The Elite, the ‘Great Game’ and World War III
By Prof. Mujahid Kamran
URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25160
Global Research, June 7, 2011
The
control of the US, and of global politics, by the wealthiest families
of the planet is exercised in a powerful, profound and clandestine
manner. This control began in Europe and has a continuity that can be
traced back to the time when the bankers discovered it was more
profitable to give loans to governments than to needy individuals.
These
banking families and their subservient beneficiaries have come to own
most major businesses over the two centuries during which they have
secretly and increasingly organised themselves as controllers of
governments worldwide and as arbiters of war and peace.
Unless we
understand this we will be unable to understand the real reasons for the
two world wars and the impending Third World War, a war that is almost
certain to begin as a consequence of the US attempt to seize and control
Central Asia. The only way out is for the US to back off – something
the people of the US and the world want, but the elite does not.
The US is a
country controlled through the privately owned Federal Reserve, which
in turn is controlled by the handful of banking families that
established it by deception in the first place.
In his interesting book The Secret Team,
Col. Fletcher Prouty, briefing officer of the US President from
1955-63, narrates a remarkable incident in which Winston Churchill made a
most revealing utterance during World War II: “On this particular night
there had been a heavy raid on Rotterdam. He sat there, meditating, and
then, as if to himself, he said, ‘Unrestricted submarine warfare,
unrestricted air bombing – this is total war.’ He continued sitting
there, gazing at a large map, and then said, ‘Time and the Ocean and
some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are’.”
Prouty
further states: “This was a most memorable scene and a revelation of
reality that is infrequent, at best. If for the great Winston Churchill,
there is a ‘High Cabal’ that has made us what we are, our definition is
complete. Who could know better than Churchill himself during the
darkest days of World War II, that there exists, beyond doubt, an
international High Cabal? This was true then. It is true today,
especially in these times of the One World Order. This all-powerful
group has remained superior because it had learned the value of
anonymity.” This “High Cabal” is the “One World Cabal” of today, also
called the elite by various writers.
The High Cabal and What They Control
The elite owns the media, banks, defence and oil industry. In his book Who’s Who of the Elite Robert
Gaylon Ross Sr. states: “It is my opinion that they own the US
military, NATO, the Secret Service, the CIA, the Supreme Court, and many
of the lower courts. They appear to control, either directly or
indirectly, most of the state, county, and local law enforcement
agencies.”
The elite
is intent on conquering the world through the use of the abilities of
the people of the United States. It was as far back as 1774 that Amschel
Mayer Rothschild stated at a gathering of the twelve richest men of
Prussia in Frankfurt: “Wars should be directed so that the nations on
both sides should be further in our debt.” He further enunciated at the
same meeting: “Panics and financial depressions would ultimately result
in World Government, a new order of one world government.”
The elite
owns numerous “think tanks” that work for expanding, consolidating and
perpetuating its hold on the globe. The Royal Institute of International
Affairs (RIIA), the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Bilderberg
Group, the Trilateral Commission, and many other similar organisations
are all funded by the elite and work for it. These think tanks publish
journals, such as Foreign Affairs,
in which these imperialist and anti-mankind ideas are edified as
publications, and then, if need be, expanded in the form of books that
are given wide publicity.
Zbigniew
Brzezinski and Henry Kissinger et al, as well as the neo-con “thinkers,”
owe their positions and good living standards to the largesse of the
elite. This is an important point that must be kept in full view at all
times. These thinkers and writers are on the payroll of the elite and
work for them. In case someone has any doubts about such a statement, it
might help to read the following quotes from Professor Peter Dale
Scott’s comprehensively researched book The Road to 9/11 – Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America (University of California Press, 2007):
...Bundy’s
Harvard protégé Kissinger was named to be national security adviser
after having chaired an important “study group” at the Council on
Foreign Relations. As a former assistant to Nelson Rockefeller,
Kissinger had been paid by Rockefeller to write a book on limited
warfare for the CFR. He had also campaigned hard in Rockefeller’s losing
campaign for the Presidential nomination in 1968. Thus Rockefeller and
the CFR might have been excluded from control of the Republican Party,
but not from the Republican White House. (Page 22)
The following quote from page 38 of the book is also very revealing:
The
Kissinger-Rockefeller relationship was complex and certainly intense.
