The World's Mastermind: the Hidden Face of Globalization - A view from Argentina -

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The World's Mastermind:
the Hidden Face of Globalization
- A view from Argentina -

by Adrian Salbuchi (*)


This article is a brief summary of the key points set forth in the 
Author’s treatise published in Argentina in Spanish, "El Cerebro del 
Mundo: la cara oculta de la Globalización" (Ediciones del Copista, 
Córdoba, Argentina, 4th Edition, 2003, 470 pages. and Editorial 
Solar, Bogotá, Colombia, 2004).

"Those who do not learn from history are condemned to re-live it"

- George Santayana -



Many people in all parts of the world are taking an increasingly 
critical view of the worldwide phenomenon we call "globalization". 
Not that they are against constructive cooperation amongst the 
sovereign nations of the world on common goals, but rather that they 
reject many aspects of today's model of globalization in which 
destructive and perverse forces priorizing the interests and 
objectives of the few, seem to have gained the upper hand.

As we now have it, globalization can be defined as an ideology that 
identifies the Sovereign Nation-State as its key enemy, basically 
because the State's main function is (or should be) to prioritize the 
interests of the Many - i.e., "the People" - over the interests of 
the Few.  Accordingly, the forces of globalization seek to weaken, 
dissolve and eventually destroy the very foundations of the 
Nation-State as a basic social institution, in order to replace it 
with new supra-national worldwide social, political, economic, 
financial and military management structures.  Such structures tie in 
with the political objectives and economic interests of a small 
number of highly concentrated and very powerful groups and 
organizations which today drive and steer the globalization process 
in a very specific direction.

These power groups consist of private interests which have succeeded 
in achieving something that is unprecedented in all of human history, 
and which we describe as the privatization of power on a global scale.

"Globalization" is actually a hypocritical understatement or 
euphemism of what former US presidents Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. 
Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and George H.W.  Bush - each at different 
times in modern history - described as the "New World Order".

A New World Order!  Clearly, when former president George Bush Sr. 
unabashedly used that term on 11th September 1991, the Establishment 
quickly moved to ensure that it should not be commonly used, and in 
its place coined the much more neutral and seemingly harmless 
sounding idea of "globalization" which, nevertheless, today still has 
one main meaning: US-UK-Israeli Imperialism on a planetary and 
all-encompassing scale.  This, at least, is how a growing number of 
people in Argentina and in our Region see things today.



Who are they?  What do they want?

The process we have described is in no way anonymous - much less, 
secret - because the power groups promoting and driving the New World 
Order are doing so in full public view: i.e., multinational 
corporations (e.g., the Fortune Global 500s accounting for over 80% 
of US economic activity); the global financial infrastructure (which 
includes banks, investment funds, stock exchanges and commodity 
market operators); multimedia monopolies; major Ivy League 
universities; international multilateral organizations (such as the 
World Bank, the IMF/International Monetary Fund, the 
IADB/Inter-American Development Bank, the BIS/Bank of International 
Settlements, the UN/United Nations and the WTO/World Trade 
Organization) and, most important, key government posts in the United 
States, Israel, the United Kingdom and other industrialized nations. 
So, we definitely do not have something that can be explained away as 
a "conspiracy theory".

What we have are the inner trappings and logic behind the way Power 
is built and managed.  What is not immediately visible is the fact 
that all of these players the form a veritable Wheel of Global Power 
have one thing in common: their key managers, financiers, bankers, 
government officers, academics, strategists, shareholders and other 
fundamental players all belong to the same inter-twining network of 
think-tanks and lobbying organizations.  This network forms a common 
hub that steers the wheel of world power on its present destructive 
course.

Among these key think-tanks - which should actually be described as 
geopolitical planning centers -, the role of the Council on Foreign 
Relations (CFR), the Trilateral Commission (TC), the Royal Institute 
of International Affairs (RIIA), the Brookings Institution, the RAND 
Corporation, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the American 
Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC), and the Center for 
Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), amongst others, are of 
vital importance.



