-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Gorbachev Reborn Phil Brennan Saturday, March 10, 2001 Mikhail Gorbachev may be on the comeback trail in his native Russia, meeting with President Vladimir Putin, and voicing support for many of his policies, but he’s been prominent on the international scene, promoting what amounts to a Marxist version of world government. Last August, for example, Gorbachev set foot in his old Kremlin office for the first time in 10 years for a private conversation with the Russian president. Since then, the two men have met again on several occasions. A March 2nd radio broadcast in Moscow reported: "The fanfare surrounding former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's 70th birthday is a public sign that Gorbachev's national comeback may be under way. A political pariah during the Boris Yeltsin years, Gorbachev is now enjoying renewed popularity and may even be looking to refashion himself as an informal adviser to President Vladimir Putin.” As a director of NTV, Russia’s only private TV station, Gorbachev has access to something of a bully pulpit, and even though the station is now threatened with a government takeover by the Putin government, he has been outspoken in his support of the president, indicating that Putin might not be fully aware of the steps being taken against the station, such as the freezing of its parent company’s bank accounts and raids on the home office by armed tax police. "Does Putin know about all this?” he asked. "We have to help the president so that he is working in accordance with the mandate he got from the people and not according to the [debt] contracts signed by some companies. I think this is our common responsibility." There have been rumors in the Russian media that he may be invited to become part of the Putin administration, perhaps as foreign minister. He has denied them but they persist. In the meantime, he has taken up many of Putin’s main themes, such as opposition the Bush administration’s plans for a National Missile Defense (NMD) system. ”I think they have not thought it out very well, " he told an interviewer. "As a politician I think this is a harmful move because it will give an impetus to the arms race. How can America create security for itself whereas the rest of the world is left to its own devices? No country in the world is capable of doing this. If this is true, then a question arises - why billions have to be spent on such projects?” He expressed support of Putin’s opposition to expansion of NATO, and, sounding like Hillary Clinton, blamed the vast right-wing conspiracy for suggestions that the Cold War is being reignited. "I do not think that the right-wing forces who are already talking about a new Cold War are right. I do not think they are right. I must say that there is some reaction in the U.S.A. to what had been said wrongly and scared the world earlier.” He warned that "Moscow would not stand by idly if plans went ahead for the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia to join NATO.” Moscow, he said, had no part in the plan, which was "even directed against Russia. It is replete with danger. Russia is sure to retaliate." But Gorbachev has been far from the invisible man on the world stage, where he has proven himself to be an unrepentant Marxist bent on socializing the world under the banners of ecology and globalism. His Gorbachev Foundation has allied itself with environmentalist groups, and pushed for an expanded United Nations that sees the U.N. moving into the power position that opened up at the close of the Cold War. During a press conference at the New York Hilton Towers, Gorbachev proposed a radical expansion of U.N. powers. Speaking at a so-called State of the World Forum, a six-year project of the Gorbachev Foundation headquartered in San Francisco, he proposed a radical expansion of U.N. powers. "In 1988, I spoke of a new role for the U.N., a new body,” he told the Forum. "In addition to the Security Council, we must have an Economic Council and an Environmental Council with authority equal to that of the Security Council." According to correspondent Mary Jo Anderson: "The former Russian premier denied that he was proposing controls on economic freedom, but insisted, "I am suggesting that we must give rights to this body [Economic Council], to develop rules to prevent explosive situations." One observer questioned whether this proposal was not simply an upscale version of Marxist central economic control. "Gorbachev went on to explain that as unregulated capitalism globalized world markets, failure of smaller economies brought recessions, and rioting in the streets is the likely consequence. An 'Economic Council' with the power to regulate capital is designed to 'insure stability' and 'ultimately transnational corporations will have to accept this,' Gorbachev said. "As the Forum - scheduled to coincide with the main event, the U.N.'s Millennium Summit - moved into its third day, it became clear in successive sessions that each speaker had a new angle on the same idea: The United Nations should coordinate global governance. "Some speakers focused on environmental governance, others on educational efforts aimed at producing citizens with a commitment to global peace and justice. Global governance seeks stable world conditions so as to ensure the rights of humanity to clean air, stable markets and personal rights. Of course, some mechanism of enforcement is required if the rights of all are to be protected, say Forum participants." Speaker after speaker reiterated the theme: Global government under a re-invigorated (and thoroughly Marxist) U.N. "Good globalism is a reshaped globalism, stripped of the 'Washington consensus' of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher,” said John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, a co-panelist with Gorbachev and Canadian billionaire and militant atheist George Soros. "Corporate globalism," he said, "brought inequality between nations" and a "violation of human rights." Introduced to the 500 Forum attendees as "the quintessential voice of globalism," Soros was blunt in his assessment of American corporations and the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress. They "are not a good example of 'compassionate conservatism'," he said. Opposed to the U.S. desire to reduce the scope of the troubled International Monetary Fund, Soros claimed, "that is not the solution." A New York physician attending the Gorbachev-sponsored forum told Anderson he was "stunned and angry" at the overt anti-American sentiment that he felt characterized several of the presentations. "Most Americans have no clue what is happening in New York right now," he commented. "Don't they know that other nations have the most to gain and Americans the most to lose if these proposals are ever adopted?" Under his global Green Cross International (GCI) group, Gorbachev is promoting the so-called Earth Charter, a blueprint for world governance that would direct the course of the lives of people from cradle to grave. "The Earth Charter serves as a universal code of conduct to guide people and nations towards a sustainable future,” according to his Web site (http://www.mikhailgorbachev.org). "The Earth Charter serves as a universal code of conduct to guide people and nations towards a sustainable future. In participation with the Earth Council and other like-minded organizations worldwide, GCI is contributing to the further development of the Earth Charter through a global participatory process. GCI is working to have the Earth Charter endorsed by the United Nations through regional seminars, national hearings, and an interactive drafting effort.” Having presided over the collapse of the Soviet Union and its drive to impose socialism on the entire world, Gorbachev is now taking a different path toward the same destination. Allied with the likes of George Soros and the international green movement, and lavishly financed, he plows forward towards his dream of a Marxist utopia. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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