The
Worlds Mastermind: the True Objectives of Globalization
- a view from Argentina -
Adrian
Salbuchi
George
Santayana
More
and more people are taking an increasingly critical view of the worldwide phenomenon
called globalization. Not that they are against constructive cooperation among the
sovereign nations of the world on common goals, but rather that they reject this
present model of globalization.
As we now have it, globalization can be defined as an ideology which identifies
the sovereign Nation-state as its key enemy. It thus seeks to weaken, dissolve and
eventually destroy it as a social institution in order to replace it with new
supranational world management structures. These structures tie in with the
political objectives and economic interests of a small number of highly concentrated
and very powerful groups which today drive and steer the globalization process
in a very specific direction.
These
power groups consist of private interests which have today achieved something
unprecedented in human history and which can de describe as the privatization of power
on a global scale. Globalization is an understatement of that which
former US presidents Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and George Bush,
each at different historical times described as a new world order.
A
New World Order! Clearly, when former president Bush indiscretely used that term a
decade ago, the Establishment quickly silenced and replaced it by the more neutral and
harmless sounding globalization which, nevertheless, today has but one
meaning: Anglo-North American neoimperialism on a planetary and all-encompassing level.
The
process we have described is in no way anonymous or secret, because the power groups
promoting and driving globalization are in full view of public opinion: multinational
corporations especially the Fortune 500s accounting for 80% of the US economy -;
the global financial structure which includes banks, investment funds, stock exchanges and
commodity markets; multimedia monopolies; major Ivy League universities; international
multilateral organizations and, most important, key governmental posts in the United
States and other industrialized nations.
What is not immediately obvious is the fact that all these players in this veritable wheel
of global power have one thing in common: their key managers, financiers, strategists,
bankers, government officers, academics and shareholders belong to the same network of
think tanks. This network forms a common hub steering the wheel of world
power on its course.
Among
these key think tanks - which are really geopolitical planning centers -, the role
of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission,
the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Brookings
Institution, the RAND Corporation and the Center for Strategic
& International Studies, among others, are of vital importance.
To
properly understand todays world one needs to look back on yesterdays, in
order to see how things came about. It was back in 1919 when a small group of
influential bankers, lawyers politicians and academics all of whom were taking part in
the Paris peace negotiations between the victorious Allies and the vanquished Central
Powers of Europe met in the Parisian Hotel Majestic and reached a transcendental
agreement: they decided to create a think tank; a sort of
gentlemens club or lodge from which they could design the kind of
new world order which would properly accomodate the colonial interests of the
Anglo-North American alliance.
In
London, that think tank would take on the name of the Royal Institute of
International Affairs (RIIA), whilst in the United States it would be known as the
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), based in New York City. Both
organizations had the unmistakeable seal of the social strategy of gradually imposing a
socialist order as a means of mass control which was then being promoted by the Fabian
Society, financed by the Round Table Group which was in turn
created, controlled and financed by South African magnate Cecil Rhodes, the international
financial dynasty of the Rothschilds, and the British Crown.
The
CFR got its initial support from the most wealthy, powerful and influencial
families in the United States which included Rockefeller, Mellon, Harriman, Morgan,
Schiff, Kahn, Warburg, Loeb and Carnegie (the latter in particular through its own front
organization the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace).
In
order to express and thus propagate its influence among elite circles, one of the first
measures of the CFR consisted in founding its own journal which to this day remains
the worlds premier publication on geopolitics and political science: Foreign
Affairs. Among the CFR´s first directors, we find Allan Welsh
Dulles, a key figure in the US intelligence community who would later consolidate the
spy structure of the CIA; journalist Walter Lippmann, director and founder of The
New Republic; J.P. Mogan corporate lawyers; bankers Otto H. Kahn, and Paul
Moritz Warburg, the latter a German emigrée who came to the United States and
in 1913 designed and promoted legislation which led to the creation of the Federal
Reserve Bank which to this very day controls the financial structure of the United
States. When the Second World War ended in 1945, the Federal Reserve Bank was
supplemented by the International Monetary Fund and The World Bank,
both of which were masterminded, planned and designed by the CFR at the Bretton
Woods Conference in 1944.
