Meet Robert Pastor: Father of the North American Union

Human Events Online ^ | Jul 25, 2006 | Jerome R. Corsi

[Teacher317]

in favor of supporting “ideological pluralism,”

Odd that liberals drop that ideal when looking to detroy the last vestiges of the nation's foundational libertarian (small government) philosophies.

[Kenny Bunk]

Dr. Jerome Corsi is not Santa Claus, and not even a really nice guy. And of course, his job is to sell his somewhat hysterically written, really scary books. Unfortunately, this bigoted, self-aggrandizing, right-wing kook-twerp happens to be right a whole lot of the time, in an incredibly awful way.

Deal wit it!

[calcowgirl]

It seems that Pastor, and SPP, are following along the same lines as Jean Monnet and the long road to creating the European Union. Many have compared Pastor to Monnet.
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“There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of prestige politics and economic protection (...). The countries of Europe are not strong enough individually to be able to guarantee prosperity and social development for their peoples. The States of Europe must therefore form a federation or a European entity that would make them into a common economic unit.”

--Jean Monnet, the “father of the European Community”, August 5, 1943


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http://www.historiasiglo20.org/europe/monnet.htm

“To create Europe is to create peace”

In 1950, in the face of rising international tensions, Jean Monnet felt that the time had come to attempt an irreversible step toward uniting the European countries. In his house in Houjarray, he and his team conceived the idea of the European Community. On 9 May 1950, with the agreement of Chancellor Adenauer, Robert Schuman made a declaration in the name of the French government. Prepared by Jean Monnet, this declaration proposed placing all the Franco-German production of steel and coal under a common High Authority open to the other countries of Europe. “Through the consolidation of basic production and the institution of a new High Authority, whose decisions will bind France, Germany and the other countries that join, this proposal represents the first concrete step towards a European federation, imperative for the preservation of peace,” declared Robert Schuman. Soon the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands replied favourably. Thus the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was born, laying the foundation of the European Community. In 1952, Jean Monnet became the first President of the High Authority.

[calcowgirl]

Here's some snips from one Barron's article I was reading about IPS:


For Socialist Alternatives
Barron's National Business and Financial Weekly, Aug 23, 1976
DAVID KELLEY

(snip)

Participatory democracy is also seen as a means of reaching collective decisions about the use of economic resources. As Raskin [IPS co-founder] put it, the goal is to "use the productive wealth of the society for the people in the best possible way. And the way you define the best way is through dialogue and through modes of community participation and organization, on the ward level, on the village level, on the city level."

That doesn't happen in Russia. Nor can it happen in any unit the size of a nation. Hence, for the New Left, the goal is a radically decentralized economy, in which everyone can literally come together-and participate.

However decentralized, the economic units in New Left ideology are not the individuals of capitalist theory, but communities. Indeed, the purpose of decentralization is precisely to make socialism work. As Alperovitz himself put it in a 1972 essay, the goal is to maintain "both the socialist vision and the decentralist ideal."

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Under the aegis of the Office of Economic Opportunity, the federal poverty program in the sixties spawned the concept of community development corporations (CDCs). These are private, non-profit organizations, often led by radicals; they are designed to provide economic services to members of a community, and in theory are open to all who wish to join. CDCs have received millions in aid from OEO and the Model Cities program.

IPS Fellow Milton Kotler suggested, in his Neighborhood Government (1969), that such corporations could expand their powers to the point at which they function as governments. In particular, he recommended that they be given the power to tax; to regulate business within the boundaries of the neighborhood they serve; and to acquire property by eminent domain. In this way, miniature socialist states could grow within the existing political structure.

[calcowgirl]

Here is a newer snip about Pastor with some other details:

http://www.miami.edu/eucenter/pastorfinal.pdf

Dr. Pastor is Vice President of International Affairs, Professor of International Relations, and Director of the Center for North American Studies at American University. He was National Security Advisor for Latin America (1977-81). From 1985-2002, Dr. Pastor was Professor at Emory University and Fellow and Founding Director of the Carter Center's Latin American and Caribbean Program and the Democracy Program. At the Carter Center, he founded and served as the Executive Secretary of the Council of Freely-Elected Heads of Government, a group of 32 leaders of the Americas, chaired by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Dr. Pastor has been a foreign policy advisor to each of the Democratic Presidential Candidates since 1976. President Bill Clinton nominated him to be Ambassador to Panama, and he served as the Senior Advisor to the Carter-Nunn-Powell Mission to restore constitutional government in Haiti in 1994. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University and an M.P.A. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including Toward a North American Community: Lessons from the Old World for the New (2001)and Exiting the Whirlpool: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Latin America and the Caribbean (2001). Dr. Pastor was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malaysia, a Fulbright Professor in Mexico, and a Visiting Professor at Harvard University.

