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Ralph Nader
- Civic Arousal, by Ralph Nader
- Crashing the Party, by Ralph Nader
- Cutting Corporate Welfare, by Ralph Nader
- Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!, by Ralph Nader
- The Good Fight, by Ralph Nader
- The Seventeen Traditions, by Ralph Nader
- Unsafe At Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of The American Automobile, by Ralph Nader
HOW THE WORLD REALLY WORKS (From Third World Traveler)
The world does not work the way we have been led to believe - by our mainstream media, by our politicians, by our corporations, by our financial institutions, by our military, by our schools. We are bombarded daily with so much misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, half-truths, and outright lies, that it takes a persistent individual to sort through the fog of information to find the truth. The excerpted books on this website may help you destroy the myths, discover the truth, and educate yourself about how the world really works.
"During the past two centuries when the peoples of the world were gradually winning their political freedom from the dynastic monarchies, the major banking families of Europe and America were actually reversing the trend by setting up new dynasties of political control through the formation of international financial combines... these banking dynasties had learned that all governments must have sources of revenue from which to borrow in times of emergency. They had also learned that by providing such funds from their own private resources, they could make both kings and democratic leaders tremendously subservient to their will."
BOOKS IN THE SPOTLIGHT
- Tragedy & Hope - a history of the world in our time - Carroll Quigley
- Anglo-American Establishment, The - Carroll Quigley
- America's Secret Establishment - An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones - Antony Sutton
- Naked Capitalist, The - W. Cleon Skousen
- Report from Iron Mountain On the Possibility and Desirability of Peace
- Gods of Money - Wall Street and the Death of the American Century - F. William Engdahl
- Century of War, A - Anglo-American Oil Politics & New World Order - William Engdahl
- Superclass - the Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making - David Rothkopf
- Creature from Jekyll Island, The - the creation of the Federal Reserve - G. Edward Griffin
- Committee of 300, The - the New World Order and the Conspirator's Hierarchy - John Coleman
- Power Elite, The - C. Wright Mills
- Bilderberg Group, The - Daniel Estulin
- Web of Debt - The Shocking Truth About Our Money System - Ellen Hodgson Brown
- Big Oil and Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf - Dean Henderson
- DOPE, INC. - Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) - 1986 & 1992
- Treasure Islands - Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World - Nicholas Shaxson
- American Conspiracies - Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies that the Government Tells Us - Jesse Ventura with Dick Russell
- JFK - The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy - L. Fletcher Prouty
- Iron Triangle, The - Carlyle Group - Dan Briody
- Trilateralism - the Trilateral Commission and World Management - Holly Sklar
- Powers That Be, The - G. William Domhoff
- Who Rules America Now? - G. William Domhoff
- Shock Doctrine, The - the Rise of Disaster Capitalism - Naomi Klein
"We are ruled, though it may be difficult to imagine, by a small dynastic power structure, largely consisting of powerful banking families, such as the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, and others. They emerged in controlling the financial system, extended their influence over the political system, the educational system, and, through the major foundations, have become the dominant social powers of our world, creating think tanks and other institutions which shape and change the course of society and modern human history.
New World Order
- How The World Really Works - Alan B. Jones [a review of several books that can help readers acquire the essential knowledge necessary to understand how the world really works]
- 9/11 Synthetic Terror - made in the USA - Webster Griffin Tarpley
- 9/11 and American Empire - Intellectuals Speak Out - edited by David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott
- America's Secret Establishment - An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones - Antony Sutton
- Anglo-American Establishment, The - Carroll Quigley
- Bilderberg Group, The - Daniel Estulin
- Brave New World Order
- Brave New World Revisited -Aldous Huxley
- Case Against the Fed, The - Murray N. Rothbard
- Clash of Civilizations, The - Samuel P. Huntington
- Committee of 300, The - The Conspirator's Hierarchy - John Coleman
- Creature from Jekyll Island, The - the Federal Reserve - G. Edward Griffin
- Descent Into Slavery? - Des Griffin
- DOPE, INC. - the book that drove Henry Kissinger crazy - Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) - 1986 & 1992
- Economic Elite, The vs The People of the United States of America - David Degraw
- Elite Consensus, The - When Corporations Wield the Constitution - George Draffan (POCLAD)
- Final Warning - A History of the New World Order - David Allen Rivera
- Fourth Reich of the Rich - Des Griffin
- Full Spectrum Dominance - U.S. Power in Iraq and Beyond
- Global Economic Crisis, The, Great Depression of XXI Century - Michel Chossudovsky and Andrew Gavin Marshall, Editors
- Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order, The - Michel Chossudovsky
- Gods of Money - Wall Street and the Death of the American Century
- Greening, The - Environmentalists' Drive for Global Power - Larry Abraham with Franklin Sanders
- Hidden Evil, The - The Financial Elite's Covert War Against the Civilian Population - Mark M. Rich
- Imperial Brain Trust - Council on Foreign Relations - Lawrence Shoup and William Minter
- Naked Capitalist, The - W. Cleon Skousen
- None Dare Call It Conspiracy - Gary Allen
- Power Elite, The - E. Wright Mills
- Powers That Be, The - G. William Domhoff
- Project for the New American Century - from Robbing Us Blind
- Report from Iron Mountain On the Possibility and Desirability of Peace
- Road to 9/11, The - Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America - Peter Dale Scott
- Rockefeller File, The - Gary Allen
- Secrets of the Federal Reserve, The - Eustace Mullins
- Secret Team, The - the CIA and its Allies in Control of the United States and the World - L. Fletcher Prouty
- Seeds of Destruction - the Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation - F. William Engdahl
- Shadow Masters - Daniel Estulin
- Shadows of Power, The - Council on Foreign Relations and American Decline - James Perloff
- Shock Doctrine, The - the Rise of Disaster Capitalism - Naomi Klein
- Superclass - the Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making - David Rothkopf
- Treasure Islands - Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World - Nicholas Shaxson
- Trilateralism - the Trilateral Commission and World Management - Holly Sklar
- Web of Debt - The Shocking Truth About Our Money System - Ellen Hodgson Brown
- Who Rules America Now? - G. William Domhoff
"The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim - nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements [BIS] in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations ... Each central bank sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world."
