One Nation Under Blackmail is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israeli intelligence and the organized criminal network known as the National Crime Syndicate. This book specifically explores how that nexus between intelligence and organized crime directly developed the sexual blackmail tactics and networks that would later enable the sexual blackmail operation and other crimes of deceased pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Other books on Jeffrey Epstein focus on the depraved nature of his crimes, his wealth, and his most famous/politically-connected friends and acquaintances. This book, in contrast, reveals the extent to which Epstein’s activities were state-sponsored through an exploration of his intelligence connections.
Whitney Webb has been a professional writer, researcher, and journalist since 2016. She has written for several websites and, from 2017 to 2020, was a staff writer and senior investigative reporter for Mint Press News. She currently writes for Unlimited Hangout and contributes to The Last American Vagabond. She also hosts an independent podcast called Unlimited Hangout. Her work aims to highlight under-reported issues and find common ground between people of different political persuasions regarding corruption, government overreach, the lack of accountability for militaries and intelligence agencies, and the military industrial complex.
To put it in terms intelligible to the contemporary, internet-based political discourse: Whitney Webb's One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1 is a black pill.
As Webb explains in her interview with Glenn Beck, this first volume of the work is preliminary material. However, that preliminary material is a story in and of itself. Whereas most of the stories about Jeffrey Epstein, and most people's questions about him, revolve around pedophilia and child abuse--and rightly so--these are disgusting, condemnable behaviors, Webb's analysis goes deeper than the superficial behaviors that we all find to be, simultaneously, grotesque yet interesting.
This deeper analysis is of the networks that link organized crime, American and foreign intelligence services, the national security state, and the outward-facing image of "normal" politicians and businessmen. And this documentation of networks is why I say that this book is a black pill.
Virtually nobody whose name you know that operates in the worlds of politics, media, entertainment, finance, and big business is untainted by these networks, which are really just one big network of networks. This holds not just here in the United States, but in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East as well. Yes, this includes Donald Trump. And Reagan. And Kennedy. And pretty much every person whose public image was one of being a reformer, or a traditionalist, or a patriot, or--especially in the case of Trump--an "outsider."
Don't get me wrong. I've read plenty of books before this one that document elements of these networks. However, I've never read a book before that focuses primarily on documenting the networks themselves. Other writers home in on specific kinds of misbehavior by the elite (financial corruption, sexual deviancy, whatever). All too often, these kinds of stories are focused on exposing one particular kind of person, especially in politics (Democrats are bad! Republicans are corrupt!). What the documentation of the networks shows is that they are all complicit.
As of writing this review, I have not started to read volume 2. However, I think I can see where Webb is going.
Because virtually nobody within elite circles is blameless because of their links to these various networks, men like Jeffrey Epstein were useful because, if there's one criminal act that people genuinely and generally find to be unforgivable, it's the sexual abuse of children. So if you can assemble a dossier of every elite actor's proclivity for sexual deviancy, especially with children, then you secure their silence. Nobody is going to expose how deep the corruption is because nobody wants to be known as a pedophile. Jeffrey Epstein was, in essence, an insurance agent. He sold insurance to the networks. If everyone knows that everyone else is a pedophile, and if everyone knows that everyone else knows that they're a pedophile, too, then everyone is invested in protecting the network.
Whether or not that is the end of Webb's analysis remains to be seen (for me).
Either way, this is some genuine, real journalism. It shows what most people are unable or unwilling to see: that all our leaders, with probably few, very few, exceptions, are criminals and, at best, wolves in sheep's clothing. The black pill portion is knowing that this means there's no "leader" coming to save us from these networks because there are no leaders, just another link in the network (he who has ears, let him hear).
One final note of criticism: I would've given this book a five-star rating, but there are quite a few editing errors and oversights in the book that give it a rushed appearance. That is, it reads, at times, like the author and/or publisher were rushing to get this information out to the public and, in the process, overlooked some simple errors. Examples include sentences where it's clear the author was going to write it one way, wrote it another way, but left some conjunction or preposition in its original place. This can be forgiven, but it is worth mentioning.
MEHS: a massive compilation of whose who's behind Jeffrey Epstein. A tedious compilation of hundreds of newspaper reports and books on the allegedly, probably, assumingly, involvement of criminal gangs, secret societies, bag men, money launderers, financial institutions, and governments.
