THE OTHER SIDE OF EPSTEIN - FRON RT

 

The Epstein-Israel link nobody wants you to take seriously

While trafficking young girls, he was also part of an effort to export military-grade systems to governments around the world

By Rachel Marsden, a columnist, political strategist, and host of independently produced talk-shows in French and English.

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When I first moved to New York, I walked into my new dentist’s office and genuinely wondered whether I’d accidentally wandered into a Victoria’s Secret audition.

The waiting room was full of stunning young women. Eventually I learned the dentist shared space with a modeling agency. You couldn’t tell who was getting veneers and who was getting a contract until you were halfway down the hallway.

Jeffrey Epstein’s life operated on the same architectural principle: two businesses shoved into one building, one involving underaged girls, the other involving powerful political figures, including some tied to the Israeli government. Not exactly whitening trays and catwalks, but equally disorienting.

Epstein’s whole operation was like a perverted crossover episode of “Law & Order” meets “House of Cards.” The salacious half got all the airtime, but the geopolitical part seems to have largely ended up on the cutting room floor.

Jeremy Scahill’s Dropsite News recently published inbox receipts showing that in 2006 Epstein teamed up with lawyer Alan Dershowitz to smack down “The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy,” by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. Dershowitz wrote the rebuttal, “Debunking the Newest – and Oldest – Jewish Conspiracy,” and Epstein blasted it out to his rich and powerful pals. Perhaps a little light reading en route to Epstein island or while being rubbed down by a member of Epstein’s harem.

The moment anyone points out that a certain foreign government might be exercising influence, there’s always someone who starts shouting about bigotry. Because apparently some nations think that criticism of their foreign policy is like a trap door in one of those Indiana Jones movies, capable of sparking a chain reaction that can bring the whole thing crashing down.

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Epstein’s connections to Israel have been whispered about for years. His right-hand woman Ghislaine Maxwell, currently a guest at Uncle Sam’s big house, is the daughter of Robert Maxwell, a Brit whose résumé included business tycoon, media mogul, and all-around establishment leechlord with enough Israeli intelligence ties to qualify for a final permanent nap there. His mysterious death at sea came with a Jerusalem memorial service and a burial on the Mount of Olives. Was London fully booked that weekend?

Then there was Epstein’s friendship with former Israeli prime minister and defense minister Ehud Barak. The two worked together to export Israeli cyberwarfare tools disguised as tech and security startups, including to Washington – which is either in on the notion of having Israeli tech spy on Americans for them, or too stupid to realize the difference between being sold an aromatherapy diffuser or a flamethrower.

Recently released emails show that Epstein also arranged meetings between Israel and Russian officials during the war in Syria. But officially, there’s absolutely nothing suspicious in any of this. Unless it’s Russian interference that you’re criticizing in that case, then you’re probably just a bigot.

But Epstein-style offensive and defensive influence efforts, investments in which have recently been promoted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, are hardly exclusive to America.

The Eurovision Song Contest is the latest institution to enter an Israeli-sponsored Twilight Zone episode. Euronews recently asked: “What are Eurovision’s new voting rules following allegations of Israeli government ‘interference’?” Because apparently even Europe’s annual tune and tranny extravaganza now needs election observers.

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Meanwhile, more concrete political influence is happening offstage. NBC News has highlighted the “close relationship” between Israeli secret services and the Iranian opposition in exile in Europe, also known as the MEK. The MEK’s biggest Western fans include Israel’s pep squad: Rudy Giuliani, John Bolton, and Mike Pompeo. Thanks to their efforts, the MEK is now off the US and EU terrorist list, allowing them to be queued up for the first string tug in any future Iranian regime change efforts.

Here’s what an actual attempt at independence looks like these days for Europe. Back in September, the EU announced that it was finally getting tough on Israel over Gaza. “Queen” Ursula von der Leyen strutted out acting like she’d just personally unplugged the Iron Dome. But then you check the numbers: six million euros cut here, fourteen million paused there. Brussels spends more than that on pastries and lanyards for conferences.

