The book researched and written...

Editor's note: ...by Peter Cook back in 1971 The Federal Reserve (the mechanics of money creation) demonstrated that the most powerful people in the world don't work for money. They create it and oligarchs closest to that money creation get first dibs on it. Central banks hold most of the world's gold so why would the peasant slave class buy a few trinkets of it?
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West under oligarchs

Western society has been hostage to the same pathology for over 2,000 years. Today, we are in a better position than ever to end this curse and emancipate humanity.

By Alex Krainer | February 1, 2026

In his remarks to the United Nations General Assembly in October 2014, Noam Chomsky opened with the statement that, "Many of the world's problems are so intractable that it's hard to think of ways even to take steps toward mitigating them." Since that speech, things only got worse and in addition to the festering social, political and economic crises plaguing the developed world, we find ourselves at risk of sliding toward another World War.

All this seems unnecessary and preventable; yet in spite of the fact that an overwhelming majority of people around the world abhor these developments, it seems oddly difficult for us to change course. Why are our economies chronically in crises? Why are the poverty rates rising? Why do we have people sleeping in the streets?

Modern industrial economies are extraordinarily productive, so how come we aren't concerned about overabundance or anxious about how to properly enjoy all the blessings? Furthermore, given that all sane people around the world detest war, where does this state of permanent warfare come from? Is it from the democratic will of the people? Clearly not, since ordinary people almost always vote for anti-war candidates. Chomsky was right: we really are up against intractable problems.

This is part 1 of a 2-part report. Both parts 1 and 2 are available in a YouTube video below (and no, it's not AI):

The struggle between two systems of governance

To mitigate them, we need to explore where they originate from. To do that, we must start with the broadest possible context within which the otherwise perplexing day-to-day events are unfolding. In his speech to the World Economic Forum gathering in Davos in May 2021, George Soros offered an important clue.

He said that, "the world is increasingly engaged in a struggle between two systems of governance." He contrasted the two systems as the open societies vs. closed societies. The same view has been affirmed by other Western officials including the former US Ambassador to NATO, Kurt Volker. He characterized the conflict as one between democracies and autocratic regimes or dictatorships.

However, in praising liberal democracies and demonizing dictatorships, people like Walker and Soros misrepresent the two systems, claiming that it is the autocratic regimes and dictatorships that are a threat to peace and liberty around the world. By contrast, experience shows that it is the crisis-prone Western democracies fomenting perpetual warfare around the world while increasingly embracing repressions and censorship at home. They have done so, not only over the last few decades, but since the birth of democracy, more than 2,500 years ago.

Please go to substack to learn how oligarchs control your life.

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