Why was Epstein only NOW, after decades, brought to 'justice'? They couldn't nail him earlier on fraud and corruption, although they tried. Now, they got him on sex trafficking charges and made it serious enough to stick. Well, good for them. Finally! Sadly, nothing began or will end with him. He was exchanged...for what? What was so big that they were willing to give him up?
Prince Andrew, the 'poorest' of Epstein's blackmail victims—Epstein only dealt with billionaires, remember— but with international influence, was the easiest scapegoat. The easiest lamb to be sent to slaughter. The super players: politicians, influential businessmen, media moguls, and others, got away. As usual. Ghilaine Maxwell deserved her outcome. Enjoy! She still was a small pawn in this massive network. A nobody, really. Finally, she had to take the heat. Another sacrificial lamb.
Why was prince Andrew so important though? Beginning in 2001, the Duke of York worked with UK Trade and investment which was part of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. The Duke was then acting as the United Kingdom's Special Representative for International Trade and Investment. ...
...In his official position, Andrew began doing business with executives from some of the world's most powerful companies as well as major politicians in both the UK and abroad. In this position, Prince Andrew traveled throughout the United Kingdom and the wider world.
This shadow government does everything in its power not to be prosecuted by the people's governments of the world. One powerful institution opposes another and wins. A war is raging between the two power structures. These covert power structures use blackmail, bribes, and assassinations as their weapons of choice to corrupt and control public institutions while manipulating and looting the public. Epstein was just the tip of an iceberg.
WOWS: The author, through years of research, successfully proved her case that the sex trafficking case against Epstein, deflated and distracted the attention away from his involvement in the much bigger international trade of drugs, bribery, blackmail, weapons, nuclear arms, money laundering, banks, and everything else. The journalists who are paid and controlled by this shadow mafia are silent on Epstein's real crimes. Even so, HE WAS A PAWN as well! An important CRIMINAL middleman in a world where money and power override any other rules. It is evident that most of those who aided and enabled Epstein will never see the inside of a prison cell.
To safeguard herself, Whitney Webb used the right language not to be sued. Her book is potent enough to expose the forces hiding in the dark, controlling the world. The bibliography is outstanding. The hundreds of articles, books, documents, and law records are mind-blowing. It will take years to read only some of the sources referenced in this book. However, more journalists and eyewitnesses than can ever be counted tried to bring awareness to the real history of mankind. This is it. In a nutshell. But a tour de force for sure.
The presidencies of the world are mere clowns—puppets; even stooges can be set up to be the leaders of countries.
If it wasn't for a group of vigilante and courageous journalists, nothing of this magnitude will ever be exposed. Sadly, they are silenced. So many whistle-blowers die as a result.
Security agencies and law enforcement are there to control the masses. That is us. They protect the criminals, in this case, Epstein's co-conspirators, against us. As stated in the book:
Chapter 2 of Volume One- Booze and Blackmail Hoover repeatedly declined to use the Bureau to target organized crime networks, referring to organized crime as a “local” problem in which the FBI did not need to intervene for most of his nearly fifty-year stint as the top law enforcement administrator in the country
The question is asked in the book: Why was Epstein so heavily protected from justice for decades—in connection to both his sex trafficking crimes and his financial crimes?
The author did not try to impress by writing a non-fictional thriller. She tried to provide facts and context, dishing up as much information as she could find.
The book consists of two volumes. Volume One provides a background to Epstein's world. Recent history of the hidden world from around 1900 up till now.
Volume Two includes the role of international secret societies, and the role of mind control (which I found preachy), with only the final chapters dedicated to Epstein—his covert and illegal activities to serve this international alternative government of a massive un-elected mafia.
My thoughts on Virginia Guiffre(then Virginia Roberts) who is not the center of attention in the book at all, but still bothers me. She was allegedly a victim in the Epstein-Prince Andrew scandal. In the final chapters in which her case is discussed, I can only conclude that she got paid to keep her mouth shut and go away.