Another
member of the CFR and one of its first directors was geographer and president of
the American Geographical Society, Isaiah Bowman, who would re-draw the map
of Central Europe after the First World War thus ushering in times of grave turmoil in
that continent which would lead to the Second World War. It was CFR lawyers
like Owen D. Young (president of General Electric) and Charles Dawes (J
P Morgan Bank), who in the twenties designed and promoted the
refinancing plans for Germanys war reparations debt as imposed by the
Treaty of Versailles. It was top Federal Reserve Bank directors and CFR members
who would generate the monetary distortions leading to the 1929 financial crisis and
ensuing Depression.. It was CFR directors who through the powerful media under
their control such as the NBC and CBS radio networks and newspapers like the
The Washington Post and The New York Times, would coax and press public
opinion to break US isolationist neutrality and embark the nation on another European war
in 1939, which they themselves had been promoting since the early thirties.
At
the very start of this European war in which The United States would only formally take
part in 1941, CFR members set up the War & Peace Studies Group which
literally became a part of the State Department, and designed its major foreign policies
towards Germany, Italy, Japan and its allies. Later, they began preparing for yet
another new world order after the then forseeable Allied victory. In
this manner, the CFR designed and promoted the creation of the United Nations to
manage world politics and some of its key economic agencies such as the IMF
and the World Bank, through its members Alger Hiss, John J. McCloy, W.
Averell Harriman, Harry Dexter White and many others.
Once
the war ended, US President Harry Salomon Truman would establish the far-reaching
national security doctrine which was based on the doctrine of containment of Soviet
expansion based on the proposal of yet another CFR member and at that time US
Ambassador to Moscow, George Kennan, who described his ideas in a famous
seminal Foreign Affairs article which he signed with the pseudonym X;
as well as on national security directive NSC68 issued by the National Security Council
which was drafted by CFR member Paul Nitze. The same can be
said of the so-called Marshall Plan designed by a CFR task force and
later implemented by W. Averell Harriman.
Although
it is a little known organization among public opinion, the CFR is very powerful
and has grown in influence, prestige and breadth of activities. So much so that
today we can say without doubt that it conforms the worlds mastermind
silently directing the course of the many complex and highly volatile social, politicial,
financial and economic processes throughout the world. There is not a people, region
or aspect of human life which is not affected by the CFRs influence
knowingly or unknowingly and it is the fact that it has nevertheless been able to
remain behind the scenes that makes the CFR so exceptionally powerful.
Today,
the CFR is a discreet organization counting among its more than 3.600 members, the
best, most capable and powerful people wielding great influence in their respective
professions, corporations, institutions, governmental posts and social environments.
In this way, the CFR brings together top corporate officers of financial
institutions, industrial giants, the media, research organizations, academics, top
military officers, governmental leaders, university deans, trade union leaders and study
center investigators. Their fundamental objectives consist in identifying and
assessing a wide range of political, economic, financial, social, cultural and military
factors spanning every imaginable aspect of public and private life in the United States,
its key allies and the rest of the world. Today, thanks to the enormous power
wielded by the United States, that breadth of activities of the CFR literally spans
the whole planet.
Its
researches and investigations are carried out by different task forces and study groups
within the CFR which identify opportunities and threats, assess strengths and
weaknesses, and design far-reaching strategies to promote its interests worldwide, each
with their respective tactical and operative plans. Although such intensive and
far-reaching tasks are made within the CFR, the key issue to understanding
its enormous success lies in the fact that the CFR per se, never actually does
anything under its own name but rather it is its individual members who do so, and
this they do from their formal posts as chairmen, CEOs and directors of major
corporations, financial institutions, international multilateral institutions, media, and
key posts in government, univerisities, the armed forces, and trade unions.. They
never invoke or even refer to the CFR as being their main seat of planning and
coordination.
