NEW WORLD ORDER
ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF
THE RISE OF GLOBALIZATION
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (left) and Anne-Marie Slaughter smile for the camera. Anne-Marie Slaughter, the author of A New
World Order, is President Barack Obama’s State Department Director of Policy Planning Staff, a former Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School
of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a former member of the Trilateral Commission. Condoleezza Rice is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission.
International Monetary Fund Managing (IMF) Director Rodrigo de Rato (left) embraces outgoing World Bank President James Wolfensohn at the conclusion of the Development Committee Press Conference at International Monetary Fund Headquarters during the 2005 World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings on April 17, 2005 in Washington, D.C. Both James Wolfensohn and Rodrigo de Rato attended the Bilderberg Meetings together in 1994 and 2005. (Photo: International Monetary Fund)
Henry Kissinger (sunglasses) talks to Marie-Josee Kravis (third from right) and Henry R. Kravis (second from right) while PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi (left) talks to Donald E. Graham, the Chairman of the Washington Post, at the 2004 Bilderberg Meetings in Stresa, Italy in June 2004. (Photo: Daniel Estulin)
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown gives a press briefing at the end of London Summit at the Excel Centre in London on April 2, 2009. (Photo: Richard Lewis/ Newsteam.co.uk)
“This is collective action, people working together at their best. I think the new world order is emerging,
and with it the foundations of a new and progressive era of international cooperation. We have resolved that
from today we will together manage the process of globalization, to secure responsibility from all and
fairness to all. And we have agreed that in doing so, we will build a more sustainable and more open and a
fairer global society.”
U.S. President Barack Obama (R) greets Dominique Strauss-Kahn (L), Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, for the G-20 official dinner at the Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. on September 24, 2009. Dominique Strauss-Kahn attended the 2000 Bilderberg Meetings in Brussels, Belgium in June 2000.
(International Monetary Fund Photograph/Stephen Jaffe)
“The president-elect [Barack Obama] is coming into office at a moment when there is upheaval in many parts of the world
simultaneously. You have India, Pakistan; you have the jihadist movement. So he [Obama] can't really say there is one problem,
that it's the most important one. But he can give new impetus to American foreign policy partly because the reception of him is
so extraordinary around the world. His task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period when, really, a new
world order can be created. It’s a great opportunity, it isn’t just a crisis.”
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan (center) meets with the President of the European Central Bank Jean-Claude Trichet (right) and Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King at the beginning of the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors' meeting in Berlin on November 19, 2004. All three men have attended the Bilderberg Meetings at least once. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
The National Debt Clock on display in New York City on February 1, 2010. According to the National Debt Clock, the United States of America is over $12 trillion in debt. President Barack Obama sent Congress a $3.83 trillion budget on February 1, 2010 that would pour more money into the fight against high unemployment, boost taxes on the wealthy, and freeze spending for a wide swath of government programs. The deficit for this year would surge to a record-breaking $1.56 trillion. (AP Photo)
Sir Alan Greenspan (left) and Paul Volcker (right) share a laugh while participating in a panel discussion on capital markets at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. on March 13, 2007. Sir Alan Greenspan was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006. Paul Volcker was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987. Sir Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker are members of the Council on Foreign Relations. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
A train passes by tents at a homeless tent city in Sacramento, California on March 23, 2009. Displaced American citizens living in “tent city” face unemployment and homelessness due to the economic recession created by the banking policies of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Federal Reserve, and various international banks in New York City. (Getty Images)
President George W. Bush (2nd R) laughs with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke (R), Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson (C), Chairman of the SEC Christopher Cox (2nd L) and others during a meeting with the President's Working Group on Financial Markets at the White House on March 17, 2008. (AFP/Getty Images)
William P. Litynski
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
I served in the U.S. Army from 2001 to 2004 as a soldier in the First Armored Division in Germany (1-1 CAV, Budingen); I was deployed to Iraq (near Baghdad) from April 2003 to July 2004. I have traveled to many cities and places, including Tokyo, London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Milan, Venice,
Luxembourg City, Boston, Philadelphia, New York City, Washington D.C., Baltimore, Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Denver, Dallas, New Haven (Connecticut), Yale University, Harvard University, Princeton University, Columbia University, Buckingham Palace, British Parliament, Reichstag, Grand Canyon, Swiss Alps, and the Rhine River valley. I reside in Pensacola, Florida and lived in Crestview, Florida for several years.
