| Who are the central/core perpetrators
of globalistion and the New World Order? To truly understand
globalization you must have a firm grasp on who the real
movers and shakers are... and pass by myriads of wannabe
big-shots. Members of the elite core are not hard to spot,
once you know what to look for. Introduction
There are two common misconceptions held by those who are
critical of globalism.
The first error is that there is a very small group of
people who secretly run the world with all-powerful and
unrestrained dictatorial powers. The second error is that
there is a large amorphous and secret organization that runs
the world. In both cases, the use of the word "they" becomes
the culprit for all our troubles, whoever "they" might be. If
taxes go up, it is "they" that did it. If the stock market
goes down, "they" are to blame. Of course, nobody really knows
who "they" are so a few figureheads (people or organizations)
are often made out to be the scapegoats.
Depending on a person's politics and philosophy, the
scapegoats could be the U.S. President, the ACLU, the Ford
Foundation, or Vladimir Putin. The point is, the real power
structure is not correctely defined, and thus escapes
exposure.
These misconceptions are understandable because when things
are wrong, we all have a driving need to know who to blame! In
some cases, elitist slight-of-hand initiates and then
perpetuates false assumptions.
This writer has never been accused of charging that all
large corporations are guilty of initiating and perpetuating
globalization. There are many businesses, including banks, who
are led by moral, ethical and good-hearted businessmen or
businesswomen. Just because a company might touch globalism
does not mean it and its management or employees are evil.
Every bit of thirty-five years of research indicates that
there is a relatively small yet diverse group of global
players who have been the planners and instigators behind
globalization for many decades. The primary driving force that
moves this "clique" is greed; the secondary force is
the lust for power. In the case of the academics who
are key to globalism, a third force is professional
recognition and acceptance (a subtle form of
egoism and power.)
It is also important to understand that core globalists
have full understanding of their goals, plans and actions.
They are not dimwitted, ignorant, missinformed or naive.
The global elite march in three essential columns:
Corporate, Political and Academic. For the sake of clarity,
these names will be used herein to refer to these three
groups.
In general, the goals for globalism are created by
Corporate. Academic then provides studies and white papers
that justify Corporate's goals. Political sells Academic's
arguments to the public and if necessary, changes laws to
accommodate and facilitate Corporate in getting what it wants.
An important ancillary player in globalism is the media,
which we will call Press in this report. Press is necessary to
filter Corporate, Academic and Political's communications to
the public. Press is not a fourth column, however, because
it's purpose is merely reflective. However, we will see that
Press is dominated by members of Corporate, Political and
Academic who sit on the various boards of directors of major
Press organizations.
This report will attempt to identify and label the core
players in the globalization process. The intent is to show
the makeup and pattern of the core, not to list every person
in it. Nevertheless, many people will be named and their
associations and connections revealed. This is done for two
reasons.
First, it will equip the reader be able to accurately
identify other core players as they are brought into focus.
Secondly, the reader will be able to pass over minor players
who may sound like "big fish" but in fact are only
pedestrians. Organizational Memberships
The old saying, "Birds of a feather, flock together" is
appropriate for the perpetrators of globalism. Sociologically
speaking, they are like any other people group with like
interests: they naturally tend to form societies that will
help them achieve their common interests. A side-benefit of
fellowship is mutual support and encouragement. Once formed,
such groups tend to be self-perpetuating, at least as long as
common interests remain.
In modern history, the pinnacle of global drivers has been
the  Trilateral Commission. Founded in 1973 by David
Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski, this group is credited
with being the founder of the New International Economic Order
that has given rise to the globalization we see today.
The Council on Foreign Relations
Prior to the founding of the Trilateral Commission, the
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) was the most significant body of
global-minded elitists in the United States. As far back as
1959, the CFR was explicit about a need for world
government:
"The U.S. must strive to build a new international
order... including states labeling themselves as
'socialist'... to maintain and gradually increase the
authority of the United Nations."
The site for the United Nations headquarters in New York
was originally donated by the Rockefeller family, and the CFR
world architects worked for many years to use the U.N. as a
means to develop an image of world order. Indeed, the CFR
membership roster has been, and still is a Who's Who of the
elitist eastern establishment.