As investigative reporter Jim Hougan wrote: “Kissinger, married to a
former Rockefeller aide, owner of a Georgetown mansion whose purchase
was enabled only by Rockefeller gifts and loans, was always a protégé of
his patron Nelson Rockefeller, even when he wasn’t directly employed by
him.”
Professor Scott adds:
Nixon’s
and Kissinger’s arrival in the White House in 1969 coincided with David
Rockefeller’s becoming CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank. The Nixon-Kissinger
foreign policy of detente was highly congruous with Rockefeller’s push
to internationalise Chase Manhattan banking operations. Thus in 1973
Chase Manhattan became the first American bank to open an office in
Moscow. A few months later, thanks to an invitation arranged by
Kissinger, Rockefeller became the first US banker to talk with Chinese
Communist leaders in Beijing.
How They Manipulate Public Opinion
In addition
to these strategic “think tanks” the elite has set up a chain of
research institutes devoted to manipulating public opinion in a manner
the elite desires. As pointed out by John Coleman in his eye opening
book The Tavistock Institute on Human Relations – Shaping the Moral, Spiritual, Cultural, Political and Economic Decline of the United States of America,
it was in 1913 that an institute was established at Wellington House,
London for manipulation of public opinion. According to Coleman:
The
modern science of mass manipulation was born at Wellington House
London, the lusty infant being midwifed by Lord Northcliffe and Lord
Rothmere. The British monarchy, Lord Rothschild, and the Rockefellers
were responsible for funding the venture... the purpose of those at
Wellington House was to effect a change in the opinions of British
people who were adamantly opposed to war with Germany, a formidable task
that was accomplished by “opinion making” through polling. The staff
consisted of Arnold Toynbee, a future director of studies at the Royal
Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), Lord Northcliffe, and the
Americans, Walter Lippmann and Edward Bernays. Lord Northcliffe was
related to the Rothschilds through marriage.
Bernays was a nephew of Sigmund Freud, a fact never mentioned, and developed the technique of “engineering consent.” When
Sigmund Freud moved to Britain he also, secretly, became associated
with this institute through the Tavistock Institute. According to
Coleman, Bernays “pioneered the use of psychology and other social
sciences to shape and form public opinion so that the public thought
such manufactured opinions were their own.”
The
Tavistock Institute has a 6 billion dollar fund and 400 subsidiary
organisations are under its control along with 3,000 think tanks, mostly
in the USA. The Stanford Research Institute, the Hoover Institute, the
Aspen Institute of Colorado, and many others, devoted to manipulation of
US as well as global public opinion, are Tavistock offshoots. This
helps explain why the US public, by and large, is so mesmerised as to be
unable to see things clearly and to react.
Bilderberg researcher Daniel Estulin quotes from Mary Scobey’s book To Nurture Humanness a
statement attributed to Professor Raymond Houghton, that the CFR has
been clear for a very long time that “absolute behaviour control is
imminent... without mankind’s self realisation that a crisis is at
hand.”
Also keep
in mind that currently 80% of US electronic and print media is owned by
only six large corporations. This development has taken place in the
past two decades. These corporations are elite owned. It is almost
impossible for anyone who is acquainted with what is going on at the
global level to watch, even for a few minutes, the distortions, lies and
fabrications, incessantly pouring out of this media, a propaganda and
brainwashing organ of the elite.
Once your
picture is clear it is also easy to notice the criminal silence of the
media on crimes being perpetrated against humanity at the behest of the
elite. How many people know that the cancer rates in Fallujah, Iraq are higher than
those in Hiroshima and Nagasaki because of the use of depleted uranium,
and maybe other secret nuclear devices, by US forces? Fallujah was
punished for its heroic resistance against the American forces.
The Importance of Eurasia
Why is the
US in Central Asia? In order to understand this, one has to look at the
writings of the stooges of the elite – Brzezinski, Kissinger, Samuel P
Huntington, and their likes. It is important to note that members of
these elite paid think tanks publish books as part of a strategy to give
respectability to subsequent illegal, immoral and predatory actions
that are to be taken at the behest of the elite. The views are not
necessarily their own – they are the views of the think tanks. These
stooges formulate and pronounce policies and plans at the behest of
their masters, through bodies like the Council on Foreign Relations,
Bilderberg Group, etc.
