DARWIN HOLMSTROM—In his first brush with the law, Epstein had the varsity squad of servants of the rich protecting him, heavy hitters such as Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz, Palm Beach county state attorney Barry Krischer, and the Miami office U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta. They came close to getting Epstein off completely, but ultimately had to settle for his serving a little time in what amounted to a state-funded bed and breakfast retreat. Epstein’s initial lenient sentence began to make a bit more sense after the public learned that Acosta had arranged for Epstein to avoid the same punishment a mere peasant would face because Epstein “belonged to intelligence.”
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CRIMINAL RULING CLASS
TIM DICKINSON—Together, Charles and David Koch control one of the world’s largest fortunes, which they are using to buy up our political system. But what they don’t want you to know is how they made all that money
Mega Group, Maxwells and Mossad: The Spy Story at the Heart of the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal
60 minutes readWHITNEY WEBB—While Part I and Part II of this series, “The Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Too Big to Fail,” have focused on the widespread nature of sexual blackmail operations in recent American history and their ties to the heights of American political power and the U.S. intelligence community, one key aspect of Epstein’s own sex-trafficking and blackmail operation that warrants examination is Epstein’s ties to Israeli intelligence and his ties to the “informal” pro-Israel philanthropist faction known as “the Mega Group.”
IGNORING HISTORY: Peace in Our Time—Obama’s Munich, Part II
The Democrats' betrayals paved the road to Trump.10 minutes readSTEVEN JONAS—Who needs Republicans to take these positions when you’ve got a so-called Democrat doing so? And who did Obama call in for a private White House chat on the budget, taxes, the deficit and the like? None other than Bill Clinton who, before he was President was the DLC chair in the 1980’s. It was Clinton who, in his first State of the Union Address, made an announcement that could have been taken right out of the mouth of Ronald Reagan: “The era of big government is over.” Obama took a page from the Clinton playbook even before that most recent visit. He started “triangulating” the progressive Democrats in the Congress just like Clinton did, using language to describe them and the policies that they had been putting forth that he hardly ever uses against the GOP/Far-Right.
Why is the media dismissing questions about Jeffrey Epstein’s death as “conspiracy theories”?
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PATRICK MARTIN—The American oligarchy, which includes both the owners and the editors of the New York Times, fears that a scandal implicating members of the elite in child prostitution and related sordid activities may have a politically explosive character. They are concerned that the exposure of foul play in Epstein’s death may lead to the same type of political revelations that his removal was intended to prevent.
