
Book Review: The Rialto in Richmond by Dr. Joseph P. Farrell
This one is a barn burner, especially if you are interested in the U.S. Civil War and the monetary and fiscal history of the United States and Europe during that period. It’s got it all—missing money, presidential assassinations, secret technology, Cabinet betrayals, and cover-ups.

Book Review: Unstressable: A Practical Guide to Stress-Free Living by Mo Gawdat and Alice Law
I read Unstressable: A Practical Guide to Stress-Free Living because I found Mo Gawdat’s interviews about AI fascinating. He was the Chief Business Officer at Google. After learning about AI and coming to his conclusions about what it meant, he promptly resigned and changed his life.

Book Review: Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World by Nicholas Shaxson
Nicholas Shaxson is an investigative journalist who is a former correspondent for the Financial Times and The Economist. Over the years, Shaxson has dug into the extraordinary and rising levels of financial criminality around the world and connected the dots to the economic and financial deterioration that we now endure.





Book Review: Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America by Brendan Ballou
“We must break the money trust or the money trust will break us.”~ Louis Brandeis
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Brendan Ballou’s Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America comes …

Book Review: These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner
“The Pennsylvania [Public School Employees Retirement System] pension’s decision to keep investing with Apollo mirrored similar actions taken by public funds across the country. They throw th…

Book Review: Genocide: Russia and the New World Order by Sergei Glazyev
“But where, in a land in which today more of the people die each year than are born, lies the gain? History’s yardstick will measure out the answer, and I suspect it will not suit us.” ~ Anne W…

Book Review: The Tribal Instinct: The Sacred Desire for People and Place by Forrest Maready
“Something called self-determination theory suggests humans need three things in order to be happy. They need to feel they are good at something. They need to feel connected to the people a…

Book Review: Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order by Saleha Mohsin
“I’m gullible. I think people mean what they say.” ~ Colin Trevorrow
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I typically don’t review books that I do not recommend reading. Paper Soldiers: How the Weapon…

“Covid-19,” Psychological Operations, and the War for Technocracy by David A. Hughes
By Catherine Austin Fitts
“Covid-19,” Psychological Operations, and the War for Technocracy (Volume 1) by Dr. David A. Hughes, lecturer and program leader in International Relations at the UK’…

Book Review: A New Science of Heaven by Robert Temple
“The 99.9 per cent of the Universe that is plasma is not sitting there inert. It is fantastically alive and dynamic. And we shall shortly see that as plasma beings, we are part of this universal …

Book Review: One Idea to Rule Them All by Michelle Stiles
“Words and language are the means by which we share our understanding of the world around us. The first signs of tyranny are when words lose their truth and are used merely as instruments of po…

Book Review: A Bold Return to Giving a Damn by Will Harris
“White Oak Pastures is one of the very few farms that has spent almost three decades hammering regenerative food production into a working, operating, scalable, and replicable model. Which makes th…

Book Review: Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford
“This is an expanded view of artificial intelligence as an extractive industry.” ~ Kate Crawford
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” ~ Audre Lorde
Kate Crawford wo…

Book Review: Imagine You Are an Aluminum Atom: Discussions with Mr. Aluminum by Christopher Exley, PhD, FRSB
By Carolyn Betts and Catherine Austin Fitts
If you care about the future health of the human species, you should read this absorbing book by the world-renowned expert on the subject of aluminu…

Book Review: The Great New Orleans Gun Grab
“Every year, people in the United States use guns to defend themselves against criminals an estimated 2,500,000 times – more than 6,500 people a day, or once every 13 seconds. Of these in…

Book Review: Viktor Schauberger: A Life of Learning From Nature by Jane Cobbald
“Today’s technology strives to move forwards with forces that operate backwards.”
~ Viktor Schauberger
By Ricardo Oskam
Water makes up roughly two-thirds of the human body and covers…

Book Review: “Cause Unknown”: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 and 2022 by Edward Dowd
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” ~ Advertising adage
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The Solari team created our Covid-19 forms to help people push back. Is someone in your family plann…

Book Review: Put Your Money Where Your Life Is by Michael H. Shuman
“All investment is risky, whether you invest in Wall Street or Main Street.” ~ Michael H. Shuman
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Long ago, when I still lived in Washington, Carolyn Betts and I ha…

Book Review: Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World by Adam Lebor
Reviewed by Carolyn A. Betts, Esq., General Counsel, Solari, Inc.
Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World (PublicAffairs, 2013), although almost ten yea…

Book Review: Profiles of the Vaccine-Injured, by Children’s Health Defense, Foreword by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
By Catherine Austin Fitts
One of the important aspects missing from informed consents related to the Covid-19 injections and other vaccines on the childhood and adult schedules is clear commun…

Book Review: Collateral Markets and Financial Plumbing by Manmohan Singh
“The term collateral refers to an asset that a lender accepts as security for a loan.”
~ Julia Kagan, Investopedia
By Catherine Austin Fitts
This is a book on the global collateral syst…

Book Review of The Psychology of Totalitarianism by Dr. Peter Breggin and Ginger Breggin
“Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse in which a person or group causes someone to question their own sanity, memories, or perception of reality….The term ‘gaslighting’ comes from the n…

Book Review: The Psychology of Totalitarianism by Mattias Desmet
By Ulrike Granögger
Is it all a big con?
A curious phenomenon called “mass formation” is said to be responsible for the totalitarian power grab of the ruling classes as well as for the min…

Book Review: What Doesn’t Kill Us by Scott Carney
“Nature gave us the ability to heal ourselves. Conscious breathing and environmental conditioning are two tools that everyone can use to control their immune system, better their moods, and incre…

Book Review: The Rise of the New Normal Reich by C.J. Hopkins
“One of the hallmarks of totalitarianism is mass conformity to a psychotic official narrative.”
~ C.J. Hopkins, “The Covidian Cult”
By Catherine Austin Fitts
C.J. Hopkins’ latest collec…

Book Review: The Art of Patience by Sylvain Tesson
“When you travel, always take a philosopher with you.”~ Sylvain Tesson
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Our movie for the week of April 18th was The Velvet Queen. The documentary, produced an…

Book Review: The Lords of Easy Money by Christopher Leonard
“We work under the assumption that lowering the cost of capital and providing cheap money encourage businesses to lever up and use that levering up to expand [capital investment] and job creation…

Book Review: Atomic Habits by James Clear
“Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoe…

Book Review: Geoengineered Transhumanism by Elana Freeland
“Under the new world order envisioned by the proponents of the United Nations-backed “Great Reset,’humans will be merged with machines and technology. Literally. Perhaps most incredibly, the …

Book Review: The Iodine Crisis by Lynne Farrow
“But some of us have been educated by surprises out of much that we were ‘absolutely sure’ of….” ~ Charles Fort
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Long ago, I heard an interview of four doctors discu…

Book Review: Breath – The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
“Modern research in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can help jump-start athletic …

Book Review: Codex Oera Linda: English Edition Translated by Jan Ott
“The work you are holding in your hands is a unique treasure.” ~ Asha Logos, foreword to Codex Oera Linda
By Catherine Austin Fitts
If you live in Friesland, you fall in love with the land…

Book Review: A History of Money in Ancient Countries from the Earliest Times to the Present by Alexander del Mar
“Money has a history which is fifty centuries old, and filled with an experience too valuable and too dearly bought to be ignored or thrown away”.
~ Alexander del Mar
By Catherine Austin Fitt…

Book Review: The Real Anthony Fauci by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“This should be a medical and not be a military operation. It’s a publ…

Book Review: The Wim Hof Method
“That is the same confidence you will feel when your subconscious comes to your awareness…. You will be drawn in too, because…you cannot miss. There’s only one shot to take. Take it and i…

Book Review: The Corruption of Real Science by Bruce G. Charlton
“This book describes the essence of real science: a phenomenon much simpler to describe – yet more difficult to do – than you might suspect. It also charts the course of real science over about a …

