The following posts are in reverse chronological order, going back to the day the recent highly redacted “clean” half of the 6 million Epstein files were released. We can only assume the still hidden & censored half of the files is much, much worse and far more damning to the Billionaire & Zionist Epstein Class, especially Donald Trump.
There is a great deal Mainstream Corporate Media is not reporting, and they are intentionally misdirecting away from Epstein’s intimate links to Israel into a mythological narrative that he was a “Russian agent.” We now have overwhelming evidence of a massive ongoing cover-up to protect the Epstein Class of Billionaires and other Elites, intimately linked to Israel, Mossad, Hollywood, Corporate Media, The US Government, Wall Street, The British Govt & Royal Family, the Rothschilds, Etc.
We also now know Epstein was a racist Jewish Supremacist, like most Zionists, and viewed non-Jews as inferior “Goyim.” And it must be noted that there are many Jews that oppose this ethnosupremacism, especially young Jews protesting the Israeli genocide, a genocide that is by far the #1 cause of the spike in anti-semitism we have seen over the last 2 years.
We also now know that the Epstein crimes extended beyond sex trafficking, and it appears they were trafficking and breeding babies, and even killing babies, likely as a ritual sacrifice or cult initiation. There is even reason to believe they may have even been eating babies, as Epstein and his friend compared eating babies to eating cream cheese, although further investigation is needed to confirm this.
I understand if what I wrote sounds far-fetched, but if you dig deep enough into the Epstein Files, you will understand what I am saying.
I also wrote other notes about US-Zionist Empire & the need for revolution to overturn it, ideally non-violent revolution. I wish Billionaire imperialist & Zionist warmongers would heed the words of President John Kennedy, “Those that make Peaceful Revolution impossible make Violent Revolution inevitable.” I would much prefer we do it the easy way, a bloodless coup for anti-imperialism and genuine justice-based peace.
Facebook post from February 15, 2026.
It’s even more disgusting to see dozens of subservient EU leaders giving Rubio’s bloodthirsty US imperialist speech a standing ovation. Video:
David Adler@davidrkadler
Standing ovation for Rubio in Munich. Standing ovation for Netanyahu in Washington. We are ruled by a transatlantic clique of criminals and midwit minions who clap like seals when their white supremacy is laundered by the language of “Western values.” Sick stuff
ian bremmer @ianbremmer
standing ovation for marco rubio at munich security council, set against context of dramatically lower european expectations from their relationship with the united states.
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Full quote:
“US Secretary of State Marco Rubio just gave one of the most explicitly pro-colonialist speeches I have seen in the 21st century.
The US empire wants Europe to help it recolonize the Global South.
Rubio praised Western colonialists for “settl[ing] new continents, build[ing] vast empires extending out across the globe”.
Then Rubio complained about the Global South’s decolonization, portraying it as a sinister communist plot.
Rubio lamented: “The great Western empires had entered into terminal decline, accelerated by godless communist revolutions and by anti-colonial uprisings that would transform the world and drape the red hammer and sickle across vast swaths of the map in the years to come”.
Rubio delivered this speech at the Munich Security Conference, surrounded by European leaders, who gave him a standing ovation. They loved the pro-colonialist diatribe.
The US secretary of state insisted that North American and European imperialists should unite in order to reverse “the West’s managed decline”, to revive “the West’s age of dominance”, to “renew the greatest civilization in human history”.
This is a blatant call by the US empire to resuscitate Western colonialism and recolonize the Global South (which represents the Global Majority).
What the US empire did to Gaza, Venezuela, and currently Cuba is what it wants to do to the entire Global South.
This is from the official transcript published by the US State Department:
Abel Tomlinson. Facebook post 2-14-26.
Paintings from the first Epstein victim to report anything. Looks like she was really bothered by his connections to “the Russians” like Corporate Media says, but she misspelled it CIA, Mossad, AIPAC, MI6, ADL, FBI & Israel
Strangely enough this art & more is in the released files, but redacted:
https://www.justice.gov/.../DataSet%2010/EFTA01652669.pdf
AT. FB Post. 2/12/26.
In terms of body counts, harming & killing a few hundred is small potatoes, or as the common French expression goes, Epstein was still a “petit jouer,” or a little player.
All US Presidents* in my lifetime & 90%+ of the US Congress*, both parties, have kill counts far, far higher, but hidden behind mere votes for “defense” budgets, Israel “appropriations,” or “Ukraine defense” funds...Or worst of all “Sanctions Acts”. Most major US federal politicians’ death tolls are measured in hundreds of thousands, and many Senators have killed in the millions, over decades.
In fact, killing people, including kids, for Profit & Power is at the heart & soul of the US-Zionist Imperial Govt, which is Reason #1 we need Regime Change Revolution.
* (But most US politicians are petit jouers too, in a sense, as they are willing puppets for the Billionaire-Master Class, many of which are Zionists, that really calls the shots & tells the politicians what to do.)
AT. FB post 2/14/26.
AIPAC puppet Democrat Senator Fetterman usually wears a hoodie to Congress but like a star struck teen at an Elvis Concert, he gets gussied up when his rock star idol, Bibi The Butcher Netanyahu comes to town
AT. FB Post. 2/12/26
US-sponsored Israelis incinerated scores of Palestinian families with thermal bombs that burned at over 6,000 degrees fahrenheit. Can everyone now see that Zionism is today’s Nazism and their Gaza Concentration Camp is today’s Auschwitz, both with genocidal ovens.
The Nazis never really lost the war completely; they migrated, re-grouped & re-branded, with Nazi officers literally at the head of NATO (A Huge Arm of US Empire). There is also a straight line between the Hitler-supporting Zionist Rothschild family creating Israel to Mossad Agent Epstein working for the Rothschild family & Israel recently.
https://www.aljazeera.com/.../israel-used-weapons-in-gaza...
AT. FB post. 2/12/26.
Call it Corporate-State Propaganda or the Lie Industrial Complex for War, US Empire, Zionism, Capitalism & Defending Capitalist "Democracy"...but it tells the truth about the weather, sportsball & personal tragedies that dont threaten the Billionaire Class.
AT. FB Post. 2/12/26.
More & more people, Christians, Jews, Muslims, and dozens more traditions, uniting against Zionism every day.
Equal Rights for All & Genocide for None!!!
FB Post. 2/11/26
Help yall...Im havin a hard time telling which Iranians to believe:
1. the media-amplified pro-Israel diaspora monarchists cheering for Trump to bomb Iran for “freedom”
2. the Iranians in Iran torching a satanic statue of Baal to condemn genocidal Israel & the US Epstein Class as they threaten to invade and bomb Iranians again.
FB Post. 2/11/26.
“Iranian women have achieved significant milestones in science and mathematics, notably surpassing global averages in several educational and professional benchmarks.
Key Achievements and Statistics
STEM Graduates: Women make up approximately 70% of Iranian university graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This is one of the highest percentages in the world, far exceeding the 53% average in the United States.”
FB Post. 2/11/26
Here is a Political Action Committee thats worth a damn. This Anti-Zionism PAC is a counter to the all powerful AIPAC Israel Lobby. This group aims to unite those with humanistic concern over the Gaza genocide and those that dont want Israelis/Zionists/The Epstein Class to control the US Govt.
“Introducing AZAPAC!
Zionism has taken over the U.S. government, as the constant subservience to Israel in word and deed makes eminently clear.
Opposing Zionism in America means ridding the government of Zionists who serve Israel over the United States. This demands, among other measures, confronting and competing with entrenched lobbies like AIPAC, CUFI, and J-Street. These groups bend U.S. policy to favor foreign agendas. Zionist influence drains American resources, undermines U.S. sovereignty, and runs counter to the interests of the American people.
These and other powerful pro-Israel groups have captured most members of our political class, who extort money from U.S. taxpayers, censor the voices of citizens and residents, and prioritize endless foreign entanglements over domestic prosperity.
Americans increasingly disapprove of Israel’s belligerence and U.S. involvement in its perpetual conflicts, including the utter demolition of the Gaza Strip. We help Americans reject policies that enable Zionist occupation at home and abroad.
Join this broad grassroots non-partisan coalition. Only together will we overcome these nefarious influences and prevail. Our goal is to reclaim the U.S. government for the American people. In doing so, the world is made more peaceful and prosperous.
https://www.aza-pac.com/
FB Post. 2/11/26.
Here Iranian protesters burn an effigy labeled “Baal,” shown with a Star of David and Israel’s flag, while chanting “Death to Israel.”