Another thought: Her parents - yes, her parents, drove this minor child voluntarily EVERY DAY, FOR YEARS, to Epstein's residence where she had to perform all kinds of lurid acts on Epstein, Maxwell, and their powerful victims of blackmail and distortion. She got paid for her job. She worked for Maxwell and Epstein for several years, even traveling abroad with them to set traps for politicians, world players, and whoever could be bribed and blackmailed. As a paid member of his team, she even traveled, on her own, to Thailand where she recruited young women into Epstein's sex ring. However, she was promised a higher education and a better life, which never happened. She earned the millions (that Epstein should have paid).
I'm still not convinced of her victimhood. Her lawsuit was 'successful'. However, what was she paid for? Her silence, behind the claim of victimhood? That's conjecture on my part of course. Perhaps she was controlled by higher powers, who controlled Epstein as well? The book provides enough 'suggestions' that Epstein was an agent for various spy- and security agencies in the world. Perhaps she was paid to testify against him. Of all the hundreds of so-called victims of his sex trafficking, his butlers, his other staff, NO ONE was willing to talk?
I don't agree with everything in the book but do appreciate the hard work of the author to summarize a part of history we all need to pay attention to. It is not a book to be rushed through by any means.
My conclusion: Isn't it ironic? Soldiers: our boys, husbands, fathers, uncles, and friends are sent off to fight this MAFIA government's wars for them. Our bribed and blackmailed politicians make it happen, while courageous whistleblowers and journalists are trying to fight OUR war against this mafia shadow government. We not only fight their wars, but we also PAY for their wars as well. A mind-blowing thought. Have we ever built a statue for a whistleblower or one of these journalists? Amazing, right? Nope, let's just call them conspiracy theorists, and be mad when years later we discover that they told the truth.
This book was a fascinating read. It is a summary of all the world players warring for the control of America.
Provides a well researched and dry academic historical record of cases and context for agencies like CIA, FBI, OSS etc to develop and perfect corporate,sexual, personal black mail for government nefarous operations, subversions etc Nothing on the Epstein in part 1 but author's purpose is to establish historical context in which these operations were developed by dark actors in the swamps of government. Webb has an excellent podcast where she is able to articulate her wide ranging research as well, this book needs an editor and summary to make it more digestable. Its over arching and just too broad to really understand. The conclusion at the end is that the government along with networks involving politicians, business people, criminal organizations subvert individuals and groups for their purposes. The problem is that after working through it there was too much data to really connect to a central thesis - other than that the government operates in subversive ways and this book collects some of those cases.
A very detailed investigation from an excellent journalist. Whitney Webb deserves huge credit as it must have taken a big effort to put all this together. Ideally, this book (and volume 2) would become best sellers, educate the public, be debated in the media and lead to justice and reform. I hope this all happens. Well worth buying. Get an extra copy and pass it on.
Found some good quotations about this book on Unz.com
In her great chronicle One Nation Under Blackmail, Whitney Webb details Reagan’s CIA Director’s relations with the Jewish Mob:
[William] Casey and [Roy] Cohn were close friends, and, during the 1980 Reagan campaign, Casey “called Roy almost daily.” … [I]n the immediate aftermath of Reagan’s electoral victory, Cohn … took (Adnan) Khashoggi on as a client. Epstein would follow suit, shortly after his resignation from Bear Stearns. … Casey had been the legal representative of Bear Stearns during Epstein’s time there up until several weeks before Epstein’s abrupt resignation, when Casey became CIA Director. (Webb, ppg. 650–51)
Roy Cohn was of course the Jewish mob attorney in New York City who ran his own child-raping blackmail rings, similar to Epstein. Epstein resigned from Bear Stearns on March 12, 1981, less than a month after Reagan took office. The timing coincided with an insider trading crime at the bank that involved the Jewish mob family the Bronfmans. (Webb, ppg. 18–23)
Ugh. I wanted to like this; I eagerly waited for it's arrival and then find it's nigh on unreadable. You're carpet bombed with so many names, corporations, government agencies, and the tendrils of affiliations and degrees of separation they all have it's hard to where the author is navigating us. It's akin to listening to an overexcited 6 year old inundating his parents with every imaginable micro detail about his first trip to an amusement park.
As we think about our lives and relationships we would like to believe we are more powerful than we are. CEOs, politicians, presidents, world leaders, and security service members are linked in a web of reliance that is laced with lies, extortion, desires to be more powerful, and powerful relationships.