Book Review: Forces of the Hanseatic League
“Serious business with long-term partners” ~ Hanseatic League motto
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In my experience, the people who rule the world think and plan in long time horizons. As they sh…

Book Review: Farm to Fork Meat Riot
“There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don’t expect you to save the world I do think it’s no…

Book Review: Two Books on the Ills of Sitting
“Sitting is more dangerous than smoking, kills more people than HIV, and is more treacherous than parachuting. We are sitting ourselves to death.”
~ James Levine, professor of medicine
…

Book Review: The Highland Clearances by Eric Richards
“O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! What mortal hand, Can e’er untie the filia…

Book Review: The Porn Factor by Diane Roblin-Lee
“You walk into the room with your pencil in your hand
You see somebody naked and you say, ‘Who is that man?’
You try so hard but you don’t understand
Just what you will say when you get home
B…

Book Review: Polyface Designs: by Joel Salatin & Chris Slattery
“One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.” ~ Joel Salatin
Joel Salatin is one of the most profitable small farmers in America. He and his family have worked long and hard. T…

Book Review: Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
“The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actua…

Book Review: Furious Hours by Casey Cep
“It was the most shocking Christmas gift of Lee’s life and, as it would turn out, one of the most momentous in the history of American literature.” ~ Casey Cep
For Christmas 1956, Harper Le…

Book Review: Why We Get Sick by Benjamin Bikman, PhD
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Every day, the reasons to take charge of our health care grow. So do the benefits of preventive health care. This book can help. I read it because one subscriber kept …

Book Review: Three Books About Bicycles
“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.” ~ H.G. Wells
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I love bicycles. Given where the world is going, expect bicyc…

The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy by Graeme MacQueen
“A goal of the plan [behind the anthrax attacks] is borne out by the fact that the massive expansion of bioweapons R&D continues apace despite the official acknowledgement that the o…

Book Review: Bright Light on Black Shadows by Dr. Rauni- Leena Luukanen Kilde
“What is essential is invisible to the eye.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Every week on the Solari Report, we have a Hero of the Week. At the end of the year, we cho…

Book Review: The Finance Curse by Nicholas Shaxson
“The planning group recommended that we expand our business into merchant banking. This means managing money in venture investment by starting and growing new companies or taking controlling inter…

Book Review: American Values by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“Come, my friends.
‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of a…

Book Review: U.S. Money vs. Corporation Currency (1912) by Alfred Owen Crozier
by John Titus
Despite being over a century old (and indeed having been written in 1912–one year before the Federal Reserve Act became law), U.S. Money vs. Corporation Currency by Alfred Owen …

Book Review: Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill
“Be careful what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.” ~ Napoleon Hill
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Inviting the Devil in for a dialogue is something I am not inclined to do. …

Book Review: Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
“But, lest you forget a tiny form trembling and sobbing on the mound before the Brinker cottage, ask the Van Glecks; they will never weary of telling of the darling little girl who won the silver …

Book Review: The Power of Eight by Lynne McTaggart
“This word [homothumadon] is very expressive: it signifies that all their minds, affections, desires and wishes, were concentrated in one object, every man having the same end in vie…

Book Review: Wisdom is a woman by Mieke Mosmuller
“I see you in a thousand pictures,
Mary, lovingly expressed,
But none of them can describe you
As my soul sees you.
I only know that since then it seems
the tumult of the world is blown away …

Book Review: Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier
“We have lost our herd immunity to a lot of moral idiocy”. ~ Abigail Shrier
By Catherine Austin Fitts
If you are raising a daughter, this is a must-read book.
In Irreversible Damage: The …

Book Review: The Edge of the World by Michael Pye
“Plague justified the rules that kept a person in her place. . . . We’ve seen how plague became the reason, just like terrorism today, for social regulation, for saying how children must behave,…

Book Review: The Alien Agendas by Richard Dolan
“There must be a way to retain what is best about us, even as we move toward an uncertain future that will surely effect deep changes on the very nature of our existence. To do this, we must retai…