Baal is an ancient Canaanite deity often used today as a symbol of Satanism or elite corruption (for example Epstein). One Epstein file appeared to show his bank account named Baal, but it was likely a very appropriate typo.
These are clearly not supporters of the pro-Israel US Puppet wanna-be Prince Pahlavi. Way to go. The satanic Epstein Cult & the genocidal Racist Israeli Apartheid State, that thirsts for blood in Iran, are two sides of the same Zionist coin.
FB Post. 2/10/26.
Here a US Congresswoman & descendent of Cubans supports the forced starvation of her own people by USA, while pretending its the Cuban govt that is the problem.
In fact, this kind of US Economic warfare has been killing millions of people for decades, killing more kids & adults globally every year than any other political policy. Its estimated US-led sanctions killed 38 million people since 1970. Bipartisan starvation sanctions are killing far more kids than even endless US bombings and way more kids than Epstein.
Opposing US imperialism, esp its invasions & economic warfare, should be at the Center of any Sane & Humane movement & party for a better world. Unfortunately, the Democrat party is firmly imperialist, with even its “leftmost” members like AOC, Bernie & Mamdani giving direct and de facto support, or weak, mealy mouthed milquetoast resistance at best, dependent on which targeted nation we are talking about.
Instead, we need anti-imperial revolutionary fire! We need an independent movement against both imperialist mass murder parties & the Billionaire Class that owns them.
FB Post. 2/12/26.
Few people hit the savage US-zio Empire as hard as Julian Assange. Francesca Albanese is one of these also. Superheroes for Humanity.
“US sanctions have turned United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese into a global financial outcast, leaving her unable to open any bank accounts or use credit cards in any country after being added to the US Treasury Department’s list of specially designated nationals.
Albanese said, “This is not about law but about power,” noting that the sanctions have effectively cut her off from the global financial system, with even banks willing to help refusing out of fear of secondary US sanctions.
Members of her family, including her husband who works at the World Bank, face potential sanctions risks that could include fines of up to one billion dollars or twenty years in prison simply for conducting financial transactions with her, making her “shunned” even in the simplest daily dealings.”
Lee Camp [Redacted]@LeeCamp
Call out genocide and this is the reward you get from the US empire
Quds News Network @QudsNen
US sanctions have turned United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese into a global financial outcast, leaving her unable to open any bank accounts or use credit cards in any country after being added to the US Treasury Department’s list of specially designated nationals.
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FB Post. 2/8/26
Its despicable that Trump posted a racist meme of Obama, but I see lots of people posting mythological glorification of Obama in response. The problem is they are falling into the PR propaganda-driven trap of whitewashing Obama’s war crimes, which perpetuates the US-Zionist Imperial Death Machine.
In fact, Obama killed and harmed hundreds of children by bombings, and thousands more killed by sanctions. Obama should be viewed in a similar light as Epstein and Trump, who also killed & harmed thousands of kids as US President. Trump & Obama both represent the Epstein Class of Billionaires & Mega-millonaires that kill & severely harm millions of kids for decades.
Obama’s covert drone war in numbers: ten times more strikes… | TBIJ https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/.../obamas-covert...
Further post images here
FB Post. 2/8/26
“Ghislaine’s dad, Robert Maxwell, got taken out by Mossad. Why? He tried to shake them down for £400 MILLION, or he’d blow the lid off ALL the dirty work he did for them.
Let that sink in.
Blackmail kingpin spills the beans on another blackmail kingpin getting “suicided” by Israeli intel for trying to flip the script.
“He was passed away.”
FB Post. 2/7/26
A friend of mine made this for the effort to help advance the BDS movement. Please Boycott Israeli Blood Diamonds, one of their top exports, and all other Israeli products. This one is a no brainer since there are so many other beautiful gem stones & less expensive too!
If we help ignite a global movement to stigmatize & Boycott Israeli Blood Diamonds & diamonds altogether to attempt to crash the market, it could do massive damage to the hyper-racist & mass murdering Israeli Govt. This is not just to stop apartheid & genocide, but also to stop the Epstein Class of zionist billionaires weilding MASSIVE Corrosive Power over the US Govt & every single one of us.
