The Ronald Reagan America Does Not Want To See

[~hellbaby~]

Found this in an Indian paper....It is funny how people think of things so differently.




Norman Solomon/Creators Syndicate

June 15

If journalism is history's first draft, the death of Ronald Reagan has caused a step-up in the mass production of falsified history.

It's mourning in America.

The main technique is omission. People who suffered from the Reagan presidency have no media standing today. It's not cool to mention victims of his policies in, for example, Central America.

President Reagan lauded and subsidised the contra guerrillas -- extolling them as "freedom fighters" while they terrorised the population in Nicaragua, killing thousands of civilians. And he proudly funneled large-scale support to governments aligned with death squads murdering thousands more in Guatemala and El Salvador.

With all the media-fueled mourning in America, there's been none left for the victims of Reaganite policies in Angola, either. His tireless support for the guerrilla forces of Unita "freedom fighter" Jonas Savimbi deserves much of the credit for making Angola the artificial limb capital of the world. Reagan saw to it that Uncle Sam walked in the bloody footsteps of colonial Portugal and apartheid South Africa to sustain Savimbi's monstrous warfare.




"Every year since the mid-1980s, I have interviewed dozens of displaced peasants who described attacks on their villages by Unita, kidnapping of young men and boys, looting, beatings, and killings, while in hospital beds the rows of mutilated women bore witness to the mining of their fields," journalist Victoria Britain wrote in the New Statesman magazine a decade ago.

"Defectors from Unita told more chilling stories of mass rallies at the headquarters in Jamba where women were burned alive as witches. These were not stories the outside world wanted to hear about Unita, whose leader was regularly received at the White House."

Very warmly. By Ronald Reagan.

Mainstream news outlets encourage us to mourn his passing but not to grieve a whit for his victims.

Reagan lavished big money from the US Treasury on anti-Soviet mujahadeen -- "freedom fighters" in Afghanistan who evolved into groupings like Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Yet his supposed idealism rarely gets a critical look through the obit-omit media lens.

Since he passed away, American media outlets have drowned the country in nonstop veneration for Reagan as a symbol of devotion to principle. There's precious little US media space for the kind of reporting that Agence France Presse provided a few days after he died: "Reagan, determined to check arch-foe Iran, opened a back door to Iraq through which flowed US intelligence and hundreds of millions of dollars in loan guarantees even as Washington professed neutrality in Baghdad's war with Tehran. ... Sales of UH-1H helicopters and Hughes MD-500 Defender helicopters were approved by Washington. Though sold as civilian aircraft, nobody objected when they were quickly converted for military use."





President Reagan was in the habit of telling whoppers. His tales ranged far and wide: to deny environmental degradation, or blithely pretend that widespread human rights violations by US-backed regimes didn't exist, or denigrate low-income people in the United States. Yet now, more than ever, he's being hailed as the Great Communicator.

Promoting huge tax breaks for multimillionaires and large corporations, he presided over an unprecedented transfer of wealth to the already rich at the expense of everyone else. But today's dominant media images present him as a beloved populist hero.

That's media mourning in America.

He's being hailed as a champion of "small government" -- yet he vastly increased the size of Defense Department budgets and methodically appointed federal judges who enlarged the intrusive powers of government.

President Reagan spoke out for labor rights in Poland while spearheading anti-union measures in the United States and avidly supporting regimes on several continents that repressed workers and oversaw systematic murders of labour activists. Now, rewritten media history is touting him as a friend to working people.

It's media mourning in America.

He was a president so immersed in anti-gay bigotry and so bereft of non-Hallmark-style compassion that from the time the Centers for Disease Control announced the discovery of AIDS in mid-1981, until 1987, he couldn't bring himself to publicly utter the name of the deadly disease -- part of a policy approach that surely cost many thousands of lives. Yet he is being lauded by countless pundits for his sunny disposition.






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[Avery_Chisholm]

 

[Songcatcher]

Another needy thread?

 

[John Doe]

Do you ever think for yourself or do you just regurgitate Michael Moore's drivel?

 

[Songcatcher]

You talkin to me?!

 

[John Doe]

You talkin to me?!

--
No.

 

[Songcatcher]

Who else is here, then?

 

[John Doe]

Who else is here, then?

The author of the thread.

 

[woody54]

Do you ever think for yourself or do you just regurgitate Michael Moore's drivel?

I would have to ask if it is you that ever thinks for yourself in seeking the truth or do you just follow the herd patriotic programming that requires the US to always have darstardlyy enemies in far away places.