Soviet Commissar Mikhail Gorbachev (left), President George H.W. Bush (center), and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan (right) appear in a receiving line at a state dinner in Washington, D.C. on May 31, 1990. This photo appears in the book The Age of Turbulence:
Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan. (Photo: George H.W. Bush Presidential Library)
From Russia With Love: President Barack Obama meets with Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet Union, in Gostinny Dvor, Russia on Tuesday, July 7, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates (left), former Secretary of State James A. Baker III (second from left), and former President George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara greet President Barack Obama as he arrives in College Station, Texas on October 16, 2009, prior to attending the Points of Light Foundation forum held at Texas A&M University.
(U.S. Department of Defense photo by U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison)
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“We stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it
is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these
troubled times, our fifth objective – a new world order – can emerge: a new era – freer from the
threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace.”
– President George H.W. Bush, in a speech to the U.S. Congress on September 11, 1990
“By the end of 1988, I had formed a comprehensive concept of a proper world order and a view of
how to achieve it, as well as the contribution our great country could make to progress in this
direction. The United Nations General Assembly seemed to me the appropriate forum for presenting
these views. Since they reflected not only my personal assessment of the international situation but
also the interests of a great nation, they could become an important factor in the process of shaping a
new international consciousness…I dwelt on the question of international law, which was to play a
significant role in the new world order.”
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Red China’s Minister of Defense Gen. Cao Gangchuan (left, in uniform) review the
Chinese Communist People’s Liberation Army in Beijing on November 5, 2007. Robert M. Gates is a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations and a former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
President Bill Clinton and Communist China’s despot Jiang Zemin inspect the Red Chinese People’s Liberation Army terrorists
on Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 27, 1998. (Photo by Wally McNamee)
U.S. President Barack Obama (R) inspects a guard of honor along with Communist China’s Commissar Hu Jintao (L) at the
Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Communist China on November 17, 2009. (Getty Images)
Communist Manifesto (left), the book that changed the world. The Hegelian dialectic, better known as the “Left” versus “Right” argument, is named after German professor Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (right)
The Federal Reserve Board in 1914. The seven original members of the Federal Reserve Board sit for a group portrait on August 10, 1914, shortly after being sworn in. Standing, left to right: Paul M. Warburg, John Skelton Williams (Comptroller of the Currency), W.P.G. Harding, and Adolph C. Miller; seated, left to right: Charles Hamlin (Governor), William G. McAdoo (Chairman and Secretary of the Treasury), and Frederic A. Delano. McAdoo is wearing a mourning armband to commemorate the death, four days earlier, of his mother-in-law, Ellen Axson Wilson, the former First Lady and wife of President Woodrow Wilson. William G. McAdoo had married Woodrow Wilson’s daughter Eleanor Randolph Wilson in May 1914. (Bettmann/Corbis) (Source: http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1947516_2012442,00.html)
International banker John Pierpont Morgan confronts a photographer in May 1910.
(Photo: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Carroll Quigley (1910-1977)
Carroll Quigley was a professor
of history at Georgetown
University School of Foreign
Service. Quigley was one of Bill
Clinton’s professors while he
was a student at Georgetown.