Democracy/Society/Politics
- 1984 - George Orwell (1949)
- Act of State, An - the execution of Martin Luther King - William F. Pepper
- Age of American Unreason, The - Susan Jacoby
- America Challenged - William O. Douglas
- America Right or Wrong - an Anatomy of American Nationalism - Anatol Lieven
- American Conspiracies - Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies that the Government Tells Us - Jesse Ventura with Dick Russell
- American Dynasty - Kevin Phillips
- American Fascists - Christian Right and War on America - Chris Hedges
- American Holocaust - David Stannard
- American Police State, The - the government against the people - David Wise
- American Theocracy - radical religion, oil, and borrowed money in the 21st century - Kevin Phillips
- America's Secret Establishment - An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones - Antony Sutton
- Another World Is Possible - Ed. Jee Kim, Jeremy Glick, et al
- Assassinations,The - Probe magazine investigations into the assassinations of John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy
- Atheism - The Case Against God - George H. Smith
- Banana Republicans - Rampton and Stauber
- Best Democracy Money Can Buy, The - Greg Palast
- Broken Promises of America, The - at home and abroad, past and present - Volumes 1 & 2 - Douglas Dowd
- Buried Alive - Walter KarpBurning All Illusions - David Edwards
- Clash of Fundamentalisms, The - Tariq Ali
- Class. Caste & Hierarchies - the No-Nonsense guide - Jeremy Seabrook
- Class War in America - Charles M. Kelly
- Cocaine Politics - Peter Dale Scott
- Common Good - Noam Chomsky
- Conscience of a Liberal, The - Paul Krugman
- Conservatives Without Conscience - by John Dean
- Contrary Notions -The Michael Parenti Reader
- Corruption of American Politics, The - Elizabeth Drew
- Crashing the Party - Ralph Nader
- Creature from Jekyll Island, The - the Federal Reserve - G. Edward Griffin
- Crossing the Rubicon - The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil - Michael Ruppert
- Dark Ages America - Morris Berman
- Decline and Fall of the American Empire, The - Gore Vidal
- Democracy - the No-Nonsense guide - Richard Swift
- Democratic Facade, The
- Democracy Matters - Cornel West
- Deterring Democracy - Noam Chomsky
- Dirty Truths - Michael Parenti
- Dollars and Votes - Dan Clawson, Alan Neustadtl & Mark Weller
- DOPE, INC. - the book that drove Henry Kissinger crazy - Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) - 1986 & 1992
- Dude, where's my country? - Michael Moore
- Eagle's Shadow, The - Mark Hertzgaard
- Economic Elite, The vs The People of the United States of America - David Degraw
- Eleanor: The Years Alone - Joseph Lash
- Eleanor Roosevelt - The Defining Years 1933-1938 - Blanche Wiesen Cooke
- Elite Consensus, The - When Corporations Wield the Constitution - George Draffan (POCLAD)
- End of America, The - Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot - Naomi Wolf
- End of Faith, The - Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason - Sam Harris
- False Hope - Normon Solomon
- Farewell To Justice, A - Jim Garrison, JFK's assassination, and the case that should have changed history - Joan Mellen
- Final Judgment - missing link in JFK assassination conspiracy - Michael Collins Piper
- Fixing Elections - Steven Hill
- Freethinkers - a history of American secularism - Susan Jacoby
- Gag Rule - Suppression of Dissent & Stifling of Democracy - Lewis Lapham
- George H W Bush: The Unauthorized Biography - Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin
- Global Economic Crisis, The, Great Depression of XXI Century - Michel Chossudovsky and Andrew Gavin Marshall, Editors
- God Delusion, The - Richard Dawkins
- God and Religion - Bertrand Russell
- Gods of Money - Wall Street and the Death of the American Century
- Great Unraveling, The - Paul Krugman
- Hidden Evil, The - The Financial Elite's Covert War Against the Civilian Population - Mark M. Rich
- Hijacking Catastrophe - ed. Sut Jhally and Jeremy Earp
- Hoax - the difference in world view between the U.S. and everybody else - Nicholas Von Hoffman
- Hotel America - Lewis Lapham
- How Democratic is the American Constitution - Robert A. Dahl
- How the Left Can Win Arguments and Influence People - John K. Wilson
- How to Overthrow the Government - Arianna Huffington
- Imperial America - Gore Vidal
- In Banks We Trust - money making, lending, and laundering from boardrooms to back alleys - Penny Lernoux
- Indispensable Enemies - the politics of misrule in America - Walter Karp
- Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, The - John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
- It Did Happen Here - Bud Schultz & Ruth Schultz
- JFK - The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy - L. Fletcher Prouty
- JFK and the Unspeakable - Why He Died and Why It Matters - James W. Douglass
- Last Days of Democracy, The - Elliot Cohen and Bruce Fraser
- LBJ: The Mastermind of JFK's Assassination - Phillip F. Nelson
- Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris
- Liberty Under Siege - Walter Karp
- Man Who Sold the World, The - Ronald Reagan and Betrayal of Main Street America - William Kleinknecht
- Middle Mind , The - Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves - Curtis White
- Moral Politics - George Lakoff
- New World Order, The - H.G. Wells (originally published 1950)
- Myth America: Democracy vs. Capitalism - William H. Boyer
- Necessary Illusions - Noam Chomsky
- Nemesis - the Last Days of the American Republic - Chalmers Johnson
- New American Militarism, The - Andrew Bacevich
- New Pearl Harbor, The - David Ray Griffin
- New Progressive Era, The
- No Mercy - Jean Stefancic & Richard Delgado
- On Democracy - Robert Dahl
- Paradox of American Democracy, The - John Judis
- Philosophic Roots of Modern Ideology, The - Liberalism & Fascism - David Ingersoll & Richard Matthews
- Points of Rebellion - William O. Douglas
- Political Fictions - Joan Didion
- Political Ponerology - a science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes - Andrew M. Lobaczewski
- Politics of Meaning, The - Michael Lerner
- Politics of Lying, The - David Wise
- Power Elite, The - C. Wright Mills
- Powers That Be, The - G. William Domhoff
- Pretensions to Empire - Lewis Lapham
- Price of Power, The - Seymour Hersh
- Private Power and American Democracy - Grant McConnell
- Propaganda - The Formation of Men's Attitudes - Jacques Ellul
- Propaganda - Edward Bernays (1928)
- Ralph Nader Reader
- Report from Iron Mountain On the Possibility and Desirability of Peace
- Road to 9/11, The - Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America - Peter Dale Scott
- Robbing Us Blind - Steve Brouwer
- Ruling America - a history of wealth and power in a democracy - Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle
- Secrecy & Privilege - Rise of the Bush Dynasty - Robert Parry
- Secrets of the Federal Reserve, The - Eustace Mullins
- Secret Team, The - the CIA and its Allies in Control of the United States and the World - L. Fletcher Prouty
- Seeds of Destruction - the Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation - F. William Engdahl
- Selling Out - Mark Green
- Silencing Political Dissent - Nancy Chang
- Static - Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders and the People Who Fight Back - Amy Goodman and David Goodman
- Stupid White Men - Michael Moore
- Superclass - the Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making - David Rothkopf
- Superpatriotism - Michael Parenti
- Taking Back America - edited by Katrina Vanden Heuvel and Robert L. Borosage
- They Dare To Speak Out - People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby - Paul Findley
- Third Parties in America - Steven Rosenstone, Roy Behr, Edward Lazarus
- This Can't Be Happening- Disintegration of American Democracy - Dave Lindorff
- Toward an American Revolution - Jerry Fresia
- Tree of Liberty, The - Nicholas Kittrie & Eldon Wedlock
- Treasure Islands - Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World - Nicholas Shaxson
- Truman Era, The - I.F. Stone
- Twight of American Culture, The - Morris Berman
- Twilight of Democracy, The - The Bush Plan for America - Jennifer Van Bergen
- Ultimate Sacrifice - Plan for a Coup in Cuba and the murder of JFK - Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann
- USA - Rights for All - Amnesty International
- Voices of a People's History of the United States - H Zinn/A Arnove
- Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler - Anthony Sutton
- Wall Street and FDR - Antony Sutton
- War at Home, The - Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism - Frances Fox Piven
- War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning - Chris Hedges
- Washington on $10 million a Day - Ken Silverstein
- Wealth and Democracy - Kevin Phillips
- Web of Debt - The Shocking Truth About Our Money System - Ellen Hodgson Brown
- What's the Matter with Kansas? - Thomas Frank
- Who Killed JFK? - Carl Olgesby
- Who Killed Martin Luther King? - Phillip Melanson
- Who Killed Robert Kennedy? - Phillip Melanson
- Who Rules America Now? - G. William Domhoff
- Why Americans Don't Vote - Francis Fox Piven & Richard Cloward
- Why I Am Not a Christian - Bertrand Russell
- Why Societies Need Dissent - Cass R. Sunstein
"More than fifty years ago the [J.P.] Morgan firm decided to infiltrate the Left-wing political movements in the United States. This was relatively easy to do, since these groups were starved for funds and eager for a voice to reach the people. Wall Street supplied both. The purpose was not to destroy ... or take over but was really threefold: (1) to keep informed about the thinking of Left-wing or liberal groups; (2) to provide them with a mouthpiece so that they could "blow off steam," and (3) to have a final veto on their publicity and possibly on their actions, if they ever went "radical".
