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by
Patrick M. Wood
Volume 5, Issue 12
from
AugustReview Website
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
correctly 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, misinformed or naive.
The global elite march in three essential columns:
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Corporate
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Political
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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.
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First, it will equip the reader be able to accurately identify other
core players as they are brought into focus
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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."
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The pernicious influence of the
Commission and its dominance of the U.S. Executive branch remains
unchallenged to this day.
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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.
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The 1988 election of
George H.W.
Bush to the presidency further consolidated Trilateral influence
in the U.S.
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In 1992, Trilateral member William
Jefferson Clinton followed in the presidency and contributed
greatly to the cause of globalization.
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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, 1973
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Banking Related
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Ernest C. Arbuckle Chairman,
Wells Fargo Bank
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George W. Ball Senior Partner,
Lehman Brothers
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Alden W. Clausen President, Bank
of America
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Archibald K. Davis Chairman,
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
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*Peter G. Peterson Chairman,
Lehman Brothers
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*David Rockefeller Chairman,
Chase Manhattan Bank
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Robert V. Roosa Partner, Brown
Brothers Harriman & Company
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Bruce K. MacLaury President,
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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John H. Perkins President,
Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company
Press Related
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Doris Anderson Editor,
Chantelaine Magazine
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Emmett Dedmon Vice-President and
Editorial Director, Field Enterprises, Inc.
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Hedley Donovan Editor-in-Chief,
Time, Inc.
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Carl T. Rowan Columnist
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Arthur R. Taylor President,
Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
Labor Related
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*I. W. Abel, President United
Steelworkers of America
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Leonard Woodcock President,
United Automobile Workers
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Lane Kirkland
Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO
Senate/Congress
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John B. Anderson House of
Representatives
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Lawton Chiles United States
Senate
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Barber B. Conable, Jr. House of
Representatives
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John C. Culver United States
Senate
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Wilbur D. Mills House of
Representatives
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Walter F. Mondale United States
Senate
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m V. Roth, Jr. United States
Senate
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t Jr. United States Senate
Other Political
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James E. Carter, Jr. Governor of
Georgia
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Daniel J. Evans Governor of
Washington
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*William W. Scranton Former
Governor of Pennsylvania
Corporate
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J. Paul Austin Chairman, The
Coca-Cola Company
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W. Michael Blumenthal Chairman,
Bendix Corporation
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*Patrick E. Haggerty Chairman,
Texas Instruments
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William A. Hewitt Chairman,
Deere and Company
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Edgar F. Kaiser Chairman, Kaiser
Industries Corporation
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Lee L. Morgan President,
Caterpillar Tractor Company
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David Packard Chairman,
Hewlett-Packard Company
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Charles W. Robinson President,
Marcona Corporation
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Arthur M. Wood Chairman, Sears,
Roebuck & Company
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William M. Roth Roth Properties
Academic
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David M. Abshire Chairman,
Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International
Studies
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Graham Allison Professor of
Politics, Harvard University
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Robert R. Bowie Clarence Dillon
Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University
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*Harold Brown President,
California Institute of Technology
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Richard N. Cooper Provost and
Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics, Yale
University
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Paul W. McCracken Edmund Ezra
Day Professor of Business Administration, University of
Michigan
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Marina von N. Whitman
Distinguished Public Service Professor of Economics,
University of Pittsburgh
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Carroll L. Wilson Professor of
Management, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, MIT
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Edwin O. Reischauer University
Professor, Harvard University; former U.S. Ambassador to
Japan
Law Firms
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Warren Christopher Partner,
O’Melveny and Myers
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William T. Coleman, Jr. Senior
Partner, Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish, Levy & Coleman
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Lloyd N. Cutler Partner, Wilmer,
Cutler, and Pickering
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*Gerard C. Smith Counsel,
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
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Cyrus R. Vance Partner, Simpson,
Thacher and Bartlett
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*Paul C. Warnke
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Partner, Clifford, Warnke,
Glass, McIlwain & Finney
Associations
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Lucy Wilson Benson President,
League of Women Voters of the United States
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Kenneth D. Naden Executive Vice
President, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
Think-Tanks
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Thomas L. Hughes President,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Henry D. Owen Director, Foreign
Policy Studies Program, the Brookings Institution
Miscellaneous
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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:
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Glenn E. Watts (Communications
Workers of America)
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Martin J. Ward (president of
United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices)
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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:
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Walter Mondale (Vice
President)
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Zbigniew Brzezinski
(National Security Advisor)
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Cyrus Vance (Secretary of
State)
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Harold Brown (Secretary of
Defense)
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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."
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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
(renamed "America Plundered by the Global Elite") 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 2005
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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
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Winston Lord
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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
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*Joseph S.
Nye, Jr.
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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
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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
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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
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Strobe
Talbott
|
President,
The
Brookings
Institution,
Washington,
DC; former
U.S. Deputy
Secretary of
State
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Miscellaneous |
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Ernesto
Zedillo
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Director,
Yale Center
for the
Study of
Globalization,
Yale
University,
New Haven,
CT; former
President of
Mexico [Ed .
Note: not an
American
citizen]
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David J.
O’Reilly |
Chairman and
Chief
Executive
Officer,
Chevron
Corporation,
San Ramon,
CA
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*
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.
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."
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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:
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Chen Yuan - Governor, China
Development Bank; former Deputy Governor, Peoples Bank of China.
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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.
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David O’Reilly - Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer, ChevronTexaco Corporation.
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James W. Owens - Chairman and CEO of
Caterpillar.
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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."
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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 Commission 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)
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The Trilateral Commission,
Membership List,
www.trilateral.org
-
Washington Post, January 16,
1977
-
op. cit.
-
About Us,
http://www.iie.com/institute/aboutiie.cfm
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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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