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"There is a 'Committee
of 300', men whose identity is known only to each other, who rule
the world."
German Socialist leader Walter
Rathenau, 1922
One
World Government page - Council
on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission
"No combination of techniques
for controlling employment, production, and consumption has yet
been tested that can remotely compare to [war] in effectiveness.
It is, and has been, the essential economic stabilizer of modern
societies."
Report from Iron Mountain (1967)
Books
"The basic authority of
a modern state over its people resides in its war powers."
Report from Iron Mountain (1967)
"The war system not only
has been essential to the existence of nations as independent
political entities, but has been equally indispensable to their
stable internal political structure. Without it, no government
bas ever been able to obtain acquiescence in its "legitimacy,"
or right to rule its society. The possibility of war provides
the sense of external necessity without which no government can
long remain in power. The historical record reveals one instance
after another where the failure of a regime to maintain the credibility
of a war threat led to its dissolution, by the forces of private
interest, of reactions to social injustice, or of other disintegrative
elements. The organization of a society for the possibility of
war is its principal political stabilizer."
Report from Iron Mountain (1967)
Organizations
"In advanced
modern democratic societies the war system has provided political
leaders with ... political-economic function of increasing importance:
it has served as the last great safeguard against the elimination
of necessary social classes.
... The arbitrary
nature of war expenditures and of other military activities make
them ideally suited to control these essential class relationships.
Obviously, if the war system were to be discarded, new political
machinery would be needed at once to serve this vital subfunction.
Until it is developed, the continuance of the war system must
be assured, if for no other reason, among others, than to preserve
whatever quality and degree of poverty a society requires as an
incentive, as well as to maintain the stability of its internal
organization of power."
Report from Iron Mountain
(1967)
Documentary
Articles
"The Council [on Foreign
Relations] plays a special part in helping to bridge the gap between
the two parties, affording unofficially a measure of continuity
when the guard changes in Washington."
Joseph Kraft
"The public is irrelevant,
is understood to be irrelevant. What matters is a few big interests
looking after themselves and that's exactly what the public sees."
Noam Chomsky
"All empires have had
their pretenses justifying the expansion of one nation's influence
over others in the name of religion, freedom, combating aggression,
or exporting the standards of higher civilization. "
Robert Scheer
"Although war is "used"
as an instrument of national and social policy, the fact that
a society is organized for any degree of readiness for war supersedes
its political and economic structure. War itself is the basic
social system, within which other secondary modes of social organization
conflict or conspire. It is the system which has governed most
human societies of record, as it is today.
... The precedence of a society's
war-making potential over its other characteristics is not the
result of the "threat" presumed to exist at any one
time from other societies. This is the reverse of the basic situation;
"threats" against the "national interest"
are usually created or accelerated to meet the changing needs
of the war system.
... Wars are not "caused"
by international conflicts of interest... war-making societies
require - and thus bring about - such conflicts. The capacity
of a nation to make war expresses the greatest social power it
can exercise; war-making, active or contemplated, is a matter
of life and death on the greatest scale subject to social control.
It should therefore hardly be surprising that the military institutions
in each society claim its highest priorities."
Report from Iron Mountain (1967)
Foreign
Policy and Pentagon
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