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.
As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.
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
If you read comments that aren’t “same day fresh” Nate, lemme give you a report from distant Downundaland that reinforces your point about how people ignore the “Israeli in the Island” even when it’s so easy to see. And I’m not talking news mediots here. This involves Aussies who hit the streets yesterday to protest against Isaac Herzog’s visit to this settler colony. But nobody mentioned his Epstein connection!
On Monday, Feb. 9 there were rallies (as protests are called here) in cities across Australia. The one in Melbourne was in front of the main train station, at one of the busiest intersections in the city, conveniently about five traffic lights from where I live. It got a decent crowd, probably three times the size of the demos that took place every Sunday for two years before the fake “ceasefire” squelched that effort. Maybe 10,000 people attended. There were half a dozen speakers, all of whom railed against Herzog and the nazIsraeli genocide. BUT THE EPSTEIN NAME WAS NOT SPOKEN ALOUD! And these are people who are not inclined to soft-pedal criticism of the Zionazi regime. A mate who met me there said he saw a couple signs with Epstein’s name (this was a home-grown, non-professional rally without commercially made material) but I didn’t spot any. One cannot see it all…
So why is that? As you say, it’s not difficult to link Herzog to Epstein. His name is in the files! He’s recorded as having visited Paedo Island! It’s topical — that info came out within the last week. I’m just an average punter, not someone who’s connected enough to be invited to a podium for speechifying, but I knew about it. Yet *crickets* from the speakers.
I read a lot of people (including you) on Twaater (sic). I do that via xcancel.com, because I never signed up for skuM’s service. I’ve got to go directly to each author’s Twaatstream, which takes a bit of typing, but it’s not like pushing a boulder up a mountainside. I can read every Twaat they wrote that way, instead of depending on an algorithm to “feed my head.” There are about a dozen people I read every day re: Gaza, Covid and Ukraine. (You’re only every second or third day for me because you’re not prolific.) I squizz lots of bloggers and ‘Stackers too. I never read corporate media because that’s misdirecting propaganda, and I haven’t owned a TV since 2012. Still, I’m better informed than almost anybody I know (aside from my fellow “protest friends”).
I reckon that the people who make speeches denouncing Herzog, while not pronouncing the “Epstein” name, are blinkered because they depend on conventional media sources or what an algorithm shows them. To quote Agent Mulder, the truth is out there! We just have to look for it. On our own, not via some third party’s suggestions. The people who failed to mention paedEpstein yesterday are innocently ignorant because they don’t look hard enough. And it ain’t that hard!
The same dynamic is in play with Covid, Ukraine and all sorts of grotesqueries where well-meaning people are half-informed. Laziness is at the heart of it. My mindset is on the paranoid side — not to a pathological degree! — so I don’t trust any single source of information. Scepticism spurs me on. It must be nice ’n easy for the complacent majority to accept the dogfood that they’re fed. The world needs more distrusting dogs, though. Good onya for being that kinda dog, Nate. Bark on!
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.
1. Of course the narrative of Epstein As Secret Russian Agent Who Fooled Us All is ridiculous, not to mention, contradicted by all available facts. However, that narrative happens to serve several useful functions for persons of influence and authority. It keeps Trump under control, provides for further demonization of Putin and can be used to undermine any peace efforts with Russia.
Therefore, the narrative will be adopted as gospel, much like the equally wacky russiagate conspiracy theory.
2. Iran was foolish not to obtain nuclear weapons when it could.
Let us, for a moment imagine religious group X, a close knit group. A small country X where they are dominant is run along aparthehied lines and non-Xers are 2nd class citizens. For +/- 3 decades a rich Xer has been supplying young girls to other rich Xers and politicos from country X for sexual purposes. Many of the girls in the eyes of those using them would be classed as "young white trash" The headlines would be: Peado Xers, lock em up etc.
The e-mail exchange between St Chomsky and Epstein (days before Epstein was finally locked up) showed the level of solidarity between one new york jew and another - almost as if abusing "young poor white trash" did not matter at all. Over to you Noam.
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.
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!
Spot on. Only quibble -- R Maxwell was not likely a spy for Israel; he was one.
As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.
H. S Thompson
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.
