Book Review: The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
“If there are dangerous fools in this book, there are also heroes, unsung, of course. They are the linchpins of the system—those public servants whose knowledg…
Book Review: Plague by Kent Heckenlively and Dr. Judy A. Mikovits
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Fake news is scary. Fake food is really scary. Nothing, however, is scarier than fake science.
In 2009, Dr. Judy Mikovits reported her discovery of a retrovir…
Book Review: Ship of Fools by Tucker Carlson
“Trump didn’t invade Iraq or bail out Wall Street. He didn’t lower interest rates to zero, or open the borders, or sit silently by as the manufacturing sector collapsed and the middle class di…
Book Review: AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley & the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee
“When it comes to shaping the future of artificial intelligence, the single most important factor will be the actions of human beings.” ~ Kai-Fu Lee
By Catherine Austin Fitts
If you hav…
Book Review: Microcosm and Medium: The Cosmic Implications and Agenda of Mind Control Technologies by Dr. Joseph Farrell
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I have ordered Dr. Farrell’s new book and will review it as soon as I get it!
Here is the publisher description:
In this latest book Joseph P Farrell examines t…
Book Review: The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture by David Mamet
“We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed through the production of goods and services neces…
Book Review: China Rx
“Without question, if China stopped exporting ingredients, within months the world’s pharmacies would be empty.” `~Guy Villax, CEO of Hovione, Portuguese pharmaceutical company
By Catherine Austin…
Book Review: Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
“I want to be a billionaire.” ~ Elizabeth Holmes, Age 9-10, in response to a question about what she wanted to be.
By Catherine Austin Fitts
WSJ subscribers have been following the story of The…
Book Review: The Half Has Never Been Told
[Originally published in November 2015]
“If we can face it, God can fix it.”
~ Bishop Alfred Owens
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In The Half Has Never Been Told, historian Edward Baptist attempt…
Book Review: The Papacy by Abbé Guettée
“On this rock I will build my church” ~ Jesus Christ, Matthew 16
By Catherine Austin Fitts
René-Francois Guettée was ordained a Catholic priest in France in 1839. One of his first tasks w…
Book Review: Under an Ionized Sky by Elana Freeland
“There is a world that most of us know of and that we are comfortable with. There is another world that we should know of but do not, and that should, by all rights, make us uncomfortable. We are re…
Book Review: The Complete Guide to Fasting by Jason Fung, MD with Jimmy Moore
“Fasting also stimulates autophagy and mitophagy, the process of culling the old, dysfunctional mitochondria. So the ancient wellness practice of intermittent fasting essentially gets rid of t…
Book Review: The Essential Saker II: Civilizational Choices and Geopolitics: The Russian challenge to the Hegemony of the AngloZionist Empire
[CAF Note: At last, the sequel to The Essential Saker II is available from the Vineyard of the Saker. You can purchase here in both hard copy and PDF form. I wrote the forward and have …
Book Review: The Crypto-Terrestials by Mac Tonnies
“There’s an itch in my mind, but I can only find it occasionally. It’s like rummaging through a box of ancient refuse and incomprehensible knick-knacks and suddenly feeling the two-pronged bite of…
Book Review: Glow Kids by Nicholas Kardaras
Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction is Hijacking Our Kids – And How to Break The Trance
“What we are discovering is that video gaming is perverting an ancient neural-hormonal network. Unlike ou…
Book Review: This Does Not Change Everything
[CAF Note: More people keep recommending that I read this dreadful book. I am republishing my October 21, 2014 review.]
By Catherine Austin Fitts
To say that Naomi Klein’s new book This Change…
Book Review: Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil
Weapons of Math Destruction How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
“The trouble is that profits end up serving as a stand-in, or proxy, for truth.” ~ Cathy O’Neill
By Co…
Book Review: Follow the Money: A Citizen’s Guide to Local Government
[CAF Note: I published this review when we did Unpacking Your Financial Ecosystem on the Solari Report. I am republishing as more subscribers grapple with the power and opportunity of getting to kno…
Book Review: Hess and the Penguins by Dr. Joseph P. Farrell
“Like the two Kennedy assassinations or the assassination of Dr. King, or the still-debatable Watergate affair (“What was that really about?”), or the Waco tragedy or the Oklahoma City Bom…
Book Review: Adults in the Room by Yanis Varoufakis
“The danger is not that we shall aim too high and miss; the real danger is that we train our eyes on the floor and end up there.” ~Yanis Varoufakis
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I often say,…
Book Review: The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
“Who exactly are the attention merchants? As an industry, they are relatively new. Their lineage can be traced to the nineteenth century, when in New York City the first newspapers fully depen…
Book Review: Bailout by Neil Barofsky
“I really didn’t believe the figure [of total commitments made during the financial crisis] until I saw the backup documents that had been provided by each of the agencies themselves. This total com…
Book Review – The Fourth Turning: An American Prophesy, What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny
“You should try to unlearn the linear belief that America (or the entire modern world) is exempt from the seasonal cycles of nature. As you become acquainted with the saeculum, you will meet a very…
Book Review: The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe
“The Zero Point Field represented two tantalizing possibilities… it represented the Holy Grail of energy research. If you could somehow tap into this field, you might have all the energy …
Book Review: Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked by Adam Alter
“We limit how much technology our kids use in the home” ~Steve Jobs, founder of Apple