The first problem with the CFR is that it became too large
and too diverse to act as a "cutting edge" in global policy
creation. The second problem is that it's membership was
limited to north America: What group could effect global
changes without a global membership?
The CFR continues to be significant in the sense that
politicians often look to its membership when searching for
people to fill various appointments in government. It also
continues to be a policy mill through its official organ,
Foreign Policy.
While there are a several core global elitists in the ranks
of the CFR, they represent a very small percentage of the
total membership. Conversely, there are many CFR members who
are only lightly involved with globalism. For this reason, we
do not count the CFR as being central to globalization
today. The Trilateral Commission
David Rockefeller recognized the shortcomings of the CFR
when he founded the Trilateral Commission in 1973 with
Zbigniew Brzezinski. Rockefeller represented Corporate and
Brzezinski represented Academic.
Together, they chose approximately 300 members from north
America, Europe and Japan, whom they viewed as being their
"birds of a feather." These members were at the pinnacle of
their profession, whether Corporate, Academic, Political or
Press. It is a testimony to the influence of Rockefeller and
Brzezinski that they could get this many people to say "Yes"
when they were tapped for membership.
Out of the 54 original U.S. members of the Trilateral
Commission, Jimmy Carter was fronted to win the presidential
election in 1976. Once inaugurated, Carter brought no less
than 18 fellow members of the Commission into top-level
cabinet and government agencies.
Perhaps no one has described the Trilateral operation as
succinctly as veteran reporter Jeremiah Novak in the Christian
Science Monitor (February 7, 1977):
"Today a new crop of economists, working in an
organization known as the Trilateral Commission, is on the
verge of creating a new international economic system, one
designed by men as brilliant as Keynes and White. Their
names are not well known, but these modern thinkers are as
important to our age as Keynes and White were to theirs.
"Moreover, these economists, like their World War II
counterparts, are working closely with high government
officials, in this case President Jimmy Carter and Vice
President Walter Mondale. And what is now being discussed at
the highest levels of government, in both the United States
and abroad, is the creation of a new world economic system -
a system that will affect jobs in America and elsewhere, the
prices consumers pay, and the freedom of individuals,
corporations, and nations to enter into a truly planetary
economic system. Indeed, many observers see the advent of
the Carter administration and what is now being called the
"Trilateral" cabinet as the harbinger of this new
era."1
The pernicious influence of the Commission and its
dominance of the U.S. Executive branch remains unchallenged to
this day.
Ronald Reagan was not a member of the Trilateral
Commission, but his Vice President, George H. W. Bush, was a
member. The Commission's influence was safely perpetuated into
the Reagan years.
The 1988 election of George H.W. Bush to the presidency
further consolidated Trilateral influence in the U.S.
In 1992, Trilateral member William Jefferson Clinton
followed in the presidency and contributed greatly to the
cause of globalization.
In 2000, George W. Bush assumed the presidency. While
it can be demonstrated that Bush is closely aligned with and
totally dedicated to Trilateral goals, he is not a member of
the Commission. However, Vice President Dick Cheney is a
member of the Commission.
Obviously, Corporate's partnerships with Political,
Academic and Press has been very successful.
The Original Membership:
1973-1978
A short look at the first U.S.
membership list is instructive. We have taken liberty to
organize the names according to broad functions, which is not
fully adequate to explain the interrelationships. As one
examines the biographies of these individuals, one sees a
"revolving door" phenomenon where people rotate in and out of
government, business, think-tanks, etc., on a regular basis.
This is one several tests used to identify a member of the
true core of global elite.
