It would be equally fair to describe the coup as taking even earlier root in the fourth branch, which grew in increasingly co-opted by capital starting in the 90s.
Thanks MaryJo. It can sound like a conspiracy itself to explain how western media is ignoring such a big story. Afraid to say it's also what happens when you leave Twitter and rely on Bluesky for your info. Understand why, but the info exchange on Twitter remains unparalleled
I don't know what "turn the tide" could possibly mean. The corruption that has lead to this on-going genocide and gargantuan financial criminality is so top-heavy and infiltrated all throughout the controlling levels of western society.
And here on Substack, yes there's you, and the algorithms that show me progressive voices based on my history of likes and blocks, I guess, but the global Substack data centers and accounting departments are also churning out a neo-Nazi Substack, a Tucker Carlson groyper Substack, a Fox News Substack, a military hardware Substack, an anti-immigrant neo-Nazi Substack, etc.
Again, you taught me. So allow me to teach you. Here is the research I performed as an undergrad for a professor who had her Ph,D. in political science in whose class I was at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles for which she gave me an A, and told me that she passed my references onto another student:
But it gets much better, because in 2018 I asked a Britisher if he knew why the CIA deposed the Shah of Iran, and what he said caused me to say RUBBISH! I proceeded to write my 4th book which is entitled The Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi: Victim of His Times ISBN 978-09725798-3-4, comments by a few who have read my top secret book are at https://arlenejohnson.livejournal.com which I will give you a PDF of to your Email address now if yur Email address will allow it.
So many people think that a man named Mohammad Mosadegh was elected, but I know for a fact that the Shah appointed him in 1951 and 1952, and at least 2 others corroborate what's in that book about that issuej that I know that the gentleman knew whereof he spoke, because he and his parents knew the Shah of Iran and Her Majesty Empress Farah.
THey, you know, code name, Zionists, stick together like feces:
Anyone who reads the correspondence between Chomsky and Epstein in the January 2026 release of the Epstein files, however, will now find it difficult to respect Chomsky’s opinions on Gaza or anything else.
One email from Chomsky and his second wife Valeria describes the couple’s friendship with Epstein as ‘deep and sincere and everlasting’. Another from Valeria describes Epstein as: ‘our best friend. I mean “the” one.’ Meanwhile other messages – signed only by Chomsky himself – are equally generous to the convicted sex offender, saying, for example, ‘we’re with you all the way’ and ‘you’re constantly with us in spirit and in our thoughts.’
Other documents suggest that Chomsky visited Epstein’s properties not only in New York but also in New Mexico and Paris. The files even show that shortly before Epstein’s arrest and death, in July and August 2019, Chomsky was still intending to be interviewed for a documentary that Epstein was making. It seems that Chomsky really was loyal to Epstein until the end. The question is why.
In the years following his 2008 prison sentence, Epstein claimed to have ‘collected the world’s smartest people’. He talked about arranging a dinner party with ‘Noam Chomsky, the movie director Woody Allen, former president Bill Clinton, and the living God, the Dalai Lama.’ This wasn’t idle fantasizing. As a way to both clean up his public image and to impress other multi-millionaires, Epstein was quite serious about befriending such celebrities.
So it’s clear why Epstein wanted to befriend Chomsky. It’s less clear how Chomsky could justify any association with Epstein, even if his academic colleagues were meeting with him in the hope of attracting donations.
The simplest explanation is that Epstein worked hard to manipulate and befriend Chomsky and his wife by offering them financial services, and at one point offering them a place to live. Meanwhile, Chomsky was particularly vulnerable to such offers because he’d found himself in a highly distressing family dispute over money – a dispute that the 89-year old described as the ‘worst thing that’s ever happened to me’.
This is a striking statement considering that Chomsky had earlier spent two traumatic years caring for his first wife while she suffered and died from brain cancer. By late 2018, this series of tragic events led to a shocking and surreal situation in which, in various email chains, Epstein was advising Chomsky on his painful dispute with his family, while Chomsky was advising Epstein on how to respond to press coverage about his history of sexual abuse.
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“…If a Jew needs a liver, can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to save him? The Torah would probably permit that. Jewish life has an infinite value. There is something infinitely more holy and unique about Jewish life than non-Jewish life…If a Jew needs a kidney, is it allowed, in order to save his life, to take the kidney from a Goy (non-Jew), passing by, even if he is not guilty of anything? In my opinion, Torah allows it. The life of a Jew is priceless.”
Rabbi Yitzchak Ginzburg in “Jewish Week,” the largest Jewish publication in the United States, April 26, 1996.
Great article! I’ve written before on a similar theme, reflecting on the complicity of writers who masquerade as journalists in the United States. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/journalism-has-fueled-the-rise-of
I’ve written separately that the constitutional coup that most Americans associate with Trump actually began in the Supreme Court a generation before he came to Washington. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/our-courts-cant-defend-democracy
It would be equally fair to describe the coup as taking even earlier root in the fourth branch, which grew in increasingly co-opted by capital starting in the 90s.
Thanks Shahid, I'll have a read!
