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Christopher Lynn Hedges
"American economic hegemony
has generated enormous hostility to an American dominated process of globalization,
frequently on the part of close democratic allies who thought America was
seeking to impose its antistatist social model on them."-
Francis Fukuyama
1921 British and American elite
academics get together with major international banking interests to form two
"sister institutes" called the Royal Institute of International Affairs
(RIIA) in London, now known as Chatham House, and the Council on Foreign Relations in the
US.
Subsequently related think tanks are
amalgamated in Canada, such
as the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, now known as the
Canadian International Council (CIC), and other affiliated
think tanks in
South Africa,
India,
Australia and, finally, in the
European Union with the formation of the European Council on Foreign
Relations.
Following World War I,
these powers sought to create a New World
Order.
Woodrow Wilson
proclaimed a right to "national
self-determination" which shaped the formation of nation-states throughout
the Middle East, which had been dominated by the
Ottoman Empire.
Proclaiming a right to "self-determination" for
people everywhere became means of
constructing nation-state power structures
to exert hegemony.
To control people,
one must construct institutions of
control.
Iraq,
Saudi Arabia,
Jordan,
Lebanon,
Syria,
Kuwait; partitioned in
WWI.
Following World War II,
America became the global
hegemon.
Imperial impetus provided by
the strategic concept of
"containment" to stop the
spread of communism (community).
American
imperial adventures in Korea,
the Middle East,
Africa,
Asia and
South America became defined by
the desire to "roll back" the influence of
the Soviet Union and communism.
Council on Foreign Relations
originated the idea of
"containment" as a central feature
of foreign policy.
Following World War II, America
took upon itself responsibility
for managing the international monetary system and global political economy
through the creation of institutions and agreements such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund,
NATO, United Nations, and GATT.
One central
power institution that was significant in
establishing consensus among Western elites and providing a forum for
expanding global western hegemony was
the Bilderberg Group, founded in
1954.
1972
Zbigniew
Kazimierz Brzezinski and David Rockefeller, first
present the idea of a "New World
Order" built upon idea of global governance under the direction of
transnational elites at the
annual Bilderberg Group meeting.
David Rockefeller
is Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and CEO of
Chase Manhattan Bank.
1973 Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski and
David Rockefeller forge
the Trilateral Commission, a
sister to the Bilderberg Group, with cross-over membership, to bring
Japan into the western sphere of
economic integration.
1975 The Trilateral Commission
publishes a Task Force Report labeled, "The Crisis of Democracy,
of which one of the principal authors is
Samuel Phillips Huntington, a
close associate of Zbigniew Kazimierz
Brzezinski.
Samuel Phillips
Huntington, analyzing this "democratic surge," showed that throughout the
1960s and into the early 1970s there was a dramatic increase in the percentage
of people who felt military spending was too high.
From 18% in 1960 to
52% in 1969, largely due to the Vietnam
War.
People were
becoming politically aware of empire and exploitation.
Samuel Phillips Huntington
concluded that many problems of governance in the US stem from an "excess of
democracy," and that, "the effective operation of a democratic political system
usually requires some measure of apathy and noninvolvement on the part
of some individuals and groups."
Huntington explained that society has
always had "marginal groups" which do not participate in politics, and while
acknowledging that the existence of "marginality on the part of some groups is
inherently undemocratic," it has also "enabled democracy to function
effectively."
Huntington identified "Blacks"
as one such group that had become politically active, posing a "danger of
overloading the political system with demands."
"Following
the collapse of the Soviet Union in
1991, American ideologues "politicians and academics" began discussing the
idea of the emergence of a "New World Order" with
power centralized in
the US.
This laid the basis for an expansion of elitist ideology
pertaining to the notion of "globalization": that power and power structures
should be globalized.
The "New World Order" was to be
a global order of global
governance.
The US was to be the central and primary actor in
constructing a new world order and global
government." - Andrew Gavin Marshall
"Persisting social crisis,
the emergence of a charismatic
personality, and the exploitation of corporate media
to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the
transformation of the
US into a closed
society.
Such a society would be
dominated by an elite
whose claim to political power would rest on
allegedly superior scientific
know-how.
Unhindered by
the restraints of traditional
liberal values, this elite would not
hesitate to achieve political ends
by using the latest modern
techniques for influencing public consciousness while
keeping society under
surveillance.
