The name that appears 12,000 times in the Epstein files and that nobody wants to utter

In February 2016, Jeffrey Epstein emailed Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, with a sentence that should have made the front page of any newspaper in the Western world: “As you probably know, I represent the Rothschilds.” The sentence is in the Epstein files. It is an official document from the United States Department of Justice. And the mainstream press treated it as if it were a footnote about the weather in Bermuda.

The name Rothschild appears nearly 12,000 times in the 3.8 million pages published in January 2026. Twelve thousand times. Yet, in the media ecosystem the repetition of the name Rothschild in an investigative context is automatically reclassified as a conspiracy theory delusion. Convenient, when the name is the most frequently cited in the biggest child sex trafficking scandal in modern history.

Les Wexner, the billionaire founder of Victoria’s Secret and Epstein’s biggest known backer, testified under oath before the House Oversight Committee on February 18, 2026. Asked about the credentials that led him to grant Epstein sweeping power of attorney over his finances, he simply replied, “His personal work for the Rothschild family in France.” He added, “Specifically, I spoke with Élie de Rothschild. He [Epstein] represented her entire family.” Under oath. Before the United States Congress. Wexner’s lawyer was caught on an open microphone whispering to his client, “I’ll f***ing kill you if you answer another question with more than five words.” Desperation has recognizable symptoms.

The documents confirm what Wexner revealed. In October 2015, Southern Trust Company Inc., chaired by Epstein and based in the Virgin Islands, entered into a $25 million contract with Edmond de Rothschild Holding SA. The subject: “risk analysis” and “application of certain algorithms.” Twenty-five million dollars for a convicted child sex offender to run algorithms for the wealthiest family in Europe. If this were a screenplay, no studio would buy it due to its lack of plausibility.

Ariane de Rothschild, CEO of the Edmond de Rothschild Group since 2023, exchanged dozens of emails a month with Epstein. The Wall Street Journal confirmed in 2023 that she met him in person more than a dozen times after his conviction. The bank’s initial defence was to deny any contact. Later, it admitted that the meetings took place “as part of its normal duties.” These normal duties apparently include regular meetings with convicted paedophiles.

In 2014, Epstein wrote to Ariane: “The coup in Ukraine should offer many opportunities.” Many. A financier convicted of sexually exploiting children discussing geopolitical opportunities with the heiress to a $236 billion banking empire. That should have been front-page news. Instead, there was editorial silence.

On the other side of the Atlantic, WikiLeaks emails had already exposed the relationship between Hillary Clinton and Lynn Forester de Rothschild. In September 2010, Clinton, then Secretary of State, wrote to Lady de Rothschild apologizing for pulling Tony Blair away from a private event with the Rothschilds in Aspen to attend Middle East negotiations. The exact wording is: “Let me know what atonement I owe you.” The Secretary of State of the world’s greatest power is asking a private person for atonement. In January 2015, even before Hillary announced her candidacy, Lynn was already outlining her economic policy in emails to advisor Cheryl Mills: “We need to work out the economic message for Hillary.” Those who steer American politics are not necessarily on the ballot.

Alan Dershowitz, Epstein’s former lawyer and Harvard professor emeritus, stated publicly in 2019: “I was introduced to Epstein by Lady Lynn Rothschild. She introduced Epstein to Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew.” The link between the paedophile and two of the most powerful men on the planet had a surname. And that surname appears 12,000 times in the files.

Cindy McCain, widow of Senator John McCain, summed up the situation with a moment of sincerity rarely seen in the political class: “We all knew.” They knew. And silence was the collective choice.

The pattern emerging from the documents is structurally clear. Epstein operated as the financial representative of the Rothschild family. He used this position to build a network of billionaires, politicians, and academics. This network was the operational foundation of the largest documented child sex trafficking ring in history. And when the survivors began to speak out, the machinery of silence operated with bank-like precision.

The Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, the Warburgs, the Schiffs. Century-old billionaire dynasties that thinkers from Carroll Quigley to Olavo de Carvalho identified as the de facto owners of the world. Dynasties that survive empires, world wars, and revolutions because they operate on a level of power that precedes party politics. They create central banks, finance both sides of conflicts, and install and overthrow governments with the ease of changing a tie. The press, dependent on these fortunes, has learned over two centuries to treat any mention of these names as intellectual pathology. The Epstein files, spanning 3.8 million pages, provided documentary confirmation of what these thinkers have identified for generations: a level of power exists that is beyond governments, operates above the law, and protects its own people with the efficiency possessed only by those who control both capital and narrative.