Foreign Policy
- Africa Doesn't Matter - how the West has failed the poorest continent - Giles Bolton
- Against Empire - Michael Parenti
- After the Cataclysm - Noam Chomsky / Edward Herman
- America Besieged - Michael Parenti
- America Right or Wrong - an Anatomy of American Nationalism - Anatol Lieven
- American Conspiracies - Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies that the Government Tells Us - Jesse Ventura with Dick Russell
- American Empire - Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy - Andrew Bacevich
- An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire - Arundhati Roy
- Arms Trade - the No-Nonsense guide - Gideon Burrows
- Betraying the National Interest - Francis Moore Lappe', R Schuman & K Danaher
- Bilderberg Group, The - Daniel Estulin
- Bioterror Manufacturing Wars the American Way - ed. E Ray & W Schaap
- Blowback - Chalmers Johnson
- Boomerang - Mark Zepezauer
- Bush Agenda, The - Invading the World, One Economy at a Time - Antonia Juhasz
- Censored Foreign Policy stories - Project Censored
- Citizens of the Empire - Robert Jensen
- Century of War, A - Anglo-American Oil Politics & New World Order - William Engdahl
- Clash of Fundamentalisms, The - Tariq Ali
- Colombia and the United States - War & Destabilization - Mario Murillo
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins
- Confronting Empire - Eqbal Ahmad
- Contrary Notions -The Michael Parenti Reader
- Covert Action - the Roots of Terrorism - ed. E. Ray & W. Schaap
- Crossing the Rubicon - The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil - Michael Ruppert
- Cry of the People - Penny Lernoux
- Damning the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment - Peter Hallward
- Dark Victory - Walden Bello
- Deliver Us From Evil - William Shawcross
- Distant Voices - John Pilger
- DOPE, INC. - the book that drove Henry Kissinger crazy - Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) - 1986 & 1992
- Draft Registration and The Law - R. Charles Johnson
- Dreaming War - Gore Vidal
- Drugs, Oil, and War - The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina - Peter Dale Scott
- Elite Consensus, The - When Corporations Wield the Constitution - George Draffan (POCLAD)
- Empire As A Way Of Life - William Appleman Williams
- Empire Has No Clothes, The - Ivan Eland
- Empire's Workshop - Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism - Greg Grandin
- Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, The - Ilan Pappe
- Exception to the Rulers, The - Amy Goodman
- Eyes of the Heart - Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Final Judgment - missing link in JFK assassination conspiracy - Michael Collins Piper
- Fortress America - William Greider
- Freeing the World to Death - essays on the american empire - William Blum
- Full Spectrum Dominance - Rahul Mahajan
- Full Spectrum Dominance - Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order - F. William Engdahl
- Getting Haiti Right This Time - The U.S. and the Coup - Noam Chomsky, Paul Farmer, Amy Goodman
- Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order, The - Michel Chossudovsky
- Gods of Money - Wall Street and the Death of the American Century
- Hidden Agendas - John Pilger
- Hidden Evil, The - The Financial Elite's Covert War Against the Civilian Population - Mark M. Rich
- Hoax - the difference in world view between the U.S. and everybody else - Nicholas Von Hoffman
- Holocaust Industry, The - Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering - Norman Finkelstein
- Howard Zinn on War
- How Much Are You Making On The War Daddy? - William D. Hartung
- Imperial Alibis - Stephen Shalom
- In the Name of Democracy - Thomas Carothers
- In the Name of Democracy - American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond - edited by Jeremy Brecher, Jill Cutler, and Brendan Smith
- Intervention and Revolution - Richard Barnet
- Intimate History of Killing, An - in 20th-century warfare - Joanna Bourke
- Iran Contra Connection, The - Johnathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott & Jane Hunter
- Israeli Foreign Policy - Jane Hunter
- Israel and Latin America: The Military Connection - Bishara Bahbah
- Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, The - John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
- Killing Hope - William Blum
- Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel - Israel Shahak & Norton Mezvinsky
- JFK - The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy - L. Fletcher Prouty
- Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo (1939)
- Lawless World - how Bush and Blair are taking the law into their own hands - Philippe Sands
- Limits of Power, The - the End of American Exceptionalism - Andrew Bacevich
- Lying for Empire - by David Model
- Masters of War - ed. Carl Boggs
- MountainsOver Mountains - Tracy Kidder
- Nemesis - the Last Days of the American Republic - Chalmers Johnson
- New American Militarism, The - Andrew Bacevich
- New Rulers of the World, The - John Pilger
- New World Order, The - H.G. Wells (originally published 1950)
- Nuclear Power Is Not The Answer - Hellen Caldicott
- Open Veins of Latin America - Five Centuries of Pillage of a Continent - Eduardo Galeano
- Other Israel, The - edited by Roane Cary and Jonathan Shainin
- Overthrow - Stephen Kinzer
- Pathologies of Power - Paul Farmer
- Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace - Gore Vidal
- Politics of War, The - the story of two wars which altered forever the political life of the American republic - Walter Karp
- Power of Israel in the United States, The - James Petras
- Power Trip - ed. John Feffer
- Pox Americana - edited by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney
- Praetorian Guard, The - John Stockwell
- Predatory States - Operation Condor in Latin America - J. Patrice McSherry
- Problem from Hell, A - America and the Age of Genocide - Samantha Power
- Profit Over People - Noam Chomsky
- Profits of War - Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network - Ari Ben-Menashe
- Reagan, Trilateralism and the Neoliberals - Holly Sklar
- Road to 9/11, The - Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America - Peter Dale Scott
- Rogue State - William Blum
- Rogue State - T. D. Allman
- Rogue States - Noam Chomsky
- Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws - Michael Klare
- Secrets of the Federal Reserve, The - Eustace Mullins
- Secret History of the American Empire, The - John Perkins
- Secrets, Lies, and Democracy - Noam Chomsky
- Secret Team, The - the CIA and its Allies in Control of the United States and the World - L. Fletcher Prouty
- Seeds of Destruction - the Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation - F. William Engdahl
- Shadow Masters - Daniel Estulin
- Sorrows of Empire, The - Chalmers Johnson
- State Terrorism and the United States - Frederick Gareau
- Superclass - the Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making - David Rothkopf
- Super Power Syndrome - Robert J. Lifton
- Sword and the Dollar - Michael Parenti
- Tainted Legacy - 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights - William Schulz
- Target Iraq - Norman Solomon
- They Dare To Speak Out - People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby - Paul Findley
- Tinderbox - Stephen Zunes
- Treasure Islands - Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World - Nicholas Shaxson
- Trial of Henry Kissinger, The - Christopher Hitchins
- Trilateralism - Holly Sklar
- Ultimate Sacrifice - Plan for a Coup in Cuba and the murder of JFK - Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann
- Unbroken Agony, An - Haiti, from Revolution to Kidnapping of a President - Randall Robinson
- Uneasy Empire - Greg Guma
- United States of Europe, The - the new superpower and the end of American supremacy by T. R. Reid
- Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution - Antony Sutton
- Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler - Antony Sutton
- War and Globalisation - Michel Chossudovsky
- War Crimes - US War Crimes Against Iraq - Ramsey Clark
- War Is A Racket - General Smedley D. Butler (1935)
- War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning - Chris Hedges
- War Is A Lie - David Swanson
- War Made Easy - Norman Solomon
- War Talk - Arundhati Roy
- Weapons in Space - Karl Grossman
- What Uncle Sam Really Wants - Noam Chomsky
- When China Rules the World - Martin Jacques
- Zionism in the Age of the Dictators - Lenni Brenner
"There is a transnational ruling class, a "Superclass", that agrees on establishing a world government. The middle class is targeted for elimination, because most of the world has no middle class, and to fully integrate and internationalize a middle class, would require industrialization and development in Africa, and certain places in Asia and Latin America. The goal of the Superclass is not to lose their wealth and power to a transnational middle class, but rather to extinguish the notion of a middle class, and transnationalize a lower, uneducated, labor oriented class, through which they will secure ultimate wealth and power.
The global economic crisis serves these ends, as whatever remaining wealth the middle class holds is in the process of being eliminated, and as the crisis progresses, the middle classes of the world will suffer, while a great percentage of lower classes of the world, poverty-stricken even prior to the crisis, will suffer the greatest, most probably leading to a massive reduction in population levels, particularly in the "underdeveloped" or "Third World" states."