Reading that Nixon and Carter were subjugated by the malicious control of the friends and members of security services and monetary powers (domestic and foreign) is a rude awakening when we consider how our government (NGOs/foundations) is unwilling to truly respect individuals and our society. Apparently, the powerful/wealthy rely more on fear, lies, hiding true causality and facts while not taking responsibility for all of society - as they are afraid of losing their network/ relevance! As I think of the Dunbar number, the elite/ powerful lose sight of life outside of their 150 contacts - oh if only they sought to be respected like a true God!
This book, a researcher's blessing, is a great guide to our reality that has been developing and becomes more entrenched as technologies develop. As we consider the covid-19 pandemic, the control placed by Gates, WHO, bio terror mavens, Fauci, and corporate interests (pharma, health networks, perhaps tech companies, and of course Defense /security contractors, and NGOs such as Rockefeller, Bill and Melinda gates, Koch) we can only begin to grasp our inability to alter power structures. Transparency would be a nice change and the author, Whitney Webb, does a superb job tying the inordinate web together. Truly an amazing and important tome to read.
As we move toward digital currencies, I suspect that the same control freaks will limit our choices and freedoms. Will we be forced to buy only certain things, buy GMO, polyunsaturated fat foods (which affect testosterone and estrogen levels)? I suspect we must use certain fuels coming from certain places, use corrupt/ specific banks, our digital currency can only be used within 5 miles from your home unless you have a corporate approved vacation using a state approved Tesla or inject the monthly vaccine. Each of those items to be taxed of course. Real pasture raised meat and gulfstream jets and Greenwich, CT and Palm Beach will be available to the "in" crowd and taxes will be waived. Let the poor worry about and pay for climate change and health insurance for having eaten foods that make others wealthy, while living paycheck to paycheck and living in fear of losing a job - is this a society for which our founding fathers would be proud? Whitney Webb has given us a great gift and I hope our society can be better for it.
This book is a nightmare. While there can be no doubt I considered the entire government a fraud of criminals and gangsters, Webb pulls the curtain back and names the names over the last century of mafioso, drug lords, crime bosses, and government bureaucrats both elected and appointed who are on the same team. The team they have is designed to run everything and loot it all. They own the banks and they own the prosecutors and the judges and write the laws and choose to ignore what they want. You want to see the multi-tiered justice system working on behalf of the gangsters and against you and me, read this book. The levels of perverse sexuality within this group and their blatant disregard for decency will make your blood boil.
These are your leaders and you never wanted them. They lead. They steal. They loot and they rape and pillage. This is your government and there is nothing you can do about it because they are gangsters from the ground floor up. I bought Volume 1&2, but I am going to hold off on reading volume 2 for awhile so I can relax.
Two stars because the corruption of our government via organized crime, rich folks, and the enemy is a self-evident truth, BUT Webb's book is just so difficult to read because it truly is a mass of names, banks, and places without true connections. And then there's her bias against anti-communists (Hoover, North, McCarthy, etc.) and Donald Trump. I began to question whether my lying eyes and ears were telling me the truth or whether Webb's sketchily sourced words were true. And then I read Diana West's critique of her books. Wish I had done better research. It would have saved my brain of 345 pages (where I stopped) of the 502 pages of the book. Here's the link: https://dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/E...
Who's who with some more who's. Naming names. In combination with Anthony Sutton's, James Perloff's, Michael Ruppert's, G. Edward Griffin's, H. P. Albarelli's, Carroll Quigley's (some others in the same genre of course) work one should come away with the fact that the criminal, sociopathic element of humanity veling their true controllers (another review?) is and has been running the planet of hapless humans certainly, at least, for the last 200 years. We answer to the dregs, not any duly elected government or benevolent state. Reading Vol 2 now and it's more interesting especially if you've already read the authors listed above.
Very interesting, shocking in places. A difficult read as so many names are briefly mentioned. It is hard to keep track therefore and I had to keep notes so I was not totally overwhelmed by detail. However, it is worth the effort and I will buy part two now. Hope its easier to read.
Whitney Alyse Webb is an American journalist who lives in Chile.