European officials acted like it was a seismic economic event. In reality, it was more like a breeze, with sanctions barely making a ripple. The major EU-Israel trade deal is still in place, but “under review,” which in bureaucrat-speak just means that they hope everyone’s forgotten it by now.

Israel’s response was to accuse the EU of falling for Hamas propaganda and overlooking Israeli humanitarian efforts in Gaza. That’s the diplomatic equivalent of saying, “Yes, I knocked down your house with a bulldozer, but I also watered your plants, so let’s not be too dramatic.”

A big song and dance worthy of a Eurovision entry. All a distraction from the fact that the EU’s main connection to Israel is weapons. Half of Israel’s total defense exports. Israeli defense giants like Elbit and Rafael even run factories inside Europe and recently won a contract to supply electronic warfare systems for new NATO frigates.

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So while EU officials brag about trimming a few symbolic programs, protesters across Europe have been targeting the real levers of foreign power at home: the weapons industry. Elbit in Germany has been vandalized and its subsidiaries picketed while officials blow off activists’ concerns like teenagers being told to clean their room.

Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz even recently announced a visit to Israel while lifting an arms embargo altogether. Nothing says moral outrage quite like trading in missiles.

So Queen Ursula can keep declaring that the EU is “pressuring” Israel. But as long as they keep signing weapons contracts, the pressure campaign has about the same impact as stapling a strongly worded memo to a tank.

While Epstein was trafficking young girls, he was part of an effort to export Israeli-linked military-grade systems to governments around the world – a once-submerged iceberg that’s now coming into fuller view. He actively worked to undermine anyone who dared suggest any such insidiousness, portraying them as conspiratorial crackpots worthy of cancellation and marginalization from polite society.

So who gets to actually ask the hard questions about all this, then? No one?

If everyone who does is written off as prejudiced, and the establishment and its corrupt self-interests get to decide what questions can be asked, then the only freedom and sovereignty left – from America to the EU and beyond – risks being the kind that’s reduced to a quaint museum display case.

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.

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THE JFK ASSASSINATION - WHITEWASHING AS EASY AS ABC-TV

I watched the 2-hour special Monday night (24 Nov 2025) and was shocked. This was a rehash of the type of special one would have seen in 1964 to bolster the Warren Commission, and repeated every decade or so with Dan Rather and other big names in the news to reassure us that the Warren Commission was correct, the magic bullet went through Kennedy's back/shoulder and out of his throat, thence to wound Texas Gov. Connally in various places, and emerge almost like new. Well, here they go again. Perhaps they are counting on many young viewers have no real knowledge of the events of 1963, so they cannot question the "information provided' on the program. 

     I am 87, a year older than Lee Oswald. My memory is not as sharp as before. But I sat fuming at the program. For example, on Oswald's background, it points out that he attended 20 different schools growing up, showing an unstable youth. However, when the young Oswald, who was born in New Orleans, returned, he attended P T G Beauregard Junion High 1952-1954. If he had problems adjusting, so did everyone else, as the School Board that year decided to integrate both junion and senior highs. I am not speaking of racial integration, that was clearly illegal in Louisiana and throughout the Solid South, but mixing boys and girls in the same schools, including high schools and the newly established junior highs. The previous system K-8, and the sexually divided high schools 9-12th grades ceased; replaced by K-6, 7-9, 10-12, all co-ed. Oswald did well enough to graduate from Beauregard in 2 years in 1954. Also important to his development, he joined the Civil Air Patrol, headed by a charismatic man, David Ferrie.