Third World
- Africa Doesn't Matter - How the West has failed the poorest continent - Giles Bolton
- Betraying the National Interest - Francis Moore Lappe', R Schuman & K Danaher
- Boomerang - Mark Zepezauer
- Brave New World Order - Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer
- Clash of Civilizations, The - Huntington
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins
- Confronting the Third World - Gabriel Kolko
- Covert Action - the Roots of Terrorism - ed. E. Ray & W. Schaap
- Cry of the People - Penny Lernoux
- Disposable People - New Slavery in the Global Economy - Kevin Bales
- DOPE, INC. - the book that drove Henry Kissinger crazy - Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) - 1986 & 1992
- Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order, The - Michel Chossudovsky
- Heroes - John Pilger
- Ideal Illusions - How the U.S. Government Co-opted Human Rights - James Peck
- In the Name of Democracy - Thomas Carothers
- International Development - the No-Nonsense guide
- In Search of Enemies - John Stockwell
- Intervention and Revolution - Richard Barnet
- Killing Hope - William Blum
- Low Intensity Warfare - Michael Klare & Peter Kornbluh
- Power Politics - Arundhati Roy
- Predatory States - Operation Condor in Latin America - J. Patrice McSherry
- Problem from Hell, A - America and the Age of Genocide - Samantha Power
- Prosperous Few and the Restless Many - Noam Chomsky
- Resource Wars - Michael Klare
- Rollback - Tom Bodenheimer and Robert Gould
- Secret History of the American Empire, The - John Perkins
- Secrets, Lies, and Democracy - Noam Chomsky
- Seeds of Destruction - the Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation - F. William Engdahl
- Shock Doctrine, The - the Rise of Disaster Capitalism - Naomi Klein
- Sideshow - William Shawcross
- Tainted Legacy - 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights - William Schulz
- Twentieth Century Dictatorships - Paul Brooker
- Upside Down - Eduardo Galeano
- Views from the South - Sarah Anderson
- Year 501 - Noam Chomsky
"The people will believe what the media tells them they believe."
Empire
- Against Empire
- An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire - Arundhati Roy
- Century of War, A - Anglo-American Oil Politics & New World Order - William Engdahl
- Citizens of the Empire - Robert Jensen
- Confronting Empire - Eqbal Ahmad
- Decline and Fall of the American Empire, The - Gore Vidal
- Elite Consensus, The - When Corporations Wield the Constitution - George Draffan (POCLAD)
- Empire As A Way Of Life - William Appleman Williams
- Empire Has No Clothes, The - Ivan Eland
- Empire's Workshop - Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism - Greg Grandin
- Full Spectrum Dominance - Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order - F. William Engdahl
- Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order, The - Michel Chossudovsky
- Gods of Money - Wall Street and the Death of the American Century
- Lying for Empire - by David Model
- Nemesis - the Last Days of the American Republic - Chalmers Johnson
- Predatory States - Operation Condor in Latin America - J. Patrice McSherry
- Pretensions to Empire - Lewis Lapham
- Road to 9/11, The - Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America - Peter Dale Scott
- Rulers and Ruled in the US Empire - Bankers, Zionists, Militants - James Petras
- Secret History of the American Empire, The - John Perkins
- Secrets of the Federal Reserve, The - Eustace Mullins
- Seeds of Destruction - the Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation - F. William Engdahl
- Shadow Masters - Daniel Estulin
- Sorrows of Empire, The - Chalmers Johnson
- Treasure Islands - Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World - Nicholas Shaxson
- Uneasy Empire - Greg Guma
"There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy... What an aggressive foreign policy accomplishes by slow degrees, a state of war accomplishes in a trice. Overnight [war] kills reform, overnight it transforms insurgents into traitors and the Republic into an imperiled realm. Overnight it strangles free politics, distracts and overawes the citizenry. Overnight it blasts public hope."
Media
- American Conspiracies - Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies that the Government Tells Us - Jesse Ventura with Dick Russell
- Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman
- Bad News - The Decline of Reporting - Tom Fenton
- Censored Foreign Policy stories - Project Censored
- Conglomerates and the Media - Erik Barnouw, et al
- Corporate Media & Threat to Democracy - McChesney
- Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting - David Barsamian
- Information War - Nancy Snow
- Inventing Reality - Michael Parenti
- It's the Media, Stupid - McChesney and Nichols
- Free Press, The - an essay on manipulation of news and opinion - Hilaire Belloc
- George Seldes Reader, The - Randolph T. Holhut
- Global Media - the No-Nonsense guide - Peter Steven
- How To Watch TV News - Neil Postman and Steve Powers
- Manufacturing Consent - N Chomsky/E Herman
- Media Control - Noam Chomsky
- Media Monopoly, The - Ben Bagdikian
- Nation Magazine, The - Selections 1865-1990
- Necessary Illusions
- Networks of Power-Corporate TV Threat to Democracy - Dennie Mazzocco
- New Media Monopoly, The - Ben Bagdikian
- News About the News, The - Leonard Downie and Robert Kaiser
- On Bended Knee - Mark Hertsgaard
- Our Media Not Theirs - McChesney and NicholsPentagon Propaganda Machine, The - J. William Fulbright
- Problem of the Media, The - Robert McChesney
- Project Censored-annual report on censored stories
- Propaganda - The Formation of Men's Attitudes - Jacques Ellul
- Propaganda - Edward Bernays (1928)
- Propaganda, Inc. - Nancy Snow
- Republican Noise Machine, The - David Brock
- Rich Media, Poor Democracy - Robert McChesney
- Static - Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders and the People Who Fight Back - Amy Goodman and David Goodman
- Stenographers to Power - media and propaganda - David Barsamian interviews
- Through the Media Looking Glass - Jeff Cohen & Norman Solomon
- Toxic Sludge Is Good For You - John Stauber & Sheldon Rampton
- Tragedy & Farce - Robert McChesney and John Nichols
- Trust Us, We're Experts! - John Stauber & Sheldon Rampton
- Twenty Years of Censored News - Project Censored / Peter Phillips
- Unreliable Sources - Normon Solomon
- War, Lies & Videotape - International Action Center
- What Liberal Media? - Eric Alterman
- What Orwell Didn't Know - Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics - edited by Andras Szanto
- What the People Know - Freedom and the Press - Richard Reeves
- Wizads of Media OZ - Normon Solomon
"Americans are too broadly underinformed to digest nuggets of information that seem to contradict what they know of the world... Instead, news channels prefer to feed Americans a constant stream of simplified information, all of which fits what they already know. That way they don't have to devote more air time or newsprint space to explanations or further investigations."
FBI /CIA / NSA
- Act of State, An - the execution of Martin Luther King - William F. Pepper
- American Conspiracies - Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies that the Government Tells Us - Jesse Ventura with Dick Russell
- American Police State, The - the government against the people - David Wise
- Boomerang - Mark Zepezauer
- Break-ins, Death Threats and the FBI - Ross Gelbspan
- Challenging the Secret Government - K Olmsted
- CIA Diary - Philip AgeeCIA's Greatest Hits - Mark Zapezauer
- Covert Action - the Roots of Terrorism - ed. E. Ray & W. Schaap
- Deadly Deceits - Ralph McGehee
- DOPE, INC. - the book that drove Henry Kissinger crazy - Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) - 1986 & 1992
- Farewell To Justice, A - Jim Garrison, JFK's assassination, and the case that should have changed history - Joan Mellen
- George H W Bush: The Unauthorized Biography - Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin
- Inside the Shadow Government - National Emergencies and Cult of Secrecy - Harry Helms
- JFK - The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy - L. Fletcher Prouty
- JFK and the Unspeakable - Why He Died and Why It Matters - James W. Douglass
- Lawless State, The - Morton Halperin
- LBJ: The Mastermind of JFK's Assassination - Phillip F. Nelson
- Predatory States - Operation Condor in Latin America - J. Patrice McSherry
- Road to 9/11, The - Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America - Peter Dale Scott
- Safe For Democracy - the Secret Wars of the CIA - John Prados
- Secret Government, The - Bill Moyers
- Secrets - CIA's war at home - Angus Mackenzie
- Secret Team, The - the CIA and its Allies in Control of the United States and the World - L. Fletcher Prouty
- War At Home - Covert Action Against U.S. Activists - Brian Glick
"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine."
Fascism
- Act of State, An - the execution of Martin Luther King - William F. Pepper
- American Axis, The - Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and Rise of Third Reich - Max Wallace
- American Conspiracies - Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies that the Government Tells Us - Jesse Ventura with Dick Russell
- Anatomy of Fascism - Robert O. Paxton
- Blowback - Christopher Simpson
- Fascism- a very short introduction - Kevin Passmore
- Fascism - Past, Present and Future - W Laqueur
- Friendly Fascism - Bertram Gross
- It Did Happen Here - Bud Schultz & Ruth Schultz
- Splendid Blond Beast, The - Christopher Simpson
- Trading with the Enemy - Charles Higham
- Washington Connection & Third World Fascism - Chomsky/Herman
- Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler - Anthony Sutton
"We have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population.... Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and daydreaming, and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world benefaction.... We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better."