Trilateral Commission Membership,
19732
| Banking Related
|
|
| Ernest C. Arbuckle |
Chairman, Wells Fargo
Bank |
| George W. Ball |
Senior Partner, Lehman
Brothers |
| Alden W. Clausen |
President, Bank of America |
| Archibald K. Davis |
Chairman, Wachovia Bank and Trust
Company |
| *Peter G. Peterson |
Chairman, Lehman
Brothers |
| *David Rockefeller |
Chairman, Chase Manhattan
Bank |
| Robert V. Roosa |
Partner, Brown Brothers Harriman
& Company |
| Bruce K. MacLaury |
President, Federal Reserve Bank
of Minneapolis |
| John H. Perkins |
President, Continental Illinois
National Bank and Trust Company |
| Press
Related |
|
| Doris Anderson |
Editor, Chantelaine
Magazine |
| Emmett Dedmon |
Vice-President and Editorial
Director, Field Enterprises, Inc. |
| Hedley Donovan |
Editor-in-Chief, Time,
Inc. |
| Carl T. Rowan |
Columnist |
| Arthur R. Taylor |
President, Columbia Broadcasting
System, Inc. |
| Labor Related
|
|
| *I. W. Abel,
President |
United Steelworkers
of America |
| Leonard Woodcock |
President, United Automobile
Workers |
| Lane Kirkland |
Secretary-Treasurer,
AFL-CIO |
| Senate/Congress |
|
| John B. Anderson |
House of
Representatives |
| Lawton Chiles |
United States Senate |
| Barber B. Conable, Jr. |
House of
Representatives |
| John C. Culver |
United States Senate |
| Wilbur D. Mills |
House of
Representatives |
| Walter F. Mondale |
United States Senate |
| William V. Roth, Jr. |
United States Senate |
| Robert Taft Jr. |
United States Senate |
| Other Political
|
|
| James E. Carter, Jr. |
Governor of Georgia |
| Daniel J. Evans |
Governor of
Washington |
| *William W. Scranton |
Former Governor of
Pennsylvania |
| Corporate |
|
| J. Paul Austin |
Chairman, The Coca-Cola
Company |
| W. Michael Blumenthal |
Chairman, Bendix
Corporation |
| *Patrick E. Haggerty |
Chairman, Texas
Instruments |
| William A. Hewitt |
Chairman, Deere and
Company |
| Edgar F. Kaiser |
Chairman, Kaiser Industries
Corporation |
| Lee L. Morgan |
President, Caterpillar Tractor
Company |
| David Packard |
Chairman, Hewlett-Packard
Company |
| Charles W. Robinson |
President, Marcona
Corporation |
| Arthur M. Wood |
Chairman, Sears, Roebuck &
Company |
| William M. Roth |
Roth Properties |
| Academic |
|
| David M. Abshire |
Chairman, Georgetown University
Center for Strategic and International
Studies |
| Graham Allison |
Professor of Politics, Harvard
University |
| Robert R. Bowie |
Clarence Dillon Professor of
International Affairs, Harvard University |
| *Harold Brown |
President, California Institute
of Technology |
| Richard N. Cooper |
Provost and Frank Altschul
Professor of International Economics, Yale
University |
| Paul W. McCracken |
Edmund Ezra Day Professor of
Business Administration, University of
Michigan |
| Marina von N. Whitman |
Distinguished Public Service
Professor of Economics, University of
Pittsburgh |
| Carroll L. Wilson |
Professor of Management, Alfred
P. Sloan School of Management, MIT |
| Edwin O. Reischauer |
University Professor, Harvard
University; former U.S. Ambassador to Japan |
| Law Firms
|
|
| Warren Christopher |
Partner, O’Melveny and
Myers |
| William T. Coleman, Jr. |
Senior Partner, Dilworth, Paxson,
Kalish, Levy & Coleman |
| Lloyd N. Cutler |
Partner, Wilmer, Cutler, and
Pickering |
| *Gerard C. Smith |
Counsel, Wilmer, Cutler &
Pickering |
| Cyrus R. Vance |
Partner, Simpson, Thacher and
Bartlett |
|
*Paul C. Warnke |
Partner, Clifford, Warnke, Glass,
McIlwain & Finney |
| Associations |
|
| Lucy Wilson Benson |
President, League of Women Voters
of the United States |
| Kenneth D. Naden |
Executive Vice President,
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives |
| Think-Tanks |
|
| Thomas L. Hughes |
President, Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace |
| Henry D. Owen |
Director, Foreign Policy Studies
Program, the Brookings Institution |
| Miscellaneous |
|
| Anthony Solomon |
Consultant |
* Indicates member of Executive Committee
Rockefeller and Brzezinski's strategy was nefarious,
yet brilliant.
The election of democrat James Earl "I will never lie
to you" Carter was assured by delivering the mostly democratic
labor vote. This was accomplished by adding to the inner core:
Leonard Woodcock (UAW), I.W. Abel (United Steelworkers) and
Lane Kirkland (AFL-CIO).