Thanks for this, Nate. Since western media doesn’t seem to be talking about this, I am one of tho many who had no idea about this.
Thanks MaryJo. It can sound like a conspiracy itself to explain how western media is ignoring such a big story. Afraid to say it's also what happens when you leave Twitter and rely on Bluesky for your info. Understand why, but the info exchange on Twitter remains unparalleled
Spot on. Only quibble -- R Maxwell was not likely a spy for Israel; he was one.
Another excellent article on a topic that should be taught in schools. Keep doing it, Nate. You're sub stack is steadily becoming one of my favorites.
I don't know what "turn the tide" could possibly mean. The corruption that has lead to this on-going genocide and gargantuan financial criminality is so top-heavy and infiltrated all throughout the controlling levels of western society.
And here on Substack, yes there's you, and the algorithms that show me progressive voices based on my history of likes and blocks, I guess, but the global Substack data centers and accounting departments are also churning out a neo-Nazi Substack, a Tucker Carlson groyper Substack, a Fox News Substack, a military hardware Substack, an anti-immigrant neo-Nazi Substack, etc.
In this YouTube right at the 2:00 timeframe, you will see Ehud Barak:
From one of my Oregon friends
2026/6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLiIKbkN4T0
Duration: 8:14
Again, you taught me. So allow me to teach you. Here is the research I performed as an undergrad for a professor who had her Ph,D. in political science in whose class I was at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles for which she gave me an A, and told me that she passed my references onto another student:
http://www.truedemocracy.net/sample/
But it gets much better, because in 2018 I asked a Britisher if he knew why the CIA deposed the Shah of Iran, and what he said caused me to say RUBBISH! I proceeded to write my 4th book which is entitled The Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi: Victim of His Times ISBN 978-09725798-3-4, comments by a few who have read my top secret book are at https://arlenejohnson.livejournal.com which I will give you a PDF of to your Email address now if yur Email address will allow it.
So many people think that a man named Mohammad Mosadegh was elected, but I know for a fact that the Shah appointed him in 1951 and 1952, and at least 2 others corroborate what's in that book about that issuej that I know that the gentleman knew whereof he spoke, because he and his parents knew the Shah of Iran and Her Majesty Empress Farah.
THey, you know, code name, Zionists, stick together like feces:
Anyone who reads the correspondence between Chomsky and Epstein in the January 2026 release of the Epstein files, however, will now find it difficult to respect Chomsky’s opinions on Gaza or anything else.
One email from Chomsky and his second wife Valeria describes the couple’s friendship with Epstein as ‘deep and sincere and everlasting’. Another from Valeria describes Epstein as: ‘our best friend. I mean “the” one.’ Meanwhile other messages – signed only by Chomsky himself – are equally generous to the convicted sex offender, saying, for example, ‘we’re with you all the way’ and ‘you’re constantly with us in spirit and in our thoughts.’
Other documents suggest that Chomsky visited Epstein’s properties not only in New York but also in New Mexico and Paris. The files even show that shortly before Epstein’s arrest and death, in July and August 2019, Chomsky was still intending to be interviewed for a documentary that Epstein was making. It seems that Chomsky really was loyal to Epstein until the end. The question is why.
In the years following his 2008 prison sentence, Epstein claimed to have ‘collected the world’s smartest people’. He talked about arranging a dinner party with ‘Noam Chomsky, the movie director Woody Allen, former president Bill Clinton, and the living God, the Dalai Lama.’ This wasn’t idle fantasizing. As a way to both clean up his public image and to impress other multi-millionaires, Epstein was quite serious about befriending such celebrities.
So it’s clear why Epstein wanted to befriend Chomsky. It’s less clear how Chomsky could justify any association with Epstein, even if his academic colleagues were meeting with him in the hope of attracting donations.
The simplest explanation is that Epstein worked hard to manipulate and befriend Chomsky and his wife by offering them financial services, and at one point offering them a place to live. Meanwhile, Chomsky was particularly vulnerable to such offers because he’d found himself in a highly distressing family dispute over money – a dispute that the 89-year old described as the ‘worst thing that’s ever happened to me’.
This is a striking statement considering that Chomsky had earlier spent two traumatic years caring for his first wife while she suffered and died from brain cancer. By late 2018, this series of tragic events led to a shocking and surreal situation in which, in various email chains, Epstein was advising Chomsky on his painful dispute with his family, while Chomsky was advising Epstein on how to respond to press coverage about his history of sexual abuse.
++--++
“…If a Jew needs a liver, can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to save him? The Torah would probably permit that. Jewish life has an infinite value. There is something infinitely more holy and unique about Jewish life than non-Jewish life…If a Jew needs a kidney, is it allowed, in order to save his life, to take the kidney from a Goy (non-Jew), passing by, even if he is not guilty of anything? In my opinion, Torah allows it. The life of a Jew is priceless.”
Rabbi Yitzchak Ginzburg in “Jewish Week,” the largest Jewish publication in the United States, April 26, 1996.
More, here . . . .
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/an-industry-of-dehumanization-moral