3 stars
I thought it was a fine book, though not as great as its fans think it is. I found some of it quite fascinating, particularly relationships between the Fed and the bank of England. However I find Griffin's nationalism disgusting. It seems to shroud much of his understanding of history, economics, and politics. He also repeatedly talks about problems of capitalism, yet for some reason calls its socialism. (Like bankers and big corporations controlling entire economizes and political structures). My other concern is that this book was frist published in the 1990s, and although having been updated several time since then it is extremely out of date. Checks are near non-existent in 2021 in the US and have been for decades in much of the rest of the world. Younger audiences will have trouble following at all. returnreturnThe story line of war and its preparatory was also interesting and a …
I thought it was a fine book, though not as great as its fans think it is. I found some of it quite fascinating, particularly relationships between the Fed and the bank of England. However I find Griffin's nationalism disgusting. It seems to shroud much of his understanding of history, economics, and politics. He also repeatedly talks about problems of capitalism, yet for some reason calls its socialism. (Like bankers and big corporations controlling entire economizes and political structures). My other concern is that this book was frist published in the 1990s, and although having been updated several time since then it is extremely out of date. Checks are near non-existent in 2021 in the US and have been for decades in much of the rest of the world. Younger audiences will have trouble following at all. returnreturnThe story line of war and its preparatory was also interesting and a different look. He makes a decent argument that environmentalism is the "socialists" new substitute for war, but I think he under estimates the number of "Americans" who would totally believe an alien invasion.