Corporate Conspiracies: How Wall Street Took Over Washington

by Richard Belzer, David Wayne

Here is an explosive account of wrongful acts perpetrated, and the ensuing cover-ups inflicted upon us, by American corporations. Bestselling author David Wayne exposes the ways that the capitalist regime has got us under their thumbs—from the mainstream media and its control over us, to the trillions stolen by big banks and mortgage companies during the mortgage crisis, to the scams perpetrated by Big Oil and Big Pharma. American Corporate Conspiracies takes aim at those who take advantage of us little guys and kick us to the curb when our usefulness has expired.

Probably most disturbing is the book’s examination of politics and capitalism teaming up against us—how politicians and lobbyists all have their hands in each other’s pockets while stabbing us in the back, and how America’s biggest export as of late is perpetual war.

This is a decidedly different side to the stories we’ve all heard and read about in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. You may not believe everything you read in American Corporate Conspiracies, but it is guaranteed to make you think twice about being enslaved and cheated by corporate America.

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Genres: Nonfiction, Politics

248 pages, Hardcover

Published May 9, 2017

About the author

Richard Jay Belzer was an actor, a stand-up comedian, and author. He is best known for his role as Detective John Munch on Homicide: Life on the Street and Law and Order: SVU.

Belzer authored four books, the last two of which were a crime fiction series co-written with Michael Black that featured Belzer as the mystery-solving protagonist. I’m Not a Cop, the first of the two, was published in 2008, followed by the sequel, I’m Not a Psychic, in 2009. Belzer penned UFOs, JFK and Elvis: Conspiracies You Don’t Have to Be Crazy to Believe in 2000, and co-authored How to Be a Standup Comic in 1988 with “Borat” director and writer, Larry Charles, and Catch a Rising Star owner Rick Newman.

Reviews

[Mary Beth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Would have loved the footnotes to be on the bottom of the page. Shifting back and forth was VERY distracting. Content was a bit dated already, but the point is clear. We are being taken by corrupt corporations and government. Left me wanting to understand better just how our government employees became so corrupted and compromised. Needed more information on the shadow government and out-of-control spy organizations. People need to get this book and start to face what our government has become.

[Jeanne Lambrianou · Rating 4 out of 5]

Information, yes; solutions, no

The information in this book sears your eyebrows off, I've got to give them that. All of it makes me terribly sick. But to say how much the Government is paid for and infiltrated, and then beg you to write your representatives to fix the problems IS LAME. Even attempting to vote them all out won't work. Ratting them all out to a corrupt media won't work. The whole system is rotted.