    I never met Ferrie, but I had a roommate who had had problems as a youth. Although I attended Tulane U., and he was a student at Loyola U. of the South, we met in the late 1950s at an intercollegiate interracial gathering at Loyola. I barely knew him, and he never looked me in the eye when conversing, so I assumed he was not interested in what I was saying. We both attended a CORE training institute in Miami in August 1960, where one day our teacher was Jackie Robinson, another day, Martin Luther King. It was only when we roomed together back in New Orleans did I discover that he was legally blind. No wonder he did not look people in the eyes, he probably was lucky to see the who person.  He told me he was on the path to becoming a juvenile delinquent, but the CAP and David Ferrie saved him, pushed him to return to school, gave him hope, etc. If Ferry could perform miracles with my roommate, perhaps he could do the same with Oswald. Ferry was gay, but my roommate was strictly straight. I suspect he may have done the same for Oswald. At any rate, Oswald did not want to continue to Warren Easton Senior High, but would continue his education elsewhere; he got his mom to sign papers so he could enlist in the Marines at 17. Some talk about Oswald as pro-communist as a youth. Are Communists anxious to enlist in the Marines at 17? By the way, Beauregard was the officer honored to give the command to CSA troops to fire on Fort Sumpter and start the American Civil War. After graduation from Loyola, my former roommate went off to Laos in the early 1960s with the US AID. He returned to NO, married and had 2 children, and led in many ways to improve the opportunities for the blind and handicapped. A university building is now named for him.  Meanwhile, Oswald ended in Japan working around the secret U2 flights. Ferrie was a very conservative patriot, and would clearly influence the youths in the CAP. Ferrie was a good pilot, and somehow involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion. He was furious when Pres. Kennedy failed to come to the rescue of the invaders, and later, in a speech, I think at Springhill college on the Mississippi coast, declared that Pres. Kennedy "should be shot." He lost is job as an airline pilot on a morals charge, but Car;ps Marcello and the Mafia also called upon Ferrie. Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy's crusade against crime, led him to deport important New Orleans Mafia leader Carlos Marcello, and apparently left him in Guatemala in a jungle, wearing his expensive shoes. Some allege that Rob Kennedy hoped that Marcello would die.  Marcello survived however, reached civilization, and got Ferrie to come and fly him back into the US. 

     When Oswald defected to the Soviet Union, was it real? Or was he still a Marine, doing secret work? After a few years, he wanted out of the USSR, and had no troubles with American authorities in returning.. True, he had a dishonorable discharge from the Marines, but if the Marines were to send other undercovers to the Soviets, perhaps that was a way to keep the pretense going. 

     When Oswald returns to the US, and then to NO in 1963, who does he hang out with? The super anti-communist Guy Banister. Banister's office is where the pro-Castro leaflets, handed out by Oswald on the streets of NO, are stored; the address of the building is used on the Hand Off Cuba leaflets. Some say Oswald was seen at the CIA training center north of Lake Pontchartrain, where the Cuban refugees were preparing for a new and hopefully successful Bay of Pigs invasion to liberate Cuba. Pres. Kennedy was inching toward a rapprochement with the Communists and did not want another Bay of Pigs. But could he count on his head of CIA to close the camp? No! JFK needed someone he trusted to shutter the CIA camp; his brother Robert, Atty. Gen., was also in charge of the FBI. He got the FBI to close the CIA training camp in July 1963.  Some said, this act by the President sealed his fate.  It meant he was not interested in liberating Cuba, or standing up against the communists elsewhere, or so it seemed to many conservatives.

       Why was anti-com Banister working with Oswald to print and distribute Fair Play for Cuba leaflets and that pro-Castro organization? Perhaps Oswald was being prepared to appear as a communist, or surely a Marxist.  And with this new appearance, perhaps he was to assassinate someone, maybe like Fidel or another prominent figure! In September 1963 Oswald is in Mexico City trying to get into Cuba, making anti-Kennedy statements. But, it did not work; they did not let him in. MORE LATER

     If the now identified "Marxist" Lee Oswald could not get into Cuba or back into the USSR, what could he do for the cause? On 9 November 1963 anti-com Joseph Milteer was recorded on a wire by FBI undercover Willie Somersett, a childhood friend of Milteer.  Milteer assured his friend that it was all set up, someone from a tall building would shoot the President, and they had a stooge who would quickly be arrested and blamed, while the real assassins could get away.  Milteer added that people in Miami, New Orleans, and California were in on the action.  One can hear this recoded conversation on YouTube.  Was Oswald's new mission to be unbeknownst to him, a patsy?