“There does exist, and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network
which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In
fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to
cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the
operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for
two years, in the early 1960’s, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion
to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its
instruments…At the end of the war of 1914, it became clear that the organization of this
system had to be greatly extended. Once again the task was entrusted to Lionel Curtis who
established, in England and each dominion, a front organization to the existing local Round
Table Group. This front organization, called the Royal Institute of International Affairs, had
as its nucleus in each area the existing submerged Round Table Group. In New York it was
known as the Council on Foreign Relations, and was a front for J. P. Morgan and Company
in association with the very small American Round Table Group. The American organizers
were dominated by the large number of Morgan “experts,” including Lamont and Beer, who
had gone to the Paris Peace Conference and there became close friends with the similar
group of English "experts" which had been recruited by the Milner group. In fact, the
original plans for the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Council on Foreign
Relations were drawn up at Paris.” – Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, p. 950-952
Edward M. House (standing, far left) appears with members of the Commission on League of Nations in April 1919. Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando is seated third from right; Woodrow Wilson is standing at center. Japanese Ambassador to Great Britain Sutemi Chinda and Japanese diplomat Nobuaki Makino are seated, respectively, on the far left. Robert Cecil, a Member of the British Parliament and a member of the Milner Group, is seated fourth from left. (Photo: Manuscripts & Archives, Yale University Library)
Members of “The Inquiry” appear at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. Seated, from left to right: Charles Homer Haskins, Isaiah Bowman, Sidney Mezes, James Brown Scott, and David Hunter Miller. Standing, from left to right: Charles Seymour, Robert H. Lord, William L. Westermann, Mark Jefferson, “Colonel” Edward M. House, George Louis Beer, Douglas W. Johnson, Clive Day, William Edward Lunt, James T. Shotwell, and Allyn A. Young. Everyone in this photo except for Westermann, Jefferson, Beer, and Lunt were members of the Council on Foreign Relations. Edward M. House was the head of “The Inquiry” and served as an advisor to President Woodrow Wilson; Edward M. House was a political powerbroker from Austin, Texas, U.S.A. (Photo: Manuscripts & Archives, Yale University Library)
Red Army commander Leon Trotsky (right of podium) watches the crowd as Vladimir Lenin delivers a speech at Sverdlov Square in Moscow on May 5, 1920.
Owen D. Young watches Emile Moreau (left),Governor of the Bank of France, shake hands with Nazi German financier Hjalmar Schacht (right), President of the Reichsbank, in 1929 after they accepted the terms of the Young Plan. Hjalmar Schacht was tried in Nuremberg for war crimes after World War II. Owen D. Young was the Chairman of the board of General Electric Company (1922-1940), Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1927-1937), Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York (1937-1940), and Director of the Council on Foreign Relations (1927-1940).
Franklin D. Roosevelt (left) meets with “Colonel” Edward M. House in 1932. Some of their “New Deal” they established included: a central bank (the Federal Reserve System), an income tax, a Social Security, a government-regulated socialist economy, and a perpetuating national debt. “Colonel” House was President Woodrow Wilson’s advisor and the author of Philip Dru: Administrator, a book he wrote anonymously. In his book Philip Dru: Administrator, “Colonel” House promoted communism, socialism, central bank, and a world government.
(Photo: The Bettmann Archive)
Hjalmar Schacht, the President of the Reichsbank (Germany’s central bank), visits President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. on May 6, 1933. Photo shows, left to right: Colonel James A. Uliu, Military Aide to the White House; Hans Luther, Ambassador from Germany; Hjalmar Schacht; President Roosevelt; and Captain Walter Vernon, White House Naval Aide.
Adolf Hitler walks with Hjalmar Schacht, the President of the Reichsbank, on May 5, 1934.
