Lesson 6 – Whose New World Order?
In the ‘Democracy and Freedom’ course we discuss some US led trade initiatives, investor dispute mechanisms, and the corporatisation of society. I encourage you to complete that Course. In the international context the most recent US led round of trade agreements is based on containing and countering Chinese economic influence. The Trans Pacific Partnership is an attempt to tie together the Asia Pacific to the exclusion of China. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership ties Europe to the US, and the North American Free Trade Agreement ties together the America’s.
In the prelude to the first war against Iraq in 1991 the President George Bush snr stated that the war would usher in a “New World Order”. The outlines of the World Order are now evident. They are:
- Sovereign States are not allowed to exist though non sovereign countries are
- Public ownership of natural resources or infrastructure is not allowed to occur
- A relative handful of the largest multinational companies own and control most of the world’s food production, mineral resources, media, financial services, and infrastructure[1]
- Everything else is expendable to this end including democracy, human rights, international law, and the environment
Against this, China and Russia seek to integrate the Eurasian land mass. China has seduced the Western globalists on the one hand and allied with Russia on the other.
The key power players in this game from the Western side are Western based multinational companies and financial firms. What happens if they, the true Western oligarchs, decide that there is more profit in a Chinese/Russian led global peace and trade initiative than in the current attempt to isolate and contain China and Russia? What if they switch loyalties?
The point everyone seems to have missed is that the new Chinese Century may in fact closely resemble the American one for the masses of the world’s population. If you are not a major shareholder it likely matters very little if your water and roads are owned by a US based or a Chinese based multinational. In either scenario democracy, the environment, human rights and economic sovereignty are expendable.
In that event, global corporate fascism[2] goes up a notch. The divisions within Western and most other societies become deeper. On the one hand you have people like Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin who still believe in economic sovereignty; in countries populated by a dominant ethnic group with a common language, culture and defined history. You have people who still believe in God.
On the other hand, you have internationalists such as George Soros and Hillary Clinton who do not believe in countries in the classical sense, who want a global polyglot, a mishmash of humanity with no defined borders and no restrictions on human movement, communication or trade; who openly oppose nation building concepts such as family, tradition, faith, and country. This agenda sits hand in glove with the corporate privatisation agenda which seeks to exploit a global workforce without limits to cross border investment or trade. Ironically the left and the corporate right share a common vision of a world without nations; a world populated by workers who are stripped of their ethnic, cultural, or even gender identity who are controlled by a small centralised elite.
If we avoid a nuclear exchange, it will be these two visions that will ultimately determine the future of humanity, and this will play out in the power struggle between the great powers. Today Russia and much of the ‘global south’ still holds the traditional view of nation, family, culture and faith. China, the Western liberal elites and Western globalists do not.
[1] It’s a small world at the top. See further here: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44864.htm
[2]As discussed previously in this course ‘fascism’ refers to the unity of State and corporate power.