The
CFR members are powerful indeed as today we find among them (and we only refer to
but a handful of the 3600 CFR members), people like David Rockefeller, Henry
Kissinger, Bill Clinton, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Samuel Huntington, Francis Fukuyama,
former secretary of state Madeleine Albright, international speculator George
Soros, supreme course judge Stephen Breyer, CEO of Lowes/CBS Laurence A.
Tisch, present secretary of state Gral. L. Colin Powell, CEO of General
Electric Co. Jack Welsh, CEO of CNN W. Thomas Johnson, chairman and CEO of
The Washington Post / Newsweek / International Herald Tribune Katherine Graham,
vicepresidente of the United States, former secretary of defence and former CEO of
Halliburton Richard Cheney, president George Bush, former national security
advisor to president Clinton Samuel Sandy Berger, former CIA director John
M. Deutch, governor of the Federal Reserve Bank Alan Greenspan, president of
the World Bank James D. Wolfensohn, CEO of CS First Boston Bank and former governor
of the Federal Reserve Bank Paul Volcker, reporters Mike Wallace and Barbara
Walters, former CEO of CitiGroup John Reed, economists Jeffrey Sachs and
Lester Thurow, former treasury secretary, ex CEO of Goldman Sachs and present
director of CitiGroup, Robert E. Rubin, former secretary of state and
mediator during the the Malvinas Islands War between Argentina and Britain Gral.
Alexander Haig, the mediator in the Balcan conflict Richard Holbrooke, CEO
of IBM Louis V. Gerstner, democratic senator George J. Mitchell, republican
representaitve Newt Gingrich, and present national security advisor Condoleeza
Rice, among many other.
In
the business world, the top corporations of the Fortune 500 ranking all have a
senior director who is a member of the CFR. These corporations together have
a combined market value alomost twice the gross domestic product of the United States,
concentrate the better part of the wealth and power of the country, and control key
resources and technologies throughout the world. Together they employ over 25 million
people in the US alone and account for over 75% of its GDP. In short, they wield
gigantic power, leverage and influence in the US and in our planet.
We
thus find here the key to the CFRs enormous effectiveness in that its
decisions and plans are drafted and agreed in its meetings, conferences and task forces
behind closed doors, and are then carried out by its different members from each of their
formal posts in different organizations. And what powerful posts these are!
If,
for example, there were a series of plans agreed regarding, say, the globalization of the
economy and the financial system, or which countries shall have peace and prosperity and
which war and famine, then we can suppose that the coordinated action of personalities
such as the president of the United States, his secretaries of state, defense, commerce
and treasury, CIA director, the main international bankers and financiers, captains of
industry, media media, reporters and writers, military officers and academics, heads of
the IMF, World Bank and World Trade Organization, shall be able to coordinate concrete,
effective and no doubt almost irrestistible actions. This has been so over the
past eighty years.
In
order to trully understand how the world really works, we must first understand the
difference between formal power and real power. What the media
propagate with a very high public profile every day in their newscasts on television,
radio and in the press is nothing but the concrete and visible results of the
actions of formal power structures, particularly those of national governments and
the technocratic and supranational financial and corporate structures. However, real
power levers are far less visible and they are the ones which plan out what
will occur in the world, when and where it shall take place and who
shall carry it out.
Formal power is short term and has high public profile; Real power is
long-term and has almost no public profile. Formal power is public
Real power is private. As the United States is todays sole planetary
superpower, it is reasonable to conclude that this world power structure as that
is what it truly is provisionally manages this veritable world government from the
territory and the political and economic structures of the United States. This by no
means implies that the majority of the people of the United States necessarily form part
of this scheme of things, but rather that their elites and ruling classes do. We are
thus speaking of a power group which operates within the United States (as it also
does within the United Kingdom, Germany and, Japan, and through its agents in
Spain, Argentina, Brasil, Korea and many other countries), but which is not necessaily identified
with the people of Unisted States (nor any of the other countries with whose peoples,
their needs and interests they need not heed nor be in agreement with).