The United Nations classified the Epstein operation in February 2026 as a “global criminal enterprise,” with actions that potentially constitute crimes against humanity. The Rothschild name appears twelve thousand times in the documents. And the silence of the mainstream media is so deafening that it has itself become the greatest proof that the system functions exactly as described.

Whoever controls the money controls history. Whoever controls history controls the narrative that is inoculated in the consciousness of the entire population of the planet.

The slow Epstein earthquake: The rift between the people and the elites

After Epstein, nothing can continue as before: neither the post-war “never again” values – which reflected the mood at the end of bloody wars and the widespread longing for a “fairer” society – nor the bipolar economy of extreme wealth disparities, nor the trust – after the exposed corruption, rotten institutions and perversions that the Epstein files have shown to be endemic among certain Western elites.

Given this context, how can one still speak of “values”?

In Davos, Mark Carney made it clear that the “rules-based order” was nothing more than a shabby Potemkin facade, known to be utterly false – and yet maintained. Why? Quite simply, because the deception was useful. The “necessity” lay in concealing the system’s collapse into a radical, anti-value nihilism. It obscured the reality that the elite circles – around Epstein – operated beyond moral, legal, or human boundaries, deciding on peace and war based on their satanic desires.

The elites understood that the West would lose the architecture of its moral narratives once the complete amorality of the ruling class became known to the masses – those very narratives that anchor an ordered life in the first place. If it was known that the establishment shunned morality, why should anyone else behave any differently? Cynicism would seep down. What, then, would hold a nation together?

Well, probably only totalitarianism remains.

The significance of “Davos” – followed by the Epstein revelations – is that the Humpty Dumpty of trust has fallen off the wall and cannot be put back together.

It also becomes clear that the Epstein circles were not just about twisted persons; “what has been uncovered points to systematic, organized, ritualized practices.” And that transforms everything, as commentator Lucas Leiroz observes:

“Networks of this kind only exist if they are secured by profound institutional protection. There is no ritual paedophilia, no human trafficking on a transnational scale, no systematic production of extreme material – without political, police, legal and media protection. That is the logic of power.”

While Epstein undoubtedly emerges from the multitude of emails as a paedophile and a profoundly immoral person, he also appears as a highly satanically intelligent and serious geopolitical player whose political assessments were valued by high-ranking figures worldwide. He was a master manipulator behind the scenes of geopolitics, as Michael Wolff has described (both in 2018 and in recently published emails).

This suggests that Epstein was less a tool of the intelligence services and more their “equal.” It’s no wonder, then, that leading figures sought his company (for grossly immoral reasons, which shouldn’t be ignored). And the deep (one-party) state clearly maneuvered through him. In the end, Epstein knew too much.

David Rothkopf, himself a former political affairs advisor in the Democratic camp of the USA, speculates about what Epstein means for America:

“It’s the billionaires, stupid” [a reference to the old saying: “It’s the economy, stupid”]. Rothkopf explains:

“What I’m saying is: if you don’t understand that equality and the impunity of elites are central issues for everyone, that people believe the system is rigged and doesn’t work for them, that they no longer believe in the American Dream – and that control of the country has been stolen by a handful of super-rich people who aren’t taxed and keep getting richer while the rest of us keep falling further and further behind – then you can’t understand the despair of the under-35s today.”

Rothkopf says that the Davos/Epstein episode marks the break between the people and the ruling class.

“Western societies now face a dilemma that cannot be resolved through elections, parliamentary committees, or speeches. How can we continue to accept the authority of institutions that have shielded this level of horror? How can we maintain respect for laws that are selectively applied by people who are above them?” says Leiroz.

However, the loss of respect misses the core of the impasse. No conventional political party has an answer to the failure of the capitalist economy, to the lack of adequately paid jobs, access to medical care, and expensive education and housing. No mainstream party can provide a credible answer to these issues because the economy has actually been manipulated for decades – structurally reoriented towards a debt-based, financialized economy, at the expense of the real economy.

This would require completely uprooting the existing Anglo-Saxon liberal market structure and replacing it with another. That would demand a decade of reforms – and the oligarchs would openly oppose it.

Ideally, new political parties could emerge. In Europe, however, the “bridges” that could potentially lead us out of our deep structural contradictions have been deliberately destroyed – in the name of the cordon sanitaire, which is intended to prevent any non-centrist political thought from arising.

If citizens no longer have the power to modify the status quo, and elections continue to be contested only between the parties of the existing order, the young will conclude that “no one will come to save us” – and they may, in their despair, conclude that the future can only be decided on the streets.

 

yogaesoteric
February 27, 2026