells National Citizen’s Inquiry

Dr. Robert Malone, author of "Lies My Gov't Told Me", in Washington on Dec. 19, 2022. (Jack Wang/The Epoch Times)

Governments used “fifth-generational warfare” techniques to modify public perception during the COVID-19 pandemic, while the reporting of media outlets shifted into propaganda, two experts testified at the National Citizen’s Inquiry (NCI).

“Over the last three years, Western governments, non-governmental organizations, as well as media, pharmaceutical, and financial corporations deployed a massive, globally harmonized psychological and propaganda operation,” said Dr. Robert Malone.

“With this campaign, the governments of many Western nation-states turned military grade strategies, tactics, technologies, and capabilities—developed for modern military combat—against their citizens.”

Malone testified virtually during the Toronto hearing of the NCI, which describes itself as a “citizen-led and citizen-funded initiative” examining how pandemic measures put in place by all levels of government impacted Canadians in the categories of health, fundamental rights and freedoms, social well-being, and economic prosperity.

The NCI was announced back in November 2022 by former Reform Party Leader Preston Manning, who chairs the group of citizens that launched the organization.

Malone, who helped create the messenger RNA technology (mRNA) used in some of the vaccines, told the inquiry that he is a “named inventor on all patents” related to the initial developments of mRNA technology.

He said he became concerned when he heard mRNA technology was being used in COVID-19 vaccines, as he believed the virus’s toxic spike protein would be encoded into the human body. He also said one of the reasons he abandoned mRNA technology was because he could “not overcome the toxicity or inflammatory responses associated with lipid mRNA nanoparticles.”

Malone claimed that the COVID vaccines have been shown to, in some cases, damage the brain, and the endocrine and reproductive systems of its recipients. “There is also very clear, unequivocal, well-documented risk—particularly in young males—of myocarditis, which depending on the study is in the range of one in 3,000“ and one in 6,000,” he said.

He also spoke extensively about fifth-generation warfare, which he defined as a “war of information and perception” that is fought “not over conflict over territory, but rather to influence thought, belief, and emotion.” Malone said fifth-generation warfare is meant to target individuals’ cognitive biases in a “concealed and strategic fashion.”

He said this type of warfare was used during the pandemic to convince citizens to follow public health measures such as lockdowns, masking, and vaccines, while ignoring “misinformation, disinformation, and mal-information” to the contrary.

Malone cited a 2021 news report that found commanders in the Canadian Armed Forces used the pandemic as an opportunity to test out propaganda techniques on the civilian population. Documents obtained by the Ottawa Citizen showed that Canadian Joint Operations Command used propaganda techniques similar to those employed during the Afghanistan war to “head off civil disobedience” and “bolster government messages about the pandemic.”

“I argue that in the context of fifth-generation warfare, when it is being deployed by governments against their own populations, the concept of sovereignty is irrelevant. There is no sovereignty in an environment in which your emotions and the information you obtained was manipulated towards the end goals are of the nation-state,” Malone said.

“It’s difficult to come to grips with fifth-generational warfare, because there are no boundaries in terms of truth, ethics, media, and social organizations. This is what was deployed against the population of Canada.”

Media Outlets Spread ‘Propaganda’

Rodney Palmer, a former reporter of 20 years, said he saw much of the news reporting during COVID-19 as examples of “propaganda.” He defined the word as “persuasive mass communication that filters and frames the issues of the day in a way that strongly favours particular interests, usually those of a government or a corporation.”

Palmer, who previously worked for outlets like the Globe and Mail, the Vancouver Sun, and CBC for more than 20 years, said he reported on the SARS outbreak in China in the early 2000s. But he told the commission that when he saw the Chinese city of Wuhan lock down in early 2020, he knew that “something was very, very different.”

The former journalist said shortly after the first Canadian lockdowns, he saw a media outlet publish a piece on what to do if a family member believed the COVID-19 virus might have leaked from a laboratory. “I thought, what evidence do they have 15 days into this pandemic that this was not manufactured in a lab? There was an assumption that was put forth instantly,” he said.

Palmer pointed to evidence that COVID-19 may have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, such as one of three global coronavirus labs being located in Wuhan, and FBI Director Christopher Wray claiming in early March this year that the bureau believes the virus “most likely originated in a Chinese government-controlled lab.” Back in 2021, a joint investigation between China and the World Health Organization found the lab leak theory was “extremely unlikely.”

“Not much research was done by this outlet to determine 15 days after the emergency that it didn’t happen in a lab,” Palmer said. “This piece was an example of the intentional manipulation of public opinion through lies and half-truths, and the selective retelling of history.”

The media coverage of the drug ivermectin was another example of “propaganda,” according to Palmer, as they failed to report accurate and balanced information. While one outlet reported that ivermectin was a drug “meant for horses and cows,” they failed to mention that it was also used extensively in humans, or that its inventor won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2015, he said.

Health Canada has said there is no evidence that ivermectin, a prescription antiparasitic drug, works to prevent or treat COVID-19, and it is not authorized for this use.

Palmer also said that mainstream outlets had “fomented hate” against people who chose not to get vaccinated by failing to give them a full voice. He mentioned how outlets would write stories on why Canadians refused to get vaccinated, but would omit their concerns around a lack of long-term testing, possible adverse reactions, or reports of deaths.

“They suppressed or eliminated that side of the story, because it wasn’t news gathering. It was propaganda,” he said.