       More on the ABC program; basically they declare what others call the magic bullet to be what really happened - Oswald shoots Kennedy's upper back, the bullet exits his neck, and then goes on to wound Gov. Connally in many places, and emerges almost like new. 

    In the late 1960s I was teaching at a university and had time between classes, time which I used to attend sessions of the DA Garrison trial against NO businessman Clay Shaw.  One day a doctor from the Bethesda Naval Hospital, one of the doctors who performed the autopsy on Pres. Kennedy.  He was questioned under oath.  Dr. Pierre Finck asserted he was beginning to probe the path of the bullet that entered the President's back, and which according to the official line must exit his throat and the go on to do damage to Connally, - this is a crucial probe.  Dr. Finck began, but then he related he was ordered to stop.  Who ordered that.  I don't know as there were many Admirals and Generals in the room.  Thus, with that answer of Dr. Finck, two important facts emerge.  One - the entire picture of the media, and the government, and the Warren Commission of one gunman shooting from behind the President WAS NOT CONFIRMED in the autopsy.  Recall, the physician in Dallas thought the neck wound was an entry wound, not an exit wound.  Two - Finck's reply  makes clear who was in charge of the proceedings, not the doctors but the military.  Moreover, some photos show a large part of the back of Kennedy's head being broken off, indicating a shot from the front.  Some allege there were fake photos showing a smaller back head wound.

    Garrison failed to convict Shaw, and had I been on the jury, I too would have voted not guilty.  But New Orleans Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison did expose how the government united to destroy his expose of the fraudulent conclusions of the Warren Report.  Governors refused to let subpoenaed witnesses come to NO for trial.  National magazines carried many stories belittling his case.  Only in the 1990s with Oliver Stone's provocative film "JFK" did the opponents of the official conclusion get a fair hearing, and viewing.  I don't recall enough of the ABC program to add more criticism to my post.  The ABC Special sought to put Humpty Dumpty back together again, but too much has been exposed for that to be successful at this late date. 

   I hope the Trump Administration will finally open all the files so we can see if the government told the truth to the American people, or simply lied, and lied, and lied.

     Hugh Murray

 

ANOTHER ANNIVERSARY OF THE MURDER OF JFK APPROACHES, WILL THEY EVER OPEN IT ALL UP?

(I posted other pieces on JFK's murder and the atmosphere in New Orleans, my home town, and the home town of Lee Oswald.  In my forthcoming book, I will discuss the topic again. From my perspective, in 1963 why was Oswald handing out pro-Castro leaflets, that were stored in the offices of staunch anti-Communist Guy Banister?  Whey were they often seen together that summer?  And, if Trump is accurate, what was the anti-Castro Cuban refugee, father of conservative Texas Senator Ted Cruz, doing handing out the pro-Castro leaflets with Oswald? ---Hugh Murray)  

THE STORY BELOW COMES FROM RT 

 CIA ‘boasted’ about tricking Congress in JFK probe – Axios

The US spy agency misled congressional investigators about John F. Kennedy’s alleged assassin, according to a whistleblower cited by the outlet

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CIA officials misled the US Congress about the movements of the man accused of killing President John F. Kennedy shortly before the assassination and boasted about doing so, Axios has reported, citing former CIA-State Department historian turned whistleblower Thomas Pearcy.

For decades, activists and researchers have demanded full disclosure of all records related to Kennedy’s killing on November 22, 1963. Many have questioned whether Lee Harvey Oswald, the man charged with the murder, acted alone or was even responsible.