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Hjalmar Schacht (left), President of The Reichsbank, confers with Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, during the German financier's visit to London in February 1938. Hjalmar Schacht was tried for war crimes after World War II. (Bettmann/CORBIS)
Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover visits Adolf Hitler, the despot of Nazi Germany, in Berlin in 1938. Herbert Hoover was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Republican Party at the time this photo was taken. (CORBIS photo)
A “new world order” in the Eternal City: Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson (front row, far left, in blue suit), General Mark Clark (front row, third from left), and other Allied officers and officials salute to the American flag in the plaza in front of the Piazza Venezia during an official flag lowering ceremony shortly after their arrival in Rome, Italy on July 4, 1944. The city of Rome once served as the capital of the Roman Empire. Henry L. Stimson was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a graduate of Yale University and a member of Skull & Bones. (Photo by Carl Mydans/Time Life)
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. partner Averell Harriman sits between British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (left) and Soviet Russia’s Commissar Josef Stalin (second from right) in 1942. Soviet Russian Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov is seated on the far right. Averell Harriman was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1923 until his death in 1986. (Photo: Library of Congress)
Harry Dexter White (left) talks to British economist John Maynard Keynes (right) at the Bretton Woods Conference in Bretton
Woods, New Hampshire in July 1944. Harry Dexter White served as an Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury and a
Director of Monetary Research in the Treasury Department under Franklin Delano Roosevelt; White was a known Communist
agent. White, Keynes, and other delegates at the Bretton Woods Conference established the World Bank and the International
Monetary Fund. Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes were the “founding fathers” of the World Bank and the
International Monetary Fund. (Photo:
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Secretary of State Edward Stettinius Jr., Alger Hiss (sitting to the right of Stettinius), and Nelson Rockefeller were members of the Council on Foreign Relations. Soviet delegates included Vyacheslav Molotov and Andrei Gromyko (second person to the left of Molotov). This photo was published in the book Thy Will Be Done, The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil by Gerard Colby.
Alger Hiss (left), the Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, is shown shaking hands with President Harry S. Truman at the UN Conference in San Francisco on June 26, 1945. At the right is Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.
Following the President is Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan, Truman's military aide. Alger Hiss and Edward Stettinius were members of the Council on Foreign Relations. (Bettmann/CORBIS)
Averell Harriman, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, High Commissioner to Germany John McCloy, and U.S. Ambassador to France David K.E. Bruce meet privately in May 1949. This photo was published in Dean Acheson: The State Department Years by David S. McLellan. (Acme Photo)
Averell Harriman (left) and Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett (center) chat with Secretary of State Dean Acheson in January 1951. (Photo by Lisa Larsen/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)
President Dwight D. Eisenhower (right) and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands enjoy a laugh together before their luncheon meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C. on March 6, 1954. The Prince was in the United States on an industrial inspection tour. Prince Bernhard was the co-founder of the Bilderberg Meetings. (Bettmann/CORBIS)
David Ben-Gurion (second from right), the Prime Minister of Israel, visits Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (left) and his wife Queen Juliana of the Netherlands at a castle in the Netherlands in 1961. Prince Bernhard was the founder of the secret Bilderberg Meetings that has been held annually since 1954. Prince Bernhard was a Nazi SS Storm Trooper before World War II; when asked about his Nazi experience, he replied: “we had a lot of fun.” This photo was published in page 61 of the book Days of David Ben Gurion, a book edited by Ohad Zmora, Mordechai Barkai, Nahum Pundak, and Israel Stockmann (Grossman Publishers, New York, 1967).
David Rockefeller and his daughter Neva Rockefeller greet Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the Kremlin in Moscow in 1964.
(Photo: Memoirs by David Rockefeller/Wide World Photos)
David Rockefeller (left), Richard Nixon (center), and John McCloy celebrate at a party.
“The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional
terms, and to evolve regional approaches to development needs and to the evolution of a new world order.”
Henry Kissinger (left) meets with Communist China’s “Chairman” Mao Tse-tung (right) and Chou Enlai (center) in Peking, Communist China.
Henry Kissinger (right), America’s Secretary of State and National Security Advisor shakes hands with Pham Van Dong (left) in
Hanoi, Red Vietnam in February 1973. Le Duc Tho is in the middle.