A Historical Perspective

             To properly understand today’s world, one needs to look 
back on yesterday’s world, in order to see how this whole situation 
came about.  It was back in 1919 when a small group of influential 
bankers, lawyers, politicians and academics – who were taking part in 
the Paris Peace negotiations between the victorious Allies and the 
vanquished Central Powers right after World War I – met in the 
Parisian Hotel Majestic and reached a transcendental agreement: they 
decided to create a network of "think tanks" - a sort of  exclusive 
club or lodge - from which they would design the kind of "New World 
Order" which would properly address and accomodate the imperial 
worldwide interests and objectives of the Anglo-US Alliance.

In London, that think tank would take on the name of Royal Institute 
of International Affairs (RIIA), whilst in the United States it would 
become known as the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) based in New 
York City.  Both organizations had the unmistakeable mark of the 
social strategy of gradually imposing a socialist (i.e., formally 
"democratic" but in reality increasingly authoritarian) political 
order as a means of mass control of the population.  At that time, 
that was promoted by such masonic fronts as the Fabian Society 
financed by the Round Table Group which was in turn created, 
controlled and financed by South African magnate Cecil Rhodes, the 
international financial dynasty of the Rothschilds, various UK-based 
Ancient Rite Masonic Lodges, and the British Crown.

The CFR got its initial support from the most wealthy, powerful and 
influential families in the United States, such as Rockefeller, 
Mellon, Harriman, Morgan, Schiff, Kahn, Warburg, Loeb and Carnegie 
(the latter, in particular, through its own front organization 
founded in 1910: the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace).

In order to express and thus propagate its influence amongst elite 
circles, one of the first measures of the CFR consisted in publishing 
its own journal which still remains the world’s premier mouthpiece on 
geopolitics and political science: Foreign Affairs.  Amongst the 
CFR´s first directors, was Allan Welsh Dulles, a key figure in the US 
intelligence community who would later consolidate the covert spying 
structure of the CIA leading to the NSA; journalist Walter Lippmann, 
director and founder of The New Republic; a host of J.P. Morgan 
corporate lawyers; bankers Otto H. Kahn, and Paul Moritz 
Warburg,<mhtml:mid://00001239/#_ftn1>[1] the latter a wealthy German 
emigrée who emigrated to the United States and in 1913 designed and 
promoted legislation leading to the creation of the Federal Reserve 
Bank – the basically private central bank of the US which since then 
controls the financial structure of the United States (and, through 
it, of a good part of the world).  When World War II ended in 1945, 
the Federal Reserve Bank was supplemented by the International 
Monetary Fund and The World Bank, both of which were masterminded, 
planned and designed by CFR planners at the Bretton Woods Conference 
in 1944.

Another member of the CFR and one of its first directors, was 
geographer and president of the American Geographical Society, Isaiah 
Bowman, who in 1919 would lead the team of experts re-drawing the map 
of Central Europe after the World War I, thus ushering in times of 
grave turmoil in Europe which would actually lead to World War II in 
1939.  It was CFR lawyers Owen D. Young (president of General 
Electric) and Charles Dawes (a top J P Morgan Bank lawyer), who in 
the twenties designed and promoted the "debt refinancing" plans for 
Germany’s war reparations debt imposed by the Treaty of Versailles. 
It was top Federal Reserve Bank directors and CFR members who would 
generate the monetary distortions leading to the 1929 financial 
crisis and ensuing Depression. It was CFR directors who through the 
powerful media under their control such as the NBC, ABC and CBS radio 
networks and newspapers like the The Washington Post, The Wall Street 
Journal, Chicago Tribune and The New York Times, would coax and press 
public opinion to break US isolationist neutrality and embark that 
nation on another European war in 1939, which they themselves had 
been seeking since the early thirties.



The Second World War

At the very start of that terrible European civil war in which The 
United States would only formally take part in 1941, CFR members set 
up the War & Peace Studies Group which literally became a part of the 
State Department and designed its major foreign policies towards 
Germany, Italy, Japan and their allies.  Later, they began preparing 
for yet another post-war "New World Order" after the then forseeable 
Allied victory.  In this manner, the CFR designed and promoted the 
creation of the United Nations to manage world politics and US 
hegemony in the Nuclear Age, and some of its key economic agencies 
such as the IMF and the World Bank, through members like Alger Hiss, 
John J. McCloy, W. Averell Harriman, Harry Dexter White, Henry 
Kissinger and many others.

