The Truth About the Global Economic Crisis: A Book Review

You want to read The Global Economic Crisis The Great Depression of the XXI Century, edited by Michel Chossudovsky and Andrew Gavin Marshall, if you meet these criteria: You appreciate the information and analysis on critically important issues that come from great thinkers outside the mainstream media. of communication and publishing world; can manage brain pain from detailed and brutally honest revelations; you are willing and able to challenge your own biases and preconceptions to let in new explanations of how the world really works.

If millions of Americans read this book, we would likely see a much stronger uprising against the political establishment that has refused to severely punish the countless culprits in the financial, banking, and mortgage sectors that brought down the US and world economic system.

This book brings together a host of factors in twenty chapters that reveal how corrupt the world has become due to the power of plutocratic, wealthy, and corporate interests. From the corporate boardrooms of Wall Street to the Federal Reserve and other central banks, to the US military and NATO, a multitude of threads are woven into a disturbing tapestry of crimes against society that have yet to be prosecuted.

This book is truly an instrument in the fight against brainwashing. If you are willing to spend some serious time reading it, you will surely be much more angered by the dismal state of the economy that is causing so much pain and suffering to ordinary people all over the world. If you have personally escaped the worst ravages of the economic crisis, then you will have far more compassion for those severely affected.

In all honesty, if the current global economic crisis has made you angry, pessimistic, fearful, paranoid, desperate, and worse, then this book will likely exacerbate all of those feelings. By revealing even more connections, implications, and causes, this book will motivate you to do whatever you can to fight the corporate and plutocratic forces that devastate the lives of ordinary people. If you already have little confidence in the government, it will only make things worse. Does all this mean that you should avoid reading it? Absolutely not.

Here are some statements from the book that resonated with me that you can use to decide if the overall philosophical orientation of the book is compatible with your views:

“The Wall Street Ponzi scheme was used to manipulate the market and transfer billions of dollars into the pockets of bankers.”

“Government rescue packages around the world are corporatist by their very nature, saving the capitalists at the expense of the people.”

“The global political economy is transforming into a global governance structure at the crossroads of a great financial crisis.”

Just gather the courage to read it, pull out several colored markers to highlight passages, and expand your knowledge to overcome all the hype that is constantly being thrown at you. We need more citizen unrest to fuel more public protests to overthrow the powers that have corrupted and perverted our government. A key voice in the mainstream media that is in sync with the painful messages in this book is Dylan Ratigan, who has an excellent daily show on MSNBC. He should also read this book timely.