President Gerald Ford meets with some of the International Bankers at the White House in 1975 to discuss the “fiscal crisis” of New York City. From left to right: L. William Seidman, J.P. Morgan Chairman Ellmore C. Patterson, Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston, Treasury Secretary William Simon, Gerald Ford, Chase Manhattan Chairman David Rockefeller, and Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns. Everyone in this photo except for L. William Seidman is or was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
President Jimmy Carter and prominent dignitaries stand together at the White House on September 29, 1979. Front row, left to right: Lloyd Cutler, George W. Ball, Averell Harriman, Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, President Jimmy Carter, Dean Rusk, C. Douglas Dillon, and McGeorge Bundy. Second row, left to right: John McCloy, Vice President Walter F. Mondale, unidentified, Brent Scowcroft, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, and Hedley Donovan. Third row, left to right: National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, unidentified, James R. Schlesinger, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified. Averell Harriman and McGeorge Bundy were members of Skull & Bones at Yale University. (Photo: George W. Ball Papers, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University)
Richard Nixon greets Soviet Commissar Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986. Anatoly Dobrynin (wearing glasses) is smiling.
President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Commissar Mikhail Gorbachev sign the INF treaty ratification at the Grand Kremlin palace
in Moscow on June 1, 1988. (Photo: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library)
President Ronald Reagan (center) delivers a speech concerning aid to Nicaragua’s Contras fighters on April 1, 1985 as (from left
to right) former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick,
former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, and Vice President George Bush stand behind Ronald Reagan.
(Photo by Diana Walker//Time and Life Pictures/Getty Images)
David Rockefeller smiles as President Ronald Reagan receives a medal after Reagan delivered a speech to the Council of the Americas on May 12, 1987. David Rockefeller was the North American Chairman of the Trilateral Commission at the time this photo was taken. David Rockefeller is a member of the Trilateral Commission and a regular Bilderberg Meetings participant. (Photo by Tim Clary/Bettmann/CORBIS)
“The emerging global system thus is likely neither to be based on American hegemony nor derived from genuine international
harmony…A truly new world order, based on consensus, rule of law and peaceful adjudication of disputes, may eventually
become a reality.” – Zbigniew Brzezinski, Fall 1991 issue of Foreign Affairs, “Selective Global Commitment”, p. 20
Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hussein greets Donald Rumsfeld, a special envoy of President Ronald Reagan, in Baghdad, Iraq on December 20, 1983. The Reagan administration allowed American chemical companies to sell chemical and biological weapons to Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War. The Reagan administration established diplomatic relations with Iraq in 1984; President George H.W. Bush severed diplomatic relations with Iraq in 1990 after Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi Army invaded Kuwait in August 1990.
(Photo: George Washington University)
President George H.W. Bush and King Fahd of Saudi Arabia are seen laughing inside the Royal Palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on November 21, 1990, less than two months before the beginning of the Persian Gulf War. (Photo: George Bush Presidential Library)
Trilateral Commission members participate in the initialing ceremony of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in
San Antonio, Texas on October 7, 1992. Standing from left to right: Mexican President Carlos Salinas, American President
George Bush, and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Seated from left to right: Jaime Serra Puche, U.S. Trade
Representative Carla A. Hills, and Michael Wilson. Everyone in this photo except Salinas and Wilson is or was a member of the
Trilateral Commission. (Photo: George Bush Presidential Library and Museum)
News Corp Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch (left), owner of Fox News Channel, stands with Israel's President Shimon Peres during the Presidential Conference in Jerusalem on May 15, 2008. (Reuters)
Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright toasts North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong Il at a dinner in Pyongyang, North Korea on October 24, 2000. (REUTERS/Chien-min Chung/Pool)
Left to right: Henry Kissinger, Rupert Murdoch, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Mikhail Gorbachev, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich appear at the Global Forum 2000 Conference held at the World Trade Center in New York City on April 24, 2000. Everyone except for Mikhail Gorbachev is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. (Timothy Fadek/Sygma/Corbis)
World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn (left) meets with Red China’s President Hu Jintao at the Great Hall of the People in
Beijing, Communist China on May 30, 2004.