"Her work aims to highlight under-reported issues and find common ground between people of different political persuasions regarding corruption, government overreach, the lack of accountability for militaries and intelligence agencies, and the military industrial complex" GoodReads
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Career
She has written for a range of independent media such as MintPress News, Global Research, the Anti-Media, The Last American Vagabond, the Unz Review and Black Agenda Report.
Her website is Unlimited Hangout
Patreon censorship 2021
Patreon blocked Webb's account in March 2021, since in their explanation her reports might dissuade her audience from taking preventative measures to fight COVID-19. Point of concern was her December 2020 article that covered the Wellcome Trust extensively.[
She was asked to remove the article from her own website, she deleted her Patreon after that. An interview she did with James Corbett shortly thereafter lead to the first strike on Corbett's channel.
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Whitney Webb Investigative journalist, author
Residence Chile Nationality American
Member of Activist Post - American Herald Tribune The Last American Vagabond - Unlimited Hangout
Victim of - Censorship - Google/Censorship
Interests
Permaculture VIPaedophile Zionism Epstein Affair US deep state Operation Warp Speed COVID-19/Purposes CIA/Black budget
Investigative journalist who has published many aspects of The Deep State
This book is a feat of research and tying things all together. I especially appreciate the end notes and inclusion of source documents. I’ve been endeavoring to see the world more clearly, and this … explains a lot.
I started reading this thinking, "Why does she need to go back 90 years and a whole 500-page volume just to lay the exhaustive groundwork and lead up to the INTRODUCTION to Epstein?"
I ended thinking, "Unholy crap!"
Get a copy of both volumes in indelible print. She's arming the world with evidence.
Sure, Epstein was a worldwide pedophile-sex-trafficker - who doesn’t know that by now? - but that was just one tool in his much larger toolkit of blackmail of the elites & tech giants...
Further, Jeffry & Ghistlaine, themselves, are just tools in a much larger toolkit of surveillance and blackmail and subjugation of the masses.
This isn't a surprise but it's much more powerful when she's naming names, citing sources, quoting published and unpublished agendas, tracking cash flows, and displaying documents.
This is an as-comprehensive-as-one-person-can-get master plan masterwork of "and this is how it all ties together, folks" nearly-one-hundred-year metamorphosis from the organized prohibition-era alcohol smugglers of the 1920's to the trans-human technology prison architects of 2023. One. Long. Hellbent. Metamorphosis.
Unholy crap!
And what can we do about it? Educate ourselves and refuse to comply/participate. Oh yeah: and don’t do anything you wouldn’t want to be blackmailed for later.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
This is a much needed Wake-Up call from a brave and meticulous Researcher/Writer Whitney Webb! In fact, I am surprised that she has not been suicided by the Intelligence/Organized Crime octopus... (See; Mark Middleton, Danny Casolaro, Vince Foster, Gary Webb, and of course Jeffrey Epstein and Others...) Think I sound paranoid? Read this book. Ever wonder why during or after the Ghislaine Maxwell trial NONE of the rich and powerful associates/clients of Epstein and Maxwell were ever revealed? Why were they/ARE THEY being protected?
Not really investigated is J.Edgar Hoover's use of Blackmail to stay in Power for 50 years (the Mob's Blackmail of him is mentioned.) That is simply not within the scope of this book. However, all of the strands of this tangled web(/Marriage) of Government/Organized crime corruption are thoroughly cited in the footnotes.
I can't rate this because I didn't finish it... not because the info wasn't probably very interesting for what it was, and it was probably told the best way it possibly could be, given the information. But it was a blizzard of names I'd never heard before, or had heard only vaguely, from 100 years ago for a good chunk of the book, and then 70 years ago, and then 50 years ago. I understand this is a duology, but it ended in the Reagan era. I picked it up wanting to know about Jeffrey Epstein and people from our present day, and I understand the need to lay the foundation for that big reveal... but this entire book was exposition, and I couldn't keep it all straight. I think I'd have needed to draw myself flow charts, and I just don't care that much.
A better title: Six Degrees of Jeffrey Epstein. It contains a dull summary of practically every alleged conspiracy between members of the intelligence community, organized crime, politics, business, and the media over the last century. Webb has rounded up all the usual suspects, as Claude Rains said in Casablanca. However, I kept waiting for a coherent story to develop, and it didn’t. It’s just an endless list of the names of influential men, mostly dead, who had tenuous associations with other influential men, as if that’s surprising. Though I scanned this massive tome (805 pages) quickly, the pages might as well have been blank; there’s nothing here. I won’t waste time on Part 2 (another 648 pages).