Terrorism
- 9-11 - Noam Chomsky
- 9/11 and American Empire - Intellectuals Speak Out - edited by David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott
- 9/11 Synthetic Terror - made in the USA - Webster Griffin Tarpley
- Act of State, An - the execution of Martin Luther King - William F. Pepper
- American Conspiracies - Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies that the Government Tells Us - Jesse Ventura with Dick Russell
- America's "War On Terrorism" - Michel Chossudovsky
- Behind the War on Terror - Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
- Blowback - Chalmers Johnson
- Culture of Terrorism, The - Noam Chomsky
- DOPE, INC. - the book that drove Henry Kissinger crazy - Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) - 1986 & 1992
- Hidden Terrors - A.J. Langguth
- New Pearl Harbor, The - David Ray Griffin
- Real Terror Network, The - Edward S. Herman
- September 11 and the U.S. War - Roger Burbach & Ben Clarke
- Terrorism, No-Nonsense guide to - Jonathan Barker
- Terrorism and the Constitution - David Cole & James Dempsey
- Terrorism and War - Howard Zinn
- Terrorism Trap, The - Michael Parenti
- Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People - John Conroy
"Throughout much of its history, the AFL-CIO and other U.S. labor organizations have worked with CIA and multi-national corporations to overthrow democratically-elected governments, collaborated with dictators against progressive labor movements, supported reactionary labor movements against progressive governments, worked with corporate America to organize racist and protectionist campaigns against foreign countries, and encouraged racist campaigns against immigrant workers."
Economics / Labor / Banks
- Against the Conventional Wisdom - Doug Dowd
- Big Oil and Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf - Dean Henderson
- Class War in America - Charles M. Kelly
- Crisis of Global Capitalism, The - George Soros
- Creature from Jekyll Island, The - the Federal Reserve - G. Edward Griffin
- Descent Into Slavery? - Des Griffin
- DOPE, INC. - the book that drove Henry Kissinger crazy - Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) - 1986 & 1992
- Downsize This! - Michael Moore
- Economic Elite, The vs The People of the United States of America - David Degraw
- Empire of "The City" - E. C. Knuth
- Global Economic Crisis, The, Great Depression of XXI Century - Michel Chossudovsky and Andrew Gavin Marshall, Editors
- Gods of Money - Wall Street and the Death of the American Century
- Great Unraveling, The - Paul Krugman
- History of Money and Banking in the United States, A - Murray N. Rothbard
- In Banks We Trust - money making, lending, and laundering from boardrooms to back alleys - Penny Lernoux
- Robbing Us Blind - Steve Brouwer
- Secrets of the Federal Reserve, The - Eustace Mullins
- Seeds of Destruction - the Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation - F. William Engdahl
- Shafted - Free Trade and America's Working Poor
- Sharing the Pie - Steve Brouwer
- Take the Rich Off Welfare - Mark Zepezauer
- Treasure Islands - Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World - Nicholas Shaxson
- Web of Debt - The Shocking Truth About Our Money System - Ellen Hodgson Brown
- Workers of the World Undermined
"To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition should be called what it really is: democracy, or democratic dissent, or having a critical perspective about what your leaders are doing. Either we have the right to democratic dissent and criticism of these policies or we all lie down and let the leader, the Fuhrer, do what is best, while we follow uncritically, and obey whatever he commands. That's just what the Germans did with Hitler, and look where it got them."
Corporations / Globalization
- Bad Samaritans - the Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism - Ha-Joon Chang
- Brave New World Order - Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer
- Bush Agenda, The - Invading the World, One Economy at a Time - Antonia Juhasz
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins
- Corporate Predators - Russel Mokhiber & Robert Weissman
- Corporation Nation - Charles Derber
- Corporations Are Gonna Get Your Mama - Kevin Danaher
- Cutting Corporate Welfare - Ralph Nader
- DOPE, INC. - the book that drove Henry Kissinger crazy - Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) - 1986 & 1992
- Elite Consensus, The - When Corporations Wield the Constitution - George Draffan (POCLAD)
- Global Economic Crisis, The, Great Depression of XXI Century - Michel Chossudovsky and Andrew Gavin Marshall, Editors
- Global Village or Global Pillage - Jeremy Brecher
- Globalization - the No-Nonsense guide - Wayne Ellwood
- Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform - Gary Teeple
- Globalization Unmasked - James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer
- Globalization and Its Discontents - Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Globalize This! - Kevin Danaher & Roger Burbach
- Gods of Money - Wall Street and the Death of the American Century
- In Banks We Trust - money making, lending, and laundering from boardrooms to back alleys - Penny Lernoux
- Iron Triangle, The - Carlyle Group - Dan BriodyOne World, Ready or Not - William Greider
- Pigs at the Trough - Arianna HuffingtonPost-Corporate World, The - David Korten
- Road to 9/11, The - Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America - Peter Dale Scott
- Second World, The - How Emerging Powers Are Redefining Global Competition in the Twenty-first Century - Parag Khanna
- Secret Team, The - the CIA and its Allies in Control of the United States and the World - L. Fletcher Prouty
- Seeds of Deception - Genetically Engineered Food - Jeffrey M. Smith
- Seeds of Destruction - the Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation - F. William Engdahl
- Shock Doctrine, The - the Rise of Disaster Capitalism - Naomi Klein
- Silent Takeover, The - Norena Hertz
- Superclass - the Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making - David Rothkopf
- Unequal Protection - Thom Hartmann
- Wall Street and FDR - Antony Sutton
- When Corporations Rule the World - David Korten
- Water Wars - Vandana Shiva
- World on Fire - Amy Chua
- World Poverty - Jeremy Seabrook
- WTO, The - Lori Wallach & Michelle Sforza
"Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth."
Authors
- Eqbal Ahmad
- Andrew Bacevich
- Ben Bagdikian
- Morris Berman
- William Blum
- SteveBrouwer
- Ellen Brown
- Helen Caldicott
- Noam Chomsky
- Michel Chossudovsky
- Richard Dawkins
- William O. Douglas
- Doug Dowd
- F. William Engdahl
- Daniel Estulin
- Paul Farmer
- Norman Finkelstein
- Robert Fisk
- Eduardo Galeano
- Eva Golinger
- Amy Goodman
- William Greider
- Sam Harris
- Chris Hedges
- Edward S. Herman
- Mark Hertzgaard
- Seymour Hersh
- Chalmers Johnson
- Walter Karp
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Michael Klare
- Naomi Klein
- David Korten
- Jonathan Kozol
- Lewis Lapham
- Stephen Lendman
- Andrew Gavin Marshall
- Robert McChesney and John Nichols
- Michael Moore
- Allan Nairn
- Ralph Nader
- George Orwell
- Greg Palast
- Ilan Pappe
- Michael Parenti
- Robert Parry
- John Perkins
- James Petras
- Kevin Phillips
- John Pilger
- Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber
- Paul Craig Roberts
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Arundhati Roy
- Michael Ruppert
- Bertrand Russell
- Edward Said
- Bernie Sanders
- Peter Dale Scott
- George Seldes
- Vandana Shiva
- Christopher Simpson
- Nancy Snow
- Norman Solomon
- John Stockwell
- I. F. Stone
- Gore Vidal
- Cornel West
- David Wise
- Howard Zinn
- Mark Zepazauer
Supporting Information
CAST OF CHARACTERS
THE MORTGAGE MEN
Ameriquest
Roland Arnall Founder of ACC Capital Holdings, the parent company of Ameriquest. A subprime lending pioneer who became a billionaire. His first company, Long Beach Mortgage, spawned more than a dozen other subprime companies.
Aseem Mital Ameriquest veteran who became CEO in 2005.
Ed Parker Mortgage veteran hired in 2003 to investigate lending fraud in Ameriquest’s branches.
Deval Patrick Assistant attorney general who led the government’s charge against Long Beach in 1996, only to join Ameriquest’s board in 2004.
Countrywide Financial
Stanford Kurland President and COO. Long seen as Mozilo’s successor, he left the company in 2006.
David Loeb Co-founder, president, and chairman. Stepped down in 2000.