FB Post. 2/6/26
If you ever buy diamonds, please ask jewelers if they are blood diamonds, or better yet boycott diamond purchases altogether to be safe. If a movement to stigmatize diamonds took flight, it would crash the global market & price. Diamond investors & a bunch of rich zionists would lose their lunch & then some. We really need to escalate Boycott efforts of genocidal apartheid ethnosupremacist Israel, yall.
#StigmatizeDiamonds
FB Post. 2/6/26.
Lol...Netanyahu & Zionist-owned Mainstream Media forgot to align their misinformation propaganda talking points.
Mainstream Media: “Epstein was a Russian Agent!”
Netanyahu: “Epstein was a leftist anti-Zionist, Anti-Semitic member of Hamas!”
FB Post. 2/6/26.
Rappers Dead Prez nailed this a long time ago. There is a concious organized effort by Big Music Industry Record Labels & Radio Station owners (corporations), which are owned by a few rich capitalists (many also Zionists*), to dumb down & pacify the youth.
Thats why they lift up apolitical rappers & other musicians, as manufactured “popular” culture, musicians that glorify capitalism and the thirst to be rich with gold chains, fancy cars & often to treat women as objects. They play all kinds of this mentally-junkfood music, but would never play this by Dead Prez:
“Turn off the radio! Turn off that bullshit!
What’s on the radio, propaganda, mind control
And turnin’ it on is like puttin’ on a blindfold
‘Cause when you bringin’ the real you don’t get rotation
Unless you take over the station
And yeah I know it’s part of they plans
To make us think it’s all about party and dancin’
And yo it might sound good when you spittin’ your rap
But in reality, don’t nobody live like that”
Full song:
Pawel Wargens full quote:
“The group that should be in the streets, has been bought off.”
Not too many months ago, a comrade from a movement of the urban poor in Brazil told me that social media has made the work of organizing the youth in the favelas exceedingly difficult.
Instagram reels and television ads and Jay-Z songs have offered them a siren song, spellbinding an entire generation only to see them crash against the impermeable wall of capitalist inequality.
The false promise that you could pull yourself up, buy a Mercedes, don a thick gold chain and a Gucci hat, and pull up the ladder as you leave those less fortunate than you behind has a sheen that the painstaking work of organizing a community for sovereignty does not.
The Epstein files reveal what many have long known to be true: that this, too, is a conscious strategy of the ruling class.”
The Music industry, links to Zionism https://www.presstv.ir/.../Zionist-links-to-the-music...
Video of anti-genocide, anti-cannibalism activists
FB Post. 2/4/26.
Epstein’s previously reported plan to create a “super-race” by impregnating 20 women at a time appears to have been at least partly put into practice, as we now have evidence of women being used as incubators and he was involved in plans to genetically engineer “designer babies.”
It must be noted that a great many Jewish people are not racist supremacists, but Epstein & most Zionists are. As evidenced here, Epstein’s racist supremacist mindset, ironically, is akin to Hitler’s Master Race ideology.
Moreover, Epstein admitted working for the Zionist Supremacist, war-profiteering Rothschild banking family and we have at least one $25 million receipt of payment. Also ironically, Arianne Rothschild admitted their family helped Hitler. We also know for a fact the Rothschilds were EXTREMELY instrumental in establishing Israel, the supremacist apartheid ethnostate now conducting a racist genocidal Holocaust of Palestinians.
Its truly a clusterfuck of fuckery. Also ironically, these racist Zionists are fueling anti-semitism to an extreme degree with the genocide & Epstein-exposed network of corruption & control, but thankfully young Jews especially are rising up to oppose Zionism, along with countless millions more of us as well.
Epstein reportedly hoped to develop super-race of humans with his DNA | Jeffrey Epstein | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/.../jeffrey-epstein-seed...
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FB Post. 2/4/26.
Many stories that previously sounded like far-fetched conspiracy theories now appear believable, including some of the stories from the “Satanic Panic” in the 1980s, such as this Oprah interview of a woman reporting ritual sacrifice of babies:
FB Post. 2/3/26.
Some of the most disturbing & less published Epstein files are those about a “Massacre of the Innocents” painting in the room “where they are killing babies” to be moved to his Zorro Ranch, as well as one where Epstein & his friend compare eating babies to eating cream cheese.
This depth of evil is almost too much to believe until it is combined with all the other information we have, some attached in this post, including evidence they were trafficking babies from Africa, forcing women to incubate babies, allegedly dismembering babies & a science fiction-like “designer baby project”.