Under such
circumstances, the scientific and technological momentum of the country would
not be reversed but would actually feed on the situation.
The traditionally democratic American
society could, because of its fascination
with technical efficiency, become
an extremely controlled
society, and its humane and
individualistic qualities would thereby be lost." -
Zbigniew Kazimierz
Brzezinski
"The
Technological Revolution has allowed elites to redirect society in ways
never before imagined, culminating in
a global scientific
dictatorship, as many have warned of since the early decades of the 20th
century.
The potential for
controlling the masses has never been so great, as science unleashes
the power of genetics,
biometrics, surveillance,
and new forms of modern
eugenics; implemented by a
scientific elite equipped with
systems of psycho-social
control ." - Andrew Gavin Marshall
2005 Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski writes
an essay for The American Interest labeled, "The Dilemma of the Last
Sovereign," in which he explains the geopolitical landscape that America
and the world find themselves in: "For most
states, sovereignty now verges on being a legal fiction."
2009 Zbigniew
Kazimierz Brzezinski publishes an article based on a speech he delivered to the
London-based Chatham House in their academic journal, International
Affairs.
Chatham House, formerly the Royal Institute of
International Relations, is the British counterpart to the US-based
Council on Foreign Relations.
His article, "Major foreign
policy challenges for the next US President" aptly analyzes the
major geopolitical challenges
for the Obama administration in leading the global corporate state at
this critical juncture.
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski refers to the
"global political awakening" as
"a truly transformative event on the global
scene:"
"For the first time in human history almost all of humanity
is politically activated, politically conscious and
politically interactive.
There are only a few
pockets of humanity left in the remotest corners of the world that are not
politically alert and engaged with the political turmoil.
The resulting
global political activism is
generating a surge in the quest for
personal dignity, cultural respect
and economic opportunity in a
world painfully scarred by memories of
centuries-long alien imperial
domination.
The worldwide yearning for
human dignity is the central challenge inherent in the phenomenon of global
political awakening." - Zbigniew Brzezinski
unregulated
trade
Globalization has built
interdependent systems.
A disaster environmentally,
a disaster socially,
a disaster for small farmers; it is
a giveaway of sovereign power
to bureaucracies.
The only way order can be
maintained is through oppressive means.
The founding premises of
unregulated trade is participating nation states will not engage in armed
conflict, an opium pipe dream of
global merchants.
Black magic economists claim
unfettered global corporatism
exports lowbrow jobs while
retaining high paying creative skills.
That is not what happens.
Creative work is easier to
outsource than manufacturing !
To remain
globally competitive the
investment bankers require
environmental
destruction, austerity and
a drastically lowered standard of
living.
Interdependent
networks, critical
infrastructure electricity grid, are
vulnerable to the
unintended consequences of
interdependence.
If one "domino"
falls a cascading "dominos" may fall in every direction
Distributed
energy production with lots of small generating plants, rooftop solar and a
myrad of passive systems could make a tremendous difference.
"China's steady growth in oil
demand has led it to become the world's largest net oil importer, exceeding
the US in September 2013. EIA forecasts this trend to continue through 2014." -
Energy Information Administration
2011 China harvests the largest grain
crop of any country in history.
Chinese eat 84 lb of pork a year, while
Americans average 59 lb.
Smithfield Foods shareholders approve Chinese
purchase
Coal consumption in
China grows more than 9%.
China accounts for 47% of global coal consumption.
200% increase
in Chinese electric generation
since 2000 lead by coal demand.
Facing
the consequences of overgrazing
of Icelandic grasslands herders
agreed to value the commons and
reduce sheep to a sustainable
level.
Early Sumerian
civilization carefully engineered irrigation system gave rise to highly
productive agriculture enabling farmers to produce a food surplus.
Abundant food built the cities
of Ugarit and
Babylon.
Without careful stewardship of
irrigation systems land productivity declines.
When
salt accumulates and
wheat yields decline.
Robert
McCormick Adams describes the "sparse vegetation, tangled dunes, long disused
canal levees, rubble-strewn mounds" on the
central flood plain of the Euphrates
River desolate heart of one of the oldest literate civilizations.
The fate of all the peoples of
Earth is to face global
environmental decline.
Environmental limitations have been
exceeded.
Environmental costs are
externalized.
Ecosystem decline is ignored.
A dysfunctional global economy is shaped by
distorted market prices
rules.
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