The publication date has been pushed back to 9/22/22 from 7/22/22. I'm starting to wonder if we'll ever see this book. The spook community, both here and in Israel are probably not too happy about this expose.
Not quite sure how to proceed with a review. Ms. Webb has done a masterful job of investigating and reporting the corruption that has plagued our government since probably soon after the ink was dry on the Constitution of the United States. Some previous reviewers have written unkind things which I believe may be due to the frustration one feels when the truth is revealed. I felt quite naïve, and maybe even stupid at times. Stupid for trusting the government with 42 years of my life in the U. S. Navy and then civil service following. I mentioned to my wife that if one attempted to chart the bad guys and all their relationships on one of those crime bulletin boards with pieces of yarn, pushpins and photographs, it would be an impossible task. Recommend reading the book maybe a chapter at a time and taking a periodic break to keep from becoming completely depressed. You will read of what you thought were good guys having been involved in nefarious activities of all kinds. These good guys include every president since the 1920's. (The author didn't go back further than that, or the sordid tale would probably be worse.) One could dismiss the entire book as a series of intertwined conspiracy theories. Actually, Ms. Webb has investigated a series of intertwined conspiracies. No theory about it. What I came away with was that it matters not what a politician has after their name, you know, the (D) or (R). Most, if not all, have been blackmailed or are being blackmailed, and may be blackmailing others. The corruption in our government is vast and almost incomprehensible. We should not expect the judicial system to operate as designed, since, yes, most if not all of the higher level judges in the country are likely corrupted as well. I haven't asked the author, "Why Epstein?" I have speculated that if he was not the focus, no one would read the book, or maybe a lot fewer people would. I focused more on the rampant corruption present in our government branches and what that might mean for our future as a constitutional republic. Thank you, Ms. Webb, for your real journalism. I wish you the best.
I'm a big fan of Whitney Webb and I enjoy following her work on Unlimited Hangout and her podcast interviews. The subject matter of this double volume book is critically important and underreported, and I'm grateful for her attempt to fill the void left by main stream journalists who have been muzzled by or are acquiescing to the powers involved. Although, it's unfortunate that the books are composed like rough drafts that need work. There are a lot of grammatical errors - as if there was no editor. The first volume could have been reduced in size - 400 pages of context is not proportional to the 375 second volume which finally arrives at Epstein and the Maxwell family. In addition, the material never really coheres under a unified thesis, rather it reads like an endless pastiche of tangential connections, bouncing from one to the next in a staccato rhythm, rarely stopping to flesh out the characters involved (exceptions are the Roy Cohn chapter and Epstein and the Maxwells in Volume 2). While this style of documentation worked at a smaller scale in the author's internet article series on Epstein, at the scale of a 700+ page investigation the lack of supplemental character development prevents the endless matrix of connections from emerging as a whole. Occasionally, the end of a chapter will provide some resolution stating that there are criminal networks through which intelligence agencies, government officials, and organized crime are connected. I understand the networks in question are secretive and limited information is available but given the size of the investigation, further insight or even speculation about the real handlers of Jeffrey Epstein and the Maxwell family is needed.
Wow. This is dizzying. Can't read everything and remember every name and connection. Basically laying the groundwork from the 20th century to connect the global web of operations and cooperations and competing factions of power and intrigue corruption and blackmail in every societal institution and every aspect of history: intelligence agencies and covert operations in the FBI and CIA and international agencies, terrorist organizations, movement of drugs and cocaine, arms dealing, organized crime, banks and money laundering domestic and international, foreign governments and their intelligence agencies, oil companies, transportation industry, every branch of United States and local governments, real estate empires, stock manipulation, male and female prostitution, shipping, offshore banking, hotels and resorts and casinos, war machines, all of the so-called scandals of the 20th century involving investments and intrigue - Bahamas, Panama, Latin America, Colombia, Nicaragua, Libya, Iran, Eastern Europe, Israel, Libya. Presidents, vice-presidents, judges, members of Congress, lawyers, businessmen. It is actually amazing that we have somewhat of a civil society. I don't think I will believe anything, anymore about anything government is puts forth about its involvement in anything.
