New World Order (conspiracy theory) Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Round Table=== During the second half of [[Britain's Imperial Century|Britain's "imperial century" between 1815 and 1914]], English-born South African businessman, mining magnate, and politician [[Cecil Rhodes]] advocated the [[British Empire]] reannexing the United States of America and reforming itself into an "[[Imperial Federation]]" to bring about a hyperpower and lasting [[world peace]]. In his first will, written in 1877 at the age of 23, he expressed his wish to fund a [[secret society]] (known as the [[Society of the Elect]]) that would advance this goal: {{quotation|To and for the establishment, promotion and development of a Secret Society, the true aim and object whereof shall be for the extension of British rule throughout the world, the perfecting of a system of emigration from the United Kingdom, and of colonisation by British subjects of all lands where the means of livelihood are attainable by energy, labour and enterprise, and especially the occupation by British settlers of the entire Continent of Africa, the Holy Land, the Valley of the Euphrates, the Islands of Cyprus and Candia [Crete], the whole of South America, the Islands of the Pacific not heretofore possessed by Great Britain, the whole of the Malay Archipelago, the seaboard of China and Japan, the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British Empire, the inauguration of a system of Colonial representation in the Imperial Parliament which may tend to weld together the disjointed members of the Empire and, finally, the foundation of so great a Power as to render wars impossible, and promote the best interests of humanity.<ref name="Flint 1976"/>}} [[File:Cecil_Rhodes_ww.jpg|thumb|upright|Magnate and colonist [[Cecil Rhodes]] advocated a secret society which would make Britain control the Earth.]] In 1890, thirteen years after "his now-famous will," Rhodes elaborated on the same idea: establishment of "England everywhere," which would "ultimately lead to the cessation of all wars, and one language throughout the world." "The only thing feasible to carry out this idea is a secret society gradually absorbing the wealth of the world ["and human minds of the higher-order"] to be devoted to such an object."<ref>{{cite news| url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1902/04/09/101945773.pdf | work=The New York Times | title=MR. RHODES'S IDEAL OF ANGLO-SAXON GREATNESS; Statement of His Aims, Written for W.T. Stead In 1890. He Believed a Wealthy Secret Society Should Work to Secure the World's Peace and a British-American Federation | date=9 April 1902}}</ref> Rhodes also concentrated on the [[Rhodes Scholarship]], which had British statesman [[Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner|Alfred Milner]] as one of its trustees. Established in 1902, the original goal of the trust fund was to foster peace among the [[great powers]] by creating a sense of fraternity and a shared world view among future British, American, and German leaders by having enabled them to study for free at the [[University of Oxford]].<ref name="Flint 1976">{{cite book|author=Flint, John E.|title=Cecil Rhodes|publisher=Little Brown & Company |edition=1st |date=1976|isbn=0-316-28630-3}}</ref> Milner and British official [[Lionel George Curtis]] were the architects of the [[Round Table movement]], a network of organizations promoting closer union between Britain and its [[Self-governing colony|self-governing colonies]]. To this end, Curtis founded the [[Royal Institute of International Affairs]] in June 1919 and, with his 1938 book ''The Commonwealth of God'', began advocating for the creation of an imperial federation that eventually reannexes the U.S., which would be presented to [[Protestant churches]] as being the work of the [[God in Christianity|Christian God]] to elicit their support.<ref>Curtis, Lionel. ''Civitas Dei: The Commonwealth of God'' London (1938). MacMillan & Sons</ref> The [[Commonwealth of Nations]] was created in 1949, but it would only be a free association of independent states rather than the powerful imperial federation imagined by Rhodes, Milner, and Curtis. The [[Council on Foreign Relations]] began in 1917 with a group of New York academics who were asked by President [[Woodrow Wilson]] to offer options for the [[foreign policy of the United States]] in the [[interwar period]]. Originally envisioned as a group of American and British scholars and diplomats, some of whom belonging to the Round Table movement, it was a subsequent group of 108 New York financiers, manufacturers, and international lawyers organized in June 1918 by Nobel Peace Prize recipient and U.S. secretary of state [[Elihu Root]], that became the Council on Foreign Relations on 29 July 1921. The first of the council's projects was a quarterly journal launched in September 1922, called ''[[Foreign Affairs]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cfr.org/about/history/cfr/index.html|title=About CFR|website=Council on Foreign Relations}}</ref> The [[Trilateral Commission]] was founded in July 1973, at the initiative of American banker [[David Rockefeller]], who was chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations at that time. It is a private organization established to foster closer cooperation among the United States, Europe, and Japan. The Trilateral Commission is widely seen as a counterpart to the Council on Foreign Relations. In the 1960s, [[Right-wing populism|right-wing populist]] individuals and groups with a [[paleoconservatism|paleoconservative]] worldview, such as members of the [[John Birch Society]], were the first to combine and spread a [[business nationalism|business nationalist]] critique of [[neoliberalism|corporate internationalists]] networked through think tanks such as the Council on Foreign Relations with a grand conspiracy theory casting them as [[front organization]]s for the Round Table of the "Anglo-American [[the Establishment|Establishment]]", which are financed by an "international banking cabal" that has supposedly been plotting from the late 19th century on to impose an [[oligarchy|oligarchic]] new world order through a [[global financial system]]. Anti-[[globalism|globalist]] conspiracy theorists therefore fear that international bankers are planning to eventually subvert the independence of the U.S. by subordinating national [[sovereignty]] to a strengthened [[Bank for International Settlements]].