Where are all the “pro-life” Christians that say they care so much about babies?!? The crimes of these Elites go far beyond sex crimes & what Mainstream Media is reporting!
“Jeffrey is asking if you can Fedex the painting he had made of the Massacre of the Innocents to the ranch. It’s the large 9’x9’ canvas that we had rolled out for him to see in the entry way where they are killing babies. He wants to use it on the ranch and is hoping you could Fedex it to arrive by Wednesday?
Thanks..sarah”
File on Massacre of the Innocents painting in the room where they kill babies:
https://www.justice.gov/.../DataSet%209/EFTA00563164.pdf
Epstein comparing eating babies to eating cream cheese:
https://www.justice.gov/.../DataSet%2011/EFTA02440165.pdf
File on woman used as a baby incubator:
https://www.justice.gov/.../DataSet%2012/EFTA02731361.pdf
On babies being dismembered:
https://www.justice.gov/.../DataSet%209/EFTA00147661.pdf
On Hollywood Elite Peggy Siegal bringing babies from Africa for Epstein:
https://www.justice.gov/.../DataSet%2011/EFTA02433105.pdf
Link to additional source images here
FB Post. 2/3/26.
This is the real conclusion the Elites that own Mainstream Media dont want people to come to; hence, the widespread misdirection away from from Israel and toward Russia. They are trying to preserve the system that has been exposed, a system that does not deserve to be preserved.
This system is not just Mossad blackmail, but Zionist control and influence over many of the most powerful people and institutions in the “Western” world, in politics, finance, corporate elites, media, academics, Hollywood, etc, and this system of control extends far beyond, and preceeds, Epstein.
“The real Epstein scandal
The conclusion, then, is not a lurid morality tale about “bad people doing bad things,” nor the tired revelation that royals, celebrities, or billionaires behave with impunity. That much is already obvious. Child abusers exist across every class and every society. What does not exist everywhere is a system that records, archives, weaponises, and protects that abuse for strategic ends.
The Epstein case points not to isolated depravity, but to structured leverage: an architecture of blackmail in which sexual crimes become instruments of power rather than grounds for prosecution. That is why the fixation on individual scandal – princes, parties, and gossip – functions as misdirection.
The real scandal is the evidence of an intelligence-linked operation in which Mossad repeatedly appears as a point of reference, protection, and utility; an operation that embedded itself across politics, finance, media, and celebrity culture...
Until this is discussed in those terms, as a question of foreign influence, the story will remain trapped in spectacle, and the system it exposes will remain intact.”
Canary article on Epstein & Mossad
Just as with Christians & Muslims, there are Jewish people that do good and seek justice & peace, and those that do not.
I know there are many good Jewish people, and some are my favorite journalists and brilliant minds, but there is certainly a significant number of genocidal zionist ethnosupremacist Jews, and some believe they will each get 2,800 Goyim (non-Jew) slaves someday soon (see Rabbi Lasry video below). Some are extremely rich & powerful.
Epstein was the latter & The Epstein Files exposed he was clearly an extremely rich & powerful, racist Jewish ethnosupremacist that viewed non-Jews as an inferior goyim “race”. The “Gods Chosen People” master race idea went to these kinds of people’s heads in the worst possible way.
From The Cradle:
“Jewish supremacy in the Epstein Files?
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Recently released emails, documents, and testimony contained in the Epstein files point to more than a network of abuse, revealing what appears to be an insular worldview grounded in hierarchy, entitlement, and contempt for outsiders. In private communications attributed to Jeffrey Epstein and associates, non-Jews are repeatedly referenced with mocking or derogatory language, reflecting what critics describe as a supremacist mindset operating alongside the abuse itself.
Several of the released emails show Epstein using the term “goyim,” meaning non-Jews, in a dismissive and contemptuous manner. In one exchange with AI theorist Roger Schank, Epstein refers to profits from shipping futures by writing about “how the Jew makes money,” adding, “let the goyim deal in the real world.” Other communications show similar language used casually, suggesting that this worldview was normalized within Epstein’s private circles.