In his infinitely arrogant book The Grand Chessboard,
published in 1997, Brzezinski spelled out the philosophy behind the
current US military eruption. He starts by quoting the well-known views
of the British geographer Sir Halford J Mackinder (1861–1947), another
worker for the elite. Mackinder was a member of the ‘Coefficients Dining
Club’ established by members of the Fabian Society in 1902. The
continuity of the policies of the elite is indicated by the fact
Brzezinski starts from Mackinder’s thesis first propounded in 1904: “Who
rules East Europe commands the Heartland: Who rules the Heartland
commands the World-Island: who commands the World-Island commands the
world.”
Brzezinski
argues that for the first time in human history a non-Eurasian power has
become preeminent and it must hold sway over the Eurasian continent if
it is to remain the preeminent global power: “For America the chief
geopolitical prize is Eurasia... About 75 percent of the world’s people
live in Eurasia... Eurasia accounts for about 60 percent of the world’s
GNP and about three fourths of the world’s known energy resources.”
It is not
just the geostrategic location of this region – it is also its wealth,
“both in its enterprises and beneath its soil,” that holds such
attraction for the elite whose greed for money, and lust for power,
remain insatiable, as if there was a sickness afflicting it.
Brzezinski
writes: “But it is on the globe’s most important playing field – Eurasia
– that a potential rival to America might at some point arise. This
focusing on the key players and properly assessing the terrain has to be
a point of departure for the formulation of American geostrategy for
the long-term management of America’s Eurasian geopolitical interests.”
These lines
were published in 1997. Millions of people have died in the past two
decades and millions have been rendered homeless in this region but it
remains a “playing” field for Brzezinski and his likes! In his book
Brzezinski has drawn two very interesting maps – one of these has the
caption The Global Zone of Percolating Violence (page 53) and the other (page 124) is captioned The Eurasian Balkans.
The first of these encircles a region which includes the following
countries: Sudan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, all
Central Asian states, Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of Russia as well
as India. The second one has two circles, an inner circle and a wider
circle – the outer circle encloses the same countries as in the first
map but the inner circle covers Iran, Afghanistan, eastern Turkey and
the former Soviet Republics in Central Asia.
“This huge
region, torn by volatile hatreds and surrounded by competing powerful
neighbours, is likely to be a major battlefield...” writes Brzezinski.
He further writes: “A possible challenge to American primacy from
Islamic fundamentalism could be part of the problem of this unstable
region.” These lines were written at a time when this kind of
fundamentalism was not a problem – subsequently the US manipulated
things and chose to make it one by its provocative and deceptive
tactics. According to its strategic thinkers, the US might face a
serious challenge from a coalition of China, Russia and Iran and must do
whatever it can to prevent such a coalition from forming.
For
Brzezinski, “terrorism” – a Tavistock-type concept – is just a well
planned and well thought out strategy, a lie and a deception, to provide
cover for a military presence in the Central Eurasian region and
elsewhere. It is being used to keep the US public in a state of fear, to
keep Russia in a state of insecurity about further breakup (the US has
trained and supported Chechen fighters, “terrorists,” throughout) and to
justify presence of US troops in and around Central Asia.
The Concocted War on Terrorism
Terrorism provides justification for transforming the United States into a police state. According to the Washington Post of
20 & 21 December 2010, the US now has 4,058 anti-terrorism
organisations! These are certainly not meant for those so-called
terrorists who operate in Central Asia – the number far exceeds the
number of so-called terrorists in the entire world. Unbridled domestic
spying by US agencies is now a fact of life and the US public, as
always, has accepted this because of the collusion of media and
Tavistock type institutes owned by the elite.
The US
historian Howard Zinn puts it very well: “The so-called war on terrorism
is not only a war against innocent people in other countries, but also a
war on the people of the United States: a war on our liberties, a war
on our standard of living. The wealth of the country is being stolen
from the people and handed over to the superrich. The lives of our young
are being stolen. And the thieves are in the White House.” Actually the
thieves control the White House and have been doing so for a very long
time.
In his outstanding book Crossing the Rubicon,
Michael Ruppert points out that much of the violence in the Central
Asian region as well as in Pakistan, which has been encircled in two
maps in Brzezinski’s book, was “initiated by the US proxies.” “Given
that these maps were published a full four years before the first plane
hit the World Trade Centre, they would fall in a category of evidence I
learned about at LAPD [Los Angeles Police Department]. We called them
‘clues’.” This means that the eruption of US militarism after 9/11, and
the event itself, were part of a pre-planned and coherent strategy of
global domination in which the people of the US were also “conquered”
through totalitarian legislation carried out in the wake of 9/11.
