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! ==Alleged conspirators== According to Domhoff, many people seem to believe that the United States is [[cryptocracy|ruled from behind the scenes]] by a [[cabal|conspiratorial elite]] with secret desires, i.e., by a small, secretive group that wants to change the government system or put the country under the control of a [[world government]]. In the past, the conspirators were usually said to be [[crypto-communism|crypto-communists]] who were intent upon bringing the [[United States]] under a common world government with the Soviet Union, but the [[History of the Soviet Union (1985–1991)#Dissolution of the USSR|dissolution of the USSR]] in 1991 undercut that theory. Domhoff notes that most conspiracy theorists changed their focus to the [[United Nations]] as the likely controlling force in a New World Order, an idea which is undermined by the powerlessness of the U.N. and the unwillingness of even moderates within the American [[The Establishment|Establishment]] to give it anything but a limited role.<ref name="Domhoff 2005"/> Although skeptical of New World Order conspiracism, political scientist [[David Rothkopf]] argues, in the 2008 book ''[[Superclass (book)|Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making]]'', that the world population of 6 billion people is governed by an elite of 6,000 individuals. Until the late 20th century, governments of the [[great power]]s provided most of the superclass, accompanied by a few heads of international movements (i.e., the [[Pope]] of the [[Catholic Church]]) and entrepreneurs ([[Rothschild family|Rothschilds]], [[Rockefeller family|Rockefellers]]). According to Rothkopf, in the early 21st century, economic clout—fueled by the explosive expansion of international trade, travel, and communication—rules; the [[nation-state]]'s power has diminished shrinking politicians to minority [[power broker (term)|power broker]] status; leaders in international business, finance, and the defense industry not only dominate the superclass, but they also move freely into high positions in their nations' governments and back to private life largely beyond the notice of elected legislatures (including the U.S. Congress), which remain abysmally ignorant of affairs beyond their borders. He asserts that the superclass' disproportionate influence over national policy is constructive but always self-interested and that across the world, few object to corruption and oppressive governments provided they can do business in these countries.<ref>{{cite book|author=Rothkopf, David J.|title=Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|date=2008|isbn=978-0-374-27210-4}}</ref> Viewing the history of the world as the history of warfare between [[secret society|secret societies]], conspiracy theorists go further than Rothkopf, and other scholars who have studied the global [[power elite]], by claiming that established upper-class families with "[[old money]]" who founded and finance the [[Bilderberg Group]], [[Bohemian Club]], [[Club of Rome]], [[Council on Foreign Relations]], [[Rhodes House#The Rhodes Trust|Rhodes Trust]], [[Skull and Bones]], [[Trilateral Commission]], and similar think tanks and private clubs, are [[Illuminati|illuminated]] conspirators plotting to impose a [[totalitarianism|totalitarian]] New World Order—the implementation of an [[authoritarianism|authoritarian]] world government controlled by the United Nations and a [[Bank for International Settlements|global central bank]], which maintains political power through the [[finance capitalism|financialization of the economy]], regulation and restriction of [[freedom of speech|speech]] through the [[concentration of media ownership]], [[mass surveillance]], widespread use of [[state terrorism]], and an all-encompassing [[propaganda]] that creates a [[cult of personality]] around a puppet world leader and [[ideology|ideologizes]] world government as the [[Philosophy of history#Social evolutionism|culmination of history's progress]].<ref name="Barkun 2003"/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page