In another email exchange, Hollywood publicist Peggy Siegal asked Epstein whether an event would be “100% Jew night,” to which Epstein replied: “No, goyim in abundance — JPMorgan execs, brilliant WASPs.” In a separate message, Epstein accused a recipient of behaving “just like the GOYIM you do not respect,” language that further underscores the recurring pattern of contempt reflected in the files.
An older testimony from Epstein survivor Maria Farmer adds further context. In a 2020 interview, Farmer said her abusers were motivated by an ideology of Jewish supremacy, citing a 1996 conversation with Ghislaine Maxwell in which she was told she would not be served food at an exclusively Jewish country club. Farmer stated that exclusionary attitudes toward non-Jews were a consistent theme among Epstein, Maxwell, and their associates. Maxwell has long been widely believed to have acted as Epstein’s handler or overseer within his broader operation.
Taken together, the material suggests that the Epstein files document not only systemic sexual exploitation, but also a closed ideological environment in which power, identity, and hierarchy were intertwined, and in which contempt for non-Jews was expressed openly and without apparent concern.”
Link to source images & video here
FB Post. 2/3/26
Our Billionaire & Mega-Millionaire War Profiteering Ruling Class, including Genocidal Zionists, literally make money from killing tens of millions of people under our Wicked Corporate Capitalist-Imperialist System. They are Servants of Money (Satan), not Love (God).
This was spelled out so very clearly in the Bible and its flabbergasting that most Christians dont seem to get it or care, or rather; most money-centric pastors are shepherds misleading their flock in the wrong direction to de facto support the Satanic System.
Matthew 6:24
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
FB Post. 2/2/26
Big Media Elites are working to keep the public ignorant or misinformed about the Epstein files. They seek to memory hole or distort the Biggest Lessons about our Billionaire Ruling Class & their Deep Zionist-Israeli Connections with a 3 prong+ strategy:
1. Try not to report on it much, or not at all.
2. If you do report on it, make it a partisan weapon or just focus on a few individuals, in a way that doesnt threaten the System. “Its only Trump & Republicans that are the problem!”
3. Try to deflect attention from Epstein & his associates massive connections to Israel toward a fabricated anti-Russian narrative. “Putin is the problem, not Israel!”
Additional, full source images
FB Post. 2/2/26.
In terms of Mainstream Corporate Media Propaganda techniques, we are witnessing 2 big examples over Epstein coverage:
1. We are seeing an example of widespread Propaganda by Omission in that Mainstream Media is publishing next to nothing about Epstein’s MASSIVE ties to Israel, Israeli Prime Ministers, Mossad, Racist Zionist Ethnosupremacism, etc
2. We are seeing some Mainstream Media do Propaganda by Distortion and Deflection as they try to baselessly shift Epstein’s ties away from Israel to Russia, and the non-existent KGB, which was dissolved in 1991!
Why are they doing this? Most mainstream media is largely owned by pro-Israel, zionist billionaires & mega-millionaires & they are working hard to defend their genocidal apartheid state.
Additional source images here.
Fb Post. 1/31/26.
USA has been intentionally, literally starving to death tens of millions of people for decades. The Epstein cruelties are not so unusual, given this context of the many millions the US Ruling Class, which includes Epstein & his associates, have bombed & starved for decades. Its all just business as usual. This is what US Empire, Corporate Capitalism & Zionism are all about: Death, Destruction, Cruelty, Oppression, Profit & Power.
If we dont like what we see, We must unite our Collective Mind against the entire system, not just a few obvious, symptomatic figureheads.
“The United States and Europe have long used unilateral sanctions as a tool of imperial power, to discipline and even destroy Global South governments that seek to shake off Western domination, chart an independent path, and establish any kind of meaningful sovereignty.
During the 1970s, there were, on average, about 15 countries under Western unilateral sanctions in any given year. In many cases, these sanctions sought to strangle access to finance and international trade, destabilise industries, and inflame crises to provoke state collapse.
For instance, when the popular socialist Salvador Allende was elected to power in Chile in 1970, the US government imposed brutal sanctions on the country. At a September 1970 meeting at the White House, US President Richard Nixon explained the objective was to “make [Chile’s] economy scream”.
The historian Peter Kornbluh describes the sanctions as an “invisible blockade” that cut Chile off from international finance, created social unrest, and paved the way for the US-backed coup that installed the brutal right-wing dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Since then, the US and Europe have dramatically increased their use of sanctions. During the 1990s and 2000s, an average of 30 countries were under Western unilateral sanctions in any given year. And now, as of the 2020s, it is more than 60 – a strikingly high proportion of the countries of the Global South.
