Did you know that Israel stopped providing a single change of clothes to Palestinian prisoners??? Ben Marmarelli talks about this. He is an Israeli lawyer. Palestinian prisoners are tortured and raped (even by dogs) and some of them are kids (Rachel Maddow showed a video of kids talking to each other in the detention centers). There are 3,000 in detention centers, not charged with anything. Some of them get scabies, a 17 year old died from scabies last year! They even keep their bodies and even steal their organs (Palestinian bodies were released in Gaza few months ago, they were missing organs and even corneas). Israel also has the audacity to declare a record breaking kidney transplants, during a genocide! I wonder how they got those kidneys. They traffick Palestinian kids to other countries to work. YOU SUPPORT ALL THIS!!!!!!!
Reminder that there are video tapes of wealthy men raping little girls on his island somewhere! I just read your article. You need to look into it more. Epstein files did need to be released... It is disgusting. The rich and wealthy all know each other; democrats and republicans alike. There are videos of Epstein chasing around little girls, one of them speaking German, and many Americans. He was even in Turkey. There is so much information. Epstein was connected to Lex Wexner and tons of rich people who supported Israel, called the Mega Group, who started the Birthright visits to Israel. He made sure to connect with rich and wealthy people, give them favors, try to take them to his island where they are filmed and could be compromised. I watched Drop Site news, Wally Rashid, and Mint Press news. He was close with Noam Chomsky. Ghislaine woman, she told them that they will get recommendations for their careers.. Even Meghan Markle is in there!!
Israel has killed 100,000s of civilians; shooting schools, hospitals, and killing tons of civilians everywhere; in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Syria. They are going after Cyprus and threatening Turkey every day!! This is terrorism on a global level! Israel is bribing our politicians and doing this. Epstein was great friends with a Noam Chomsky and even Dan Ariely, an Israeli professor from Duke University!! He made some comment about a red head in an email to Epstein. Biden destroyed Ukraine. He didn't keep the agreement he had with Russia.
I am so disappointed in you, Thomas, and in Democrats. A whole ethnic group is currently being genocided and you and everyone are silent about it!! Did you see pictures of Gaza??? Epstein was part of Mossad. He connected P*l*antir to this country, a company that helped with the genocide. There is a recording of him tellling Ehud Barak about the company. There are so many connections of ICE/Gaza and the companies supporting it (Palantir, Google, Amazon, Motorola, Microsoft Elbit - Mondoweiss Article). Gaza is being completely erased. Did you see pictures of Rafah??? Biden completely displaced 2.5 milllion people and killed tens of thousands of people and at the end of his term he was like oh yea we did carpetbombing. I am in disbelief. I will never support or vote for democrats ever again. Total lack of morals. This total silence and total lack of morality in politics is rampant in BOTH democrats and republicans. The whole silence of this country while people are being shot in broad daylight, their homes and possessions are being destroyed or stolen by our own tax dolllars!!!!!!! I saw the video of a 15 year old Palestinian boy who was shot in the spine and IDF soldiers waited around for 35 minutes taking photos of him waiting for him to die!!!! Are you proud of this???? This is where our tax dollars are going!!!! Anthony Aguilar is speaking out about it and he is running for office for the Green party. I watched a documentary called Tantura and there are Israelis talking about how they killed people, what they did. It disgusted me so much that our politicians are supporting a country/people that did this!! TOTAL LACK OF MORALS!!! I cannot even face or talk to people here. I feel total sadness and disbelief inside that people can totally disregard suffering of a whole group of people like this. Total silence. I am so disappointed, I am crying inside. I am completely anti zionist. Palestinians should have human rights and the right to live and exist. Islam is being blamed; not the 75 years of genocide/ displacement, carpet bombing, battle testing of weapons. Our politicians and non profits are supporting terrorism on a whole group of people. This is completely being ignored!!!!
I think your summary is exactly what I’ve thought. It’s disgusting what happened. Is it still happening? Certainly the elite who believe they can do anything is ongoing. It’s reassuring that most Americans are disgusted by this behavior.
I wish you hadn't have said they "didn't need to be released." That is not helpful. Even in context, it's too late and it doesn't need to be said by someone of your credibility.