<ref name="Scienta Press">{{cite web|author=Scienta Press staff|title=Carroll Quigley: Theorist of Civilizations|date=20 December 2011 |url=http://www.scientiapress.com/carroll-quigley}}</ref> The research findings of historian [[Carroll Quigley]], author of the 1966 book ''[[Tragedy and Hope]]'', are taken by both conspiracy theorists of the American [[Old Right (United States)|Old Right]] ([[W. Cleon Skousen]]) and [[New Left]] ([[Carl Oglesby]]) to substantiate this view, even though Quigley argued that the Establishment is not involved in a plot to implement a one-world government but rather [[British imperialism|British]] and [[American imperialism|American]] [[benevolent imperialism]] driven by the mutual interests of economic elites in the United Kingdom and the United States. Quigley also argued that, although the [[Round Table movement#Current organization and membership|Round Table still exists today]], its position in influencing the policies of world leaders has been much reduced from its heyday during [[World War I]] and slowly waned after the end of [[World War II]] and the [[Suez Crisis]]. Today the Round Table is largely a [[ginger group]], designed to consider and gradually influence the policies of the [[Commonwealth of Nations]], but faces strong opposition. Furthermore, in American society after 1965, the problem, according to Quigley, was that no elite was in charge and acting responsibly.<ref name="Scienta Press"/> [[Larry McDonald]], the second president of the [[John Birch Society]] and a [[conservative Democrat]]ic member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] who represented the 7th congressional district of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], wrote a foreword for [[Gary Allen|Allen]]'s 1976 book ''The Rockefeller File'', wherein he claimed that the Rockefellers and their allies were driven by a desire to create a one-world government that combined "super-[[capitalism]]" with [[communism]] and would be fully under their control. He saw a conspiracy plot that was "international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent."<ref>McDonald, Lawrence P. Introduction. [http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/gary_allen_rocker/ ''The Rockefeller File'']. By [[Gary Allen]]. Seal Beach, CA: '76 Press, 1976. {{ISBN|0-89245-001-0}}.</ref> In his 2002 autobiography ''Memoirs'', David Rockefeller wrote: {{quotation|For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents ... to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure—one world if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.<ref name="Rockefeller 1999">{{cite book|author=Rockefeller, David|title=Memoirs|publisher=Random House|date=2002|isbn=0-679-40588-7|author-link=David Rockefeller|url=https://archive.org/details/davidrockefeller00davi}}</ref>}} Barkun argues that this statement is partly facetious (the claim of "conspiracy" and "[[treason]]") and partly serious—the desire to encourage trilateral cooperation among the U.S., Europe, and Japan;{{citation needed|date=November 2021}} for example — an ideal that used to be a hallmark of the [[neoliberalism|internationalist]] wing of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] (known as "[[Rockefeller Republican]]s" in honor of [[Nelson Rockefeller]]) when there was an internationalist wing.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}} The statement, however, is taken at face value{{by whom|date=November 2021}} and widely cited by conspiracy theorists as proof that the Council on Foreign Relations uses its role as the [[brain trust]] of American presidents, senators and representatives to manipulate them into supporting a New World Order in the form of a one-world government.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}} In a 13 November 2007 interview with Canadian journalist Benjamin Fulford, Rockefeller countered that he felt no need for a world government and wished for the world's governments to work together and collaborate. He also stated that it seemed neither likely nor desirable to have only one elected government rule worldwide. He criticized accusations of him being "ruler of the world" as nonsensical.<ref name="Fulford 2007">{{cite video|author=Fulford, Benjamin|url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3704527408635856046 |title=Benjamin Fulford interviews David Rockefeller |date=2007}}</ref> Some American [[social criticism|social critics]], such as Laurence H. Shoup, argue that the Council on Foreign Relations is an "[[American imperialism#Marxist–Leninist|imperial]] brain trust" which has, for decades, played a central behind-the-scenes role in shaping U.S. foreign policy choices for the post-World War II international order and the [[Cold War]] by determining what options show up on the [[political agenda|agenda]] and what options do not even make it to the table;<ref name="Shoup & Minter 2004">{{cite book|author=Shoup, Laurence H.|author2=Minter, William|title=Imperial Brain Trust: The Council on Foreign Relations and United States Foreign Policy|publisher=Authors Choice Press|date=2004|isbn=0-595-32426-6}}</ref> others, such as [[G. William Domhoff]], argue that it is in fact a mere policy discussion forum<ref name="Domhoff 2005">{{cite web|last=Domhoff|first=G. William|author-link=G. William Domhoff|title=There Are No Conspiracies|date=2005|url=http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/theory/conspiracy.html|access-date=30 January 2009}}</ref> which provides the business [[Council on Foreign Relations#Influence on foreign policy|input to U.S. foreign policy]] planning.{{citation needed|date=August 2013}} Domhoff argues that "[i]t has nearly 3,000 members, far too many for secret plans to be kept within the group. All the council does is sponsor discussion groups, debates, and speakers. As far as being secretive, it issues annual reports and allows access to its historical archives." However, all these critics agree{{citation needed|date=January 2016}} that "[h]istorical studies of the CFR show that it has a very different role in the overall power structure than what is claimed by conspiracy theorists."<ref name="Domhoff 2005"/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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