Introduction

INTRODUCTION

By contributing researcher T Kirk

A consortium of conspirators, commissioners and sanctifiers created an intriguing and necessary paradox which the Nixon administration had to manage.  When President Richard Nixon resigned in 1974, his statesmanship had set a course for the next thirty years, the ‘Watergate’ debacle being simply a smokescreen for a much bigger agenda and he became the silent hero.  In the early 1970’s a vast international financial reformation was secretly implemented and the assets transferred into a specific issue of Treasury Bonds which became the implicit instruments of substantial international restructuring. The plan, orchestrated from within the structures of the power elites, was one of the special operations of the Cold War and, to date, its history has been conveniently buried.

A proper study of political mankind is the study of the power elites from the Medici’s to the Rockefeller’s and the Rothschild’s and the agencies they employ, without which nothing that happens can be understood. A persistent problem with theories over the last thirty years has been their lack of engagement with empirical evidence, or more significantly, the lack of evidence.  Academics, both British and to a lesser degree their American counterparts (1), have tended to treat political power by means of abstract concepts rather than practical information about the actions of determinate individuals and groups(2). Increasingly sociologists have become diverted from an empirical investigation of power as the study of national and international power structures became conducted under the aegis of abstract theoretical categories derived from Marxism followed by ever more esoteric discussions on the ‘theory of the state’(3), culminating in a conception of ‘hegemony’ in which ‘struggle’ is posited without any identifiable human  beings as its active protagonists and with the stakes reduced to ideas rather than concrete interests.

The Green File, to give this study working title, discloses the long concealed plan and the sensitivities which have eluded historians and journalists for the past thirty years, naming the names of the power elites and their agencies conceptualised as the arenas for the conduct of intra-capitalist and inter-corporate strategic debates and long range social planning from which wider ‘democratic’ interference is carefully excluded.  Although it may now be hoped academics can engage fully in a proper study of political mankind , The Green File  is not about to enter into esoteric discussions and argue with Marx when he stands the idealist Hegel on his head, despite the fact the world wide competitive process of capital accumulation is the motor force of history. Nor will it argue with world system theorists, including Wallerstein (5), when they claim the process of capital accumulation to be the differentia specifica of the modern world-system, asserting politics and ideology to be in command rather than the economic law of value.  But The Green File will most certainly agree with Cioran; “The monsters have been billeted in the city.” (6) 

And who are these ‘monsters’, these tyrants, the elite financial managers who really run the world?  Who are the ‘puppet masters’ pulling the strings of our democratically elected presidents, prime-ministers and politicians and shaping events from invulnerable positions?  They are the members of an international capital-based group of power brokers who have made great strides in recent years towards the creation of a new global economic order, a financial hegemony encompassing production and profits and, above all, political control on an all-inclusive international basis.  Turn to the index and their names will stand out loud and clear alongside those who courted danger and disaster by dipping their fingers into the ‘proverbial pie’.  Alternatively, follow the trail, chapter by chapter and allow the real and unambiguous history of our times to unfold.

When the main facts of The Green File are brought together there are meanings of the greatest historical significance to be found, meanings that cannot be found in the facts when considered separately.  The Green File has been compared to part of a giant jigsaw puzzle, the main difference being the facts of history must be assembled in the mind and their mutual intelligibility explored.  But do not try to see these years as we normally do, as a series of successive events arising from different circumstances and from the actions of different and separated men.  By this process of induction, facts that at first look haphazard are found to belong together and then come together and we understand them as we could not understand them before(7).  For example, the two world wars and their intervening wars, revolutions and crises are now generally recognized by historians to be episodes in a single ‘Age of Conflict’ which began in 1914 and has not yet run its course. It is an age that has brought to the world more change and tragedy than any other in recorded history.  Whereas scholars are still in doubt as to the ultimate meaning and consequence of this Age of Conflict, we can be in no doubt all the pieces belong together and‘intelligence’ has been at work behind all the events.

 If one portion of the jigsaw puzzle, The Green File, which concerns period 1975-2005, is correctly assembled, it is bound to be easier to put together the rest of the pieces and complete the picture of this Age.

Foot Soldiers/ Bibliography

1.  Mills, C. Wright, 1956.   Dye, Thomas.  Chomsky, Noam.

2 Giddens, Anthony.  1984,1985.   

   Scott.   1986

3Jessop. 1990

4 Poulantzas’s ‘structuralist’ critique of Miliband

  5Wallerstein

6Cioran, E.M.    ‘History and Utopia – Learning From The Tyrants’.  Page 43.

7. Benson, Ivor    Russia 1917-1918 A Key to the Riddle of the Age of Conflict.