Well done Thomas, expected no less. What is absolutely grotesque is the fact that these files lie in the hands of Trump's minions and the files will continue to be meted out to where it benefits them most,ie..The Clintons and more to come. That Trump has escaped the most damning revelations, so far suggests the files will be weaponized where they do him the most good. It hurts my heart that control lies with proven enemies of democracy.
Excellent article, as usual, Thomas. The last paragraph, though, confuses me, especially the last sentence. What is the group to which you refer in that sentence, the ones excluded. Are they the people who should be in the middle class but no longer can afford that level of consumption? That is unclear. Of course, when populism achieves critical mass, it typically is quite eager to see anyone they consider haughty or self-important as being all part of a group of their antagonists. Anyone who ain’t we is them!
Perhaps it is the many people who vote for populism in the form of left-wing populists like Bernie Sanders (still the most popular elected politician) or right-wing populism in the form of Trump (he did promise to take on the Swamp). The latter group are the same people in Florida who vote for Trump and for minimum wage increases.
This Epstein fiasco is in one word disgusting. In addition, it brings up an import point, which is fundamentally about impunity—the way wealth, connections, and institutional deference allowed a serial offender to avoid meaningful consequences for years. That’s not a partisan observation; it’s a systemic one.
The 2007 non‑prosecution agreement, the deference shown by prosecutors, and the social rehabilitation Epstein enjoyed afterward all demonstrate how differently the system treats people with resources compared to those without them.
Trump is a creature of the 80s and that ushered in the era of wealthy free for all bro culture that meant, be rich enough, you can rape and pillage all you like. And that is exactly what he has done and his ilk. The sick thing is, that there is no end in sight to the well-connected being punished. Its like White-collar crime, those guys never go to jail. So we have to decide as a nation, can be hold people accountable for their crimes like the Constitution and Justice systems promise.
Did you know that Israel stopped providing a single change of clothes to Palestinian prisoners??? Ben Marmarelli talks about this. He is an Israeli lawyer. Palestinian prisoners are tortured and raped (even by dogs) and some of them are kids (Rachel Maddow showed a video of kids talking to each other in the detention centers). There are 3,000 in detention centers, not charged with anything. Some of them get scabies, a 17 year old died from scabies last year! They even keep their bodies and even steal their organs (Palestinian bodies were released in Gaza few months ago, they were missing organs and even corneas). Israel also has the audacity to declare a record breaking kidney transplants, during a genocide! I wonder how they got those kidneys. They traffick Palestinian kids to other countries to work. YOU SUPPORT ALL THIS!!!!!!!
There are photos of Epstein with little kids!!!
Reminder that there are video tapes of wealthy men raping little girls on his island somewhere! I just read your article. You need to look into it more. Epstein files did need to be released... It is disgusting. The rich and wealthy all know each other; democrats and republicans alike. There are videos of Epstein chasing around little girls, one of them speaking German, and many Americans. He was even in Turkey. There is so much information. Epstein was connected to Lex Wexner and tons of rich people who supported Israel, called the Mega Group, who started the Birthright visits to Israel. He made sure to connect with rich and wealthy people, give them favors, try to take them to his island where they are filmed and could be compromised. I watched Drop Site news, Wally Rashid, and Mint Press news. He was close with Noam Chomsky. Ghislaine woman, she told them that they will get recommendations for their careers.. Even Meghan Markle is in there!!
Israel has killed 100,000s of civilians; shooting schools, hospitals, and killing tons of civilians everywhere; in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Syria. They are going after Cyprus and threatening Turkey every day!! This is terrorism on a global level! Israel is bribing our politicians and doing this. Epstein was great friends with a Noam Chomsky and even Dan Ariely, an Israeli professor from Duke University!! He made some comment about a red head in an email to Epstein. Biden destroyed Ukraine. He didn't keep the agreement he had with Russia.
