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Our Country, Then and Now
by Richard C. Cook2024
5.0 out of 5 stars
Our Country Then and Now takes us on a 400-year journey through America’s history, providing unique snapshots from African enslavement, native dispossession, financial scandals, and wars of expansion and aggression, interspersed with tales from author Richard C. Cook’s ancestry―from Puritan forebears to fighters in the American Revolutionary War and the Civil War, to Midwest Pioneer farmers and their relations with native nations.
As a former NASA whistleblower, then US Treasury analyst, Cook dwells in particular on how the financial oligarchy aggrandized itself via a fractional reserve banking system that ultimately corrupted America’s originally proclaimed democratic and egalitarian values. He addresses how the British, European, and US bankers hijacked the American monetary system by placing it under control of the Money Trust through the creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913, how this then financed the British takedown of rival Germany, triggered the Great Depression by shipping US gold to Britain and Europe, and led to the Bretton Woods agreements, the creation of the International Monetary Fund, and the Marshall Plan, which combined to place the world’s economy under the control of the US dollar.
After World War II, the US financial oligarchs created the “national security
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state” headed by the CIA to rule the world through assassinations, financial thievery, and overthrow of governments. They elevated the Soviet Union into a bogeyman to justify the vast quantity of Federal Reserve “money printing” required to subsidize an out-of-control war budget and hundreds of US military bases around the world. These measures led to worldwide dollar supremacy under control of the Rockefeller dynasty, with the US National Security State―aka today’s “Deep State”―and the CIA set up to enforce the bankers’ financial hegemony that has lasted until now.
Finally Cook addresses his efforts, along with Stephen Zarlenga of the American Monetary Institute and Congressman Dennis Kucinich, that resulted in the NEED Act of 2011 intended to end the Federal Reserve, and restore democratic control over the nation’s financial system, explaining how such reforms could save the US from today’s terminal hollowed-out economy.
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“’History is written by the victors’, but not this book. Cook provides a comprehensive, meticulously detailed and accurate account of the events and forces that shaped the US from its creation, through its rise and current decline. The plight of the native inhabitants at the hands of the colonists and the supremacy of money powers and the deep states they control in shaping US and global policies are covered in depth. This is a fascinating must read for understanding the past and the post-neoliberal, civilizational world emerging from the current tectonic geopolitical change.” DR. FADI LAMA, International Adviser for the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
“Richard Cook takes you through an incredible journey of America’s true history with a sensitivity to the evil that was never fully extracted from the USA after the revolution of 1776 while also shedding light on the courage and goodness which gave rise to the best of the republic over its young life. If you want a look towards true hope for the future centered on solutions, then read Our Country, Then and Now.”
MATTHEW EHRET, Editor-in-Chief Canadian Patriot Review, author of The Clash of the
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Our Country, Then and Now is the perfect companion to Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. JOHN RACHEL, author of The US and Perpetual War and The Peace Dividend: The Most Controversial Proposal in the History of the World.
“A remarkable fresco of American history, drawn with an equally remarkable thoroughness, concision, and commitment to truth: it is not only the important testimony of an American with a deep knowledge and experience of government affairs but also the j’accuse of a citizen of the world telling the rich and detailed story of how the modern era has betrayed and defiled all our aspirations of peace, union and cooperation across nations, the aspirations of what America & the world should have been in this day and age.”
GUIDO GIACOMO PREPARATA,author of Conjuring Hitler and The Ideology of Tyranny.
“Richard Cook’s Our Country, Then and Now is a well-informed, balanced and affectionate yet brutally honest history of the United States. Unlike other alt-history books including Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States and James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me , Cook’s squarely faces the unpleasant and taboo fact that a usurious international banking cabal has brought our Republic to its knees.”
KEVIN BARRETT, Senior Editor, Veterans Today3