Thank you!
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
If you read comments that aren’t “same day fresh” Nate, lemme give you a report from distant Downundaland that reinforces your point about how people ignore the “Israeli in the Island” even when it’s so easy to see. And I’m not talking news mediots here. This involves Aussies who hit the streets yesterday to protest against Isaac Herzog’s visit to this settler colony. But nobody mentioned his Epstein connection!
On Monday, Feb. 9 there were rallies (as protests are called here) in cities across Australia. The one in Melbourne was in front of the main train station, at one of the busiest intersections in the city, conveniently about five traffic lights from where I live. It got a decent crowd, probably three times the size of the demos that took place every Sunday for two years before the fake “ceasefire” squelched that effort. Maybe 10,000 people attended. There were half a dozen speakers, all of whom railed against Herzog and the nazIsraeli genocide. BUT THE EPSTEIN NAME WAS NOT SPOKEN ALOUD! And these are people who are not inclined to soft-pedal criticism of the Zionazi regime. A mate who met me there said he saw a couple signs with Epstein’s name (this was a home-grown, non-professional rally without commercially made material) but I didn’t spot any. One cannot see it all…
So why is that? As you say, it’s not difficult to link Herzog to Epstein. His name is in the files! He’s recorded as having visited Paedo Island! It’s topical — that info came out within the last week. I’m just an average punter, not someone who’s connected enough to be invited to a podium for speechifying, but I knew about it. Yet *crickets* from the speakers.
I read a lot of people (including you) on Twaater (sic). I do that via xcancel.com, because I never signed up for skuM’s service. I’ve got to go directly to each author’s Twaatstream, which takes a bit of typing, but it’s not like pushing a boulder up a mountainside. I can read every Twaat they wrote that way, instead of depending on an algorithm to “feed my head.” There are about a dozen people I read every day re: Gaza, Covid and Ukraine. (You’re only every second or third day for me because you’re not prolific.) I squizz lots of bloggers and ‘Stackers too. I never read corporate media because that’s misdirecting propaganda, and I haven’t owned a TV since 2012. Still, I’m better informed than almost anybody I know (aside from my fellow “protest friends”).
I reckon that the people who make speeches denouncing Herzog, while not pronouncing the “Epstein” name, are blinkered because they depend on conventional media sources or what an algorithm shows them. To quote Agent Mulder, the truth is out there! We just have to look for it. On our own, not via some third party’s suggestions. The people who failed to mention paedEpstein yesterday are innocently ignorant because they don’t look hard enough. And it ain’t that hard!
The same dynamic is in play with Covid, Ukraine and all sorts of grotesqueries where well-meaning people are half-informed. Laziness is at the heart of it. My mindset is on the paranoid side — not to a pathological degree! — so I don’t trust any single source of information. Scepticism spurs me on. It must be nice ’n easy for the complacent majority to accept the dogfood that they’re fed. The world needs more distrusting dogs, though. Good onya for being that kinda dog, Nate. Bark on!
I do! Thanks
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
1. Of course the narrative of Epstein As Secret Russian Agent Who Fooled Us All is ridiculous, not to mention, contradicted by all available facts. However, that narrative happens to serve several useful functions for persons of influence and authority. It keeps Trump under control, provides for further demonization of Putin and can be used to undermine any peace efforts with Russia.
Therefore, the narrative will be adopted as gospel, much like the equally wacky russiagate conspiracy theory.
2. Iran was foolish not to obtain nuclear weapons when it could.
There are ties to Putin in the transnational criminal network, but Epstein was a primary actor for Israel for sure.
Excellent.
Let us, for a moment imagine religious group X, a close knit group. A small country X where they are dominant is run along aparthehied lines and non-Xers are 2nd class citizens. For +/- 3 decades a rich Xer has been supplying young girls to other rich Xers and politicos from country X for sexual purposes. Many of the girls in the eyes of those using them would be classed as "young white trash" The headlines would be: Peado Xers, lock em up etc.
The e-mail exchange between St Chomsky and Epstein (days before Epstein was finally locked up) showed the level of solidarity between one new york jew and another - almost as if abusing "young poor white trash" did not matter at all. Over to you Noam.
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.