The Mammoth Book of Cover-Ups

Tragedy and Hope (1966), Quigley stated:

There does exist, and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network… I have studied it for 20 years and was permitted… to examine its papers and secret records.

This was the Holy Grail for conspiracists, a certified top-drawer academic putting it on record that a worldwide conspiracy by a few truly existed. Quigley, warming to his hypothesis, explained that British diamond magnate Cecil Rhodes “left his fortune to form a secret society… [which] continues to exist to this day”. The “secret society” was the Round Table Group, later remodelled as the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Quigley himself found the Round Table project to turn the world into a stable Anglophone society “largely commendable”.

Others have not been so kindly disposed. The John Birch Society, founded in 1958 by Robert Welch and named for an American pastor killed by Mao’s Reds, identified a Round Table Fifth Column in the US which sought nothing less than the wholesale abolition of the States. Funded by the Rockefellers/the Morgans/the Carnegies, these Anglophile Eastern “Insiders” operated through front organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Group. The 100,000-strong John Birch Society also identified a distinctly Red tinge to the Round Table plan. According to Birch author Gary Allen in None Dare Call It Conspiracy (1971), the deal being done was for a “powerful world socialist superstate”, even if it was being paid for by billionaires like David Rockefeller. Communism, says Allen, is “an arm” of the bigger Round Table conspiracy. The Birchers also took the long view back on the Round Table plot, past Rhodes to the Illuminati of 18th-century Germany.

The Birchers were not alone in tracking those long roots. In New World Order (1990), William T. Still elucidated “the centuries-old plans of secret societies to wrench the Constitution from the citizens of the United States”. The Christian conspiracy theorist Pat Robertson traces the Round Table one-world plot right back to before the Tower of Babel, when one language united the world. Since Revelations foretells global government, it follows that the New World Order must be the Devil’s work. Literally.

Since the Second World War, the Round Table plotters have found the ideal vehicle for their global desires: the United Nations. The UN runs a World Bank and an International Monetary Fund and promulgates its decisions through the World Court. It even has its own blue-hatted army, the UN “Peace Keepers”. The Gulf War, in the view of the anti-NWO brigades, was not about the freedom of Kuwait, it wasn’t even about oil, it was a military exercise to keep the blue-hats on their toes. The late Jim Keith apparently exposed secret UN bases in the US, full of troops just waiting for the signal to take over the country, and Keith’s keenest readers in the patriotic militias regularly spot Black Helicopters, using “back-engineered” alien technology, on surveillance missions against them.

Truth to tell, the New World Order conspiracy is an ideological Statue of Liberty: it welcomes in any poor and huddled idea. Britain’s David Icke sees the shapeshifting reptiles of the British Royal Family as being behind the now. Lyndon LaRouche has the bad guys pegged as crypto-fascist synarchists influenced by… there’s no real end to who’s in on LaRouche’s plot.

Time to row back towards the banks of reality. Quigley himself was seemingly embarrassed by the “Smoking Gun” he’d pointed at the Round Table Group and in private played it down. Do capitalists organize globally? Of course. Karl Marx noted the globalization of capitalism in the Communist Manifesto of 1848—hence the need for “Workers of the World [to] Unite!” in response—and tracked the process minutely in the three volumes of Das Kapital. Fortunately cartels and forums, even the ones hosted by the Bilderberg Group or Le Cercle, are not equivalent to the secret back room where the Bushes and friends pull the strings of a puppet United Nations imagined by the NOW conspiracy believers.

Funnily enough, the greatest fear of the John Birch Society, the patriotic militias and all is that the UN is going to remove the sovereignty of the US. Outside the fevered club of predominantly US right-wing websites dedicated to exposing the NWO, the big concern of the rest of the world is that it’s the US that’s taking over the UN The US’s big-guy-on-the-block “cajoling” to secure a UN mandate for Bush Jr’s invasion of Iraq is offered in evidence.

The Bushes say the “New World Order” is the replacement of the “Axis of Evil” by American-type democracies. They might mean it. After the debacle of Iraq, however, it is doubtful they can achieve it.

A secret cabal is manipulating the UN to secure one-world government: ALERT LEVEL 4

Further Reading

Gary Allen, None Dare Call It Conspiracy, 1971

William Cooper, Behold a Pale Horse, 1989

Jim Marrs, Rule by Secrecy, 2001

Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, 1966

Pat Robertson, The New World Order, 1991

William T. Still, New World Order: The Ancient Plan of Secret Societies, 1990

DOCUMENT: A Speech by George H. W. Bush, President of the US, Given to a Joint Session of the United States Congress, Washington DC on 11 September 1990

Mr President, Mr Speaker, members of the Congress, distinguished guests, fellow Americans, thank you very much for that warm welcome. We gather tonight, witness to events in the Persian Gulf as significant as they are tragic. In the early morning hours of 2 August, following negotiations and promises by Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hussein not to use force, a powerful Iraqi Army invaded its trusting and much weaker neighbor, Kuwait. Within three days, 120,000 Iraqi troops with 850 tanks had poured into Kuwait and moved south to threaten Saudi Arabia. It was then that I decided to act to check that aggression.

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[I]f ever there was a time to put country before self and patriotism before party, the time is now. And let me thank all Americans, especially those in this chamber tonight, for your support for our armed forces and for their mission.

That support will be even more important in the days to come.

So tonight, I want to talk to you about what’s at stake—what we must do together to defend civilized values around the world and maintain our economic strength at home.

Our objectives in the Persian Gulf are clear, our goals defined and familiar:

Iraq must withdraw from Kuwait completely, immediately and without condition.

Kuwait’s legitimate government must be restored.

The security and stability of the Persian Gulf must be assured.

And American citizens abroad must be protected.

These goals are not ours alone. They’ve been endorsed by the UN Security Council five times in as many weeks. Most countries share our concern for principle, and many have a stake in the stability of the Persian Gulf. This is not, as Saddam Hussein would have it, the United States against Iraq. It is Iraq against the world.

As you know, I’ve just returned from a very productive meeting with Soviet President [Mikhail] Gorbachev, and I am pleased that we are working together to build a new relationship. In Helsinki, our joint statement affirmed to the world our shared resolve to counter Iraq’s threat to peace. Let me quote: “We are united in the belief that Iraq’s aggression must not be tolerated. No peaceful international order is possible if larger states can devour their smaller neighbors.”

Clearly, no longer can a dictator count on East-West confrontation to stymie concerted United Nations action against aggression.

A new partnership of nations has begun, and 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