I am so disappointed in you, Thomas, and in Democrats. A whole ethnic group is currently being genocided and you and everyone are silent about it!! Did you see pictures of Gaza??? Epstein was part of Mossad. He connected P*l*antir to this country, a company that helped with the genocide. There is a recording of him tellling Ehud Barak about the company. There are so many connections of ICE/Gaza and the companies supporting it (Palantir, Google, Amazon, Motorola, Microsoft Elbit - Mondoweiss Article). Gaza is being completely erased. Did you see pictures of Rafah??? Biden completely displaced 2.5 milllion people and killed tens of thousands of people and at the end of his term he was like oh yea we did carpetbombing. I am in disbelief. I will never support or vote for democrats ever again. Total lack of morals. This total silence and total lack of morality in politics is rampant in BOTH democrats and republicans. The whole silence of this country while people are being shot in broad daylight, their homes and possessions are being destroyed or stolen by our own tax dolllars!!!!!!! I saw the video of a 15 year old Palestinian boy who was shot in the spine and IDF soldiers waited around for 35 minutes taking photos of him waiting for him to die!!!! Are you proud of this???? This is where our tax dollars are going!!!! Anthony Aguilar is speaking out about it and he is running for office for the Green party. I watched a documentary called Tantura and there are Israelis talking about how they killed people, what they did. It disgusted me so much that our politicians are supporting a country/people that did this!! TOTAL LACK OF MORALS!!! I cannot even face or talk to people here. I feel total sadness and disbelief inside that people can totally disregard suffering of a whole group of people like this. Total silence. I am so disappointed, I am crying inside. I am completely anti zionist. Palestinians should have human rights and the right to live and exist. Islam is being blamed; not the 75 years of genocide/ displacement, carpet bombing, battle testing of weapons. Our politicians and non profits are supporting terrorism on a whole group of people. This is completely being ignored!!!!
I think your summary is exactly what I’ve thought. It’s disgusting what happened. Is it still happening? Certainly the elite who believe they can do anything is ongoing. It’s reassuring that most Americans are disgusted by this behavior.
I wish you hadn't have said they "didn't need to be released." That is not helpful. Even in context, it's too late and it doesn't need to be said by someone of your credibility.
Thomas your assessment is accurate
Jeffrey Epstein didn’t break the system; he was the system’s logic taken to its ultimate, depraved conclusion. Read more: https://thesystemdispatch.substack.com/p/the-island-is-not-an-anomaly
Well done Thomas, expected no less. What is absolutely grotesque is the fact that these files lie in the hands of Trump's minions and the files will continue to be meted out to where it benefits them most,ie..The Clintons and more to come. That Trump has escaped the most damning revelations, so far suggests the files will be weaponized where they do him the most good. It hurts my heart that control lies with proven enemies of democracy.
Excellent article, as usual, Thomas. The last paragraph, though, confuses me, especially the last sentence. What is the group to which you refer in that sentence, the ones excluded. Are they the people who should be in the middle class but no longer can afford that level of consumption? That is unclear. Of course, when populism achieves critical mass, it typically is quite eager to see anyone they consider haughty or self-important as being all part of a group of their antagonists. Anyone who ain’t we is them!
Perhaps it is the many people who vote for populism in the form of left-wing populists like Bernie Sanders (still the most popular elected politician) or right-wing populism in the form of Trump (he did promise to take on the Swamp). The latter group are the same people in Florida who vote for Trump and for minimum wage increases.
This Epstein fiasco is in one word disgusting. In addition, it brings up an import point, which is fundamentally about impunity—the way wealth, connections, and institutional deference allowed a serial offender to avoid meaningful consequences for years. That’s not a partisan observation; it’s a systemic one.
The 2007 non‑prosecution agreement, the deference shown by prosecutors, and the social rehabilitation Epstein enjoyed afterward all demonstrate how differently the system treats people with resources compared to those without them.
Trump is a creature of the 80s and that ushered in the era of wealthy free for all bro culture that meant, be rich enough, you can rape and pillage all you like. And that is exactly what he has done and his ilk. The sick thing is, that there is no end in sight to the well-connected being punished. Its like White-collar crime, those guys never go to jail. So we have to decide as a nation, can be hold people accountable for their crimes like the Constitution and Justice systems promise.
Interesting you frame it as the "populism that's descended" rather than the (too slow) reaction to rules by oligarchy or corporatocracy being imposed.
Best, coherent analysis of enabling power over girls and women. Surely more than one man should go to jail.
Ironically, the only one in jail for this is a woman, right? Figures.