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Billionaires Behaving Badly & Other Lessons from the Epstein Story By Matthew Fox 11/15/2025 |
This week
the news has been filled with headlines such as these: “Trump’s Connection to Epstein much worse than we knew”; "Colombian President Petro Calls US Leaders ‘Clan of Pedophiles”; "White House In Panic Mode As New ‘Smoking Gun’ Emails Link Trump to Epstein”; “Trump Summons Boebert to Situation Room over Epstein”; “New Epstein Files Dump Incriminates Andrew While Epstein says Palace Wanted Giuffre Silenced”; “Statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Returns to D.C. After Newly
Launched Emails”; “The Epstein Affair Has Moved from Sleaze to a Crisis for American Democracy Itself”. |
It is no wonder. The revelation that a pedophile ring has been alive and well for decades that involved an English prince and an English “madam” who has sucked up to the second in charge at the DOJ and whom the American president has called a “good friend” and apparently ordered |
As the emerging Epstein emails send Republicans into a frenzy, the prancing statues of the felonious White House occupant and his pedophile friend reappear outside a DC café/bookstore. Photo by Joe Flood on Flickr. |
moved from a
prison to a cushy jail with preferential treatment. And whose star character was a “very good friend” of the president for at least 15 years—why wouldn’t that be headline fodder? In recent DMs I have shared some of the insights from Chuck Collins’ important book, Burned By Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power are Ruining Our Lives and Planet. The Epstein news adds a whole chapter to that book: how concentrated wealth and power can get away for years with covering up pedophilia committed by
some of the richest and most powerful men in the world. How powerful men from around the world ruin the lives of girls and young women, driving some to suicide. How they fight like hell from the White House itself (and the situation room there) to see that the truth does not get out. And how their supporters from
the power places of Congress and the Republican Party do the same (though that block seems to be splitting over this one issue). |
Congressman Robert Garcia (D-CA) joins Katie Phang, discussing the House Oversight Committee’s Epstein investigation, including depositions of Ghislaine Maxwell and Steve Bannon. | The truth of how many victims, how many girls and young women, were raped by the powerful billionaires of our day is emerging. And how the American president, in Epstein’s words, was “the dog who did not bark” and who surely “knew about the girls.” |
And how the
truth at hand brought down a prince of England and his ex-wife, and is rattling the very existence of the British monarchy. These same billionaires are among those who own over 85% of the media in our country. They have bought the Supreme Court and 60% of the politicians in the country. They are the ones who feel they
should not have to pay any income taxes, and so manipulate the laws that many do not do so. They are among those who set the agenda for a dying democracy. They whip up fervor against immigrants and fuel racial strife and class warfare, and cheer the sending of American troops into America’s
cities. |
And, apparently, they (not all, but too many) consider underage women and girls to be nothing but objects for their sexual satisfaction. And they fight like hell to prevent the facts from being told to the American public. |
As Congress prepares to vote on releasing the Epstein
files, survivors pledge, “When we vote, we will remember your decision at the ballot box.” MSNBC |
Do we really want men like these to set the agenda for our media? For our politics? For our schools and children? For our companies and businesses and government and Supreme Court? And make decisions about the future of our planet? About war and peace? About relations with other countries? |
Banner Image: Protest sign outside US District Courthouse, Washington DC, October 24th: “Which Pedophiles Would Jesus Protect, Mike?” Photo by Mike Licht on Flickr. |
Queries for Contemplation What lessons are you drawing from these latest revelations
about powerful people in very high places involved with and/or covering up a pedophilia ring in America? |
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