by Catherine Austin Fitts
Adam Alter is an associate professor at New York University. His new book Irre…
Book Review: Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign
“The real protagonist of this book is a Washington political establishment that has lost the ability to explain itself or its motives to people outside the Beltway.” ~ Matt Taibbi on Shattered
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Book Review: Follow the Money: A Citizen’s Guide to Local Government
“Follow the money.” ~ Deep Throat
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The American Institute for Economic Research publishes Follow the Money: A Citizen’s Guide to Local Government by Lyndee Kemmet. It is a…
Book Review: Gotcha Capitalism by Bob Sullivan
“The butcher on the corner of days gone by would never think of adding sneaky fees; if he did, he would have been run out of town. But satellite-TV firms and cable companies don’t have offices ar…
Book Review: The Reporter Who Knew Too Much
“Justice is a big rug. When you pull it out from under one man, a lot of others fall too.” ~Dorothy Kilgallen
Earlier this year, the New York Post reported that the Manhattan District Attorney’…
Book Review: Dark Money by Jane Mayer
“We must make our choice. We may have democracy or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we can’t have both.” ~ Louis Brandeis
by Catherine Austin Fitts
In US politics…
Book Review: Tracking Mr. Global by Thomas Hupp
“This is a story about a search for dignity and fairness. This is a story about bringing transparency to the hidden power and money that restricts our lives. It’s the story of lifting the veil on …
Book Review – Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
“Forming habits is imperative for the survival of many products. As infinite distractions compete for our attention, companies are learning to master novel tactics to stay relevant in users…
Book Review: Esoteric Hollywood: Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film
“The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions.” ~Edward Bernays
By Catherine Austin Fitts
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Book Review: Technocracy Rising – The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation
“Society is built on three legs: Economics, politics and religion. These three must be mutually compatible or the society will not last long, and the dust bin of history has plenty of examples of soc…
Book Review – Your Brain on Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction
“The content of what [young porn viewers] found exciting changed as the Web sites introduced themes and scripts that altered their brains without their awareness. Because the brain maps for new, ex…
Book Review: The Secret Space Program and Breakaway Civilization by Richard Dolan
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Richard Dolan just published a new, excellent summary introduction to “The Secret Space Program and Breakaway Civilization.” You can access it in paperback or e-book…
Book Review: The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
By Jason Worth
(Note: If not specified otherwise, any quotations in this book review refer to text by the authors from the book being reviewed.)
Think about how much the Internet and technology ha…
Book Review: The New Grand Strategy
“What role do we want to play in the world?” ~ From The New Grand Strategy
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Lawrence Wilkerson recommended that I read The New Grand Strategy: Restoring America’…
Book Review: Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America’s Stealth Warfare
By Jason Worth
Openness and transparency of information pertinent to the affairs of state are the bedrocks upon which democracies operate. With it, citizens can remain informed and knowledgeabl…
Book Review: Reflections on "Partners in Crime" by Jerome R. Corsi
“It [the Clinton Foundation] has the potential to be the Mother of all Clinton scandals.” ~Kerry Jackson, Investor’s Business Daily
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Corsi’s book, “Partners in Crime: the …
Book Review: Reflections on “Partners in Crime” by Jerome R. Corsi
“It [the Clinton Foundation] has the potential to be the Mother of all Clinton scandals.” ~Kerry Jackson, Investor’s Business Daily
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Corsi’s book, “Partners in Crime: …
Book Review: The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the Digital Age
By Jason Worth
Prior to the advent of the Internet, there were no shortages of bookstores, travel agencies or video rental stores. But the advent of the Internet created not only a new channel for…
Book Review: Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
By Jason Worth
Martin Ford’s book, Rise of the Robots, was not the book that I thought it would be. With its Isaac Asimov-sounding title, I thought it would discuss cutting-edge new robots des…
Book Review: Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
By Jason Worth
There is a meaningful chance that at some point in the next few decades, intelligent machines that mankind is creating now, will kill us. That is the premise of James Barrat’s book…
Book Review: Asia’s Space Race
“All the promise held out for space flight in gaining scientific knowledge, advancing technology, and creating a hopeful future through exploration of the solar system may well pale in comparison…
Book Review: Crowded Orbits: Conflict and Cooperation in Space
“Space assets, operated by an increasing number of governmental and non-governmental entities, offer the world enormous benefits that were unimaginable just a few decades ago. Today, these benefits …
Book Review: The Modern Mercenary
“The unraveling of the state’s monopoly of force has begun, not over centuries but over decades. The market for force’s trajectory is uncertain; it could develop into a mediated market, which is saf…
Book Review: Guinea Pigs: Technologies of Control
Government Mind Control Tech
InfoWars | Aug 19 2018
“Make no mistake; this is an intentional attempt at mainstreaming a form of technology that will have grave consequences on society. If yo…
Book Review: Mark M. Rich on the Nuts & Bolts of Tyranny
“If we can face it, God can fix it.”
~ Washington D.C. Pastor
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Mark M. Rich is a young man who was targeted by an organized stalking – something which has become much m…