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The following is a transcript on a an interview with Richard C. Cook conducted by Ahmed Danyal Arif, Editor of the Economics Section for
The Review of ReligionsADA: Mr. Cook, first of all thank you so much for giving us a little of your precious time. We are very grateful for this. I have to be honest I don't know where to start as you have had such a long career in the US Government where you have essentially served (please correct me if I am wrong) as a policy analyst in the 70s and 80s. You then worked for NASA and ended your career in 2007 as a Project Manager in the US Treasury Department. You are now retired and writing with a particular focus on monetary reform. What led you to write about this?RCC: I began to study monetary reform in 1979-1980 when I worked for the
Carter White House in the office of consumer affairs. I had discovered the ideas of British engineer C.H. Douglas who explained the chronic gap in developed economies between GDP and national income, which meant that
society never had enough money to purchase what their economies were able to produce. Some very notable people like Winston Churchill and Henry Ford were also aware of this.
The system of Keynesian economics was developed to address the problem through government borrowing. But all this accomplished was to 'kick the can down the road' by creating debt that eventually had to be paid off, usually through war or hyperinflation.
A decade later I found myself working for the
US Treasury Department, when I was able to carry out an
in-depth study of the history of the US monetary system. I learned that the banking system existed to fill the GDP-income gap but that the debt it created in doing so led to
massive profits to the banks but ruin for the nation at large. I also learned that the only successful alternative had been the spending of Greenbacks by the government during the Civil War. I then came into contact with Stephen Zarlenga who had founded the American Monetary Institute and was studying the same problems. Together we wrote the
American Monetary Act which became Congressman Dennis Kucinich's NEED Act introduced in Congress in 2011 but not yet passed. This would create a modern version of Greenback money. So one thing led to another, and I am still writing about these things. My latest is my
new book,
Our Country, Then and Now to be published soon by Clarity Press.
Comment:
1) Nuland: "They were not in a strong enough position then. They're not in a strong enough position now." Ukraine has lost millions of people, who have fled the country, and hundreds of thousands that have been killed in a war that began with a coup in 2014: Ten years after Maidan: Why won't the West admit that the coup was based on a lie?
2) Nuland appears in more than 60 article titles, here are 20+:
- Victoria Nuland has a body count comparable to Kissinger's
- Regime change queen Victoria Nuland leaving post while Ukraine on the ropes, US policy in shambles
- Nuland accidentally reveals the true aim of the West in Ukraine
- Putin defeated US plan for Russia - Nuland
- Ukraine regent Nuland told Zelensky not to fire top general - The Times
- 'F**k the EU': Nuland's decade-old Maidan quip has never been more true
- Shocked by Niger coup, war harpy Victoria Nuland appeared "unprepared," "desperate" during Africa tour
- Bad sign: Victoria Nuland, Washington's 'regime change Karen', wants to speak to the manager in Niger
- No shame: US official Vicky 'f*ck the EU' Nuland praises Nord Stream 2 destruction
- Flashback The mess that Nuland made
- Best of the Web: Nuland admits US has biological research labs in Ukraine, Washington working with Kiev to prevent "falling into Russian hands"
- US threatening to cut Russia off from global financial system - Nuland
- Kremlin says US and Russia agree Ukraine must give Donbass special autonomous status as Nuland hails productive meeting in Moscow (Oct 2021)
- Washington and Moscow drop some tit-for-tat sanctions to allow blacklisted Victoria 'f**k the EU' Nuland enter Russia for talks
- NATO summit to discuss Ukraine's membership next month - Nuland accompanies Blinken to Kiev
- Why Victoria Nuland is dangerous and should not be confirmed as Biden's Under Secretary
- 'Take two': Biden fills State Department slots with more Obama vets, including Ukraine 'coup plotter' Victoria Nuland
- Nuland's cookies again: Maidan midwife's plan for US policy on Russia is dumb, delusional, dangerous
- Victoria Nuland, already linked to 'Spygate', hatched plan for Biden to force firing of top Ukrainian prosecutor
- The Kolomoisky Pyramid: Hillary Clinton, Victoria Nuland and Christine Lagarde
- Rachel Maddow taps meddle and collusion expert Victoria Nuland for tips on Trump-Putin puppetry
- Steele-Winer-Nuland connection: Link between RussiaGate and the Neocon plot to foment war in the Ukraine
3) Victoria Nuland was a front figure for handling some of the US allies in Europe, as the term is explained in Being a US 'ally' means silently watching your own destruction, even if she is not mentioned. So far the US bid to 'strategically weaken' Russia backfired, creating Army adapted for post-industrial warfare4) Victoria Nuland and her husband Robert Kagan were and are among the Straussians, a group of US neoconservatives discussed or mentioned in the following articles: