Kirkus Professional Book Reviewers said: "Graham's new book is an intriguing and informative ‘must read’ from a woman who is probably the best-informed American on the terrifying realities concerning Vladimir Putin's motivations and his control over Trump. It is a warning to all Americans." Elizabeth Graham, author of the bestselling ebook, 'From Democracy to Democrazy', has announced the ebook version of the book will be available at no charge on March 12, 2025 at Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/stores/Elizabeth-Graham/author/B0CMY189NT?.
Elizabeth Graham had a Top-Secret Security Clearance while a senior in high school, and immediately upon graduation began working undercover with the CIA. She later joined the SAIC's Foreign Systems Research Center (FSRC) for 12 years. Eight of these years were spent studying Russia and Russian, and she managed the largest Russian-language military, technical and intelligence library in the U.S. She began to travel to the Soviet Union and then became one of the very few Americans to move to the USSR. She lived under Communism in the Soviet Union, then Russia, and Central Asia long enough to become bi-cultural - she became Russian. Her first-hand knowledge and understanding of life in a communist or dictatorship country is shared with Americans in her book and in her Substack by the same name (egraham.substack.com). She believes the U.S. is headed for a cataclysm – a disaster. In a recent article, she wrote in part:
Time Magazine wrote ‘Morality and empathy are writ deep in our genes. Alas, so are savagery and bloodlust. Science is now learning what makes us both noble and terrible – and perhaps what can make us better.’ (Time, Ibid) I chose this topic to write about because the United States was founded by men who considered themselves moral when they wrote the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence focused on conforming to a standard of what is right and good. This virtuous beginning of the United States has now sunk to unscrupulous, dishonorable, and unconscionable. We have come a long way in the wrong direction.
To quote this Time Magazine article, written almost 20 years ago, ‘We are a species that is capable of almost dumbfounding kindness. We nurse one another, romance one another, weep for one another. Ever since science taught us how, we willingly tear the very organs from our bodies and give them to one another. And at the same time, we slaughter one another. The past 15 years of human history are the temporal equivalent of those subatomic particles that are created in accelerators and vanish in a trillionth of a second, but in that fleeting instant, we’ve visited untold horrors on ourselves – in Mogadishu, Rwanda, Chechnya, Darfur, Beslan, Baghdad, Pakistan, London, Madrid, Lebanon, Israel, Bosnia, New York City, Russia, Abu Ghraib, Oklahoma City, an Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania - all of the crimes committed by the highest, wisest, most principled species the planet has produced.
That we’re also the lowest, cruelest, most blood-drenched species is our shame. . . and the harder it becomes to preserve the vanity that we are unique among Earth’s creatures. We told ourselves that we are the only creatures on Earth with language, until gorillas and chimps mastered sign language. We’re the only one that uses tools then – but that’s if you don’t count otters smashing mollusks with rocks or apes stripping leaves from twigs and using them to fish for termites.
What does, or ought to, separate us then is our highly developed sense of morality, a primal understanding of good and bad, or right and wrong, or what it means to suffer not only our own pain – something anything with a rudimentary nervous system can do – but also the pain of others.” (Ibid) THAT QUALITY IS THE DISTILLED ESSENCE OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN.
Yet our country has selected a man to lead, who lacks this basic quality of what it means to be human. He has no empathy for the thousands of people who his DOGE group have left unemployed. He has called our military men and women who died in combat “suckers and losers.” He is now considering changes to social security – money earned and saved by more than 77 million U.S. workers to provide financial support in their old age. He has angrily berated the President of Ukraine in the Oval Office – where no U.S. President before him has behaved so poorly. He has been accused of or convicted of many crimes: falsifying business records, mishandling of national security documents, and attempting to overturn the 2020 U.S. presidential election – a Constitutional defined treasonous act.
The full text of the piece is available at https://substack.com/@elizabethgraham.
All of this information and much more is available in Graham's book, 'From Democracy To Democrazy: A Warning To All Americans', now available at Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/stores/Elizabeth-Graham/author/B0CMY189NT?. The bestselling ebook version will be available at no charge February 14, 2025. More information is available at her website at https://democrazy2020.org/.
About Elizabeth Graham:
Elizabeth Graham lives in a quiet rural city in northern Arizona. She had 4 children and has 3 grandchildren. Her oldest daughter died July 16, 2016 - three months before the U.S. 2016 election and while living/working in Japan. The Tokyo Police ruled her death a homicide by an unknown substance – possibly a poison - which is the signature lethal method used by Russians. There is more about her death in From Democracy to Democrazy.
Elizabeth was indoctrinated at a young age by her father who was a senior manager working undercover with the CIA. Her college days were in Los Angeles with the desire to become a high school teacher. However, she was destined to study Russia, Russian language, and live a life of Top-Secret clearances and undercover work. This led to senior nonprofit management positions and consulting jobs in strategic places like Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia, all the former Soviet countries (15 countries including the Baltics, Central Asia, and Ukraine), Pakistan, Afghanistan, and many other locations. In this process of living and working abroad, she became bi-cultural - American to Russian and back – only to find that her birth country was in the process of losing its democracy and becoming a dictatorship.
Contact:
Elizabeth Graham
https://democrazy2020.org
graham1elizabeth@aol.com
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