Once the war ended, US President Harry S. Truman would establish the 
far-reaching national security doctrine which was based on the 
doctrine of "containment" of Soviet expansionism proposed by yet 
another CFR member, who at that time was US Ambassador to Moscow: 
George Kennan,<mhtml:mid://00001239/#_ftn2>[2] who described his 
ideas in a famous seminal 1947 Foreign Affairs article which he 
signed with the pseudonym "X".  Similarly, the so-called "Marshall 
Plan" presented to the world by US Army General George C. Marshall, 
was in fact designed by a CFR task force and implemented by W. 
Averell Harriman.<mhtml:mid://00001239/#_ftn3>[3]



Elite Power Structures

Although it is little known among public opinion, the CFR is very 
powerful and has grown in influence, prestige and breadth of 
activities.  So much so, that today we can say without a doubt that 
it operates as the "World’s Mastermind", silently directing the 
course of  many complex and highly volatile social, politicial, 
financial, military and economic processes throughout the world. 
There are no peoples, regions or aspects of human life which are not 
affected by CFR influence – whether we realize this or not – and the 
very fact that it has been able to remain "behind the scenes" makes 
the CFR exceptionally powerful and elusive, even amongst US public 
opinion.

Today, the CFR is a discreet organization counting among its more 
than 4.500 members, the best, most capable and brightest minds, 
operating together with very powerful anbd influential individuals 
wielding great influence in their respective professions, 
corporations, institutions, governmental posts and social 
environments.  In this way, the CFR brings together top corporate 
officers from financial institutions, industrial giants, the media, 
research organizations, academics, top military officers, government 
leaders, university deans, trade union leaders and study center 
investigators.  Their fundamental objectives consist in identifying 
and assessing a wide range of political, economic, financial, social, 
cultural and military factors spanning every imaginable aspect of 
public and private life in the United States, its key allies and the 
rest of the world.  Today, thanks to the enormous power wielded by 
the US, the CFR's breadth of activities literally spans the whole 
planet.

Its research and investigations are carried out by different task 
forces and study groups which identify Opportunities and Threats, 
assess Strengths and Weaknesses, and design far-reaching strategies 
to promote its interests worldwide, each with their respective 
tactical and operational plans.  Although such intensive and 
far-reaching tasks are made inside the CFR, the key issue to 
understand its enormous success lies in the fact that the CFR per se 
never actually does anything under its own name.  Rather, it is its 
individual members who do so.  And they do this from their formal 
posts as chairmen, CEO’s and directors of major corporations, 
financial institutions, international multilateral institutions, 
media, and key posts in government, universities, the armed forces, 
and trade unions, never invoking or even referring to the CFR as 
their main seat of planning and 
coordination.<mhtml:mid://00001239/#_ftn4>[4]

Indeed, today we can find  CFR members in many powerful and decisive 
posts.  To name but a handful of the more than 4.500 CFR members, we 
find David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, Zbigniew 
Brzezinski, Samuel Huntington, Francis Fukuyama, Paul Wolfowitz, 
Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Richard Perle, Robert Gates, James 
Baker III, Stephen Hadley, Douglas Feith, L. Paul Bremer III, John 
Bolton, John Negroponte, former secretary of state Madeleine 
Albright, international rogue financier George Soros, supreme court 
judge Stephen Breyer, Lowes/CBS CEO Laurence A. Tisch, former General 
Electric Co. CEO Jack Welsh, CNN CEO W. Thomas Johnson, former 
chairman and CEO of The Washington Post / Newsweek / International 
Herald Tribune Katherine Graham (and today her successor son), US 
vicepresidente, former secretary of defence, and former  Halliburton 
CEO Richard Cheney, former president George H.W. Bush, former 
national security advisor to president Clinton Samuel "Sandy" Berger, 
former CIA directors John M. Deutch and George Tenet,  Federal 
Reserve Bank former governor Alan Greenspan and present governor 
Benjamin Shalom Bernanke, former World Bank president James D. 
Wolfensohn, CS First Boston Bank CEO and former Federal Reserve Bank 
governor Paul Volcker, reporters Mike Wallace, Barbara Walters, Wolf 
Blitzer, top CitiGroup directors John Reed, William Rhodes, Stanford 
Weill, and Stanley Fischer (in turn formerly No. 2 at the IMF), 
economists Jeffrey Sachs and Lester Thurow, former treasury 
secretary, Goldman Sachs CEO and CitiGroup director Robert E. Rubin, 
former secretary of state and "mediator" during the the 
Falkland/Malvinas Islands War between Argentina and Britain Gral. 
Alexander Haig, "mediator" in the Balcan conflict Richard Holbrooke, 
IBM CEO Louis V. Gerstner, democratic senator George J. Mitchell, 
former republican representative Newt Gingrich, former Bush Sr. 
national sercurity advisor Air Force General Brent Scowcroft, Kenneth 
Lay (recently deseased member of the Trilateral Commission and Enron 
CEO), amongst many, many others.<mhtml:mid://00001239/#_ftn5>[5]

