Harley Schlanger, a historian and national spokesman with expertise in the financial industry since the 1980s, offers insights through The LaRouche Organization, where followers can access his analyses on geopolitics and economics. The February 2026 edition of Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), titled "The Empire Has No Clothes! The End of Oligarchy, Not Just Epstein: LaRouche Was Right," exposes Jeffrey Epstein as a central operative in a trans-Atlantic oligarchic network designed to undermine sovereign nations through financial speculation, drug trade analogies, arms dealing, and blackmail via sexual exploitation, drawing parallels to historical empires and emphasizing Lyndon LaRouche's predictions in works like Dope, Inc. Key revelations include recent scandals such as U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's defense of "Western Civilization" at the Munich Security Conference amid leaks of Obama-era White House emails with Epstein, discussions of "torture videos" involving a Dubai magnate, documented falsehoods by Trump Cabinet members about Epstein island connections, Attorney General surveillance on Congress, and Deputy AG Todd Blanche's reluctance for new prosecutions; in the UK, a police raid on a former ambassador for leaking secrets to Epstein, resignations of Prime Minister Keir Starmer's chief of staff and Lord Peter Mandelson over Epstein ties and document leaks, and Prince Andrew's February 19, 2026, arrest for suspicious activities, potentially destabilizing the monarchy and government. The document details Epstein's financial ties, including over $200 million from Les Wexner (with power of attorney granted in 1991) and $158 million in fees plus a $30 million loan from Leon Black, funding operations involving figures like Ghislaine Maxwell (convicted on sex trafficking, serving 20 years), Robert Maxwell (Mossad/MI6-linked embezzler), Peter Thiel (AI and transhumanism investor), Ehud Barak, Bill Gates, Tony Blair, and Adnan Khashoggi through networks like junk bonds (Michael Milken's mob-connected empire), the Al-Yamamah arms deal, and post-2008 shifts to collateralized debt obligations, public-private partnerships, and tech ventures. Germany's censorship rules are anchored in the Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG) of 2017, which mandates that social media platforms with over 2 million users must remove or block "manifestly unlawful" content—such as hate speech, defamation, incitement to hatred, religious insults, or Holocaust denial—within 24 hours of a complaint, or face fines up to 50 million euros, with other unlawful content to be handled within seven days; these rules build on the German Criminal Code's strict provisions against incitement (Section 130) and insults, especially those targeting politicians under Section 188, which imposes harsher penalties (up to three years in prison) for defaming public figures compared to private individuals. These laws have drawn significant criticism for fostering over-censorship, where platforms err on the side of removing legal speech to avoid fines, with studies showing that 87.5% to 99.7% of deleted content in Germany and the EU is permissible under local laws, particularly on platforms like Facebook and YouTube. The regime enables political persecution through selective enforcement, such as home raids by police at dawn for online insults against politicians, account terminations, job losses, and surveillance by intelligence services, disproportionately targeting critics of government policies like COVID measures or immigration while ignoring similar offenses against opposition figures or unvaccinated individuals.
