Review of Thomas Greco’s book It’s too late for anyone to pretend that the U.S. government, whether under President Barack Obama or anyone else, can divert our nation from long-term economic decline. The U.S. is increasingly in a state of political, economic, and moral paralysis, caught as it were between the “rock” of protracted...
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For over 30 years, F. William Engdahl has been a leading researcher, economist, and analyst of the New World Order with extensive writing to his credit on energy, politics, and economics. His newest book is titled “Full Strectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order.” Part I was reviewed earlier. Part II continues...
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Soil Not Oil by Vandana Shiva South End Press, 2008, 160 pages The following is an excerpt from the book: The industrialized, globalized food system is based on oil. It is under threat because of the inevitability of “peak oil.” It is also under threat because it is more vulnerable than traditional agriculture to...
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Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller Princeton University Press, 230 pp. The Subprime Solution: How Today’s Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do About It by Robert J. Shiller Princeton University Press, 196 pp. By now...
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus It began with a simple $27 loan. After witnessing the cycle of poverty that kept many poor women enslaved to high-interest loan sharks in Bangladesh, Dr. Muhammad Yunus lent money to 42 women so they could purchase bamboo to make...
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Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher E. F. Schumacher (1911-77) was a trained economist working for the National Coal Board of Britain and had a command of systems economic theory, which is to say conventional institutional and big business economics. But Schumacher offered an alternative to every point...
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The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group By Dan Briody. The Carlyle Group is an investment consortium of international financiers and top level political figures who use their influence to obtain highly profitable U.S. government contracts. Their affiliated companies specialize in war production but also include construction projects for rebuilding...
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The Coming Battle by M.W. Walbert (1899) The lost book about America’s banking system First published in 1899, back in print in 1997 for the first time in 100 years! Using congressional records and news stories from the period, we get a front-row view of how (and why) our money is manipulated, why we...
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