I challenge you to refute any aspersion made in the article shown above. Michael Moore is not smart enough to invent such a scandalous historical record as that of the Reagan team, who I should point out was directed in the bowels of the DOD by Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz et al.manufacturing the cold war concept that Nixon all but quashed, and who raised their ugly heads again when their ship came in when the PNAC hijacked next the Republican presidency.... and look whats fucking happened under them again.

If you are any sort of student of international affairs, you will know the US only survives by bleeding other nations and this only occurs by its necessary use of the largest military in the world , supported by the major arms manufacturing capability in the world, all to provide the incredulous concept of a defence force for a country that has no valid defensive threat that it has not inspireds by its own prior action.

The US government spends more per capita than any other country which means no less than the US is the leading socialist state in disguise. Problem for the citizens is that the spending supports Corporations and military/intelligence endeavours that only advance the interests of the elite and maintain the outrageous hoax scam of US dollar hegemony giving the US a free ride on income, the only way citizens actually garner any benefit from the system.

 

[Lost Cause]

Fucked up perspective

Your twisted way of honoring Memorial Day?

thanx~

 

[~hellbaby~]

I would have to ask if it is you that ever thinks for yourself in seeking the truth or do you just follow the herd patriotic programming that requires the US to always have darstardlyy enemies in far away places.

I challenge you to refute any aspersion made in the article shown above. Michael Moore is not smart enough to invent such a scandalous historical record as that of the Reagan team, who I should point out was directed in the bowels of the DOD by Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz et al.manufacturing the cold war concept that Nixon all but quashed, and who raised their ugly heads again when their ship came in when the PNAC hijacked next the Republican presidency.... and look whats fucking happened under them again.

If you are any sort of student of international affairs, you will know the US only survives by bleeding other nations and this only occurs by its necessary use of the largest military in the world , supported by the major arms manufacturing capability in the world, all to provide the incredulous concept of a defence force for a country that has no valid defensive threat that it has not inspireds by its own prior action.

The US government spends more per capita than any other country which means no less than the US is the leading socialist state in disguise. Problem for the citizens is that the spending supports Corporations and military/intelligence endeavours that only advance the interests of the elite and maintain the outrageous hoax scam of US dollar hegemony giving the US a free ride on income, the only way citizens actually garner any benefit from the system.

You know, in my son's 8th grade social studies book they barely mention that, it said someone thought they were good and they wanted to help them. it went on to say the country was mad about it. There was about 5 pages on how wonderful he was.

There was no mention of wiretapping in the Nixon chapter. It said people who worked on his election broke into the hotel. Nixon said he didn't know about it and got caught lying and resigned. They never admitted guilt. They had graphs for election results for Nixon,, Ford, Reagan and Bush.

They went on and on about Clinton's impeachment. It said he wanted to work on the budget.Thats catholic school for ya.

 

[~hellbaby~]

Your twisted way of honoring Memorial Day?

thanx~

It is not Memorial day. It has nothing to do with Memorial Day. The truth is twisted? I thought the article was interesting, how people see things differently, or refuse to see them at all.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Your twisted way of honoring Memorial Day?

thanx~

Honoring Reagan is honoring Memorial Day?

Reagan, one of the very few Hollywood stars who never left Hollywood during WWII?

 

[woody54]

Your twisted way of honoring Memorial Day?

thanx~

Dude, its a fucked up system that you are memorialising.

Ever given a moments thought to how a country with the dreams of your constitution has devolved to the degradation of stealing and cheating its way around the world using its defense force as organised crime bullyboys.

There isnt a war theatre in the world that US Corporations have not been instrumental in seeing military involvement which has enriched them subsequently. Sort of makes US "decency" such a sham in a real world.

Playing soldiers is a fun career but when you boil it all down, you are only paid assassains for an elite you answer to and sickeningly, the citizens you represent are seldom direct beneficiaries of your deadly efforts.
How can there be real honour in such a life?

 

[woody54]

You know, in my son's 8th grade social studies book they barely mention that, it said someone thought they were good and they wanted to help them. it went on to say the country was mad about it. There was about 5 pages on how wonderful he was.

There was no mention of wiretapping in the Nixon chapter. It said people who worked on his election broke into the hotel. Nixon said he didn't know about it and got caught lying and resigned. They never admitted guilt. They had graphs for election results for Nixon,, Ford, Reagan and Bush.

They went on and on about Clinton's impeachment. It said he wanted to work on the budget.Thats catholic school for ya.

Dont blame it on the Catholics, blame it on the Governments inability to share the truth with its citizens.
There is of course an inherent blame on the public for being too damn lazy to question what they told, even when compelling counter facts are provable, as in the case of aspects of 9/11.


For the students of the Global elite, Nixon was the last "outsider" in the Presidents seat and Watergate was a double deceit to embarrass him and kill his presidency.
When the trail of who is connected to whom is followed, the CFR, the major American body pushing One World Government, is all powerful in American bureaucracy and its Administration now and has total control on the selection and election of future politicians to suit their policies. The fix is in. Democracy is a farce.

