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  • The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century. New book available from Global Research with a chapter by Richard C. Cook on “Democratization of the Monetary System.” ORDER HERE
  • Richard C. Cook is one of 25 Americans featured in a new book by Vince Reardon: Legacy: Passing on Cherished Values in a Values-Starved World. ORDER HERE
  • Order We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform by Richard C. Cook. Use the PayPal donate button at the top of this page and send $25 which includes shipping within the U.S.
  • Lite in the Heart by Australian mystic Omna Last is available through this website. Use the Donate button at the top to order. Send $20 which includes S&H and allow two weeks for delivery. Go directly to Omna’s website HERE.
  • Six-part video by Richard C. Cook available: “Credit as a Public Utility: The Solution to the Economic Crisis.” See “Blogs and Updates” to view the video or order the 2-hour two-DVD set or PDF script.
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Richard C. Cook is an author, consultant, and teacher who works out of College Park, MD, Williamsburg, VA, and Roanoke, VA. His interests are local economic sustainability, monetary reform, health and wellness, meditation and spirituality, and space exploration. He attended the College of William and Mary, the alma mater of Thomas Jefferson, where he graduated with honors and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Cook is a former U.S. federal government analyst who in 1986 became one of the foremost whistleblowers of modern times. He was instrumental in exposing multiple layers of cover-up in the wake of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. As a witness to the incident and a participant in the subsequent investigations, he received the Cavallo Foundation Award for Moral Courage in Business and Government for his testimony. In 2007, his memoirs of the tragedy were published in a book entitled: Challenger Revealed: An Insider’s Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age. The book was ignored by the mainstream media but has been called by one reviewer, “The most important space flight book in 20 years.”

As a policy analyst for the U.S. government from 1970 until 2007, Cook’s career included service with the U.S. Civil Service Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Carter White House, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury Department. He also taught history at the Field School in Washington, D.C., and owned and operated an organic farm for 10 years while commuting to work from rural Virginia.

Cook’s most recent book is We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform, derived from his career in public finance and his views on the financial crash of 2008. He is available for speaking and consulting in a variety of fields, including monetary systems and sustainable economics.

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Challenger Disaster

In January 1986 Cook became the first NASA official to testify publicly on the space agency's prior knowledge of flaws in the solid rocket booster O-ring joints that destroyed Challenger and took the lives of its seven astronauts. He told his story in the book Challenger Revealed, published in 2007. Publisher's Weekly wrote of the book: "Easily the most informative and important book on the disaster."

The Cook Plan

What I am calling the 'Cook Plan' is to pay each resident of the U.S. a dividend, by means of vouchers for the necessities of life, in the amount of $1,000 per month per capita starting immediately as our fair share of the resources of the earth and the productivity of the modern industrial economy. The money would then be deposited in a new network of community savings banks to capitalize lending for consumers, small businesses, and family farming.

Omna Last

The Lite in the Heart can be experienced when there is enough Love awareness and a strong enough energy field for consciousness to enter deep within the Heart to the place where the Atma lives, shining more brightly than a million Suns.