Best Books for 2018

Best Books for 2018

“The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it […]

Book Review: The Crypto-Terrestials by Mac Tonnies

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 a snake between

Book Review:  Glow Kids by Nicholas Kardaras

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 our ancestors, who were

Book Review: This Does Not Change Everything

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 Changes Everything: Capitalism

Book Review: Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil

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 Court Skinner In the

Book Review: Hess and the Penguins by Dr. Joseph P. Farrell

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 Bombing or 9/11, it [the Hess

Book Review: Adults in the Room by Yanis Varoufakis

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

Book Review: Bailout by Neil Barofsky

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 commitment was almost

Book Review: Bailout by Neil Barofsky

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

Book Review: Titanic: A Perfect Crime

Book Review: Titanic: A Perfect Crime

“A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.” ~ J. P. Morgan By Catherine Austin Fitts Titanic: A Perfect Crime is a novel by Patrea

Book Review: Titanic: A Perfect Crime

Book Review: Titanic: A Perfect Crime

“A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.” ~ J. P. Morgan By Catherine Austin

Book Review: Gotcha Capitalism by Bob Sullivan

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

Book Review: The Reporter Who Knew Too Much

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’s

Book Review: Dark Money by Jane Mayer

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

Book Review: Dark Money by Jane Mayer

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

Book Review: Tracking Mr. Global by Thomas Hupp

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

Book Review – Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

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’ minds. Amassing millions of users is

Best Books for 2017

Best Books for 2017

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. ~Haruki Murakami Here are my […]

Book Review: Esoteric Hollywood: Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film

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 Solari Report subscribers are familiar

Book Review: The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class

Book Review: The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class

By Jason Worth (Note: If not specified otherwise, any quotations in this book review refer to text by the author from the book being reviewed.) The Precariat: The Dangerous New Class is a sociological study

Book Review: The New Grand Strategy

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’s Prosperity, Security and

Book Review: The New Grand Strategy

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

Book Review: Rotten to the Common Core (or Why You Must Homeschool)

Book Review: Rotten to the Common Core (or Why You Must Homeschool)

Rotten to the (Common) Core: Public Schooling, Standardized Tests, and the Surveillance State Purchase your book here. Joseph P. Farrell, well known for his widely-discussed investigations on contemporary banks and ruling structures, co-writes this fascinating

Book Review: Rotten to the Common Core

Book Review: Rotten to the Common Core

Rotten to the (Common) Core: Public Schooling, Standardized Tests, and the Surveillance State Purchase your book here. Joseph P. Farrell, well known for his widely-discussed

Book Review: Rotten to the Common Core:

Book Review: Rotten to the Common Core:

Rotten to the (Common) Core: Public Schooling, Standardized Tests, and the Surveillance State Purchase your book here. Dr. Joseph P. Farrell, well known for his

Book Review: TrafficKing by Conchita Sarnoff

Book Review: TrafficKing by Conchita Sarnoff

“You try so hard but you don’t understand, just what you will say when you get home, because something is happening here but you don’t know what

Book Review: Beyond Reason

Book Review: Beyond Reason

“If you are thirsty, the river comes to you, if you are not, the river does not exist.” ~Sat Prem By Catherine Austin Fitts Things

Book Review: The South China Sea

Book Review: The South China Sea

“Europe is a landscape; East Asia a seascape. Therein lies a crucial difference between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.” ~ Robert D. Kaplan By Catherine

Book Review: Dare to be Your Own Boss

Book Review: Dare to be Your Own Boss

“Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.” ~ Aristotle by Catherine Austin Fitts If I read all the

Book Review: Addiction by Design

Book Review: Addiction by Design

“It was not uncommon, in my interviews with casino slot floor managers, to hear of machine gamblers so absorbed in play that they were oblivious

Book Review: Asia’s Space Race

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

Book Review: Asia’s Space Race

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

Book Review: The Globalization of War

Book Review: The Globalization of War

“The lies and fabrications which sustain the war agenda must be uncovered.” ~ Michel Chossudovsky By Catherine Austin Fitts Ultimately, all control and enforcement comes

Book Review: The Paris Architect

Book Review: The Paris Architect

By Catherine Austin Fitts In The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure, Lucien Bernard is an architect struggling to make his way in Nazi-occupied Paris. A

Book Review: The Modern Mercenary

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

Book Review: Guinea Pigs: Technologies of Control

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 you have any doubt, ask

Book Review: Clinton Cash

Book Review: Clinton Cash

“The richer the Clinton’s get, the more they resemble the Snopes’s, the rather low-rent people from a Faulkner novel. But one of the great strengths

Book Review: Rework

Book Review: Rework

By Catherine Austin Fitts Rework explains how to run a business by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, co-founders of 37signals and creators of the

Book Review: Sovereign Wealth Funds

Book Review: Sovereign Wealth Funds

By Catherine Austin Fitts Global sovereign wealth funds – state-owned investment funds investing in real and financial assets – have now surpassed over $6 trillion

Book Review: The Educator and the Oligarch

Book Review: The Educator and the Oligarch

“The power of human imagination and desire for autonomy will always survive, and when the time is ripe, the mighty will fall.” ~ Anthony Cody

Book Review: What Chinese Want

Book Review: What Chinese Want

“China’s economy and people are evolving rapidly, but the underlying cultural blueprint has remained more or less constant for thousands of years.” ~ Tom Doctoroff

Book Review: Character First

Book Review: Character First

“A man’s character is his fate.” ~ Hercalitus By Catherine Austin Fitts Concerned about the impact that cultural debasement is having on me and those