John McMurray Countrywide’s chief risk officer.
Angelo Mozilo Co-founder and CEO until 2008. Dreamed of spreading homeownership to the masses. Became a billionaire in the process, but couldn’t resist pressure to enter the subprime mortgage business.
David Sambol The head of Countrywide’s sales force. Aggressively pushed Countrywide to keep up with subprime lenders.
Eric Sieracki Longtime Countrywide employee who was named CFO in 2005.
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Dave Zitting Old-school mortgage banker who steered clear of subprime lending.
Ownit
Bill Dallas Founder of Ownit, a subprime company in which Merrill Lynch held a 20 percent stake.
THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
American International Group (AIG)
Steve Bensinger CFO under Martin Sullivan from 2005 to 2008.
Joe Cassano CEO of AIG Financial Products from 2001 to 2008.
Andrew Forster One of Cassano’s chief deputies in London.
Al Frost AIG-FP marketer at the center of the multisector CDO deals that put AIG on 14/1148 the hook for $60 billion of subprime exposure.
Maurice R. “Hank†Greenberg AIG’s CEO from 1968 to 2005. Forced to resign by Eliot Spitzer. Gene Park AIG-FP executive who noticed the early warning signs on multisector CDOs.
Tom Savage CEO of AIG-FP from 1994 to 2001. Howard Sosin Founder of AIG-FP. Ran it from 1987 to 1993.
Martin Sullivan Succeeded Greenberg in 2005. Forced out by the board in 2008.
Robert Willumstad Sullivan’s successor as CEO until the financial crisis hit four months later.
Bear Stearns
Ralph Cioffi Bear Stearns hedge fund manager. His two funds—originally worth $20 billion—went bankrupt in the summer of 2007 because of their subprime exposure. 15/1148
Matthew Tannin Cioffi’s partner. Cioffi and Tannin were tried for fraud and found not guilty.
Steve Van Solkema Analyst who worked for Cioffi and Tannin.
Fannie Mae
Jim Johnson CEO from 1991 to 1998. Perfected Fannie’s take-no-prisoners approach to regulators and critics.
Daniel Mudd CEO from 2005 to 2008.
Franklin Raines CEO from 1999 to 2004. Forced to step down over an accounting scandal.
Goldman Sachs
Josh Birnbaum Star trader who specialized in the ABX index.
Lloyd Blankfein Current CEO.
Craig Broderick Current chief risk officer.
Gary Cohn Current president and COO. 16/1148
Jon Corzine Senior partner who convinced the partnership to go public. Replaced by Hank Paulson within days of the IPO.
Steve Friedman Co-head of Goldman Sachs with Robert Rubin.
Dan Sparks Head of the Goldman mortgage desk from 2006 to 2008.
Michael Swenson Co-head of the structured products group under Sparks.
John Thain Co-COO under Paulson until 2003.
Fabrice Tourre Mortgage trader under Sparks. Later named as a defendant in the SEC’s suit against the company.
David Viniar CFO.
J.P. Morgan
Mark Brickell Lobbyist who fought derivatives regulation on behalf of J.P. Morgan and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association. President of ISDA from 1988 to 1992. 17/1148
Till Guldimann Executive who led the development of Value at Risk modeling and shared VaR with other banks.
Blythe Masters Derivatives saleswoman who put together J.P. Morgan’s first credit default swap in 1994.
Sir Dennis Weatherstone Chairman and CEO from 1990 to 1994.
Merrill Lynch
Michael Blum Executive charged with purchasing a mortgage company, First Franklin, in 2006. Served on Ownit’s board.
John Breit Longtime Merrill Lynch risk manager who specialized in evaluating derivatives risk. Ahmass Fakahany Co-president and COO under CEO Stanley O’Neal.
Greg Fleming Co-president—with Fakahany— until O’Neal’s resignation in 2007.
Dow Kim Head of trading and investment banking until 2007. 18/1148
David Komansky O’Neal’s predecessor as CEO.
Jeffrey Kronthal Oversaw Merrill’s mortgage trading desk under Kim. Fired in 2006.
Dale Lattanzio Chris Ricciardi’s successor as the leader of Merrill Lynch’s CDO business.
Stan O’Neal CEO from 2002 to 2007. Created the culture that allowed the buildup of Merrill Lynch’s massive exposure to securities backed by subprime mortgages.
Tom Patrick CFO under Komansky and executive vice chairman under O’Neal. Seen as O’Neal’s ally until O’Neal fired him in 2003.
Chris Ricciardi Head of Merrill’s CDO team from 2003 to 2006. While at Prudential Securities in the mid-1990s, worked on one of the first mortgage-backed CDOs.
Osman Semerci Installed as global head of fixed income, reporting to Kim, in 2006. Fired in 2007. 19/1148
Arshad Zakaria Head of global markets and investment banking. Considered a close ally of O’Neal until forced out in August 2003.
Moody’s
Mark Adelson Longtime Moody’s analyst and co-head of the asset-backed securities group whose skepticism was at odds with Brian Clarkson’s vision for the agency. Quit in 2000.
Brian Clarkson Co-head of the asset-backed securities group who aggressively pursued market share. Named president in 2007.
Eric Kolchinsky Managing director in charge of rating asset-backed CDOs. Oversaw the rating process for John Paulson’s Abacus deal.
Raymond McDaniel CEO.
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Larry Fink Devised the idea of “tranching†mortgage-backed securities to parcel out risk. Underwrote some of the first mortgagebacked securities for First Boston in the 1980s. Later founded BlackRock and served as a key government adviser during the financial crisis.
David Maxwell Fannie Mae’s CEO from 1981 to 1991. Important player in the early days of mortgage securitization.
Lew Ranieri Salomon Brothers bond trader who helped invent the mortgage-backed security in the 1980s.
THE REGULATORS
Attorneys General
Prentiss Cox Head of the consumer enforcement division in the Minnesota attorney general’s office from 2001 to 2005. 21/1148
Tom Miller Iowa attorney general who fought predatory lending.
Eliot Spitzer New York State attorney general from 1999 to 2006.
Commodity Futures TradingCommission
Brooksley Born Chair of the CFTC from 1996 to 1999. Attempted to increase oversight of derivatives dealers.
Wendy Gramm Chair of the CFTC from 1988 to 1993.
Michael Greenberger Director of the CFTC’s division of trading and markets under Born.
United States Congress
Richard Baker Louisiana congressman who introduced a bill to reform Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac in 1999. James Bothwell Author of two key General Accounting Office reports, one criticizing 22/1148
Fannie and Freddie and the other calling for regulation of derivatives.
Charles Bowsher Head of the GAO from 1981 to 1996. Bothwell’s ally.
Phil Gramm Chairman of the Senate banking committee from 1989 to 2003. Opposed regulation of derivatives. The “Gramm†in Gramm-Leach-Bliley, the law that abolished the Glass-Steagall Act.
Jim Leach Chair of the House banking committee from 1995 to 2001. Criticized Fannie and Freddie. The “Leach†in Gramm-Leach- Bliley.
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Andrew Cuomo HUD secretary from 1997 to 2001. Crossed swords with Jim Johnson. Increased Fannie and Freddie’s affordable housing goals.
Armando Falcon Jr. Director of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight from 23/1148 1999 to 2005. Outspoken critic of Fannie and Freddie, the two institutions his office was charged with regulating.
Jim Lockhart Director of OFHEO from 2006 to 2008.
Department of the Treasury
John Dugan Comptroller of the currency starting in 2004.
Gary Gensler Former Goldman executive who became assistant Treasury secretary under Robert Rubin. Testified in favor of Baker’s bill. Current chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
James Gilleran Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision from 2001 to 2005.
John “Jerry†Hawke Comptroller of the currency from 1998 to 2004.
Henry “Hank†Paulson Jr. Treasury secretary from 2006 to 2009. Previously chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs. 24/1148
John Reich Director of the OTS from 2005 to 2009.
Robert Rubin Treasury secretary from 1995 to 1999. Previously co-chairman of Goldman Sachs.
Bob Steel Undersecretary for domestic finance in 2006. Former Goldman vice chairman brought to Treasury by Paulson.