President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush arrive in Buckingham Palace in London on June 1, 1989 where they are met by Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. George H.W. Bush is a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University. (George Bush Presidential Library and Museum)
U.S. President George W. Bush (left), Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (center), and the U.S. First Lady Laura Bush attend memorial services at the U.S. cemetery in Margraten near Maastricht, Netherlands on May 8, 2005. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands is a regular Bilderberg Meetings participant. George W. Bush is a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University. (Michael Kooren/Reuters/Corbis)
U.S. President Barack Obama (C) meets with former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz (L) and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (R) in the Oval Office of the White House on May 19, 2009. Henry Kissinger is a member of the Trilateral Commission. (Reuters)
In this handout image provided by the Department of Defense (DOD), former President George H. W. Bush (L), Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (C), and Senior Advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett sit with President Barack Obama (R) before the Points of Light Foundation forum held at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas on October 16, 2009. Valerie Jarrett served as Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Stock Exchange from April 2004 through April 2007; Valerie Jarrett was a Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago from January 2006 through April 2007. (Photo by U.S. Department of Defense/Handout/Getty Images North America)
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown (center) follows City of London Lord Mayor Alderman Ian Luder (R) during a procession at
the Guildhall during the Lord Mayor's banquet in central London on November 10, 2008. (
AFP/Getty Images
)
European Central Bank Governor Jean-Claude Trichet and European Commission President Jose-Manuel Barroso (L) attend a news conference following a summit to discuss the international financial crisis at the Elysee Palace in Paris on October 4, 2008. (Reuters)
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan greets Israel’s Foreign Minister Shimon Peres during the World Summit on Sustainable Development conference in Johannesburg, South Africa on September 3, 2002. (UN Photo)
Official Portrait of G8 Summit leaders at Gleneagles Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland in July 2005. (Photo: http://www.pm.gov.uk)
Front row, left to right: President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schroder, Commissar of Red China Hu Jintao, President George W. Bush, Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac, Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh, Russian President Vladimir Putin, President of Mexico Vicente Fox. Back row, left to right: Prime Minister of Canada Paul Martin, European Communities President Jose Manuel Barroso, President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki, Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, (Japan) and World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz at the G8 Summit.
Mexico’s President Vicente Fox (second from left) flashes a wink and a thumbs-up gesture to President George W. Bush (far right) at the G8 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia on July 17, 2006. Russian President Vladimir Putin stands on the far left. President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso is standing in the center. Japan’s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is standing second from right. Jose Manuel Barroso attended the Bilderberg Meetings in 2003 and 2005. (Official Website of the Russian G8 Presidency)
President George W. Bush (R) and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice attend the NATO-Russia Council meeting at the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania on April 4, 2008. (AFP/Getty Images)
President Ronald Reagan addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on September 22, 1986. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on September 23, 2009. (Getty Images)
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan talks with Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands after receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Tilburg in Tilburg, The Netherlands on November 21, 2002. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands is a regular Bilderberg Meetings participant. (Photo by Michel Porro/Getty Images)
George H.W. Bush (second from right) appears with CIA Director Porter Goss and seven other former CIA directors. John Deutch, Robert Gates, William Webster, Stansfield Turner, R. James Woolsey, James Schlesinger, and George Tenet are members of the Council on Foreign Relations. Porter Goss and George H.W. Bush are former members of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Henry Kissinger greets Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the Israeli Consul General’s home in New York City on June 25, 2001. (Photo: Avi Ohayon, GPO)
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer, CIA Director Allen Dulles, and Deputy CIA Director for Plans Richard M. Bissell Jr. were members of the Council on Foreign Relations at the time this photo was taken in April 1961. Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer was the general behind the top-secret Operation Northwoods. (Photo by Jacques Lowe) (Source: Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years by David Talbot)
President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie Kennedy ride together in a limousine in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963 moments before President Kennedy is mortally wounded.
Left to right: U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Secretary of State Dean Rusk, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, and Under Secretary of State George W. Ball meet privately on November 23, 1963, the day after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. (Photo: Cecil Stoughton, LBJ Library)
George H.W. Bush shares a light moment after he is sworn-in as the United States Representative to the United Nations at the White House in Washington, D.C. on February 26, 1971. From left to right: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, Barbara Bush, George H.W. Bush, and U.S. President Richard M. Nixon. George H.W. Bush, Potter Stewart, and Richard Nixon are (or were) members of the Bohemian Grove in California. George H.W. Bush and Potter Stewart were members of Skull & Bones at Yale University. George H.W. Bush’s father Prescott Sheldon Bush was a partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., an international banking firm in New York City, in 1971.