In
order to better understand the true nature of the United States, we should keep in mind
that especially in what refers to its foreign policy the US Administration
as they themselves so aptly call their government, is based in Washington DC, which is
the seat of formal power in the US, whilst its real power structures are
located in New York City. I.e., the US is managed from Washington DC but
governed from New York City. Once we grasp this, then many other things
automatically fall into place. Additionally, the true planetary center of power sits
not in New York, but in London....
That
this should be so is understandable when one remembers that the exercise of real power requires
compliance with a set of rules and conditions such as continuity spanning years and
decades in order to achieve far-reaching goals and complex strategies which will, in turn,
span the entire planet, its nations and resources. This requires long-term planning:
20, 30 and 50 years ahead. These power elites well know that there is no greater
threat to political continuity and consistency in the design and execution of such
worldwide strategies, than to have them subjected to the democratic process with imposes a
high public profile on its leaders who must heed the voice of the public at every step
they take, and the constant power interruptions which democratic electoral processes
entail.
How
much better it is to operate discreetly, from what one could formally describe as a
mere gentlemens club like the CFR, of which powerful and influential
men and women can be officers, directors and chairmen for decades at a time without ever
having to render any explanation to anybody but their own peers. In this
manner, 3.600 powerful persons can exert gigantic policital, economic, financial and media
influence over countless millions throughout our entire planet. It goes without
saying that the media impose political correctness which can only be expressed
through two major political parties democrats and republicans in the US, labour and
conservative in the UK, CDU or SPD in Germany, radicals and justicialists in Argentina
which are mere variations of the same basic teners. In practice, stable Western
democracies have all conformed to what is in practice a one-party system with slightly
different internal factions.
What
we are describing is in fact the central hub of a veritable network of powerful men
and women, considering that the CFR is in turn supplemented by a myriad of similar
institutions both inside and outside of the United States. Among these we can
mention a handful: The Hudson Institute, The RAND Corporation , The Brookings
Institution, The Trilateral Commission , The World Economic Forum, Aspen Institute,
American Enterprise Institute, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtigen Politik, and
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
All
of these think tanks bring together the most intelligent, best prepared, creative
and ambitous men and women in a wide range of fields and disciplines. They are paid
and rewarded very handsomely both economically and socially, so long as they clearly and
uncompromisingly align themselves with the basic tenets of the CFRs political
objectives. These are nothing less than the creation of a private world
government, the sistematic erosion of the structures of all sovereign Nation-states (though,
naturally, not all of them in the same way, at the same speed nor at the same time), the
standardization of cultural values and social norms, the spreading of the globalized
financial system on a speculative-usurary basis, and the management of a global war system
in order to maintain the necessary social cohesion of its own masses through permanent
coaxing and alignment against real or imagined enemies of democracy,
human rights, freedom and peace.
Thus,
in order to better understand the world, one needs to read and assess what the CFR
or rather, its individual members - says and propagates, as many of its activities are
not secret but rather merely discreet. Any person visiting their headquarters
on fashionable Park Avenue and 68th Street in New York City as the undersigned has done
many times in recent years, will be able to obtain a free copy of their latest Annual
Report which describes its main activities and the full list of its 3.600 members. So
the information is readily available for all who wish to see it.
It
is, however, up to us to then take the trouble of cross-checking all the information
regarding the CFRs members with what each really does in their professional,
corporate, academic and government activities. We also need to look back on modern
history and assess the exceptional leverage which the CFR has had throughout the
twentieth century both on its own as well as in conjunction with its sister organizations,
thus triggering and influencing ideologies, public events, wars, formation of alliances,
political crimes, covert activities, mass psychological warfare, economic and financial
crises, promotion and destruction of political and business personalities, and other
high-impact events many of them clearly difficult to admit or confess , which have
all however marked the course of humanity in our stormy modern times.