In the business world, top Fortune 500 corporations all have senior 
directors who are CFR members. These corporations together have a 
combined market value equivalent to almost twice the gross domestic 
product of the United States and concentrate the better part of the 
wealth and power of that country, controlling key resources and 
technologies around the world. Together, they employ over 25 million 
people in the US alone and account for over 80% of its GDP.  In 
short, they wield gigantic power, leverage and influence in the US 
and beyond.

             We thus find here the key to the CFR’s enormous 
effectiveness and power:  its decisions and plans are drafted out and 
agreed in closed meetings, study groups, conferences and task forces. 
But when the time comes to execute those plans, they are then carried 
out by its different members, each from his or her formal post in 
different powerful organizations, both public and private.  And what 
powerful posts and organizations these are!

If, for example, a plan has been drafted and agreed regarding how 
globalisation of the economy and the financial system is to evolve, 
or which countries are to enjoy peace and prosperity and which are to 
be ravished by war, invasion and famine, then the coordinated action 
of personalities like the president of the United States, his 
secretaries of state, defense, commerce and treasury, CIA, NSA and 
FBI directors, key international bankers and financiers, Fortune 500 
CEO's, media owners and moguls, reporters and writers, military 
officers and academics, heads of the IMF, World Bank and World Trade 
Organization, are all brought together at the right time, in the 
proper sequence and on a myriad of specific matters.  In this way, 
they are able to coordinate concrete, effective and almost 
irrestistible action, anytime and anywhere.

This is how it has worked for more than eighty years.



Real Power and Formal Power

In order to understand how the world really works, we must first 
understand the difference that exists between Formal Power and Real 
Power.  What the media propagate with a very high public profile 
every day in their television and radio newscasts, and in the press 
are basically the concrete and visible results of the actions carried 
out by Formal Power structures, especially those of national 
governments and the technological, financial and corporate 
infrastructures.  However, Real Power levers that actually make 
things happen are far less visible.  They are the ones which plan out 
what will occur in the world, when it will occur, where it will take 
place and who shall carry it out.

Formal Power operates short-term and with a high public profile. 
Real Power operates within a long-term framework and has almost no 
public profile.  Nowadays, Formal Power is mostly "public" – Real 
Power is fundamentally  "private".  This reflects the fact that the 
institutions of the Nation-State (the prime public Formal Power 
entity) has become subordinate to private interests (i.e., Real Power 
driven by money interests).

Since the United States is today’s sole superpower, it is reasonable 
to conclude that this world power structure – that is what it really 
is – provisionally manages this veritable World Government from the 
territory, the political and economic structures of the United 
States.  This, however, by no means implies that the majority of the 
people of the United States necessarily form part of that scheme of 
things, much less that the people of the US are "enemies" of any 
other peoples (rarely are the People of any country an "enemy"; 
rather, it is their elite establishments that become adversarial 
through excessive concentration of power).

We are thus speaking of power groups which operate from within the 
United States (as they also do from within the United Kingdom, 
Germany, Japan, Israel and, through their local agents, also in 
countries like Spain, Argentina, Brasil and Korea), but that are not 
necessaily identified with the people of the United States.

             To better understand the true nature of the United States 
– especially in what refers to US Foreign Policy – one does well to 
keep in mind that the US "Administration" as they so aptly call their 
Government - i.e., Formal Power - is based in Washington DC. 
However, Real Power structures in the US are mainly located in New 
York City and some New England states.   In other words, the 
Administration of  the United States is done from Washington DC, 
whilst the country is actually governed from New York City.

