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‘Brexit, Just the Beginning’

Jeffrey Epstein’s Crypto-Politics of Disruption

The network of ties between the late sex offender, Moscow, and Silicon Valley help explain not only the unexpected political developments in the West in recent years – but the role of ‘reinventing the financial system of the 21st Century’. Peter Jukes reports

A photo of Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein in the Epstein Files show the men were close

When Sputnik was launched by the USSR as the first satellite in 1957, the West was caught flat-footed by a moment of technical and cultural revolution which had gone largely undetected over the preceding decade.

In a 2013 email, Jeffrey Epstein used the Sputnik analogy with a senior Russian official.

He said that “the same can now happen with Russia taking the lead in finance” – arguing that, instead of merely copying Silicon Valley and chasing Microsoft, Apple, and Google, Russia could “leapfrog the global community by reinventing the financial system of the 21st century” through a new kind of money and securitisation.

The Devil’s Butler: How Jeffrey Epstein Used London to Hide in Plain Sight

The Epstein Files expose how the UK’s capital served as a playground and protector for the sex offender and his wealthy associates. Iain Overton reports
Iain Overton

‘The Potential for Manipulation is Huge’

Matt Gallagher reveals the sex offender’s links to the early rise of the online alt-right and the far-right conspiracy movements that would follow
Matt Gallagher