Larry Summers Treasury secretary from 1999 to 2001. Rubin’s deputy before that. Along with Rubin and Alan Greenspan, the third member of “the Committee to Save the World.â€
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Sheila Bair Current chair of the FDIC. Assistant Treasury secretary for financial institutions from 2001 to 2002.
Donna Tanoue Chair of the FDIC from 1998 to 2001. 25/1148
Federal Reserve
Ben Bernanke Chairman of the Federal Reserve starting in 2006. Timothy Geithner President of the New York Federal Reserve from 2003 to 2009.
Edward “Ned†Gramlich Federal Reserve governor from 1997 to 2005. Longtime head of the Fed’s committee on consumer and community affairs under Alan Greenspan.
Alan Greenspan Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006.
Securities and Exchange Commission
Christopher Cox Chairman from 2005 to 2009.
Arthur Levitt Chairman from 1993 to 2001.
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Michael Burry California hedge fund manager who began shorting mortgage-backed securities in 2005.
Robert Gnaizda Former general counsel of the public policy group Greenlining Institute who called for scrutiny of unregulated lenders.
Greg Lippman Deutsche Bank mortgage trader. One of the few Wall Street traders to turn against subprime mortgages early on.
John Paulson Hedge fund manager who made $4 billion buying credit default swaps on subprime mortgage-backed securities.
Andrew Redleaf Head of the Minneapolisbased hedge fund Whitebox Advisors. Used credit default swaps to short the subprime mortgage market in 2006.
Josh Rosner Former Wall Street analyst who grew skeptical of the housing boom. Published a research paper entitled “A Home without Equity Is Just a Rental with Debt†in 2001. 27/1148
KEY ACRONYMS
ABCP: Asset-backed commercial paper. Very short-term loans, allowing firms to conduct their daily business, backed by mortgages or other assets. Part of the “plumbing†of Wall Street.
ABS: Asset-backed securities. Bonds comprising thousands of loans—which could include credit card debt, student loans, auto loans, and mortgages—bundled together into a security.
AIG: American International Group.
ARM: Adjustable-rate mortgage.
CDOs: Collateralized debt obligations. Securities that comprise the debt of different companies or tranches of asset-backed securities.
CDOs Squared: Collateralized debt obligations squared. Securities backed by tranches of other CDOs.
CFTC: Commodities Futures Trading Commission. Government agency that regulates the futures industry.
CSE: Consolidated supervised entities. An effort by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2004 to create a voluntary supervisory regime to regulate the big investment bank holding companies.
FCIC: Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. Commission charged by Congress with investigating the causes of the financial crisis.
FDIC: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Government agency that insures bank deposits and takes over failing banks. Also plays a supervisory role over the banking industry.
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GAO: General Accounting Office. Government agency that conducts investigations at the request of members of Congress.
GSEs: Government-sponsored enterprises. Washington-speak for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
HOEPA: The Homeownership and Equity Protection Act. A 1994 law giving the Federal Reserve the authority to prohibit abusive lending practices.
HUD: Department of Housing and Urban Development. Sets “affordable housing goals†for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
LTCM: Long-Term Capital Management. Large hedge fund that collapsed in 1998.
MBS: Mortgage-backed securities.
NRSROs: Nationally Recognized Statistical Ratings Organizations. The three major credit rating agencies, Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s, and Fitch, were granted this status by the government.
OCC: Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The primary national bank regulator.
OFHEO: Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight. Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s regulator from 1992 to 2008.
OTS: Office of Thrift Supervision. Regulated the S&L industry, as well as certain other financial institutions, including AIG.
PWG: President’s Working Group on Financial Markets. Consists of the secretary of the Treasury and the chairmen of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Reserve, and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission.
REMIC: Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit. The second of two laws passed in the 1980s to aid the new mortgage-backed securities market by enabling such securities to be.
THE MORTGAGE MEN
Ameriquest
Roland Arnall Founder of ACC Capital Holdings, the parent company of Ameriquest. A subprime lending pioneer who became a billionaire. His first company, Long Beach Mortgage, spawned more than a dozen other subprime companies.
Aseem Mital Ameriquest veteran who became CEO in 2005.
Ed Parker Mortgage veteran hired in 2003 to investigate lending fraud in Ameriquest’s branches.
Deval Patrick Assistant attorney general who led the government’s charge against Long Beach in 1996, only to join Ameriquest’s board in 2004.
Countrywide Financial
Stanford Kurland President and COO. Long seen as Mozilo’s successor, he left the company in 2006.
David Loeb Co-founder, president, and chairman. Stepped down in 2000.
John McMurray Countrywide’s chief risk officer.
Angelo Mozilo Co-founder and CEO until 2008. Dreamed of spreading homeownership to the masses. Became a billionaire in the process, but couldn’t resist pressure to enter the subprime mortgage business.
David Sambol The head of Countrywide’s sales force. Aggressively pushed Countrywide to keep up with subprime lenders.
Eric Sieracki Longtime Countrywide employee who was named CFO in 2005.
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Dave Zitting Old-school mortgage banker who steered clear of subprime lending.
Ownit
Bill Dallas Founder of Ownit, a subprime company in which Merrill Lynch held a 20 percent stake.
THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
American International Group (AIG)
Steve Bensinger CFO under Martin Sullivan from 2005 to 2008.
Joe Cassano CEO of AIG Financial Products from 2001 to 2008.
Andrew Forster One of Cassano’s chief deputies in London.
Al Frost AIG-FP marketer at the center of the multisector CDO deals that put AIG on 14/1148 the hook for $60 billion of subprime exposure.
Maurice R. “Hank†Greenberg AIG’s CEO from 1968 to 2005. Forced to resign by Eliot Spitzer. Gene Park AIG-FP executive who noticed the early warning signs on multisector CDOs.
Tom Savage CEO of AIG-FP from 1994 to 2001. Howard Sosin Founder of AIG-FP. Ran it from 1987 to 1993.
Martin Sullivan Succeeded Greenberg in 2005. Forced out by the board in 2008.
Robert Willumstad Sullivan’s successor as CEO until the financial crisis hit four months later.
Bear Stearns
Ralph Cioffi Bear Stearns hedge fund manager. His two funds—originally worth $20 billion—went bankrupt in the summer of 2007 because of their subprime exposure. 15/1148
Matthew Tannin Cioffi’s partner. Cioffi and Tannin were tried for fraud and found not guilty.
Steve Van Solkema Analyst who worked for Cioffi and Tannin.
Fannie Mae
Jim Johnson CEO from 1991 to 1998. Perfected Fannie’s take-no-prisoners approach to regulators and critics.
Daniel Mudd CEO from 2005 to 2008.
Franklin Raines CEO from 1999 to 2004. Forced to step down over an accounting scandal.
Goldman Sachs
Josh Birnbaum Star trader who specialized in the ABX index.
Lloyd Blankfein Current CEO.
Craig Broderick Current chief risk officer.
Gary Cohn Current president and COO. 16/1148
Jon Corzine Senior partner who convinced the partnership to go public. Replaced by Hank Paulson within days of the IPO.
Steve Friedman Co-head of Goldman Sachs with Robert Rubin.
Dan Sparks Head of the Goldman mortgage desk from 2006 to 2008.
Michael Swenson Co-head of the structured products group under Sparks.
John Thain Co-COO under Paulson until 2003.
Fabrice Tourre Mortgage trader under Sparks. Later named as a defendant in the SEC’s suit against the company.
David Viniar CFO.
J.P. Morgan
Mark Brickell Lobbyist who fought derivatives regulation on behalf of J.P. Morgan and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association. President of ISDA from 1988 to 1992. 17/1148
Till Guldimann Executive who led the development of Value at Risk modeling and shared VaR with other banks.
Blythe Masters Derivatives saleswoman who put together J.P. Morgan’s first credit default swap in 1994.
Sir Dennis Weatherstone Chairman and CEO from 1990 to 1994.
Merrill Lynch
Michael Blum Executive charged with purchasing a mortgage company, First Franklin, in 2006. Served on Ownit’s board.
John Breit Longtime Merrill Lynch risk manager who specialized in evaluating derivatives risk. Ahmass Fakahany Co-president and COO under CEO Stanley O’Neal.
Greg Fleming Co-president—with Fakahany— until O’Neal’s resignation in 2007.