Book Review: Weatherman’s Guide to the Sun, Third Edition
Review by John G. Dzwonczyk
The isolation of COVID has had the result of much more book reading in my case and somewhat serendipitously, the effort has included in succession Gerald H. Pollack…

Book Review: Trumpocalypse: Consent Factory Essays, Volume I (2016-2017) by CJ Hopkins
“listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go” ~ E.E. Cummings
By Catherine Austin Fitts
As the populist fervor of 2016 (Brexit, Donald Trump, Le Pen) was rolling, CJ Hop…

Book Review: The War on Populism: Consent Factory Essays, Vol. II by C.J. Hopkins
“But, seriously, all that actually happened back in the Summer of 2016 was the global capitalist ruling classes recognized that they had a problem. The problem that they recognized they had (and c…

Book Review: The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
“All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for”. ~ Damon Lindelof
By Catherine Austin FItts
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, translated into English by Ken Liu, is already a classic of mod…

Book Review: Covid-19: The Great Reset by Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret
“In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.” ~ Yakov Smirnoff
By Catherine Austin F…

Book Review: The Contagion Myth: Why Viruses (including “Coronavirus”) Are Not the Cause of Disease
“Until we base our public policies on the truth, the situation will only get worse. The truth is that contagion is a myth; we need to look elsewhere for the causes of disease. Only when we do…

Book Review: The Rhine by Ben Coates
"All along the river, the people I spoke to were hard-working and deeply attached to the mental security blanket of having a decent house, clean car and steady job. They were relatively wealth…

Book Review: Chaos by Tom O’Neill
By John Dzwonczyk
The meta-story of Tom O'Neill's book, CHAOS, is the one that describes the ongoing sense of "I" for "Incomplete"—the grade the author himself wou…

Book Review: Celtic Daily Prayer Books – Book One & Two
By Catherine Austin Fitts
A subscriber recommended these, so I ordered them. I have been reading and using them for prayer and meditation in the morning and at various points throughout the day…

Book Review: Red Pill Gospel by Forrest Maready
"For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." ~ Paul the Apostle, 2 Timothy 1:7
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Author Forrest Maready describe…

Book Review: Plague of Corruption by Dr. Judy Mikovits & Kent Heckenlively
"If you let the government into medicine, they will destroy it." ~ Dr. William T. Fitts, Jr., upon Congress’s enactment of Medicare in 1965
Dr. Judy Mikovits is a retired research scie…

Book Review: Virus Mania by Torsten Engelbrecht & Claus Köhnlein
“For endless war, you must have an enemy who cannot be caught, who is completely vaporous, therefore necessitating nonstop aggressive emergency measures…. The perfect enemy for a state that seeks e…

Book Review: The Moth in the Iron Lung by Forrest Maready
“…[A]n honest look into the nooks and crannies of what caused the epidemics of polio is deeply humbling. Man at his best can inspire like no other. Man at his worst, can destroy. Man in his nat…

Book Review: The Tower of Babel Moment – By Joseph P. Farrell
"Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth." ~ Genesis 11:9
By Catherine Austin Fitts
To borrow a phrase from Dr. Farrell, t…

Book Review: Human Heart, Cosmic Heart by Thomas Cowan, MD
"A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh." ~ Ezekiel 36:2…

Book Review: Crooked: Man-Made Disease Explained by Forrest Maready
“A few years ago when I first started noticing people had crooked faces, I could not have imagined the chase it would lead me on. It started as a simple search for what was causing our lopsided s…

Book Review: Cancer and the New Biology of Water by Thomas Cowan, MD
“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.” ~ Ludwig van Beethoven
By Catherine Austin Fitts
President Nixon launched the…

Book Review: unvaccinated by Forrest Maready
“There are a growing number of people who have decided to delay, skip or avoid certain vaccines altogether. Some of them are refusing all vaccines—even the big ones like polio. If you are shaki…

