Reportage: Essays on the New World Order

by James Corbett, Whitney Webb (foreword)

Essays on the New World Order examines the roots, culture, mindset and insatiable and ruthless lust for power of globalist institutions and interests. James offers not only clarity on the Who, What, How and Why of hidden and suppressed histories, but also presents alternatives, and-yes-even hope for the free and sovereign individual in a world seemingly locked down by The Powers that Be.

JAMES CORBETT is an award-winning independent writer and documentary producer. Since 2007, his web site CorbettReport.com—Open Source Intelligence News has presented thousands of videos, articles and interviews, garnering an enormous and influential following and earning James a reputation for integrity and insight.

Genres: Politics, Nonfiction, Conspiracy Theories, Essays, History

366 pages, Paperback

Published January 22, 2025

Reviews

[Maria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant essays, every single one of them and each has receipts which will take you to archived links with tonnes of information. I will be accessing those links, reading of which, will take months, if not years.

[Ursula · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’ve been following James’ work for a while and so glad to read this first publication. I love that the reader can ‘hear’ James’ voice in these texts. The references to language and authors like Orwell make it amusing and insightful. It is an engaging read, with a diverse mix of chapters about all the important topics - from Bilderberg Meetings to Digital ID, this is a comprehensive book that is accessible for anyone with curiosity to feed. Buy it, read it, share it. Highly recommended and undoubtedly this will become one of the seminal texts of this dystopian era.

[Allan Vega · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you’re already familiar with James Corbett’s podcast, The Corbett Report, much of this book will feel like familiar territory. The usual subjects are all here—9/11 Truth, the Federal Reserve, the Bilderberg Group, etc—essentially a printed extension of the podcast’s greatest hits.

That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Corbett is a clear and effective writer, and several of these essays are sharp, well-argued, and engaging. His strength lies in diagnosis: he is excellent at identifying systemic problems and tracing their historical roots. Where the book falls flat is when it comes to proposing workable responses. Corbett raises important questions but rarely offers solutions that feel practical or fully thought through.

A good example is the essay Escaping the Grand Chessboard, one of the stronger pieces in the collection. Corbett provides a compelling critique of globalization and imperial power structures, but when it comes time to suggest a way forward, the solution is reduced to a brief call to “stop playing the game.” While appealing in theory, this idea is left underdeveloped. There are no concrete steps, no acknowledgment of the obstacles involved, and no roadmap for how individuals or communities might realistically disengage from systems that permeate everyday life.

For readers new to Corbett’s work, Reportage will likely feel enlightening, provocative, and at times infuriating—in a productive way. It serves as a solid introduction to his worldview and investigative interests. For longtime listeners, though, the book may feel thin, offering little that goes beyond what the podcast has already covered.

In the end, Reportage works best as an entry point rather than a deepening of the conversation. Corbett shows us what’s broken; I just wish he spent more time grappling with what comes next.

[Randall Wallace · Rating 2 out of 5]

USAID is a CIA front organization. The basis of the final Green Revolution was as a gift to multi-nationals selling “fertilizer, chemicals and capital-intensive technology”. My geneticist grandpa originally worked with the Rockefellers honestly trying to help farmers in Mexico grow in difficult places with his (non-GMO) Pioneer Hi-Breds just before beginning as FDR’s V.P., but the capitalist Rockefellers and Lester Brown then put his well-meaning actions into unsustainable overdrive adding the capital-intensive inputs the poor could not afford. With those costly inputs, farmers sadly benefited far less than the rich feudal landowners. The US has betrayed the Kurds “no less than eight separate times” (p.281). Brzezinski said this: “In earlier times, it was easier to control one million people than to physically kill one million people (just ask the British); today it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.” [Netanyahu added, “But why can’t you do both?”] George Orwell changed his name from Eric Blair to hide his fancy-pants background while he was writing about the down and out in his first books [otherwise today’s pundits would sadly be referring to his Nineteen-Eighty-Four style totalitarian techniques as “a Blairian future”]. Orwell wrote about the dangers of fascism because, unlike those dandies around him, he had experienced it first-hand.

This was the first non-fiction book I’ve reviewed in years where the first new thing I learned didn’t happen before page 159. I bought it because Jimmy Dore and Whitney Webb really liked it and I like their stuff, but I ended up with only one paragraph of new info gleaned from a 333-page non-fiction 2025 book.

[Sir Badgerly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extremely well researched essays on crucial topics in relation to the NWO, from the Bilderberg group to false flags (like 9/11) to all the various supranational entities pulling the strings of world government.

[Joe · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read all the Essays in this book, from start to finish. I particularly liked the following Essays (in no order):

1. Brief Introduction to Spontaneous Order
- Challenged my way of thinking how the world operates, and what is needed for it to function accordingly. How we spontaneously interact and succeed as a species in the practically, infinite, amount of processes that make up our daily life that go unnoticed. The author explains an example of all the processes that go into making a “Pencil” and emphasizes that humans have a way of figuring it out through “spontaneous order”. How we don’t need to be thoroughly programmed/ordered in society, but rather it happens spontaneously through our innovative instincts.

2. Escaping The Grand Chessboard
- A new way of thinking about Geopolitics and global conflicts. The importance of seeing conflicts and events around the globe not just in “2D”, but in “3D”. A long with numerous historical examples of how these conflicts are orchestrated and carried out. The example comes from chess, how the ruling class places pawns on a chessboard. The author delves into the notion that this gives off an inhumane construct in societal conflicts.

3. And Now For Something Completely Different…
- The author gives numerous so called “Wildcard happenings” in history. Cumulative influences and historical milestones that led us to where we are today. Describing the importance of “wonder” and “humility” instead of “hubris” and “arrogance”. The important concept to understand is that the next great discovery that changes our understanding of the world, would be foolish to assume won’t be surprising, in the eyes of the “know it alls”. On the contrary, it’d be equally foolish to think that the next “momentous occasion” that shapes the course of history, will be by design, and not an accident. Two perspectives to stay wondrous about as we move through the mysterious nature of events.

[Mike Lisanke · Rating 3 out of 5]

I forgot to mark this as being read this early AM when I started. I like the author's podcast and likely watch almost all of his recent work. That said, I was expecting (hoping) for a deeper book than this is... for those who haven't watched the show, this will likely be fascinating. But I did watch the shows which essentially tell the same story in mostly the same way (only, with less details). One of the great things James Corbett does with his in-depth conspiracy shows is dig deep into the backstory of the people/places/things involved. So, for those who haven't watch the Corbett Report, this book will be a fine banquet of tasty stories told succinctly and making their point here in a book (as they did in depth on video report). Enjoy. (for those who are fans and frequent viewers; there's little new here).

[Ciaran Roberts · Rating 5 out of 5]

Purely and simply, everyone needs to read this book. Question everything. Go down the rabbit hole. Get disoriented, miserable, disheartened. And wake up to the reality we live in today.

I have never read such a throughly researched book. Everything is sourced and referenced, which then throws you down other avenues and opens your eyes to even more.

[Stephen Heiner · Rating 5 out of 5]

video book review: https://youtu.be/cnFgZ7dzjto

James Corbett gets a lot of things right, and while you can easily find all his work on the Internet and at corbettreport.com, you could get a very good primer for his ideas from this book.

[Christel Keijzer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kudos to James Corbett for his years of research and fact finding, to write about the many things that the media can't or won't inform the public about. These politics consistently harm people and we have the right to learn the details and prevent the abuse to mankind.

[Sean Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fantastic read.

[Bill Cripps · Rating 4 out of 5]

American sentric account of the new world order. Read it with an open mind and it will enhance your world view!