Prof. Tim Coles is a researcher at the Cognition Institute at Plymouth University in the UK, director of the Plymouth Institute for Peace Research, and a columnist writing about politics and human rights. His articles have been published in journals and online by Newsweek, the Grayzone,the New Statesmen, Truthout, Counterpunch and other other sources. He has frequently co-written essays with Australian investigative journalist John Pilger. Tim has written over 15 books including “Capitalism and Coronavirus”, “Real Fake News,” “Voices for Peace” (with Noam Chomsky), and most recently “Bioterrorism: The Tech-Pharma Complex and the End of Democracy” — which traces the history of bioterrorism aback to its 18th century eugenic roots up to the present with the emergence of surveillance capitalism, transhumanism, a techno-pharma regime and more recently the Great Rest being advanced by the World Economic Forum.