By 1977, three more labor leaders were added to the
membership: Glenn E. Watts (Communications Workers of
America), Martin J. Ward (president of United Association of
Journeymen and Apprentices), and Sol Chaikin, president of the
International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
Leonard Woodcock served as Chief Envoy to China under
Carter, and was largely responsible for solidifying economic
and political ties with Communist China. [Editor's note: Any
reader who is or was a member of one of these unions will
instantly have flashes of insight as to the enduring duplicity
of labor management -- you were effectively "sold down the
river" starting 1973 and continuing into the
present.]
Those commissioners who Carter brought into his
administration (the initial "steering committee", if you will)
were Walter Mondale (Vice President), Zbigniew Brzezinski
(National Security Advisor), Cyrus Vance (Secretary of State),
Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense) and W. Michael Blumenthal
(Secretary of the Treasury,) among others.
As the Washington Post phrased it:
"Trilateralists are not three-sided people. They
are members of a private, though not secret, international
organization put together by the wealthy banker, David
Rockefeller, to stimulate the establishment dialogue between
Western Europe, Japan and the United States.
"But here is the unsettling thing about the
Trilateral Commission. The President-elect is a member. So
is Vice-President-elect Walter F. Mondale. So are the new
Secretaries of State, Defense and Treasury, Cyrus R. Vance,
Harold Brown and W. Michael Blumenthal. So is Zbigniew
Brzezinski, who is a former Trilateral director, and,
Carter's national security advisor, also a bunch of others
who will make foreign policy for America in the next four
years."3
Before Carter's term was completed, no less than 18
members (thirty percent of the U.S. Commission membership) of
the Trilateral Commission served in his administration.
Coincidence? Hardly!
This article purposely leaves out discussion of the
non-U.S. membership of the Commission membership, which will
be saved for another day. Suffice it to say that the European
and Japanese contingents were just as powerful and effective
in their respective home countries. Approximately one-third of
the membership came from Europe and the other third from
Japan. The joint membership met annually (no press allowed) to
formulate policy and action plans for their respective
regions. Many, if not most, of their policies were published
in the Commission's quarterly journal, Trialogue.
The most damning argument ever launched against the
Trilateral Commission is the unconstitutional influence of
other governments and forces upon the U.S. For instance,
Commission members are not elected nor representative of the
general population of the U.S., yet they effectively dominated
the Executive Branch of the U.S. government. When the
Commission resolved policies (behind closed-doors) with
non-U.S. members, who were a mere one-third minority, could it
be said that foreign influences effectively controlled U.S.
policy?
These concerns were never addressed by Congress or the
Judiciary. The Executive branch would have nothing to address
because it has been continuously dominated by Commission
members -- who repeatedly assured us that there was no such
conflict of interest. Of course, the answer to these questions
are self-evident: U.S. interests, economic and political, have
been subverted.
The economic subversion of the U.S. was studied in The
August Review's For
Sale: The United States of America and was likened to the
plundering of a nation, the likes of which have not been seen
in modern history. Current Trilateral
Membership
The following list of north American members is not
exhaustive. These are selected because of their high
visibility in positions within Corporate, Political or
Economic and Press. A future installment of The August Review
will examine the entire membership list more carefully and
completely. The purpose here is to show that the Trilateral
Commission has grown, rather than declined, in strength over
the years.
Keep in mind that there is no enrollment or application
process to belong to the Trilateral Commission. One is invited
to join in a manner similar to a college student being
"tapped" for membership in a fraternity. Thus, the process is
highly selective and discrete. Candidates are thoroughly
screened before invitation is delivered. For this reason, one
can be relatively sure that anyone who is or who has ever been
a member of the Commission is in the core of the global elite.
There are likely a few members who are not truly a part of the
core, but for the sake of aggregate analysis, this is not an
important issue. U.S. Members who have been
subsequently added to the Commission over the years include,
in part, the following list.
Additional Trilateral Commission
Membership through 20054
| Banking Related |
|
| Paul Wolfowitz |
President, World Bank |
| Paul A. Volker |
Former Chairman, Wolfensohn &
Co., Inc., New York; Frederick H. Schultz Professor
Emeritus, International Economic Policy, Princeton
University; former Chairman, Board of Governors, U.S.