 

[woody54]

Honoring Reagan is honoring Memorial Day?

Reagan, one of the very few Hollywood stars who never left Hollywood during WWII?

He fought the war for his country acting out all sorts of ham B grade military parts to make his leading ladies look good.

 

[~hellbaby~]

Dont blame it on the Catholics, blame it on the Governments inability to share the truth with its citizens.
There is of course an inherent blame on the public for being too damn lazy to question what they told, even when compelling counter facts are provable, as in the case of aspects of 9/11.


For the students of the Global elite, Nixon was the last "outsider" in the Presidents seat and Watergate was a double deceit to embarrass him and kill his presidency.
When the trail of who is connected to whom is followed, the CFR, the major American body pushing One World Government, is all powerful in American bureaucracy and its Administration now and has total control on the selection and election of future politicians to suit their policies. The fix is in. Democracy is a farce.

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I may have been looking at it too partisian, it was so skewed.
Whats CFR? All I can think of is council on foreign relations.

 

[woody54]

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I may have been looking at it too partisian, it was so skewed.
Whats CFR? All I can think of is council on foreign relations.

It is Council of Foreign Relations.

Just do a little survey on google and see how many of the Administration, major bureaucrats and corporatists are linked together in this private society with its own agenda for the country.
The amusement of the last few elections has been that they are all CFR men. Take a second look at George Bush's introduction to the Presidential race late in the process and wonder why he gained such immediate traction that all other contenders fell before him. George doesnt have that pull personally but the CFR does. He is a frontman groomed for the job by his father who is one of the most scurrilous persons on the world stage with his history and actions.

I'm picking Hilary has big enough balls to play their game next time, she has the connections and grooming and she talks just like a Republican warmonger which shows her true interests.

And dont think voting will keep her out, that is all taken care of these days with no paper trails. Partisanism is a fable for the masses to haggle over to make them think they have some influence on direction.... they dont.

 

[~hellbaby~]

It is Council of Foreign Relations.

Just do a little survey on google and see how many of the Administration, major bureaucrats and corporatists are linked together in this private society with its own agenda for the country.
The amusement of the last few elections has been that they are all CFR men. Take a second look at George Bush's introduction to the Presidential race late in the process and wonder why he gained such immediate traction that all other contenders fell before him. George doesnt have that pull personally but the CFR does. He is a frontman groomed for the job by his father who is one of the most scurrilous persons on the world stage with his history and actions.

I'm picking Hilary has big enough balls to play their game next time, she has the connections and grooming and she talks just like a Republican warmonger which shows her true interests.

And dont think voting will keep her out, that is all taken care of these days with no paper trails. Partisanism is a fable for the masses to haggle over to make them think they have some influence on direction.... they dont.

Hillary scares me, she's like a Bush with brains. I found this last year, it is informative,its pretty long I'm not sure if its all accurate?
The Global Elite: Who are they?
Volume 5, Issue 12

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)

 

[TWB]

Ronald Reagan was not a great president.

 

[woody54]

Hillary scares me, she's like a Bush with brains. I found this last year, it is informative,its pretty long I'm not sure if its all accurate?
The Global Elite: Who are they?
Volume 5, Issue 12

Good stuff but the picture is far wider.

Find a copy of "..And the truth shall set you free" by David Icke.

It will blow your sox off and you will recognise many of the characters in their networking, manufacturing history and the deceptions used to cover their tracks. Everything is not what it appears.

All you suspect is real but it is far worse. You have to accept how a Rothschild or Rockerfeller views the world and that anyone who opposes them is crushed or killed off.

 

[~hellbaby~]

Good stuff but the picture is far wider.

Find a copy of "..And the truth shall set you free" by David Icke.

It will blow your sox off and you will recognise many of the characters in their networking, manufacturing history and the deceptions used to cover their tracks. Everything is not what it appears.

All you suspect is real but it is far worse. You have to accept how a Rothschild or Rockerfeller views the world and that anyone who opposes them is crushed or killed off.

I've been following the IMF for about a year, they really know how to not say what they are saying. Some of the stuff I think I'm not really getting the meaning because if I am, then they have some fucked uo ideas.
The August Review is where the other post came from. There is a lot of info there on the history of the organizations and globalization.
I'll look for the book.
The Globalization Strategy: America and Europe in the Crucible -- NEW!

 

[tim66]

I would have to ask if it is you that ever thinks for yourself in seeking the truth or do you just follow the herd patriotic programming that requires the US to always have darstardlyy enemies in far away places.