Dow Kim Head of trading and investment banking until 2007. 18/1148
David Komansky O’Neal’s predecessor as CEO.
Jeffrey Kronthal Oversaw Merrill’s mortgage trading desk under Kim. Fired in 2006.
Dale Lattanzio Chris Ricciardi’s successor as the leader of Merrill Lynch’s CDO business.
Stan O’Neal CEO from 2002 to 2007. Created the culture that allowed the buildup of Merrill Lynch’s massive exposure to securities backed by subprime mortgages.
Tom Patrick CFO under Komansky and executive vice chairman under O’Neal. Seen as O’Neal’s ally until O’Neal fired him in 2003.
Chris Ricciardi Head of Merrill’s CDO team from 2003 to 2006. While at Prudential Securities in the mid-1990s, worked on one of the first mortgage-backed CDOs.
Osman Semerci Installed as global head of fixed income, reporting to Kim, in 2006. Fired in 2007. 19/1148
Arshad Zakaria Head of global markets and investment banking. Considered a close ally of O’Neal until forced out in August 2003.
Moody’s
Mark Adelson Longtime Moody’s analyst and co-head of the asset-backed securities group whose skepticism was at odds with Brian Clarkson’s vision for the agency. Quit in 2000.
Brian Clarkson Co-head of the asset-backed securities group who aggressively pursued market share. Named president in 2007.
Eric Kolchinsky Managing director in charge of rating asset-backed CDOs. Oversaw the rating process for John Paulson’s Abacus deal.
Raymond McDaniel CEO.
THE PIONEERS 20/1148
Larry Fink Devised the idea of “tranching†mortgage-backed securities to parcel out risk. Underwrote some of the first mortgagebacked securities for First Boston in the 1980s. Later founded BlackRock and served as a key government adviser during the financial crisis.
David Maxwell Fannie Mae’s CEO from 1981 to 1991. Important player in the early days of mortgage securitization.
Lew Ranieri Salomon Brothers bond trader who helped invent the mortgage-backed security in the 1980s.
THE REGULATORS
Attorneys General
Prentiss Cox Head of the consumer enforcement division in the Minnesota attorney general’s office from 2001 to 2005. 21/1148
Tom Miller Iowa attorney general who fought predatory lending.
Eliot Spitzer New York State attorney general from 1999 to 2006.
Commodity Futures TradingCommission
Brooksley Born Chair of the CFTC from 1996 to 1999. Attempted to increase oversight of derivatives dealers.
Wendy Gramm Chair of the CFTC from 1988 to 1993.
Michael Greenberger Director of the CFTC’s division of trading and markets under Born.
United States Congress
Richard Baker Louisiana congressman who introduced a bill to reform Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac in 1999. James Bothwell Author of two key General Accounting Office reports, one criticizing 22/1148
Fannie and Freddie and the other calling for regulation of derivatives.
Charles Bowsher Head of the GAO from 1981 to 1996. Bothwell’s ally.
Phil Gramm Chairman of the Senate banking committee from 1989 to 2003. Opposed regulation of derivatives. The “Gramm†in Gramm-Leach-Bliley, the law that abolished the Glass-Steagall Act.
Jim Leach Chair of the House banking committee from 1995 to 2001. Criticized Fannie and Freddie. The “Leach†in Gramm-Leach- Bliley.
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Andrew Cuomo HUD secretary from 1997 to 2001. Crossed swords with Jim Johnson. Increased Fannie and Freddie’s affordable housing goals.
Armando Falcon Jr. Director of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight from 23/1148 1999 to 2005. Outspoken critic of Fannie and Freddie, the two institutions his office was charged with regulating.
Jim Lockhart Director of OFHEO from 2006 to 2008.
Department of the Treasury
John Dugan Comptroller of the currency starting in 2004.
Gary Gensler Former Goldman executive who became assistant Treasury secretary under Robert Rubin. Testified in favor of Baker’s bill. Current chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
James Gilleran Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision from 2001 to 2005.
John “Jerry†Hawke Comptroller of the currency from 1998 to 2004.
Henry “Hank†Paulson Jr. Treasury secretary from 2006 to 2009. Previously chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs. 24/1148
John Reich Director of the OTS from 2005 to 2009.
Robert Rubin Treasury secretary from 1995 to 1999. Previously co-chairman of Goldman Sachs.
Bob Steel Undersecretary for domestic finance in 2006. Former Goldman vice chairman brought to Treasury by Paulson.
Larry Summers Treasury secretary from 1999 to 2001. Rubin’s deputy before that. Along with Rubin and Alan Greenspan, the third member of “the Committee to Save the World.â€
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Sheila Bair Current chair of the FDIC. Assistant Treasury secretary for financial institutions from 2001 to 2002.
Donna Tanoue Chair of the FDIC from 1998 to 2001. 25/1148
Federal Reserve
Ben Bernanke Chairman of the Federal Reserve starting in 2006. Timothy Geithner President of the New York Federal Reserve from 2003 to 2009.
Edward “Ned†Gramlich Federal Reserve governor from 1997 to 2005. Longtime head of the Fed’s committee on consumer and community affairs under Alan Greenspan.
Alan Greenspan Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006.
Securities and Exchange Commission
Christopher Cox Chairman from 2005 to 2009.
Arthur Levitt Chairman from 1993 to 2001.
THE SKEPTICS 26/1148
Michael Burry California hedge fund manager who began shorting mortgage-backed securities in 2005.
Robert Gnaizda Former general counsel of the public policy group Greenlining Institute who called for scrutiny of unregulated lenders.
Greg Lippman Deutsche Bank mortgage trader. One of the few Wall Street traders to turn against subprime mortgages early on.
John Paulson Hedge fund manager who made $4 billion buying credit default swaps on subprime mortgage-backed securities.
Andrew Redleaf Head of the Minneapolisbased hedge fund Whitebox Advisors. Used credit default swaps to short the subprime mortgage market in 2006.
Josh Rosner Former Wall Street analyst who grew skeptical of the housing boom. Published a research paper entitled “A Home without Equity Is Just a Rental with Debt†in 2001. 27/1148
KEY ACRONYMS
ABCP: Asset-backed commercial paper. Very short-term loans, allowing firms to conduct their daily business, backed by mortgages or other assets. Part of the “plumbing†of Wall Street.
ABS: Asset-backed securities. Bonds comprising thousands of loans—which could include credit card debt, student loans, auto loans, and mortgages—bundled together into a security.
AIG: American International Group.
ARM: Adjustable-rate mortgage.
CDOs: Collateralized debt obligations. Securities that comprise the debt of different companies or tranches of asset-backed securities.
CDOs Squared: Collateralized debt obligations squared. Securities backed by tranches of other CDOs.
CFTC: Commodities Futures Trading Commission. Government agency that regulates the futures industry.
CSE: Consolidated supervised entities. An effort by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2004 to create a voluntary supervisory regime to regulate the big investment bank holding companies.
FCIC: Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. Commission charged by Congress with investigating the causes of the financial crisis.
FDIC: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Government agency that insures bank deposits and takes over failing banks. Also plays a supervisory role over the banking industry.
FHA: Federal Housing Administration. 29/1148
GAO: General Accounting Office. Government agency that conducts investigations at the request of members of Congress.
GSEs: Government-sponsored enterprises. Washington-speak for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
HOEPA: The Homeownership and Equity Protection Act. A 1994 law giving the Federal Reserve the authority to prohibit abusive lending practices.
HUD: Department of Housing and Urban Development. Sets “affordable housing goals†for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
LTCM: Long-Term Capital Management. Large hedge fund that collapsed in 1998.
MBS: Mortgage-backed securities.
NRSROs: Nationally Recognized Statistical Ratings Organizations. The three major credit rating agencies, Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s, and Fitch, were granted this status by the government.
OCC: Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The primary national bank regulator.
OFHEO: Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight. Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s regulator from 1992 to 2008.
OTS: Office of Thrift Supervision. Regulated the S&L industry, as well as certain other financial institutions, including AIG.
PWG: President’s Working Group on Financial Markets. Consists of the secretary of the Treasury and the chairmen of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Reserve, and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission.
REMIC: Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit. The second of two laws passed in the 1980s to aid the new mortgage-backed securities market by enabling such securities to be.
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