Federal Reserve System; Honorary North American Chairman
and former North American Chairman, Trilateral
Commission |
| Alan Greenspan |
Chairman of the Federal Reserve,
Board of Directors of Bank for International Settlements
|
| Geoffrey T. Boisi |
former Vice Chairman, JPMorgan
Chase, New York, NY |
| E. Gerald Corrigan |
Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs
& Co., New York, NY; former President, Federal
Reserve Bank of New York |
| Jamie Dimon |
President and Chief Operating
Officer, JPMorgan Chase, New York, NY |
| Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. |
Vice Chairman, Board of
Governors, Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC
|
| Stanley Fischer |
Governor of the Bank of Israel, Jerusalem; former
President, Citigroup International and Vice Chairman,
Citgroup, New York, NY; former First Deputy Managing
Director, International Monetary Fund |
| Richard W. Fisher |
President and Chief Executive
Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, TX;
former U.S. Deputy Trade Representative |
| Michael Klein |
Chief Executive Officer, Global
Banking, Citigroup Inc.; Vice Chairman, Citibank
International PLC; New York, NY |
| *Sir Deryck C. Maughan |
former Vice Chairman, Citigroup,
New York, NY |
| Jay Mazur |
President Emeritus, UNITE (Union
of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees); Vice
Chairman, Amalgamated Bank of New York; and President,
ILGWU's 21st Century Heritage Foundation, New York, NY
|
| Hugh L. McColl, Jr. |
Chairman, McColl Brothers
Lockwood, Charlotte, NC; former Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer, Bank of America Corporation
|
| Robert S. McNamara |
Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral
Commission, Washington, DC; former President, World
Bank; former U.S. Secretary of Defense; former
President, Ford Motor Company. |
| Kenneth Rogoff |
Professor of Economics and
Director, Center for International Development, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA; former Chief Economist and
Director, Research Department, International Monetary
Fund, Washington, DC |
| John Thain |
Chief Executive Officer, New York
Stock Exchange, Inc.; former President and Co-Chief
Operating Officer, Goldman Sachs & Co., New York, NY
|
| Lawrence H. Summers |
President, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA; former U.S. Secretary of the
Treasury |
| Press Related
|
|
| David G. Bradley |
Chairman, Atlantic Media Company,
Washington, DC |
| David Gergen |
Professor of Public Service, John
F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA; Editor-at-Large, U.S. News and World
Report |
| Donald E. Graham |
Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer, The Washington Post Company, Washington, DC
|
| Karen Elliott House |
Senior Vice President, Dow Jones
& Company, and Publisher, The Wall Street
Journal, New York, NY |
| Gerald M. Levin |
Chief Executive Officer Emeritus,
AOL Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY |
| Fareed Zakaria |
Editor, Newsweek International,
New York, NY |
| Mortimer B. Zuckerman |
Chairman and Editor-in-Chief,
U.S. News & World Report, New York,
NY |
| Labor
Related |
|
| Sandra Feldman |
President Emeritus, American
Federation of Teachers, Washington, DC |
| John J. Sweeney |
President, AFL-CIO, Washington,
DC |
| Intelligence
Related |
|
| John M. Deutch |
Institute Professor,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA;
former Director of Central Intelligence; former U.S.
Deputy Secretary of Defense |
| Henry A. Kissinger |
Chairman, Kissinger Associates,
Inc., New York, NY; former U.S. Secretary of State;
former U.S. Assistant to the President for National
Security Affairs |
| James B. Steinberg |
Vice President and Director of
the Foreign Policy Studies Program, The Brookings
Institution, Washington, DC; former U.S. Deputy National
Security Advisor |
| William H. Webster |
Senior Partner, Milbank, Tweed,
Hadley & McCloy LLP, Washington, DC; former U.S.
Director of Central Intelligence; former Director, U.S.
