Al Jazeera

The reporting we cite

24 stories, each opening at its source.

• Al Jazeera — Hickel, Sullivan & Tayyab summarize the study (the accessible write-up)
• Al Jazeera — Epstein's extensive contact with senior Barak aide and military-intelligence officer Yoni Koren
• Al Jazeera — five takeaways from the report on two decades of Trump's taxes
• Al Jazeera — Ban Ki-moon sorry for UN role in Haiti cholera epidemic (Dec 2016; no legal responsibility accepted)
• Al Jazeera — 'How Donald Trump shifted on releasing the Epstein files' (Nov 18, 2025)
• Al Jazeera — Marc Owen Jones, 'The Qatar Plot: How a covert influence campaign helped Europe's far right' (Jul 24, 2024)
• Al Jazeera — 'Macklemore dropped from Ed Sheeran tour following Palestine advocacy'
• Al Jazeera — U.S. Senate fails to advance War Powers measure to rein in Trump’s war with Iran (Mar 4, 2026)
• Al Jazeera — U.S. Senate votes on subsequent War Powers measure, bucking Trump (Jun 23, 2026)
• Al Jazeera — UN ordered to compensate whistleblower (the 'appalling' finding; the 1-in-343 record)
• Al Jazeera, How the billionaire enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s rise (February 19, 2026) — primary-document reconstruction from the DOJ release
• FDD's direct policy influence on the Trump Iran team — Al Jazeera (May 2026)
• Al Jazeera — German ex-spy chief arrested for treason: what we know
• Al Jazeera — 'US Department of Justice releases 3 million new Epstein files' (Jan 30, 2026)
• Al Jazeera, What were Jeffrey Epstein’s links to Israel? (February 10, 2026)
• Al Jazeera — US-trained cartel terrorises Mexico (Nov 3, 2010) — Lt. Col. Craig Deare on the record confirming GAFE training at Fort Bragg
• Al Jazeera — 'Senate Democrat's report says major banks looked the other way on Epstein' (Aug 4, 2026)
• Al Jazeera — NAZA, Israeli film on Gaza, to stream for free after theatrical run
• Al Jazeera — 'Trump says he signed bill to release Epstein files' (Nov 20, 2025)
• Al Jazeera, 'Trump administration plans $2.8bn sale of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel' (Sep 16, 2026)
• Al Jazeera — UAE denies sending weapons to Sudan's RSF (UN report)
• Al Jazeera — three years of the Gaza war in numbers (~74,000 killed, including ~21,000 children)
• Al Jazeera — 'How an Israeli cell orchestrated an anti-Qatar campaign' (Sep 15, 2026, on the Haaretz report)
• Al Jazeera — U.S. president’s son Eric Trump invests in drone maker with government contracts (Feb 17, 2026)

Where their work appears on this site

• An Epstein Cover-Up? →
• The Spymaster's Arrest →
• Blue Impunity →
• Death by Sanctions: The War That Doesn't Count as War →
• Foodwashing →
• In Their Own Words →
• Off the Charts →
• $2.8 Billion in Heavy Bombs — Paid For by the American Taxpayer →
• The $750 President →
• The Fort Bragg Cartel →
• The Replacement Machine →
• The Stadium Double Standard →
• How Wall Street Ignored Its Own Rules for Epstein & Black →
• Leslie Wexner →
• Whose Asset Was He? →
• The Epstein Class →
• Israeli Influence on the United States →
• Military Grift →
• Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
• The Club →
• The Dulles Blueprint →
• The Surveillance & Fabrication Stack →
• The Outrage & Apathy Economy →
• The Untouchables →
• Who Controls What You Get to Know →

How we graded the claims built on their work

26 FACT · 8 PROBABLY TRUE · 3 SOME SMOKE. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.

1. A 2025 Lancet Global Health study estimates US/EU sanctions are 'associated with' ~38 million deaths since 1970.

   PROBABLY TRUE
   Death by Sanctions: The War That Doesn't Count as War →

2. An Israeli military-intelligence officer stayed at Epstein's townhouse — his name is Yoni Koren.

   FACT
   Whose Asset Was He? →

3. Eleven of eighteen years: no federal income tax at all.

   FACT
   The $750 President →

4. Epstein emailed Peter Thiel 'I represent the Rothschilds' — the email is real; the claim is his boast.

   SOME SMOKE
   Whose Asset Was He? →

5. Epstein's relationship with former Israeli PM Ehud Barak was close and documented.

   FACT
   Whose Asset Was He? →

6. Haiti cholera: UN peacekeepers caused an epidemic that killed thousands — then the UN denied responsibility and won immunity in court.

