Population control How corporate owners are killing us

Conspiracy guru Marrs (Our Occulted History: Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens?, 2013, etc.) describes a worldwide plot by the global elite to hoard wealth and reduce the population. In a wide-ranging, alarmist screed, the author writes that "global corporate masters" have turned America into "a culture of deathfrom deadly drugs, food, water, and air to violent entertainment and blood sports." We're unaware of this turn of events because "we are being psychologically programmed by a mass media controlled by a mere handful of corporate owners." Drawing on the research and views of both dubious and recognized experts, Marrs devotes his book to a litany of real issues and controversiesfrom the need for vaccination to overprescribed drugs to unhealthy foodsand consistently uncovers deliberate conspiracies by the powers that be, whose only concern is to make enormous profits. Drugs are at the root of growing youth violence, he writes, and are making the health problems of returning war veterans worse. According to some nutritionists, sweeteners and other toxins in foods may be part of a corporate-sponsored genocide. Marrs even dusts off the issue of fluoridation of water supplies as an effort to medicate the entire population without its consent. Other controversies covered include finance capitalism, the rise of a police state, and the general failure of the federal government to take needed actions. To solve these societal problems, the author urges citizens to take personal action and work through local governments. This will undoubtedly put the fear of God into the same crowd that made successes of the author's earlier books on the Kennedy assassination and 9/11 as an inside job. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.