Missing Words and Missing Ideas

Thank you Tboxtango, Vic Hughes, Jessica Duke, Christine Mose, Ordo Purgatio Flamma, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app.In this episode of The Duke Report, Peter Duke explores how language itself has become the central weapon in modern epistemological warfare—what he calls EpiWar™, the systematic attack on how we know what we know. Rebuilding his work after the Pacific Palisades fire, Duke introduces his thesis on vericide—the killing of truth through the destruction or erasure of its witnesses—and contrasts it with epistemicide, the mass death caused by ignorance.Through live commentary, he connects these concepts to historical examples of censorship, psychological warfare, and narrative manipulation, citing figures such as Andrew Breitbart, Michael A. Hoffman II, and Guido Preparata as victims of vericide. Duke also presents Christine Jones’ fable “The Fools and the Knaves”, a parable of engineered cultural decay, and expands on Preparata’s Conjuring Hitler, which argues that World War II was deliberately designed by Anglo-American power networks.The discussion moves between history, linguistics, and technology—questioning AI’s role in shaping thought, the shifting definition of words like liberty, and how meaning itself is weaponized. Duke closes by urging viewers to restore discernment through conversation, study, and moral co-awareness—defending truth not with violence, but with language aligned to reality.This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thanks to the generosity of my readers, all my articles are available for free access. Independent journalism, however, requires time and investment. If you found value in this article or any others, please consider sharing or even becoming a paid subscriber, who benefits by joining the conversation in the comments. I want you to know that your support is always gratefully received and will never be forgotten. Please buy me a coffee or as many as you wish.The Duke Report - Where to StartMy articles on SubStack are all free to read/listen to. If you load the Substack app on your phone, Substack will read the articles to you. (Convenient if you are driving).Foundational Articles* Meet Your Rulers* Do You Know the Difference between Liberty and Freedom?* The Power Structure of the World* The Star Within the Circle* Rituals in Plain Sight* A User’s Guide to Neuro-Linguistic DefensePodcast (Audio & Video Content)* Palmerston’s Zoo Episode 01 - Solving the Paradox of Current World History (9 Episodes)* Oligarchic Control from the Renaissance to the Information Age* Epistemological Warfare, Rituals in Plain Sight & The Modern Anglo-Dutch Empire with Peter Duke & Sam Cheney* The Grand Design of the 20th Century* Bots React to Neurolinguistic DefenseSoundCloud Book PodcastsI’ve taken almost 200 foundational books, for understanding how the world really works, and posted them as audio podcasts on SoundCloud. If you load the app on your phone, you can listen to the AI robots discuss the books on your journeys across America.* The Duke Report SoundCloud Channel* Start Here Playlist* Core 20th Century History* Economics and MoneyDuke Report Books* Over 600 foundational books by journalists and academics that never made the New York Times Bestseller list, but somehow tell a history we never learned in school. LINK This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thedukereport.substack.com/subscribe