Woody this is an excellent point that if Americans do not eventually learn we will face the same fate that all nations have met that have followed militaristic paths. The US has been on a constant war footing since WWII. The current enemies being created by US policy and posturing are the Arabs and China.

I think it is ironic that the ulra-nationalists behind the war in Iraq have surrendered their values. Those by the way are the only supporters of the war in the US. Everybody else if asked to go themselves or send their children would say no. That is the true measure for support of a war.

Those ultra-nationalists say that Americans would never let the UN or other nations have command of its armies. Yet US foriegn policy does just that. Bush says US soldiers will stay in Iraq as long as Iraq wants them. The US has given control of its army in Iraq to a foreign country. The US policy as stated by Bush in regards to Israel and Taiwan is that we will defend with armed force if they are attacked. So what if those countries goad the Arabs or China, respectively in to attacking. Previously in at least Taiwan's case the US was vague as to what the US would do if Taiwan was attacked. Bush blundered again by stating the US would use force to defend Taiwan. He was not bright enough to see the implications of his statement. China has said it will invade Taiwan if it declares it is independent. It is a meaningless statement because it will not change Taiwan's real situation. However, some ultra-nationalist Taiwan legislature can commit the US military to a fight.

The other case of abdonment of values relates to individual liberty protected by the Bill of Rights. During Clinton's Administration the NRA and gun owners were absolutely paranoid about threats to their gun rights. There was talk of registering weapons in a national data base that created absolute panic. These same people today have no complaint to the govt keeping track of their phone calls. So if an administration comes into office and wants to limit individual weapons rights that govt has a phone call database to help them in that process. The govt can track via mail and phone people the NRA contacted and in turn who those people talked to.

 

[MisterEdMe]

I intentionally avoided this thread for fear of criticism of Ronald Reagan. For all my current animosity towards Republicans, I truly loved Mr. Reagan as a President and a man. He was the first President I voted for and ONLY Republican President I was willing to die for. (I was in the U.S. SUBMARINE FORCE at the time). Granted, I'd take a bullet for ANY of our presidents. Even the one in office now, regardless of how I feel. But For Mr. Reagan, It would have been a true honour.

He had some faults I admit. But the nation and the world loved him as a human being. He was passionate, sincere, and truly made me PROUD to be an American. He gave us hope and vision. And I never once believe he was full of shit, because he believed in his own self and this country as a UNITED nation. He gave so much thought to everyone and had values and morales you just can't be taught.

Yea, we were in serious debt at the time. A lot of it he help accumulate himself, but AT LEAST we knew WHY we were having economical problems and where we stood in the eyes of the world. What's more, he knew how to pick and choose his battles. Even our enemies respected him. And for a time, the Office of The President of the UNITED STATES had true meaning and almost mythical worldwide admiration. In him was one of the last great diplomats the world will ever see. And when forced to fight, he backed his words with action.

His love for Nancy was truely adored for all to see. And probably surpasses even Romeo and Juliet. We should all be so lucky to have the unconditional love they had for each other.

Even now, as I type this, I want to cry and mourn our loss. No, scratch that, I really am crying. I often feel his death was the beginning of the decline of our great country. In my eyes, he could have been our last great hope as a true, humble, and respected defender of the free world. How would he have handled the trouble we are in now, both at home and abroad? I don't know. But I truely feel he would have found a way to bring about some sort of resolution and the world would have stood up (or sit down) and listened.

And to anyone reading this and still has resentment towards this great man, FUCK EVERY GODDAMN ONE OF YOU AND KISS MY ASS!

 

[Tathagata]

I would have to ask if it is you that ever thinks for yourself in seeking the truth or do you just follow the herd patriotic programming that requires the US to always have darstardlyy enemies in far away places.

I challenge you to refute any aspersion made in the article shown above. Michael Moore is not smart enough to invent such a scandalous historical record as that of the Reagan team, who I should point out was directed in the bowels of the DOD by Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz et al.manufacturing the cold war concept that Nixon all but quashed, and who raised their ugly heads again when their ship came in when the PNAC hijacked next the Republican presidency.... and look whats fucking happened under them again.

If you are any sort of student of international affairs, you will know the US only survives by bleeding other nations and this only occurs by its necessary use of the largest military in the world , supported by the major arms manufacturing capability in the world, all to provide the incredulous concept of a defence force for a country that has no valid defensive threat that it has not inspireds by its own prior action.

The US government spends more per capita than any other country which means no less than the US is the leading socialist state in disguise. Problem for the citizens is that the spending supports Corporations and military/intelligence endeavours that only advance the interests of the elite and maintain the outrageous hoax scam of US dollar hegemony giving the US a free ride on income, the only way citizens actually garner any benefit from the system.

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