The still-classified document described by Pearcy – in a CIA inspector general’s report – allegedly shows how intelligence officials “routinely have covered up facts and records” about Kennedy’s assassination.

According to the whistleblower, the report functioned as a CIA damage assessment examining how the agency’s reputation had been affected by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), which reopened the JFK investigation in the late 1970s.

READ MORE: Russia hands over its JFK assassination files to US lawmaker

Pearcy said the file included a 1978 memo in which a CIA officer bragged that he and two colleagues misled HSCA chief counsel Robert Blakey by presenting him with sanitized versions of the Mexico City Station files connected to Oswald. The investigation eventually ruled that JFK was “probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy” though it could not identify who else might have been involved.

Oswald allegedly visited Mexico City in late September 1963, seeking visas from the Cuban Consulate and the Soviet Embassy that would allow him to travel to Cuba and potentially on to the USSR. He was monitored by US intelligence because both missions were under routine CIA surveillance.

The historian said that he found the report by accident in 2009 while working in a secure CIA room. He also recalled seeing references to photos, cameras, and possibly film labeled “Oswald in Mexico,” despite the CIA’s longstanding denial that such material exists.

READ MORE: White House releases JFK assassination files

Researchers are now pressing the agency to release the document as the 62nd anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination approaches, Axios said. A CIA spokesperson told the outlet the agency would attempt to locate the report.

After taking office, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order for full disclosure of JFK files.

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I AM SURPRISED BY THIS ARTICLE FROM RT. YOU MIGHT FIND IT INTERESTING TOO.

 I have not resided in, or even visited New York City in many years.  However, every

American knows of the city, and its recent election, which to some extent became candidate Mamdani vs. Pres. Trump.  When young, I was on the Left, but I voted for Trump for President in 2016m, 2020, and 2024.  Were I living in NYC last week, I would have voted for the Republican candidate, Curtis Sliwa, who received a mere 7% of the vote.  Hugh Murray.  The RT article follows below.

Russian communists hail victory of ‘partner’ Mamdani

The socialist candidate won New York’s mayoral race despite resistance from Trump and tepid Democratic backing

Zohran Mamdani at the Brooklyn Paramount in New York City, November 4, 2025. ©  Spencer Platt / Getty Images

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is viewed as a potential “partner” by the Communist Party of Russia (KPRF), its deputy chairman has said.

Speaking to Kommersant on Thursday, MP Leonid Kalashnikov said Mamdani’s proposals to increase taxes on the wealthy closely resemble policies advocated by the party.

“He is indeed a communist in some respects, even though his movement is called the Democratic Socialists of America,” Kalashnikov remarked. Russian communists will observe Mamdani’s actual governance before forming a final opinion, he added.

Kalashnikov noted that both groups are linked through their association with the Sao Paulo Forum, a South American coalition of left-wing anti-imperialist parties, which, he said, makes Mamdani “our partner.”

Mamdani’s victory this week in the heavily Democratic city came despite fierce opposition from conservatives and little enthusiasm from mainstream Democrats. President Donald Trump branded him a “communist lunatic,” predicting that his policies would push New Yorkers to flee the city for Miami.

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 People will ‘flee communism’ in NYC – Trump

Trump publicly endorsed Mamdani’s rival, former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent after failing to secure the Democratic nomination during the primary election in June.

While Mamdani rejects the communist label, his platform emphasized reforms aimed at easing New York’s cost-of-living crisis, including rent freezes, fare-free public transport, and other social programs.

The 34-year-old Muslim politician of Indian descent faced lukewarm support from the Democratic establishment. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who represents the state of New York, withheld his endorsement, while New York State Democratic Party chair Jay Jacobs and other figures openly opposed Mamdani’s candidacy. Some observers suggested that the tepid reception was due to his criticisms of Israel rather than socialist ideas.

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