Can't wait to read volume 2. This first volume set the stage for the decades of blackmail, very specifically sexually targeted blackmail, that already existed among the powerful figures in the US, with international ties, and the background to how Jeffrey Epstein came of age into this cabal.
This a well-documented story (lots of endnote references). Webb has done a deep research of politicians, the CIA, foreign intelligence organizations and elites and organized it as a preliminary story to volume two of One Nation Under Blackmail. The story details an amazing interconnected web of people. So many stories and connections, it’s easy to get a bit confused in the beginning since so many people are mentioned it would be helpful to have a separate list of characters. I went to a few interviews with Whitney Webb and her recall on names and characters and stories is amazing. People in the background seamlessly move from intelligence operations to political appointments. I found Robert Maxwell’s ties to Mossad and the infected PROMIS software he sold our intelligence agencies especially intriguing. This book lifts the curtain on the story behind the scenes, the one that people and agencies try to conceal. The political theater we vote on every four years feels so superficial. At times this story felt so complicated but also so interesting I couldn’t put this book down. Shady people appear and reappear in various administrations that it’s a moving behind the theater politics we are dished up on the evening news. I look forward to the next book in two volume story. This is the story you don’t hear on corporate mainstream news.
Writer Whitney Webb is a tour de force with up to date info on all subjects dealing with crime, intelligence, conspiracy, etc. Her pod-casts and articles are mind blowing. So...I just finished Vol. 1 of One Nation Under Blackmail and it's pretty good. It covers the last 100 years of where organized crime meets the intelligence agencies (CIA, Mossad, etc.), and, it takes an in-depth look at Roy Cohn and a few other infamous characters. And it all leads to Jeffery Epstein, the main focus of Vol. 2. Soooo, why am I giving Vol. 1 only three Stars? It's due to her writing. Through out the book there is just an avalanche, or, wave after wave of names after names after more names whether it was on the crime or the intel side. I started off writing each name down and looking them up but I couldn't keep up. In one medium sized paragraph I counted 16 new names! Too much! So, by page 200 hundred I put down the pen & paper and started speed reading. By book's end I felt in ingested the material just as well as I did the first 200 hundred pages. She also needed to section out the material better....lot's of sections just go on & on...whew! But, I enjoyed the material she covered immensely and am looking forward to reading Vol. 2 very soon... 3.5 outta 5.0 but I knock it down to 3.0 Stars...
Whitney Webb's book could've been an intriguing read, but falls short due to its lack of coherence and an excessive focus on names and associations. I kept waiting for more detailed explanations but they never came. Instead the book is filled with allegations, possibilities and rumors. Some may be true, but it's hard to take them all seriously
I felt this book jumps too much to tell a cohesive story. This made it difficult to follow Webb's arguments. To truly appreciate the claims of blackmail or conspiracies I'd need to spend a considerable amount of time researching and verifying the sources provided. I gave up after reading 585 pages - realizing the detail I was looking for was never going to be provided.
Well sourced to a fault. Sometimes reads like "Book of Names" in the bible. Webb sets up a vast and deep history going back to the early 20th century of organized crime, NGOs and intelligence agencies in US and Israel collaborating on pedophile and sex blackmail rings ala Jeffrey Epstein. However, at least in this volume, few of the organizations and figures listed and described narratively connect together except for Roy Cohn, making the set pieces hard to follow.
My hope for volume 2 is that all the figures, histories and organizations weave together in a way that allows me to better understand the connections.
But very thorough and hard to dispute history that is often the territory ceded to "conspiracy theorists."
I got pretty tired of them saying not enough time to talk about it now I’ll talk about it later in the book not enough time to talk about it now I’ll talk about it later in the book. Oh, it’s too big to get into now into the details but you got a believe me just because I said so yeah don’t you believe that well talk about it later in the book too many details to get into now it’s quite annoying and then he becomes a religious zeal yet. It’s too bad I had already downloaded one through three because of course once I download it I’m gonna end up reading it. Do I agree with it? Well, it’s his presentation of a constant rant against everybody else, it’s quite tiring actually and that’s my talk to text