             Once we grasp this concept, then many other things 
automatically fall into place.  Additionally, the world's real power 
center resides not in New York City but, more likely, in London. . . 
Understanding this complex and subtle process automatically pre-empts 
any simplistic identification of the "enemy" as the United States or 
England or any other peoples.   More often than not, in times of 
turmoil the people of the United States are victims – even bloody 
ones as fallen US citizens in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and the 
World Trade Center attest to – of this very process.  Nevertheless, 
the fact that most people in the US ignore this fact, does not make 
them less responsible or accountable for the genocidal strategies the 
New World Order power structures operating from US territory 
perpetrate upon the rest of the world through the use and abuse of US 
military and economic might to achieve their goals.

             That this should be so is understandable when one 
considers that exercising Real Power requires complying with a set of 
rules and conditions such as, for example, operational continuity 
spanning many decades in order to achieve far-reaching goals and 
carrying out complex strategies which, in turn, span the entire 
planet, its nations and resources.  This requires long-term planning: 
twenty, thirty and fifty years into the future.

             Ironically, the New World Order power elites know full 
well that there is no greater threat to political continuity and 
consistency in the design and execution of such long-term global 
strategies, than to have them subjected to a democratic process that 
imposes high public profiles on its leaders who must (or should!) 
heed the "voice of the People" at every step they take, coupled with 
recurrent power interruptions which all democratic electoral 
processes entail.

How much better it is to be able to operate discreetly, from what can 
only be describes as a gentlemen’s club such as the CFR, in which 
powerful and influential men and women can be officers, directors and 
chairmen for decades at a time without ever having to be accountable 
to anybody but their own peers.  In this manner, 4.500 powerful 
individuals can exert tremendous policital, economic, financial and 
media clout over countless hundreds of millions of people throughout 
the entire planet.

  It goes without saying that one of the main tasks of the global 
media monopolies is to impose "political correctness", normally 
expressed through the "Two-Party System" – Democrats and Republicans 
in the US, Labour and Conservative in the UK, CDU or SPD in Germany, 
Radicals and Justicialists in Argentina – all of which are mere 
variations of the same basic politically correct tenets, and of each 
other.  Stable Western democracies have all conformed to what is, in 
practice, a One-Party System with slightly different internal 
factions.  People think they may "choose", but the "options" are just 
not there: it's sort of like "choosing" between Coca-Cola and 
Pepsi-Cola – no matter what they want you to believe, the truth is 
that they are both basically the same thing.

             What we are describing is, in fact, the central hub of a 
veritable network of powerful people, considering that the CFR is, in 
turn, supplemented by a myriad of similar institutions both inside 
and outside of the United States.

All of these think tanks bring together the most intelligent, best 
prepared, creative and ambitous men and women in a wide range of 
fields and disciplines.  They are paid and rewarded very handsomely - 
both economically and socially - as long as they clearly and 
uncompromisingly align themselves to the basic tenets of the CFR’s 
political objectives.  These are nothing less than the creation of a 
Private World Government; the systematic erosion of the structures of 
all sovereign Nation-States (though, naturally, not all of them in 
the same way, at the same speed, nor at the same time); the 
(sub)standardization of cultural values and social norms; the 
spreading of a globalized financial system based on gross speculation 
and usury; and the management of a Global War System in order to 
maintain the necessary social cohesion of its own masses by permanent 
coaxing and alignment against real or imagined enemies of 
"democracy", "human rights", "freedom" and "peace"; i.e., against 
"terrorism".<mhtml:mid://00001239/#_ftn8>[6]

Since 2003, we saw first-hand how inexistent Iraqui "Weapons of Mass 
Destruction" turned out to be nothing but Weapons of Mass 
DISTRACTION, generating enormous suffering, pain and hardship for 
untold millions of people.  The invasion of Irak and Afghanistan are 
just two examples of the double-standards and double-talk "Newspeak" 
on which this entire system thrives.

             Thus, in order to better understand today's world, one 
needs to read and assess what the CFR – or rather, its individual 
members - say and propagate, as many of its activities though 
discreet are not actually secret.  Any person visiting CFR 
headquarters on fashionable Park Avenue and 68th Street in New York 
City, as I have done many times in recent years, can easily get all 
sorts of information including a free copy of their latest Annual 
Report describing the Institution’s main activities and the full 
alphabetical list of its 4.500 members.  All the information on these 
organizations is readily available for those who want to see it.  It 
is, then however up to each of us to cross-check all that data on CFR 
members with what each really does in their professional, corporate, 
academic and government activities and capacities.