Federal Bureau of Investigation; former Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth
Circuit |
| Susan Rice |
Senior Fellow, Brookings
Institution, Washington, DC; former Assistant Secretary
of State for African Affairs; former Special Assistant
to the President and Senior Director for African
Affairs, National Security Council |
| Senate/Congress |
|
| Richard A. Gephardt |
former Member (D-MO), U.S. House
of Representatives |
| Jim Leach |
Member (R-IA), U.S. House of
Representatives |
| Charles B. Rangel |
Member (D-NY), U.S. House of
Representatives |
| John D. Rockefeller IV |
Member (D-WV), U.S. Senate
|
| Dianne Feinstein |
Member (D-CA), U.S. Senate
|
| *Thomas S. Foley |
Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer
& Feld, Washington, DC; former U.S. Ambassador to
Japan; former Speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives (D-WA); North American Chairman,
Trilateral Commission |
| Other Political
|
|
| George H. W. Bush |
President of the United
States |
| William Jefferson
Clinton |
President of the United
States |
| Richard B. Cheney |
Vice President of the United
States |
| Paula J. Dobriansky |
U.S. Under Secretary of State for
Global Affairs |
| Robert B. Zoellick |
Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of
State, U.S. Trade Representative |
| Madeleine K. Albright |
Principal, The Albright Group
LLC, Washington, DC; former U.S. Secretary of State
|
| C. Fred Bergsten |
Director, Institute for
International Economics, Washington, DC; former U.S.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International
Affairs |
| William T. Coleman, Jr.
|
Senior Partner and the Senior
Counselor, O’Melveny & Myers, Washington, DC; former
U.S. Secretary of Transportation |
| Lynn Davis |
Senior Political Scientist, The
RAND Corporation, Arlington, VA; former U.S. Under
Secretary of State for Arms Control and International
Security |
| Richard N. Haass |
President, Council on Foreign
Relations, New York, NY; former Director, Policy
Planning, U. S. Department of State; former Director of
Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution
|
| *Carla A. Hills |
Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer, Hills & Company, International Consultants,
Washington, DC; former U.S. Trade Representative; former
U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
|
| Richard Holbrooke |
Vice Chairman, Perseus LLC, New
York, NY; Counselor, Council on Foreign Relations;
former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; former
Vice Chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation;
former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European
and Canadian Affairs; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of
State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; and former
U.S. Ambassador to Germany |
| Winston Lord |
Co-Chairman of Overseeers and
former Co-Chairman of the Board, International Rescue
Committee, New York, NY; former U.S. Assistant Secretary
of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; former U.S.
Ambassador to China |
| *Joseph S. Nye, Jr. |
Distinguished Service Professor
at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; former
Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government; former U.S.
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International
Security Affairs |
| Richard N. Perle |
Resident Fellow, American
Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC; member and former
Chairman, Defense Policy Board, U.S. Department of
Defense; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Security Policy |
| Thomas R. Pickering |
Senior Vice President,
International Relations, The Boeing Company, Arlington,
VA; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political
Affairs; former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian
Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, the
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and the United Nations
|
| Strobe Talbott |
President, The Brookings
Institution, Washington, DC; former U.S. Deputy
Secretary of State |
| Miscellaneous |
|
| Ernesto Zedillo |
Director, Yale Center for the
Study of Globalization, Yale University, New Haven, CT;
former President of Mexico [Ed . Note: not an American
citizen] |
| David J. O'Reilly |
Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer, Chevron Corporation, San Ramon, CA
|
* Indicates member of Executive
Committee The More Things
Change, the More They Remain the Same
The occupational makeup of the Trilateral Commission
has obviously changed over time, but that only represents the
maturing of the globalization process. What was needed in 1973
is not what is needed today. Still, there are some
consistencies that are easily observed.
The most obvious consistency (and expansion) is the
very large representation by the banking cartel: two chairmen
and two board members of of the Federal Reserve System, two
presidents of the World Bank, director of the International
Monetary Fund, and chairmen/CEO's of several prominent global
banks. This does not take into account any linkages from
Commission members who are also directors of commercial and
investment banks. Financial representation is not incidental
because money is the life-blood of globalism. The August
Review's coverage in Global
Banking: The Bank for International Settlements detailed
the apex and makeup of global banking.
Through membership, the Trilateral Commission dominates
the executive branch of the U.S. government, the Federal
Reserve System, and is closely aligned with the Bank for
International Settlements, which controls the world's
currencies and money supply. This is seen even without
analyzing the remaining two-thirds of Commission membership
that resides outside of the U.S. The
Institute for International Economics (IIE)
The IIE is an example of a key organization in which
one might identify other core members of the global elite.
Founded in 1981, IIE is a small policy-wonk organization with
only 60 employees and an annual budget of $7 million.