Sanctions often have a huge human toll. Scholars have demonstrated this in several well-known cases, such as the US sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s that led to widespread malnutrition, lack of clean water, and shortages of medicine and electricity. More recently, US economic warfare against Venezuela has resulted in a severe economic crisis, with one study estimating that sanctions caused 40,000 excess deaths in just one year, from 2017 to 2018.
Until now, researchers have sought to understand the human toll of sanctions on a case-by-case basis. This is difficult work and can only ever give us a partial picture. But that has changed with new research published [last] year in The Lancet Global Health, which gives us a global view for the first time. Led by the economist Francisco Rodriguez at the University of Denver, the study calculates the total number of excess deaths associated with international sanctions from 1970 to 2021.
The results are staggering. In their central estimate, the authors find that unilateral sanctions imposed by the US and EU since 1970 are associated with 38 million deaths.
In some years, during the 1990s, more than a million people were killed. In 2021, the most recent year of data, sanctions caused more than 800,000 deaths.
According to these results, several times more people are killed by sanctions each year than are killed as direct casualties of war (on average, about 100,000 people per year). More than half of the victims are children and the elderly, people who are most vulnerable to malnutrition. The study finds that, since 2012 alone, sanctions have killed more than one million children.
Hunger and deprivation are not an accidental by-product of Western sanctions; they are a key objective.
This is clear from a State Department memo written in April 1960, which explains the purpose of US sanctions against Cuba. The memo noted that Fidel Castro – and the revolution more broadly – enjoyed widespread popularity in Cuba. It argued that “every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba,” by “denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government”.
The power of Western sanctions hinges on their control over the world’s reserve currencies (the US dollar and the Euro), their control over international payment systems (SWIFT), and their monopoly over essential technologies (eg satellites, cloud computation, software).
If countries in the Global South wish to chart a more independent path towards a multipolar world, they will need to take steps to limit their dependence in these respects and thus insulate themselves from backlash. The recent experience of Russia shows that such an approach can succeed.
Governments can achieve greater independence by building South-South trade and swap lines outside the core currencies, using regional planning to develop necessary technologies, and establishing new payment systems outside Western control.
Indeed, several countries are already taking steps in this direction. Importantly, new systems that have been developed in China (eg CIPS for international payments, BeiDou for satellites, Huawei for telecom) now provide other global South countries alternative options that can become a pathway out of Western dependence and the sanctions net.
These steps are necessary for countries that wish to achieve sovereign development, but they are also a moral imperative. We cannot accept a world where half a million people are killed each year to prop up Western hegemony.
An international order that relies on this kind of violence must be dismantled and replaced.
[Find the web link for this article in the comments]
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Dr. Jason Hickel is a Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB), Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is the author of The Divide and Less is More.
Dylan Sullivan is an Adjunct Fellow in the School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University
Omer Tayyab is an Ecological Economist at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB), Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Here is one of the more damning ones relating to Mossad
https://www.justice.gov/.../DataSet%209/EFTA00090314.pdf
Fb Post. 1/30/26.
If even half the stuff is true in the Epstein files, it just further confirms what we should all already know: we are being ruled by psychopaths that justify murdering millions for corporate profit, and consequently have no sense of decency, empathy, morality or conscience, and thus there is no limit to the depth of their depravity.
This is precisely what capitalist-imperialist-slavemaster-fascism always promised. If one has paid attention to their war crimes & genocides, none of the Epstein files should be too shocking.
Govt Link to key referenced docs:
On babies allegedly being dismembered:
https://www.justice.gov/.../DataSet%209/EFTA00147661.pdf
On Hollywood Elite Peggy Siegal bringing babies from Africa for Epstein:
https://www.justice.gov/.../DataSet%2011/EFTA02433105.pdf
Additional source images here.
FB Post. 1/30/26.
Holy fkn shit. Trump is “compromised by Israel” & his right wing zionist son in law Jared Kushner is the brains behind the throne, so to speak. This should deeply undermine the Trump Regime. Good. And this is reported in public US Govt documents released under the mandated Epstein files disclosure.
https://www.justice.gov/.../DataSet%209/EFTA00090314.pdf
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