             One need also look back on modern history and assess the 
exceptional leverage which the CFR has had throughout the twentieth 
century, both on its own, as well as in conjunction with its sister 
organizations.  They have triggered and influenced ideologies, public 
events, wars, military alliances, political crimes, covert actions, 
mass psychological warfare, economic and financial crises, promotion 
and destruction of political and business personalities, and other 
high-impact events – many of them clearly difficult or impossible for 
them to admit or confess.  All have, however, marked the course of 
humanity in these stormy modern times.

The technique used is to keep us all far too busy and fascinated as 
pasive spectators of this whirlwind of events taking place every day 
in the world.  This ensures that almost no one ever thinks of looking 
elsewhere for suitable explanations to today’s grave crises, because 
that would then enable us to identify, not so much the effects and 
shocking results of many of these political decisions and covert 
actions, but rather their real and concrete originators, organizers 
and objectives.

In order for this gigantic mass psychological warfare – for that is 
what it really is - to succeed, the mass media play a vital role 
which cannot be underestimated.  For they are the instruments whose 
goal it is to undermine and neutralise the capacity of independent 
thought among the world’s population.  That is the key role of global 
mass media like CNN, CBS, NBC, The New York Times, The Daily 
Telegraph, Le Figaró, FoxNews, The Economist, The Wall Street 
Journal, Corrieri della Sera, Le Monde, Washington Post, Time, 
Newsweek, US News & World Report, Business Week, Reuters, and their 
respective local outlets in all countries, all of which are directed 
by key people belonging to the CFR and/or its sister organizations in 
the US and elsewhere.

And the worst part of it all is that, in spite of all the enormous 
friction, wars, violence and destruction it generates, the New World 
Order just does not work.  You cannot build a world empire only based 
on billions of dollars, B1 bombers, F16 fighters, Tomahawk missiles, 
CNN and gross lying and hipocrasy at the top.  Historically, Rome, 
France, Spain and even Britain knew that only deeper cultural values 
can consolidate a true empire that will endure even after the 
colonizing power is long gone, as has happened even to this very day 
throughout South America where Spanish, Potuguese (and British) 
influence are ubiquitous.  These key cultural factors seem to be very 
much lacking in the United States that was once described by former 
French premier George Clemenceau as "that complex political and 
social process running from barbarity to civilization without going 
through the necessary stage of culture. . . "



Implications for Argentina and our Region

Within this context, we can say that the local media in Argentina, 
our educational system and local mainstream politicians are all 
basically aligned to the New World Order process – independently of 
whether they are aware of this or not.  In this respect, this System 
of Domination has three key objectives:

1.	To hide from public opinion how the world really works, 
knowing that if we cannot properly understand and diagnose the source 
of our problems and weaknesses, then we can hardly expect to find the 
proper solutions to them.   We are thus (mis)led into believing that 
we are at "peace", when in actual fact a veritable and violent total 
war is being waged against Argentina since more than half a century 
on the political, economic, financial, media, educational, 
technological and environmental fronts.  Primarily, this is a 
Psychological War.
2.	To make us all believe that although we are in a difficult 
situation, "things will improve", as long as we reach yet another 
"agreement" with international bankers and speculators, privatize 
more State interests, reform our federal and provincial governments 
to the World Bank’s liking, reform our labour, educational and social 
legislation, and do all necessary so that "international investors" 
will smile upon us.  The truth is that to say we are in a "difficult 
situation" is an absurd understatement: Argentina is in a terminal 
situation and if we do not awaken to this reality, in a few more 
years – a decade at most – we shall cease to exist as a country 
altogether.<mhtml:mid://00001239/#_ftn9>[7]   Clearly, Argentina has 
only two options: either we accept living with all the problems and 
crises we have and take no action to resolve them, trying to merely 
manage their consequences as best we can or, we confront these 
problems and crises and decide to do something about them. 
Naturally, the second option is more difficult and risk laden.  Our 
Governments over the past thirty years have all chosen the former 
option of living with these problems, which has led us to our present 
predicament.

