Let us now praise local places, like used bookstores. I am most pleased that in the Internet Age people still want to read in print. (This harkens back to a previous post about the Kindle). Thus, cheers for what is in ink and not merely online, though, ironically, this is my longest post yet and I must admit to the sheer research potential of a free and ‘net-neutral’ internet.
There does exist, and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Group has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, of any other groups, and frequently does so.
I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960’s, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments.
I have objected, but in the past and recently, to a few of its policies (notably to its belief that England was an Atlantic rather than a European Power and must be allied, or even federated, with the United States and must remain isolated from Europe), but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wished to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known. –Carrol Quigley, Tragedy & Hope
I could not locate a copy at my favorite local bookstore today, but I’ll note that Carroll Quigley was Bill Clinton’s favorite professor at Georgetown.
Toward the end of the [1992 convention acceptance] speech Clinton mentioned that “as a teenager I heard John Kennedy’s summons to citizenship. And then, as a student at Georgetown, I heard that call clarified by a professor named Carroll Quigley, who said to us that America was the greatest country in the history of the world because our people have always believed in two things: that tomorrow can be better than today and that every one of us has a personal, moral responsibility to make it so.”
Knowing Clinton’s history, I won’t even take this at face value. (E.g., Mena and cocaine trafficking, for the curious.) As Namebase goes on to say,
Carroll Quigley was a conspiracy historian, but he was unusual in that he avoided criticism. Most of his conspiracy research concerned the role of the Rhodes-Milner Round Table Groups in Britain from 1891 through World War II. His major work, Tragedy and Hope (1966), contains scattered references to his twenty years of research in this area, but his detailed history of the Round Table was written in 1949. The major reason he avoided criticism is because his work wasn’t threatening to people in high places. Quigley’s research was too obscure, and too much had happened in the world since the events he described. Quigley was also an insider, so his criticisms of the groups he studied are subdued.
All of this leads me to the news item that Dubya and Bill are brothers, now. Were they ever not?… The back of an obscure book, In The Name of the ‘New World Order’, reads:
Conventional wisdom tells us that present-day events are the effects of earlier material causes, and that politicians have short-term strategies which are largely opportunistic.
Sold. The publisher of said book has an analysis of what he terms “Brothers of the Shadows” here.
In his book Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace Gore Vidal suggests that the American public has been conditioned to respond to the word ‘conspiracy’ with a smirk and a chuckle. Conspiracy, in other words, is for the nuts and the loners, and is not to be taken seriously. In this way, he argues, through the media’s association of the concept of conspiracy with fringe or extreme elements, the real conspirators go unnoticed.