(© Ron Sachs/CNP/Corbis)
Washington Post chief Katharine Graham greets President George H.W. Bush. George H.W. Bush is a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University and a former CIA director. (Source: Personal History by Katharine Graham)
United Airlines Flight 175 hits the World Trade Center South Tower at 9:03 A.M. on September 11, 2001.
Left to right: Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Dick Cheney stand together in March 2001. Inscription: “Paul – Who’s the best Secretary of Defense you ever worked for? Dick.” All three men were members of the Project for the New American Century.
Averell Harriman, the former Governor of New York, chats with Israel’s Prime Minister Golda Meir at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. on September 27, 1969. Averell Harriman was a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University.
(Source: Golda Meir Photo Collection at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee Libraries)
First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Stanley Fischer (left), Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan
(center), and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Michel Camdessus have a private conversation at a meeting on September 26, 1999. Alan Greenspan and Stanley Fischer are members of the Council on Foreign Relations. Stanley Fischer is currently the Governor of the Bank of Israel.
Stanley Fischer (center) is received by Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (left) and Israel’s Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem, Israel on January 17, 2005. (Photo by Brian Hendler/Getty Images)
Left to right: Ernesto Zedillo (former President of Mexico), Jacob Frenkel (former Governor of the Bank of Israel), Stanley Fischer (Governor of the Bank of Israel), and Paul Volcker (former Chairman of the Federal Reserve) participate in the 59th Plenary Session of the Group of Thirty (G-30) that was held on May 24-26, 2008. All four men are members of the Trilateral Commission. (Photo: Group of Thirty)
U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton and Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon laugh together at an AIPAC conference in Washington D.C. in 2005. (Photo: Avi Ohayon, Israel Government Press Office (GPO)).
George Soros (left) greets Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) after she introduced him at the Take Back America Conference in Washington, D.C. on June 3, 2004. George Soros is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. (Photo by Matthew Cavanaugh/Getty Images)
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (left) meets with Israel President Shimon Peres on May 12, 2008 in Jerusalem,
Israel. Kissinger is in Israel as part of celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state. (Getty Images/GPO)
Henry Kissinger (left) congratulates Rupert Murdoch (right) on receiving the Distinguished Business Leadership Award during
the Atlantic Council's 2008 annual awards dinner in Washington, D.C. on April 21, 2008. (UPI Photo/Patrick D. McDermott)
“My country’s history, Mr. President, tells us that it is possible to fashion unity while cherishing diversity, that common action is
possible despite the variety of races, interests, and beliefs we see here in this chamber. Progress and peace and justice are
attainable. So we say to all peoples and governments: Let us fashion together a new world order.”
Left to right: Amre Moussa, Secretary-General, League of Arab States, Egypt, Abdullah Gül, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Ahmed Mahmoud Nazif, Prime Minister of Egypt, Adil Abd al-Mahdi, Vice-President of Iraq, Mohammad Khatami, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran (1997-2005), John F. Kerry, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (Democrat), David Ignatius, Associate Editor and Columnist, The Washington Post, USA, captured during the session 'The Future of the Middle East' at the Annual Meeting 2007 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 27, 2007. (Copyright World Economic Forum /Photo by Yoshiko Kusano)
An overall view of world leaders attending the first Plenary Session at the G20 Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. on November 15, 2008. (Reuters)
President George W. Bush speaks to the Council on Foreign Relations about economic progress in Iraq during a speech in Washington, D.C. on December 7, 2005. (EPA/Shawn Thew)
Robert S. Mueller III, Director of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) [United States of America], speaks at Chatham House in London on Monday, April 7, 2008. Mueller gave a speech entitled Global Terrorism Today and the Challenges of Tomorrow.
