[robowombat]

Interesting that this originated on Salon.

[beethovenfan]

Daniel’s 70th week is coming. Things will get much worse before they get better. I don’t plan to be around for the fun.

[Jack Hydrazine]

It’s the Nazification of America and the world!

[campaignPete R-CT]

where the salon article?

[GraceG]

I used to think people warning for the NWO were crazies...

Sadly they are being proven right day after day after day...

[kabumpo]

The Basil accord? Did he mean Basle?

[bmwcyle]

But them they point to the wrong villains.

[Disambiguator]

Stoller introduces Salon readers to Clarence Streit, a Rhodes Scholar-turned elite journalist who, in 1939, published an influential but now scarcely-remembered tome, Union Now: A Proposal for an Atlantic Federal Union of the Free. In his book, Streit proposed to federate the United States, Canada, the “freedom-loving” nations of Europe, and other English-speaking countries like Australia and New Zealand under an international government designed along the lines of the U.S. government.

I'm sure the protection of the Bill of Rights, including the Second Amendment, would then be extended to all these other countries.

(Do I really need a /sarc tag?)

[Noumenon]

The ultimate motivation behind the program was and remains greater and greater power, pure and simple — power for a small cadre of vain, self-serving elites who are convinced they can abolish all the ills of this fallen world if only they can wrest enough power from the wretched and ignorant masses to achieve their objectives.

Monsters. All of them. The real goal is as Orwell's O'Brien had it: torture for the sake of torture. Slaughter for the sake of slaughter. A boot in a human face forever.

[Bratch]

[2ndDivisionVet]

Anyone who has been near the upper reaches of the military, finance, academia, government bureaucracy, NGOs or elsewhere for the last 50 years could’ve told you as much. I was a spear-carrier under Presidents Carter and Reagan and I know more than the author will probably ever know. It is a fait accompli and has been for decades.

[Justa]

“... power for a small cadre of vain, self-serving elites who are convinced they can abolish all the ills of this fallen world if only they can wrest enough power from the wretched and ignorant masses to achieve their objectives.”

Umm, isn’t this the practical objective of ‘communist’ regimes everywhere?

[PghBaldy]

It may or may not have been about anti-communism at one time, but the opposite is the inevitable result it seems.