3.    To make us believe that, whether we like it or not, there is 
nothing we can do to stop "globalization".  The truth, however, is 
that there are myriads of things that we can do to neutralise the 
adverse effects of globalization.  But they all require that we first 
recover sovereign Nation-State institutions that will achieve its 
basic and fundamental functions of:

·        integrating internal conflicting social forces (i.e., 
promote the Common Good),

·        foreseeing all possible threats and opportunities from 
without and within (i.e., defending the National Interest), and

·        leading the Nation on a political course geared on defending 
its national interest (i.e., leading the country to its Destiny).

These functions require the existence of a Sovereign Nation-state 
which Argentina today no longer has.  We have become a colony, so we 
must first promote a true Second Declaration of Independence in order 
to found a Second Argentine Republic.   The implications and 
inspiration for our region and even further afield of such a 
revolutionary act would be truly 
momentous.<mhtml:mid://00001239/#_ftn10>[8]

Additionally – and this is beyond the scope of this brief article –, 
the global financial infrastructure is on the brink of what can only 
be described as a controlled worldwide collapse, something that the 
CFR has been carefully planning through various projects such as the 
so-called Financial Vulnerabilities Project and New International 
Financial Architecture programmes.  When this occurs it will spell 
out unimagined new opportunities for Argentina and our region.

As we become aware of these realities, the road which we need to 
tread becomes increasingly clear too.  In truth, things then do not 
appear as complex as we once thought.  It is all basically a question 
of thinking with our own minds and not with the minds of our 
adversaries; of starting to assess and defend our National Interest, 
which implies having our own view of world events, interests and 
forces, and then taking intelligent measures that respond to our 
needs, real possibilities and idiosincracy.   In this sense, we have 
an advantage because we do not need not "reinvent the wheel", as the 
CFR gives us a brilliant and highly successful blueprint for 
political, economic, financial and social planning and management of 
national power.  Why not learn from them?   Why not form our own 
network of think-tanks, bringing together a wide range of local, 
regional and like-minded interests, players and thinkers from 
different fields?  Why not put them all to work on promoting the 
National Interests of Argentina and its neighbours, so as to recover 
sovereignty and self-determination for our peoples in a consistent 
and coherent manner, irrespective of what the world power players try 
to impose upon us?

But to do this we must first understand what globalization really is: 
an immensely large range of threats which we need to avoid, and 
opportunities which we should take advantage of.  Regarding every 
subject having potential impact on us, we need to understand which 
are our relative strengths and weaknesses in order to be able to 
successfully confront them; if not today, then certainly in the 
future.  That requires proper planning.  Medium and long-term 
planning. That requires trying to always be one step ahead of the 
Adversary, achieving and keeping an edge and an advantage over coming 
events.

No doubt this will lead us to designing the right policies that are 
consistent with our National Interest, which in many instances will 
certainly not coincide with the interests of today's global power 
brokers.  To this end, we need to seek and work closely with nations 
and organizations in Central and South America, Africa, Asia, and 
Europe, with which we share the common goal of neutralising the 
negative effects of global imperial domination.  In truth, this all 
means that we need to found a New Argentina.   We have many of the 
necessary tools already at hand; we have millions of countrymen ready 
to accept the challenge if we but explain to them clearly and 
forcefully the odds which are at stake; and there are millions of 
others beyond our borders with whom we can work arm-in-arm towards 
such a common Cause.

In short, it is really a question of understanding that in Politics 
there are two kinds of people: those who are active players in the 
political arena and those who merely and passively look on.  The 
Council on Foreign Relations is clearly a key active player in the 
global political arenat.  Isn't it time that we started doing the 
same in our own country?