It would seem that we are all kept too occupied and fascinated as pasive spectators of the whirlwind of events which take place every day in the world so as to ensure that none of us ever thinks of looking elsewhere for suitable explanations to todays grave crises, which would thus enable us to identify not so much the effects and shocking results of many such political decisions and covert actions which are taken, but rather their real and concrete causes and sources.
In order for this gigantic mass psychological warfare for that is what it is all
about - to succeed, the mass media play an essential and vital role which cannot be
sufficiently stressed. For they are the instruments whose goal it is to undermine
and neutralise the capacity of independent thought among the worlds population.
That is the role of the worlds mass media like CNN, CBS, NBC, The New
York Times, The Daily Telegraph, Le Figaró, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal,
Corrieri della Sera, Le Monde, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, US News & World
Report, Business Week, RTVE, all of which are directed by key people belonging to the CFR
and/or its sister organizations in the US and elsewhere.
Within
this context, we can say that the local media in Argentina, our educational and our
mainstream politicians are all aligned to the globalization process, and are set to
achieving three key objectives:
1.
To hide from public opinion how the world really works, knowing that if we
cannot properly understand and diagnose the origin of our problems and weaknesses, we can
hardly expect to find the proper solutions to them. We are thus (mis)led into
believing that we are at peace, when in actual fact a veritable and violent
total war is being waged against Argentina since over half a century on the political,
economic, financial, media, educational, technological and environmental fronts. It
is primarily a psychological war.
2. To make us believe that we are in a difficult situation but that things will
improve so long as we reach yet another agreement with the IMF, privatize even
more state interests, reform our federal and provincial governments to the World
Banks liking, reform our labour and social legislation so that international
investors will smile on us, and do our homework implementing IMF and World Bank
recipes. The truth is that to say we are in a difficult
situation is an absurd understatement. Argentina is in a terminal
situation and if we do not awaken to this reality in a few years more a decade
at most we shall cease to exist as a country altogether.
3.
To make us believe that, whether we like it or not, there´s nothing we can do to stop
globalization. The truth is, however, that there are
myriads of hings that can be done to neutralise the adverse effects of globalization.
These basically imply recovering the Nation-state so that it will comply with
its basic and fundamental functions of:
- integrating internal ;conflicting social forces,
- foreseeing all possible thrreats and opportunities from without and within,
and
- leading the Nation on a pollitical course defending its national interest.
These functions imply that there exists a sovereign Nation-state which Argentina today no
longer has. We have become a colony and we thus must, as a first step, promote a true Second
Declaration of Independence in order to then found a Second Republic. The
implications and inspiration for our region and even further afield in the world of such a
revolutionary act would be truly momentous. Additionally, one must bear in mind and it
is beyond the scope of this brief article to go into further details , that the global
financial infrastructure is on the brink of a controlled worldwide collapse which is
something that the CFR has been carefully planning for through their so-called Financial
Vulnerabilities Project and New International Financial Architecture programmes.
As we become aware of these realities, the road which we need to tread becomes
increasingly clear too and, in truth, things then do not appear as complex as one would
have thought. It is all basically a question of thinking with our own minds and
not with that of our enemies; of starting to assess and defend our national
interests, which implies having our own view of world events, interests and forces, and
then defending them according to our needs, true possibilities and idiosincracy. In actual
fact, we need not reinvent the wheel because the CFR itself gives us a
blueprint model for successful political, economic, financial and social planning and
management for national power. Why not learn from them? Why not form
our own network of think tanks bringing together a wide range of local, regional and
like-minded interests, players and thinkers from different fields, putting them all to
work on promoting the national interests of Argentina and its neighbours, so as to recover
sovereignty and self-determination for our poeples in a consistent and coherent manner,
irrespective of what the world power players may try to impose upon us? This would
imply understanding what globalization really is: an immensely large range of threats
and opportunities which we need to avoid and take advantage of, as the case may be. On
every subject having potential impact on us, we need to begin to understand which are our
relative strengths and weaknesses in order to be able to successfully confront them, if
not today then certainly in the future. That requires proper planning. Medium
and long-term planning. That requires trying to be always one step ahead of the Enemy, of
achieving and keeping an edge and an advantage over coming events.