Book Review: The Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Firstenberg
"Once it is understood that the 1918 flu was not caused by a virus and was not spread by contagion, but was instead caused by the sudden spread of radio communication throughout the world…

Book Review De-dollarization: The Revolt Against the Dollar and the Rise of a New Financial World Order
“In the past six centuries, six currencies held global reserve status – the Portuguese escudo, the Spanish peso de ocho, the Dutch guilder, the French franc, the British pound and, most recently, …

Book Review: A History of Central Banking
“Usury once in control will wreck the nation.” ~William Lyon Mackenzie King
By Catherine Austin Fitts
When the history of the failure of the United States is written, the virus that brought …

Book Review: The Power of Eight by Lynne McTaggart
"Science is leading us forward in our evolution in the area of spiritual consciousness, in a sense. They're leading us to a final realization, through validation, of what spiritual mas…

Book Review: The Global Economy as You’ve Never Seen It by Thomas Ramge and Jan Schwochow with Adrian Garcia-Landa
"Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space."
~ Edward R. Tufte
By Catherine Aus…

Book Review: Jewish History, Jewish Religion – The Weight of Three Thousand Years by Israel Shahak
“In the last 40 years the number of non-Jews killed by Jews is by far greater than the number of the Jews killed by non-Jews. The extent of the persecution and discrimination aginst non-Jews infli…

Book Review: De-Dollarization by Gal Luft and Anne Korin
"An empire always thinks it can afford to make mistakes or incur additional costs. It thinks it is so powerful that this won't change anything. But those mistakes and costs keep piling up….

Book Review: Infinite Mind: An exploration of psi and the capabilities of the human mind
“What you do, what you say and what you think can influence other people by morphic resonance. There is no immoral filter in morphic resonance, which means that we have to be more careful about wh…

Book Review: The Autism Vaccine
“There are many who ignore the obvious and insist vaccines have never had anything to do with autism. The weight of history is gathering like a storm and is beginning to pass them by.” ~ Forrest …

Book Review: Alexander Hamilton
“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinit…

Book Review: The Autism Epidemic: Transhumanism’s Dirty Little Secret
“When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.” ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
By Catherine Austin Fitts
What if the autism epidemic is being purpos…

Book Review: Responsible Investing: by Matthew W. Sherwood & Julia Pollard
“This textbook provides the first holistic resource on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing for undergraduate and graduate programs. It provides a thorough background and history…

Book Review: Killing Sustainability by Lawrence M. Heim
“To many executives, the word sustainability is a cue to stop listening. One way to begin changing the perception of sustainability is to stop using the word.” ~ Lawrence M. Heim
By Catheri…

Book Review: A Lie Too Big to Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
“What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sn…

Book Review: The View from Flyover Country by Sarah Kendzior
“I live in the middle, and when you live in the middle, you see things from all sides.” ~ Sarah Kendzior
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Based in St. Louis on the Mississippi River, Sarah Kendzior is …

Book Review: The Assassination of James Forrestal by David Martin
“Before he can kill you, he must kill your name.” ~ Scene from The Gladiator
by Catherine Austin Fitts
James Forrestal had a successful career on Wall Street at Dillon, Read & Co. Inc, risin…

Book Review: McCarthy, Monmouth, and the Deep State by Dr. Joseph P. Farrell
“His record needs to be set over against that of his opponents, from Tydings and the State Department to Joe Welch and Stevens-Adams. On that kind of balance sheet, it’s plain that McCarthy wa…

Book Review: A Room of One’s Own
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
~ Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
By Catherine Austin Fitts
A Room of One's Own is an essay by …

Book Review: The New Rules of War
“The reappearance of private armies is a harbinger of a wider trend in international relations: the emergence of neomedievalism….The erosion of the taboo against mercenarism heralds a shift in…

Book Review: Vice of Kings: How Socialism, Occultism, and the Sexual Revolution Engineered a Culture of Abuse
Vice of Kings: How Socialism, Occultism, and the Sexual Revolution Engineered a Culture of Abuse
“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the trut…