Adrian Salbuchi  -  Buenos Aires, Argentina   (2003; up-dated November 2006)

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<mhtml:mid://00001239/#_ftnref1>[1]  Warburg belonged to a 
prestigious and powerful Jewish-German family of bankers, closely 
related to the Rothschilds and the Schiffs, owners of New York-based 
banking house, Kühn Loeb & Co. of which Paul Warburg was a partner 
together with CFR founding director, Otto Kahn.  As a reflection of 
how these international power structures have been operating for 
almost a century, it is interesting to note that when the World War I 
ended, significantly, one Warburg – Paul – was on the Allied side of 
the negotiation table in Versailles, whilst another Warburg – his 
brother Max – was on the other side representing the vanquished 
Germans.  Additionally, Jakob Schiff, Paul Warburg’s partner, had in 
turn financed the Japanese against the Russian Tsar during the 1905 
Russian-Japanese War, thus paving the way for the Bolshevic 
Revolution....   Interestingly, another Kühn Loeb & Co.,partner N. 
Jivotovsky, had his daughter Natasha marry one Lev D. Bronstein which 
later became known as Leon Trotzky, through whose intermediary 
surprisingly large financing for the 1917 Bolshevic Revolution was 
funnelled. . . .

<mhtml:mid://00001239/#_ftnref2>[2] Kennan died recently at 101 years 
of age and almost to the last continued as an advisor at the CFR, an 
eloquent symbol of his continued influence spanning more than half a 
century among Real Power brokers in  the CFR.

<mhtml:mid://00001239/#_ftnref3>[3] Notably, W. Averell Harriman was 
a business partner of Prescott Bush, republican senator from 
Connecticut, father of former president George Herbert Walker Bush 
and grandfather of president George W. Bush.

<mhtml:mid://00001239/#_ftnref4>[4] The CFR’s so called "Rule of 
Non-attribution" specifically bans its members from ever publicly 
invoking the CFR in any way or manner or even disclosing matters 
discussed behind closed doors at its private meetings..

<mhtml:mid://00001239/#_ftnref5>[5] The reader will find detailed 
information in the author’s Spanish language book El Cerebro del 
Mundo: la cara oculta de la Globalización (Ediciones del Copista, 
Córdoba, Argentina, 4th Edition, 2003, 470 pages.).

<mid://00001239/#_ftnref5>[6] Among these "enemies" of the "free 
peoples of the world" over the past decades one can mention Italian 
Fascism, German National Socialism, Japanese Imperialism, Argentine 
Peronism, Communism, environmental contamination, Global Terrorism, 
Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic, Islamic "Fundamentalism", 
Ayatollah Khomeini, Muhamar-el-Kadafi, Fidel Castro, Maoism, non-US 
"militarism", Iran, Syria, and so-called "Antisemitism", among 
many,many others.

<mhtml:mid://00001239/#_ftnref9>[7] This might sound a bit strong and 
yet at the pace events are occuring in today's world, such a forecast 
may hold true for just about any country in the world.  Just think 
what public opinion would have thought only seventeen years ago – at 
the beginning of 1989 – if it had been announced that only three 
years later (i.e., by 1992), the following would take place: the fall 
of the Berlin Wall, the reunification of Germany, the collapse of the 
USSR into fifteen independent republics and their abandoning Marxism 
for Capitalism.   At that time, any such announcement would have been 
considered totally exagerated, if not downright stupid and yet. . . 
..that is exactly what happened.  It does make one think. . . .   The 
fact that The New York Times ran a front page story in their 
27-August-2002 edition with the title "Secession of Patagonia as a 
way for Argentina to pay its Foreign Debt" is telling us something. . 
. .

<mhtml:mid://00001239/#_ftnref10>[8] Elsewhere, the autor of this 
article has written extensively on the need to found a Second 
Argentine Republic as that is the only solution for Argentina and its 
neighbours, if both Argentina and our region are to recover their 
right to self-determination



(*) Adrian Salbuchi is researcher, author and speaker; host of the 
Buenos Aires talk-show "El Traductor Radial" and founder of the 
Argentine Second Republic Movement (Movimiento por la Segunda 
República Argentina) <>www.eltraductorradial.com.ar.  He is author of 
various books in Spanish on international politics, notably, "El 
Cerebro del Mundo: la cara oculta de la Globalización" (Córdoba, 
Argentina, 4th Edition, 2003, 472 pages – which translates as "The 
World’s Mastermind: the Hidden Face of Globalization") and 
"Bienvenidos a la Jungla: Dominio y Supervivencia en el Nuevo Orden 
Mundial" (Ediciones Anábasis, Córdoba, Argentina, 2005, 252 pags – 
translates as "Welcome to the Jungle: Domination and Survival in the 
New World Order)".   Please direct all inquiries to 
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Reproduction permitted if the source is cited.