[dennisw]

I'd like to know more about this little puke's family background? His parents ethnicity and whether they are Hispanic. As it is, my guess is he's Italian at least on his dad's side

[dennisw]

Dr. Jerome Corsi is not Santa Claus, and not even a really nice guy. And of course, his job is to sell his somewhat hysterically written, really scary books.

Such as this one?

[hummingbird]

IMO, this topic is going to be BIG in the coming months and years, and right now most people don't have a clue that it exists.

I agree...would you add me to your *ping* list? TIA!

[hedgetrimmer]

See post #60

[hedgetrimmer]

private, non-profit organizations, often led by radicals;

IPS Fellow Milton Kotler suggested, in his Neighborhood Government (1969), that such corporations could expand their powers to the point at which they function as governments. In particular, he recommended that they be given the power to tax; to regulate business within the boundaries of the neighborhood they serve; and to acquire property by eminent domain. In this way, miniature socialist states could grow within the existing political structure.

Deja vu California and Arnold's plan to reshape California government.

[texastoo]

Thanks for adding meto your ping list. I really don't like stars on a green flag. Sickening! The North American Union eagle is holding fig leaves and what?

[ovrtaxt]

Just so you know, Trupolitik is the pingmaster. I just cobbled the list together.

Hummingbird would like to be added to the list.

[texastoo]

I had never heard of "communitarian government" so I looked it up. Socialism bigtime. What galls me is that this is another George Washington University professor, Etzioni and the taxpayers are paying for this mess.

http://www.gwu.edu/~ccps/platformtext.html

I read most of the projects and activities. Diversity with unity.LOL! This nutball has probably never done a hard day's work in his life. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. The following is his discription on the CFR list.

http://www.geocities.com/benribqqq/cfr2005roster.html




Etzioni, Amitai (aka Werner Falk) – founder and director of The Communitarian Network; a Zionist terrorist

[calcowgirl]

Close! Born in NJ.
:-)

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Robert (Alan) Pastor
1947-

Nationality: American
Source: Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2001.
Entry Updated : 08/07/2001

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Family: Born April 10, 1947, in Newark, NJ; son of Norman and Ruth (Kagan) Pastor; married Margaret McNamara (a consultant), June 16, 1979; children: Tiffin Margaret.

Education:
Attended University of Birmingham, England, 1967-68; Lafayette College, B.A., 1969;
Harvard University, M.P.A., 1974, Ph.D., 1977.

Memberships: Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Alpha Theta.

Addresses:
Home: [OMIT] St. N.W., Washington, DC 20015.
Office: Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20036.

CAREER

Library of Congress, Washington, DC, research assistant in Foreign Affairs Division of Congressional Research Service, 1969;

U.S. Peace Corps, Washington, DC, volunteer adviser to Malaysian Department of Agriculture in Sarawak, 1970-72;

Harvard University, Cambridge, lecturer at Institute of Politics, 1974;

Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy (Murphy Commission), Washington, DC, consultant, 1974-75;

Commission on U.S. -Latin American Relations (Linowitz Commission), Washington, D.C., executive director, 1975-77;

National Security Council, Washington, DC, White House staff coordinator for Latin American and Caribbean affairs, 1977-81;

Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, guest scholar in foreign policy studies, 1981--.

Member of President Carter's foreign policy and defense task force, 1976.

(snip - remainder was listing of written works)

[La Enchiladita]

Viva Mexifornia! Viva!

[Trupolitik]

Corsi is an anti-Catholic clown who depends on suckers like you to buy his conspiracy nonsense.

Its nice to see that you are so well informed...Dr. Corsi IS Catholic.

[dennisw]

I'm going to be sick. This Pastor critter is Jewish. (So am I) I searched and could find nothing like this. Thanks!

[GiovannaNicoletta]

bookmark

[dennisw]

My county library has what they call "Biography Resource Center". I can access it from home with my library card ID. I just retrieved the same information you got and it was from "Contemporary Authors Online"

Thanks much. I'll remember this little trick. This Pastor biography is not found on the internet

[dennisw]

Corsi is an anti-Catholic clown who depends on suckers like you to buy his conspiracy nonsense.

Its nice to see that you are so well informed...Dr. Corsi IS Catholic.

Jerome Corsi was on Hannity and Colmes last night and said as much. Colmes tried to tar Corsi with the anti Catholic, anti Jewish remarks he made a few years ago on FR. I for one could care less if a man of his stature let off some steam here