As Brzezinski puts it:
America
is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits the use
of America’s power, especially its capacity for military intimidation.
Never before has a popular democracy attained international supremacy.
But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion,
except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public’s
sense of domestic well-being... The economic self-denial (that is,
defence spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties even among
professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to
democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilisation.
Certainly
post 9/11 legislation, the extraordinary expansion of agencies and
surveillance of the US public is a cause of great satisfaction for the
elite – the US can hardly be called a democracy now. As reported by the Washington Post,
the National Security Agency intercepts over 1.7 billion emails, phone
calls and other communications every day and stores them. No wonder Bush
called 9/11 “a great opportunity” and Rumsfeld saw it analogous to
World War II to “refashion the world.”
In order to
achieve the objectives of the elite, the US destroyed Yugoslavia while
Russia stood by mesmerised and impotent, carried out regime changes in
Central Asia, set up military bases in East Europe and Central Asia, and
staged highly provocative military exercises testing Russia’s and
China’s will. It set up a military base in Kyrgyzstan that has a 500
mile or so border with China. When the Chinese protested recent naval
exercises with South Korea were too close to Chinese territory, a US
spokesman responded: “Those determinations are made by us, and us
alone... Where we exercise, when we exercise, with whom and how, with
what assets and so forth are determinations that are made by the United
States Navy, by the Department of Defence, by the United States
government.” As journalist Rick Rozoff notes: “There is no way such
confrontational, arrogant and vulgar language was not understood at its
proper value in Beijing.”
The US has
acquired bases in Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, and the Czech Republic –
and set up the largest military base ever built in the region, Camp
Bondsteel, in Kosovo. According to a report in the Russian Kommersant newspaper
on 3 March 2011, a four-phase plan for deployment of a US missile
system in Europe is to be fully implemented by the end of 2020. The US
is also busy setting up bilateral military ties in Russia’s backyard
with Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and is pursuing
the goal of a “Greater Central Asia” from Afghanistan right up to the
Middle East, a great corridor from where the oil, gas, and great mineral
wealth of this region will flow to the coffers of the US elite, at
bloody expense to the local people.
As remarked
by the Indian career diplomat M.K. Bhadrakumar: “The time is not far
off before they begin to sense that ‘the war on terror’ is providing a
convenient rubric under which the US is incrementally securing for
itself a permanent abode in the highlands of Hindu Kush, the Pamirs,
Central Asian steppes and the Caucasus that form the strategic hub
overlooking Russia, China, India and Iran.” The scene for a great war
involving the great powers of the time – US, Russia and China – is now
set, by design of the elite. It is just a matter of time.
Time and
again the US elite has taken its good people into great wars through
documented and proven deceptions – the sinking of the Lusitania during
World War I, Pearl Harbour in World War II, and so on. The elite
considers us “human garbage” – a term first used by the French in
Indo-China. It is also generating a good deal of “human garbage” in the
US. A World Bank report points out that in 2005, 28 million Americans
were “insecure” – in 2007 the number had risen to 46 million! One in
every five Americans is faced with the possibility of becoming
“destitute” – 38 million people receive food coupons!
Michael Ruppert laments:
My
country is dead. Its people have surrendered to tyranny and in so
doing, they have become tyranny’s primary support group; its base; its
defender. Every day they offer their endorsement of tyranny by banking
in its banks and spending their borrowed money with the corporations
that run it. The great Neocon strategy of George H.W. Bush has
triumphed. Convince the America people that they can’t live without the
‘good things’, then sit back and watch as they endorse the progressively
more outrageous crimes you commit as you throw them bones with ever
less meat on them. All the while lock them into debt. Destroy the middle
class, the only political base that need be feared. Make them accept,
because of their shared guilt, ever-more repressive police state
measures. Do whatever you want.
A global
economic system erected on inhuman and predatory values, where a few
possess more wealth than the billions of hungry put together, will end,
but the end will be painful and bloody. It is a system in which the
elite thrives on war and widespread human misery, on death and
destruction by design. As Einstein said, “I do not know how the Third
World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the
Fourth – sticks and stones!”
Prof. Mujahid Kamran is Vice Chancellor, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, and his book The Grand Deception – Corporate America and Perpetual War has just been published (April 2011) by Sang e Meel Publications, Lahore, Pakistan.
