Introduction
The information you’re about to take in, although some of it might be difficult to process and/or even believe at first blush, is not only factual, it’s quite well documented and available for public review. Instead of writing about this phenomenon using standard journalistic prose, I chose to organize it in a kind of bullet-point format. I figured this would be the best way to cut right to the chase. Pun not intended, but alas.
Basic Facts About The City of London
1-The City of London covers one square mile of land that is within the geographical boundaries of London, England, although it is technically not part of the London that everybody knows about. The City of London has existed in its current form since 1694 and much longer than that in previous forms. It is made up mostly of the world’s biggest banking and financial institutions.
2- The City of London is, by far, the world’s top financial hub. To give an example, it possesses more US dollars than the US government and it’s estimated that, all told, the city holds over half of the world’s total wealth.
3- The City of London’s banking institutions aren’t subject to outside scrutiny, ie: The City of London financially regulates itself.
4- The City of London has its own separate police force and it makes its own laws.
5- The City of London doesn’t exist underground. It exists in full exterior view and it conducts parades and other public ceremonies throughout the year.
6- The vast majority of people in the US and Europe do not know that The City of London isn’t technically part of London, the well known British city. In fact, even the majority of people living in Britain aren’t aware of what the City of London does and that it’s an independent province.
7- Wall Street is a spinoff, a “little brother” partner to The City of London that is ultimately under its purview. The world’s largest US commercial banks and oil conglomerates are members of the City of London’s cartel.
8- It would not be an exaggeration to say that the banking City of London essentially runs the Western world as well as a considerable portion of the nonWestern world.
The award winning documentary entitled “The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire” gives a detailed overview of the City of London’s history and its basic 21st century operations
Almost all existing major commercial banks and large oil companies fall under the purview of The City of London
The City of London’s Banking Cartel Members: HSBC, CHASE Barclays, Bank of America, CitiGroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Rothschild and Co., Lloyds Bank, Moscow Bank, US Bank, NatWest and Prudential
The City of London’s Oil Companies/Conglomerates: Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP and Chevron Texaco, Tullow Oil, EnQuest, Capricorn Energy, Soco International
The Ruling Families
These families form the backbone of London’s wealth and influence. Their combined holdings shape the city’s economy, governance, and social structure.
Rothschild Family (England)
Howard de Walden Family
Grosvenor Family (Dukes of Westminster)
Cadogan Family
Portman Family
Raymond Family
Langham Family
Livingstone Brothers
Compton Family (Marquess of Northampton)
This short clip from May 28, 2026 featuring world renowned economist Richard Werner goes into the bare basics of the economic formula that banks in the City of London have utilized to advance themselves.
US Families of great wealth, most of whom operate and/or have operated in concert with the City of London:
The Rockefellers
The DuPonts
The Vanderbilts
The Fords
The Astors
The Mellons
The Morgans
The Koches
The City of London, because it is not regulated by any laws or institutions exterior to itself, is able to and does launder money for the world’s biggest criminals and crime rings, including: drug dealers, terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda, Isis, etc., and illegal government and para-government intel operations. Pasted below are links that go into the most recently tallied shadow bank asset totals
“Shadow Banks Cross 250 TRILLION Dollar Mark“
— Bloomberg News, Telegraph UK, Citizens Watch Report
1-https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-16/shadow-banks-cross-250-trillion-mark-as-watchdog-warns-on-data2- https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/shadow-banks-cross-us-250-234317347.html?
Articles on The City of London’s money laundering operations for terrorist orgs (links below):
Over the course of the last few decades, the banking City of London has usurped essential control of Western electoral processes via joint financial allocations to their preferred politicians, whose charge is to carry out the city’s agenda.
The City of London also owns and/or has a strong influence over all major Western (and some nonWesten) mass media. As a result, they have an inordinate influence over all “mainstream” media narratives.
Lastly, the City of London has a major role in shaping the agenda of the Western Military Industrial Complex via its financial and personnel ties with the Weapons Manufacturing industry and its interconnection with government and para-government orgs such MI6, the CIA and MOSSAD. Through the use of color revolutions and myriad government destabilizing operations including the paid use of terrorist organizations, the City of London profits from changes initiated by regime change operations. These changes lead to financial takeovers via duplicitously introduced debt enforcement and the eventual acquisition of economically captured states’ resources.
Articles on The City of London’s control of the Western Military Industrial Complex (direct links below):
1-https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/britains-warfare-state
2-https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02/15/europe-and-the-military-industrial-complex/
3-https://publicbankinginstitute.org/all-wars-are-bankers-wars-iran-and-the-bankers-endgame/
4-https://youtu.be/PlpcLU7WABk?si=emvGxZIiOMcploej
Articles on The City of London’s funding and control of Western elections (direct links below):
1-https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/industry-detail/F03/2024
Articles on The City of London’s ownership/control of mainstream media (direct links below):
1-https://www.vwi.unibe.ch/ueber_uns/medien/forschung/DURANTE_Media_and_Banks.pdf
2-https://futureofmedia.hsites.harvard.edu/index-us-mainstream-media-ownership
Coming up In Part 2: Change is on the Horizon
In part 2 I’ll discuss how the City of London has essentially been responsible for the creation of all of the wars that have taken place in our lifetime. I’ll also discuss the City of London’s oligarchs and how they function as a global financial parasitic entity.
Lastly, I’ll discuss the fact that the City of London’s global power grip is now loosening and about the various positive, humanizing forces that are working to liberate humanity from this absurd set of conditions we find ourselves in today.
END OF PART 1
CODA
I feel it’s of some importance to make clear that I am, first and foremost, a humanist and an anti-war advocate who reasons and writes from first principles. Other than presenting the truth as I see it within the context of that which aims to overcome human suffering and violence in its myriad forms, what I write is not shaped by allegiances to any existing political party or any news media narrative be it blue, red, purple or other.
