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A GUIDEBOOK: HOW THE WORLD WORKS AND HOW WE CAN CHANGE IT
(C) 2000, Richard K. Moore
http://cyberjournal.org
Chapter 1:
How does the world work today, and where is it headed?
a. Globalization and the West: a covert coup d'etat
b. Globalization and the third world: empire by another name
===> c. Kultur-kampf: enforcing the New World Order
d. Economic globalization: Robber Barons writ large
e. Decoding propaganda: matrix vs. reality
f. Capitalism's growth imperative and societal engineering
g. Elite rule and the Dark Millennium
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1.c. _Kultur-kampf_: enforcing the _New World Order_
"_The Clash of Civilisations_, the book
by Harvard professor Sam Huntington, may
not have hit the bestseller lists, but
its dire warning of a 21st century
rivalry between the liberal white folk
and the Yellow Peril -- sorry, the
Confucian cultures -- is underpinning the
formation of a new political environment.
"To adapt one of Mao's subtler
metaphors, Huntington's Kultur-kampf is
becoming, with stunning speed, the
conceptual sea in which Washington's
policy-making fish now swim."
- Guardian Weekly, April 6, 1997.
Imperialism - whatever name it goes under - always
requires military force to maintain its control
over subjugated peoples. Up until 1945 each major
power had its own sphere of influence, and used its
own military to keep the dominions under control.
After 1945, the U.S. took over the job of
maintaining "order" in the "free world" on behalf
of the West generally. This self-appointed role of
_global cop_ involved hundreds of military and
covert interventions in the affairs of nations
around the globe. Regular interventions will
continue to be needed in order to enforce IMF-style
imperialism, and new mechanisms are being developed
for that purpose. This too is part of
globalization.
Desert Storm established important precedents for
how the new regime intends to maintain global
order. This fact was suggested by President George
Bush himself - perhaps in an elated moment of
unplanned candor - when he declared at the end of
the bombing that a "new world order" had been
established. He didn't elaborate, but he didn't
need to. Desert Storm spoke for itself, in the many
precedents that it set.
America had never been shy of intervening
unilaterally whenever its interests were threatened
- as they surely seemed to be in Kuwait. And yet
this time Washington chose to waste months seeking
a UN resolution authorizing the action. It wasn't
really international _assistance_ that was being
sought, because in the end the operation was an
overwhelmingly American affair. It was the _token
of legitimacy_ that was being sought, in the form
of the resolution and in the form of nominal troop
contingents from what was euphemistically referred
to as "the allies." It was a _precedent_ which the
U.S. was seeking, and in his statement Bush,
perhaps inadvertently, simply underscored this fact
which was already evident from the events
themselves.
Subsequently there have been a whole series of
comparable interventions carried out, including in
Albania, East Timor, Yugoslavia, and several in
Africa. Each intervention was preceded by a
media-blitz sales campaign and in the end the
action was generally accepted as being the
"humanitarian" will of the "international
community." U.S. President Clinton and UK Prime
Minister Tony Blair have both made public
pronouncements that such interventions can be
expected to continue - and neither one said
anything about UN approval being required. The only
requirement is that the intervention be wrapped in
humanitarian garb - which the corporate media is
very proficient at doing by means of one-sided
emotional coverage.
Globalization's centralized regime does indeed
represent a _New World Order._ The WTO and its
sister bureaucracies amount to a corporate/elite
world government, while NATO and the Pentagon act
as the military enforcer of that government's sense
of order. The global corporate media plays the role
of Ministry of Propaganda, selectively arousing
humanitarian sympathies, and thereby delivering
public approval of enforcement interventions.
"Free-trade" treaties prevent Western nations from
determining their own economic destinies, while the
IMF exercises even more direct control over
third-world economies. All national governments are
being reduced to the level of _client states_ of
the global regime.
A world empire has been created for the first time
in history, and it is ruled not by a dominant
nation, but by a handful of elite institutions. The
USA may _seem_ to be the dominant nation, but it
would be more accurate to say that America was
simply the first nation to be subverted by the
covert revolution. Both major American political
parties are committed to globalization's agenda,
giving voters no real choice in the matter. And it
is Western corporations and elites generally who
benefit from that agenda, not just American ones.
U.S. taxpayers pay most of the burden of imperial
management, and the American economy does benefit
somewhat from being the home base of the global
regime, but Americans too are being disenfranchised
and their quality of life is deteriorating along
with everyone elses. WTO rulings have overturned
U.S. laws, just as they have overturned the laws of
other nations.
Earlier I quoted from a planning document prepared
during World War II by the Council on Foreign
Relations (CFR). From such documents, and from
subsequent government actions, we learn the
motivations behind policy and we also learn that
elite think tanks such as the CFR play a decisive
role in achieving elite consensus and in
determining policy priorities. One of the most
articulate and respected articulators of CFR policy
is Harvard history professor Samuel P. Huntington,
whose 1973 artcle, _Crisis of Democracy_, was cited
earlier. In 1997 Huntington published a book which
outlines in detail the architecture of the New
World Order - the elite plan for global management.
His book is called, quite appropriately, _The Clash
of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order._
In his book Huntington appears to be analyzing the
course of civilization. He traces certain trends,
and attempts to show that the world is heading
toward an orientation around ethnicity. He
identifies nine 'civilizations' characterized by
ethnicity. He explains that the old hope of
universal democratization is dead because some
civilizations have non-Western, non-democratic
values - we need to face up to the inherent
differences between civilizations, and their mutual
antagonisms, and manage accordingly. He suggests
that the role of the enlightnened Western nations
should be to adjudicate disputes, as altruistic and
neutral third parties.
As analysis, Huntington's treatment cannot be taken
seriously. He makes rash characterizations of
cultures - which may agree with popular stereotypes
- but which have little basis in reality. He
attributes altruistic motives to Western nations in
contradiction to their current and historic
behavior. He blames third-world cultures for being
undemocratic, completely ignoring that most
third-world dictators have been installed and
funded by the West. He writes of a mythological
reality - one which serves the interests of the
elite global regime. With the advent of
'humanitarian warfare' we can see Huntington's
prescription being implemented as Western policy,
along with its presumption of Western neutrality
and benevolence.
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Recommended reading.
Samuel P. Huntington, "The Clash Of Civilizations and the
Remaking of World Order," Simon and Schuster, London, 1997.
William Blum, "Rogue State - a Guide to the World's Only
Superpower," Common Courage Press, Monroe Maine, 2000.
A comprehensive review of how the US government manages
world affairs by force and intrigue when persuasion and
economic pressure fail to do the job. A red-pill antidote for
anyone who feels tempted to trust the "international
community" to pursue "humanitarian interventionism." See also
Blum's earlier book, "Killing Hope - U.S. Military and CIA
Interventions since World War II," also from Common Courage
Press.
"Covert Action Quarterly" magazine, published quarterly by
Covert Action Publications, Inc., Washington D.C. 1994,
http://www.covertaction.org.
Keeps you up-to-date on covert activities, cover-ups,
military affairs, and current trouble spots. Contributors
include many ex-intelligence officers who saw the error of
their ways.
Michael Parenti, "The Sword and the Dollar, Imperialism,
Revolution, and the Arms Race," St. Martin's Press, New York,
1989.
One of many red-pill books by a prolific and
well-informed author. Here he talks about the reality of
imperialism and the matrix of Cold War rhetoric. For an
insightful examination of how matrix reality is fabricated,
see also his "Make-Believe Media," and "Inventing Reality,"
also from St. Martin's.
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