No doubt this would lead us to properly designing policies consistent with our national
interest, which in many instances will not coincide with the interests of todays power
brokers to which end we need to seek and work closely with nations and organizations in
Central and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe with a common goal of neutralising
the negative effects of global domination. In truth this would imply creating a New
Argentina. We have many of the necessary tools already at hand; we have millions of
countrymen ready to accept the challenge if we but explain to them clearly and forcefully
the odds which are at stake; and millions more beyond our borders with whom we can work
arm-in-arm for a common Cause.
So
it is a question of understanding that in politics there are two kinds of people: those
who are actors in the political arena and those who merely look on. The Council
on Foreign Relations is a key active actor in the world political arena where they
make their strength felt. Is it not time that we start doing the same in our own
country?
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(1)
Warburg belonged to a prestigious and powerful Jewish German family of bankers, closely
related to the Rothschilds and the Schiff s, owners of New York-based banking house, Kühn
Loeb & Co. of which Paul Warburg was a partner. When the First World War
ended, eloquent circumstances found one Warburg Paul on the Allied side of the
negotiation table in Versailles, whilst another Warburg his brother Max was on the
side of the vanquished Germans. Jakob Schiff, Paul Warburgs
partner, had in turn financed the Japanese against the Russian Tsar during the 1905
Russian-Japanese War.....
(2)
Today Kennan is 98 years old and still writes for the CFR, an eloquent symbol of
his continued influence spanning more than half a century among Real Power brokers in
the CFR.
(3)
Notably, W. Averell Harriman was a business partner of Prescott Bush, republic senator
from Connecticut, father of former president George Herbert Walker Bush and grandfather of
president George W. Bush.
(4)
CFR rules of conduct specifically ban its member from ever publicly invoking the CFR in
any way or manner.
(5)
The reader will find detailed information in the author´s Spanish language bookl El
Cerebro del Mundo: la cara oculta de la Globalización (Ediciones del Copista,
Córdoba, Argentina, 1999, 404 pages.).
(6)
Think tank closely linked to the US Air Force which, among other things, created the
Internet.
(7)
Founded in 1973 by David Rockefeller and bringing together interests of the power elites
of the United States / Canada, Europe and Japan. Its ideologue is Zbigniew
Brzezinski, professor at Georgetown University and Columbia University and former National
Security Advisor to president James Carter (also a CFR and Trilateral member as was the
case with most of his cabinet).
(8)
Among these enemies of the free peoples of the world over the past
decades we can mention Fascism, German Nationalsocialism, the Japanese, Communism,
environmental contamination, terrorism, Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic, Islamic
fundamentalism, militarism, and antisemitism, among many
others.
(9)
This might sound a bit strong and yet at the pace things are occuring in the world, such a
forecast may hold true for just about any country in the world. Just think what
everydoby would have thought only twelve years ago at the beginning of 1989 if they
had been told that only three years later the following would take place: the fall of the
Berlin Wall, the reunification of Germany, the collapse of the USSR into fifteen
independent republics and their abandoning Marxism for Capitalism. One would
have thought such a person as being totally exagerated if not downright stupid and
yet.....that is exactly what occurred. It does make one think...
(10)
Elsewhere, the author of this article has written extensively on the need to found a
Second Argentine Republic.
[Buenos
Aires, Argentina - February 2001 [email protected]]