From: | "Bruce Eggum" <bruce.eggum(at)gmail.com> |
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Date: | Sat, 2 Dec 2006 23:39:16 -0600 |
Subject: | There is Power ---- and than there is POWER |
The World's Mastermind: The Hidden Face of Globalization A view from Argentina by Adrian Salbuchi, December 2, 2006 |
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This
article is a summary of the key points set forth in the Author's book
published in , "El Cerebro del Mundo: la cara oculta de la
Globalización " (Ediciones del Copista, Córdoba, Argentina, 4th
Edition, 2003, 470 pages. and Editorial Solar, Bogotá, Colombia, 2004).
As
we now have it, globalization can be defined as an ideology that
identifies the Sovereign Nation-State as its key enemy, basically
because the State's main function is (or should be) to prioritize the
interests of the Many - i.e., "the People" - over the interests of the
Few. Accordingly, the forces of globalization seek to
weaken, dissolve and eventually destroy the very foundations of the
Nation-State as a basic social institution, in order to replace it with
new supra-national worldwide social, political, economic, financial and
military management structures. Such structures tie in
with the political objectives and economic interests of a small number
of highly concentrated and very powerful groups and organizations which
today drive and steer the globalization process in a very specific
direction. Who are they? What do they want? The process we have described is in no way anonymous - much less, secret - because the power groups promoting and driving the New World Order are doing so in full public view: i.e., multinational corporations (e.g., the Fortune Global 500s accounting for over 80% of US economic activity); the global financial infrastructure (which includes banks, investment funds, stock exchanges and commodity market operators); multimedia monopolies; major Ivy League universities; international multilateral organizations (such as the World Bank, the IMF/International Monetary Fund, the IADB/Inter-American Development Bank, the BIS/Bank of International Settlements, the UN/United Nations and the WTO/World Trade Organization) and, most important, key government posts in the United States, Israel, the United Kingdom and other industrialized nations. So, we definitely do not have something that can be explained away as a "conspiracy theory". What we have are the inner trappings and logic behind the way Power is built and managed. What is not immediately visible is the fact that all of these players form who are part of a "Wheel of Global Power" have one thing in common: their key managers, financiers, bankers, government officers, academics, strategists, shareholders and other fundamental players all belong to the same inter-twining network of think-tanks and lobbying organizations. This network forms a common hub that steers the wheel of world power on its present destructive course. Among these key think-tanks - which should actually be described as geopolitical planning centers -, the role of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Trilateral Commission (TC), the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), the Brookings Institution, the RAND Corporation, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the American Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC), and the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), amongst others, are of vital importance. |