Book review by Catherine Austin Fitts:

“Take the undersea and underground cables that tied the world’s communication systems together. According to an NSA estimate, by 2002 less than 1 percent of global Internet bandwidth passed between two regions of the world without passing through the United States. The global messaging system that allowed banks to talk with each other was based in Belgium—but its board was dominated by U.S. banks, and it was hostage to its data center in Northern Virginia.”