The Great Cabal that Runs the World, Part 1

Not all Empires decline. Some just re-brand.

For years, I have been writing article after article about what is alternately called “America the Hegemon” and “the American Empire”. Like most people, I was convinced that the world — and certainly the Western world — was being run by the United States, through the assiduous and fanatical deployment of its military and intelligence services.

I wrote about the Petrodollar and America’s position at the top of the monetary food chain thanks to Bretton Woods, the IMF, World Bank and other mechanisms created in the wake of World War II precisely to put the world under American stewardship.

Roosevelt and Churchill’s secret meeting of 9–12 August 1941 in Newfoundland resulted in the Atlantic Charter, which the U.S. and Britain officially announced two days later. This photo depicts conference leaders during Church services on the after deck of HMS Prince of Wales, in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, during the Atlantic Charter Conference. [Source: US Navy — Naval History and Heritage Command]

And yet such a development should strike any American as odd — that a nation such as the United States would be put in charge of the world, essentially having an Empire handed to it “by default” — by simple dint of the fact that the US was the only industrialised nation to emerge unscathed from the war — indeed to emerge stronger and more prosperous than ever before.

I suppose that as Americans, we weren’t a traditional “empire” in that we assumed our position of hegemony seemingly by acclamation. The war-weary nations of the world were happy enough to subjugate themselves to America’s domination, seeing as we were responsible for the…