"To Achieve World Government it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism their loyalty to family traditions and national identification" Brock Chisholm, Director, World Health Organization
Today's forced-trade driven "globalization" process is fast breeding a global monoculture – i.e. one controlled by capital alone in a "whether we like it or not" process designed to remove the power and prerogatives of nation states, local regions, wage-laboring majorities, and defeat democracy itself.
In effect, capital's Efficiency-Uber-Alles "harmonization" process is all about money, global markets, greater-slave-based amoral efficiencies, and getting rid of different forms of culture, economy, and local law-giving.
In effect, it is capital's pernicious amorality aimed at removing First World values, rights, freedoms and standards of living... all for the convenience and profit of global concerns. Of course, it is also for the hoary and naive dreams of all the New World Order enthusiasts bent on eliminating the power and influence of all those pesky nation states wherein local freedom and culture reign.
Of course, the stated reasons for "globalization" are that everyone benefits from what is an effectively forced interdependency, removal of local perogatives, and a lowering of First World standards. Despite the losses and huge trade deficits the "universal gain" gambit is forever trotted out to dissuade dissenters. Imperial interdependency is ever-touted as infallibly breeding peace and integration. But interdependency with whom? On what terms? At what cost? To what end?
Due to the way in which it has emerged, globalization as we know it is not simply a happy-face interdependency process. Rather, it is a top-down tyranny geared to maximizing corporate profit, all within a scheme destined to produce global oligarchy, oligopoly, and monoculture – i.e., the worst of worlds.
"The nation state is a relic of the past...what I'm trying to do is promote a process of reorganization of the world." Bill Clinton
Today's ruling elite, central bank-owning, money-power regime and their corporate-media captive political puppets do not care about real democracy, nor do they countenance any freedom or human rights which do not advance their oligarchic schemes. Indeed, our very values, freedoms, and historic rights are impediments to their global, for-profit, goals. Damm that nation state!
For today's cabal of fascist capitalists, and their economist lackies, their ends justify their means. Their ends and goals, determined by the few, must then be implemented via corruption and deceit, for the simple reason they would never be freely voted for by any wage-laboring majority.
Did Americans rise up and say, please, force me to compete with captive Chinese neo-slaves making a dollar a day? And yet we are told we must and, further, that we will become a "service economy" - servicing the ruling class objectives by continually lowering our wages, benefits and the value of our currency... all "in order to compete." Gosh, what a deal!
And all this sovereignty destroying scheme without any trade balancing mechanisms? No tariffs allowed. We are thus forced to use monetary policy to fix trade policy, which will then screw up fiscal policy - all because of giving away trade and tariff policy perogatives... those being perfectly rational and fit for a greatly disparate and undemocratic world.
It is largely for their hatred of, and on-going campaign against, any form of economic democracy that ruling elites hate the nation state – i.e., that dastardly bastion of local freedom, custom, and culture. Indeed, all manner of evil is ascribed to the nation state in order that a global corporate regime may be instituted... from the top down, in a safe "managed" democracy.
Yes, the origin of many a nation state may well be corrupt, cruel, and result of past imperialisms. However, this is no reason to institute a fascist, top-down, globalization effectively destroying local freedom and democracy. Moreover, we have effectively turned around many miscreants states with boycotts and sanctions.
In any case, the so-called "free trade" process, written by and for big corporations (and not approved by any National Initiative in the USA) is how this tyranny of capital is first advanced. Indeed, trade decisions and treaties are not vetted by boards comprised of equal elements of labor and capital, nor passed by any National Initiative process. Instead, they are fast-tracked by "our" representatives who are extorted and bought off in a corrupt process – as seen with every other legislative crime of the last century or two. Unfortunately, the people have no "fast-track" treaty powers of their own.
In fact, most of these trade treaties and other globalization efforts do not reflect the will of the people, and they most certainly do not reflect the will of the wage-earning majorities – and that is the problem.
"The technocratic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values." Zbigniew Brzezinski
Ruling elites appear to have an inborn, amoral, totalitarian, impulse.
Clearly, however, there is nothing wrong with cooperation, integration, and interdependency per se, so long as it arises from honest democratic processes and votes of the people – and not from secretive, no-appeal, panels and bought-off "representatives" selling out their own constituents.
Author, Exec. Dir. The Center For Balance. Websites: PanditPress.com, OligarchyUSA.com, PublicCentralBank.com, EditorFreedom.com,
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Great article Kent, for the past twenty years free trade propaganda has been spewing from corporate funded think tanks so many people believe it is the only way. I think people are starting to figure out the real agenda behind it as they witness the devastation of wages at all skill and education levels.
Its time for Americans to take a stand against the corporate whores who are supposed to represent the people of America and try them for treason because much of the globalist agenda is also a huge threat to our national security in the not so distant future. Trade with China perfect example,we get slave labor for short term profit they get massive industrialization and a military buildup that will blow your mind. In twenty years China will control the entire world and impose whatever kind of doctrine it desires. They could very well succeed at what Hitler failed.
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Gary Denson (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 185 comments)
on Thursday, January 11, 2007 at 6:01:00 PM
But we can't put our heads in nationalistic soil and hope globalization goes away. Instead, let's embrace globalization thru a democratic body of people who confront corporate rule.
The basic premise of George Monbiot's argument for a world parliament is that world government by elites is a given – whether we like it or not. Our only hope, then, is to develop a people’s forum that holds global government to account. See his Age of Consent: Manifesto for a New World Order.
In this book, he details how we can preserve our cultural identities, as a world democracy. A shorter version of his ideas is in this essay.
Instead of swimming against the tide of world governement by elites, why not build a boat for the people to hold that government to account?
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Rady Ananda (56 articles, 166 quicklinks, 17 diaries, 387 comments)
on Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 1:30:17 PM
