Israel's Historic Rothschild Dynasty Connection Revisited: Part 8

The headquarters of the Rothschild & Co Bank in UK (photo by Adrian Welch)

Neither the mainstream corporate mass media conglomerates nor the U.S. imperialist power elite foundation-subsidized alternative left media groups were generally interested in examining the role that the super-rich Rothschild Dynasty members were still playing in world history during the last two decades of the 20th-century—even after the military of the historically Rothschild Dynasty-funded Zionist movement invaded Lebanon in 1982. And just as some journalists who examined whether lobbying groups in the USA like AIPAC were still exercising a special influence over U.S. government foreign policy decisions in the Middle East after 1982 were often falsely accused of being “anti-Semitic” by Zionist movement supporters, some writers who examine  the role that Rothschild Dynasty member have played in post-1982 economic life around the globe are sometimes falsely accused of “promoting anti-Semitism, like Adolf Hitler did” by Zionist movement supporters.

But in his 1999 book, The House of Rothschild: The World’s Bankers 1849-1999, Niall Ferguson indicated how members of the Rothschild dynasty that were the initial funders of the Zionist movement’s settler-colonialist projects in Palestine over 100 years before, were apparently continuing to make a lot of money during the last two decades of the 20th-century:

“The N.M. Rothschild group is thus a multinational entity (more than 50 percent of its assets are now held outside the UK) with a wide geographical reach—again reminiscent of the system of houses which had been developed by Mayer Amshel [Rothschild]’s sons after 1815. But it is also controlled by the family through another Swiss company—Rothschild Concordia AG—which has a majority (52.4 percent) stake in Rothschilds Cotinuation Holdings AG. Closely linked to this structure is the Paris-Orleans holding company which controls 37 percent of Rothschild & Cie Banque in Paris, around 40 percent of Rothschild Wort America, 20 percent of Rothschild Canada and 40 percent of Rothschild Europe…

“…The subsidiaries in Europe, the Americas and Asia perform functions similar to those performed by the Rothschild agents a century and a half ago, often in the same places…Both ownership and leadership of the group are shared between the key family members…Today [in 1999] 6 members of the family have between them a total of 37 board seats (including chairmanships and vice-chairmanships) on 15 of the principal companies of the N.M. Rothschild group…”

According to Niall Ferguson’s book, “the structure of the” Rothschild “group” in 1999 could then be described in the following “simplified” way:

“At the top of the `pyramid’ is Rothschilds Continuation Holdings AG, a Zurich-based holding company, the principal investments of which are the following 19 firms, here grouped geographically:

“N.M. Rothschild & Sons Ltd., Rothschild Continuation Ltd., N.M. Rothschild Corporate Finance Ltd. and Rothschild Asset Management Ltd. (UK);

“N.M. Rothschild & Sons (CI) Ltd. and Rothschild Asset Management CI Ltd. (Channel Islands);

“Rothschild & Cie Banque and Rothschild & Cie (France);

“Rothschild Bank AG (Switzerland);

“Rothschild Europe BV and Rothschild Asset Management International Holdings BV (Netherlands);

“Rothschild North America Inc. and Rothschild Asset Management Inc. (USA);

“N.M. Rothschild & Sons (Australia) Ltd., N.M. Rothschild Australia Holdings Pty Ltd. andRothschild Australian Asset Management Ltd.;

“N.M. Rothschild & Sons (Hong Kong) Ltd and Rothschild Asset Management (Hong Kong) Ltd.

“N.M. Rothschild & Sons (Singapore) Ltd.”

(end of part 8)