   FACT
   Blue Impunity →

7. In office, the same files became a 'Democrat Hoax' — with 'nothing to hide.'

   FACT
   An Epstein Cover-Up? →

8. It ran the Great Replacement conspiracy — with Qatar slotted into the role antisemites give Soros.

   FACT
   The Replacement Machine →

9. Les Wexner — a major pro-Israel philanthropist — handed Epstein sweeping control of his fortune.

   FACT
   Whose Asset Was He? →

10. Macklemore was dropped from Ed Sheeran's stadium tour after a 'Free Palestine' performance.

    FACT
    The Stadium Double Standard →

11. Operation Epic Fury — the undeclared war

    FACT
    Military Grift →

12. Retaliation is the norm, not the exception: the UN's own ethics office ruled for a whistleblower once in 343 cases.

    FACT
    Blue Impunity →

13. The $72.9 million refund the IRS is still auditing.

    SOME SMOKE
    The $750 President →

14. The 1985 introduction and the ascent

    FACT
    Leslie Wexner →

15. The 2025-26 loop — Operation Midnight Hammer and Mike Waltz

    FACT
    Israeli Influence on the United States →

16. The arrest: a former BND chief, suspected of treasonous espionage.

    FACT
    The Spymaster's Arrest →

17. The case-by-case record backs the direction: Venezuela, Iraq, and more.

    FACT
    Death by Sanctions: The War That Doesn't Count as War →

18. The DOJ missed the deadline, redacted heavily, then declared the release over.

    FACT
    An Epstein Cover-Up? →

19. The Ehud Barak relationship

    FACT
    The Epstein Class →

20. The far-right propaganda abroad was paired, in Lebanon, with a conveniently selective war narrative.

    FACT
    The Replacement Machine →

21. The January 2008 $46 million YLK transfer

    FACT
    Leslie Wexner →

22. The Los Zetas Closed Loop — Fort Bragg trained the unit that later supplied it

    PROBABLY TRUE
    Military Grift →

23. The Los Zetas Closed Loop — Fort Bragg trained the unit that later supplied it

    PROBABLY TRUE
    The Fort Bragg Cartel →

24. The Manhattan townhouse transfer, 1996–1998

    FACT
    Leslie Wexner →

25. The recipient state: unidentified — and not reported as Israel.

    FACT
    The Spymaster's Arrest →

26. The report: a four-year Senate investigation, and a 'roadmap for prosecutors.'

    FACT
    How Wall Street Ignored Its Own Rules for Epstein & Black →

27. The response: deny the testimony, punish the messengers.

    FACT
    In Their Own Words →

28. The through-line is impunity by design: immunity, no external enforcement, and a watchdog that clears the institution.

    PROBABLY TRUE
    Blue Impunity →

29. The transparency law passed 427–1 — and was signed without a ceremony.

    FACT
    An Epstein Cover-Up? →

30. The Trump administration approved a $2.8 billion sale of heavy bombs to Israel and informally notified Congress on September 15, 2026.

    FACT
    $2.8 Billion in Heavy Bombs — Paid For by the American Taxpayer →

31. The UAE stands accused of arming a paramilitary group in Sudan — strong evidence, official denial.

    PROBABLY TRUE
    Foodwashing →

32. The weight of the current toll falls on civilians — a documented share of it on children.

    FACT
    Off the Charts →

33. The Wexner Foundation as a funding channel to Ehud Barak

    PROBABLY TRUE
    Leslie Wexner →

34. There is a real, separately-reported Israeli anti-Qatar operation from the same moment — but it is not proven to be this one.

    SOME SMOKE
    The Replacement Machine →

35. Wexner’s 2020 letter and the deceit claim

    PROBABLY TRUE
    Leslie Wexner →

36. Why the Epstein-as-intelligence-asset pattern matters without a smoking gun

    PROBABLY TRUE
    The Epstein Class →

37. Xtend / JFB Construction — Eric Trump’s Feb 17, 2026 announcement, eleven days before Iran strikes

    FACT
    Military Grift →