Tag: Government
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Our Demagogue in South Korea
The Current Situation in Korea – 18 March 1948, Declassified CIA Memo: The reports starts of with the following summary: US strategic interests would be seriously affected by the absorption of Korea into the Soviet orbit. The current political, economic, and military situation in the US and Soviet Zones, respectively, makes it unlikely that any…
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Jefferson on Refreshing the Tree of Liberty
From Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 13 November 1787 (Paris): …can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it’s motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. The people can not be all, and always,…
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The Iron Law of Oligarchy by Robert Michels
It’s time for some RealPolitik! Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy is a book by the sociologist Robert Michels, published in 1911 and first introducing the concept of iron law of oligarchy. This work analyses the power structures of organizations such as political parties and trade unions. Michels’s main…
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CFR and State Department Discussions on “World Control”
Let’s talk RealPolitik. During WWII, it was internally assumed that the U.S. would emerge from the war as the world’s dominant power. One of the primary war aims of the war was to organize a “Grand Area” to serve the needs of the American economy. In 1939, the U.S. State Department along with members of the Council…
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Alfred Mahan on National Self-Interests
Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States Admiral, naval strategist, and historian who’s books, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660–1783 (1890) and The Influence of Sea Power Upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793–1812 (1892), made him world-famous and perhaps the most influential American author of the nineteenth century. In 1893, during the…
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Weyrich: If We Stop Them From Voting, We Win!
Dallas, 1980, Paul Weyrich, founding father of the U.S. conservative movement, address a Religious Right gathering and puts forth the following statement: Now, many of our Christians have what I call the ‘goo-goo syndrome.’ Good government. They want everybody to vote. I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of…
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Ithiel de Sola Pool and Society’s Need for “Apathy”, “Passivity”, and “Defeatism”
Let’s talk about how the “liberal” elite perceive how a democratic society should function. In 1967, Ithiel de Sola Pool published a book in cooperation with the American Political Science Association titled: Contemporary Political Science: Toward Empirical Theory. Pool was a revolutionary figure in the field of social sciences, having studied under Harold Lasswell. Pool…