According to its own web site,
"The Institute for International
Economics is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan
research institution devoted to the study of international
economic policy. Since 1981 the Institute has provided
timely, objective analysis and concrete solutions to key
international economic problems.
"The Institute attempts to anticipate emerging
issues and to be ready with practical ideas to inform and
shape public debate. Its audience includes government
officials and legislators, business and labor leaders,
management and staff at international organizations,
university-based scholars and their students, other research
institutions and nongovernmental organizations, the media,
and the public at large. It addresses these groups both in
the United States and around the
world."5
This would be easily overlooked unless you examine
IIE's board of directors. Trilateralist Peter G. Peterson is
chairman of the board. Anthony M. Solomon is honorary chairman
of the executive committee. Solomon is the former chairman of
Warburg (USA) Inc., former president and CEO of the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York and former Under Secretary of the
Treasury for Monetary Affairs. Solomon was listed only as
"Consultant" on the 1973 Commission membership
list.6
There are 12 other Trilateral Commission members
(including David Rockefeller) on IIE's board of directors!
Having established Trilateral influence (if not total
domination), consider the following non-Commission IIE board
members who might well be candidates for inclusion in the core
of the global elite:
- Chen Yuan - Governor, China
Development Bank; former Deputy Governor, Peoples Bank of
China.
- Jacob A. Frenkel - Former governor
of the Bank of Israel and former IMF economic counselor and director of
research.
- Maurice R. Greenberg - Chairman,
American International Group.
- David O'Reilly - Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer, ChevronTexaco Corporation.
- James W. Owens - Chairman and CEO
of Caterpillar.
- Lawrence H. Summers - President,
Harvard University; former Secretary of the Treasury.
These are just a few of the non-Trilateral board
members, and are reviewed only to show the process by which
one might identify additional global elite core members.
There are other organizations like IIE that could stand
similar analysis of purpose, leadership and directorship.
Conclusion
As was declared in the beginning of this analysis, the
stampede to globalism is conducted by a small group of
individuals with aspirations for global dominance. It should
be noted again that there are members of the global "core" who
are not members of the Trilateral Commission.
In general, they are driven by lust for money and
power. They have clearly made an end-run around the American
people in order to achieve personal goals that, in many cases,
are diametrically opposed to U.S. interests. If the American
people fully understood the magnitude of the deception and
power-grab, they would immediately and totally repudiate these
individuals and their self-serving global schemes.
In 1971, Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote in Between Two
Ages: The Technetronic Era,
"...the nation-state as a fundamental unit of
man's organized life has ceased to be the principal creative
force: International banks and multinational corporations
are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of
the political concepts of the
nation-state."7
Brzezinski could not have been more clear than this. Of
the few people who paid attention to Brzezinski previously,
only one person needed to receive his message fully: David
Rockefeller, chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank and consummate
globalist. When they teamed up to start the Trilateral
Commisison in 1973, the rest, as we say, "became
history."
So, how can one determine if an individual is a member
of the core of the global elite? There is a good
chance that such a person will be:
- closely aligned with and accepted by many of the
people already identified as core;
- often family-related to other core members (i.e.,
the Bush family, Rockefeller family, etc.);
- part of the "revolving-door" that switches them in
and out of important and critical positions in government,
academia and business;
- a member (director or high-level executive) of an
organization identified as a core company, such as J.P.
Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Caterpillar Tractor, etc.;
- educated at a prestigious and global-minded
university;
- belong to one or more organizations that are
dominated by people already identified as core.
This list is not comprehensive, nor is it meant to be
some simplistic litmus test. It is important to realize that
many names being bandied about are NOT part of the core of the
global elite, but rather become decoys that shift the focus
away from the real elite core. Discretion, common sense and
study is required to understand the difference between the
two.
Footnotes
- Novak, Jeremiah, Christian Science Monitor (February 7,
1977)
- The Trilateral Commission, Membership List,
www.trilateral.org
- Washington Post, January 16, 1977
- op. cit.
- About Us, http://www.iie.com/institute/aboutiie.cfm
- Board of Directors,
http://www.iie.com/institute/board.cfm
- Brzezinski, Zbigniew, Between Two Ages: The Technetronic
Era, (Penguin Books , 1971)
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