ADVANCE PRAISE FOR CORPORATE CONSPIRACIES
America has lost its mind and Belzer and Wayne have found it. Here are hardcore stories of America selling its soul and democracy that have you saying Holy shit! every time you turn to a new page. Worth the price just for the tragic story of Robin Williamss Big Pharma-induced suicide. Burns into you like a fucking tattoo.
Greg Palast, journalist, New York Times bestselling author, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Get your hands on Corporate Conspiracies , read its succinct and extremely well-sourced and highly corroborated evidence, and finish with a substantial basis for your views, one that may knock you off your feet. This book is the real deal, and there isnt a wasted word in it. Its timing is frightening, its messages urgent. Run, dont walk, to get your hands on a copy.
William J. Martin, lawyer, former Chicago assistant states attorney, and author, The Crime of the Century
Corporate Conspiracies is a very timely and disturbing look at how controlled American society has become, with the average citizen completely unaware of the extent to which corporations have taken over our democracy. Big Brother is not only watching youhe is making decisions for you! You will never look at Wall Street, the corporate matrix, or your government the same way again after reading this book.
Vince Palamara, author of Survivors Guilt , JFK , and The Not-So-Secret Service
Insightful, poignant, and timely, Corporate Conspiracies is a must read for all who are concerned about the future of democracy and economic justice in our nation at a time of corporate greed and political chicanery.
Arthur Blaustein, author, Make a Difference , former chair of the National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity
Reading Corporate Conspiracies made me angry. It made me think. It also told me how we can all regain control over our fate as a nation. Richard Belzer and David Wayne show us that corporate conspiracy is real and hidden in plain sight.
William Matson Law, author of In the Eye of History: Disclosures in the JFK Assassination Medical Evidence
Corporate Conspiracies reveals what happens when conspiracy theory becomes conspiracy fact. Authors Belzer and Wayne tell us what we the people can do to get our democracy back. The need for this remarkable, meticulously researched volume has never been greater or more urgent. Start reading it now.
Alan Axelrod, author, Full Faith and Credit: The National Debt, Taxes, Spending, and the Bankrupting of America (Abbeville Press, 2016)
In Corporate Conspiracies Belzer and Wayne document the demise of our representative form of government. Ever since we legalized bribery of our public officials and the equating of money to free speech, we have become captive to what I believe is a form of economic slavery.
Len Colodny, New York Times bestselling coauthor, Silent Coup and Forty Years War
Belzer and Wayne authoritatively cite how corporations drive us to war, corrupt the election process, despoil the environment and our bodies and, tragically, more. This is an essential guide for restoring democracy in the US.
Brad Schreiber, author, Revolutions End: The Patty Hearst Kidnapping, Mind Control and the Secret History of Donald DeFreeze and the SLA
Belzer and Wayne provide a tough, candid view of the powers-that-be in the United States and the harsh impact of their manipulative actions on our lives. This no-holds-barred analysis tells us how things are rather than how we would prefer them to be.
J. Malcolm Garcia, author, What Wars Leave Behind: The Faceless and the Forgotten
Richard Belzer and David Wayne have raised some very provocative questions about the influence of corporate money on governmentfrom banks to the media and on to energy companies and everything in between. Though you may not agree with the answers, it never hurts to have your preconceptions challenged, and the authors have done just that.
Mike Farris, attorney, author of A Death in the Islands: The Unwritten Law and the Last Trial of Clarence Darrow
It is obvious that throughout Richard Belzers acting and comedy career, he remained a voracious reader and close observer of the corruption and decline of American democracy. Corporate Conspiracies is a useful and timely guidebook for those engaged in the battle to reclaim our government from the clutches of runaway corporate power.
Alexander Zaitchik, author, The Gilded Rage
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Print ISBN: 97815107-1126-6
Ebook ISBN: 97815107-1127-3
Printed in the United States of America
This book is dedicated to Robin Williams, and the other many thousands of victims of corporate greed.
May your sacrifices not have been in vain
CONTENTS
After the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked, Well, Doctor, what have we gota Republic or a Monarchy? Franklins response:
A Republicif you can keep it.
Jay Cost, A Republic No More: Big Government and the Rise of American Political Corruption (New York: Encounter Books, 2015).
INTRODUCTION
Of all the books we researched for this work, the title we loved the most was this one:
Regime Change Begins at Home: Freeing America from Corporate Rule
We love it because it presentsas a hard factsomething that very few people completely understand:
Since 1980, America has been run by a corporate regime that has co-opted both political parties and shifted sovereignty from we the people to transnational corporations.
Since this book covers some corporate conspiracies, we will, no doubt, take a lot of heat for that and be deridingly referred to as conspiracy theorists. So we would just like to remind people that the phrase conspiracy theorist was actually invented by the Central Intelligence Agency, to be used as a weaponized term with which to discourage people from seeking the truth. We kid you not. CIA Document 1035960 was dated April 1, 1967, regarding the Agencys concern about the reputation of the American government. That document also suggested various tactics for countering conspiratorial arguments which confronted the gaping holes critics observed in the findings of the Warren Commission which investigated (they did no such thing, in reality) the assassination of President Kennedy. The agency also directed its members [t]o employ propaganda assets to [negate] and refute the attacks of the critics. So, as you can see, and as the Freedom of Information Act release of that CIA document clearly reveals, the use of the term conspiracy theorist is actually a conspiracy itself. But if you believe (rightly) that Julius Caesar and hundreds of other leaders were the victims of conspirators (as they were), then youre an evil conspiracy theorist, right? Well, if anybody actually believes that, then youd better read up on your history, boys n girls. Because conspiracies are an ongoing and very common occurrence in human conduct.
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