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2003© Copyright From The Wilderness Publications

A War in the Planning for
Four Years

HOW STUPID DO THEY THINK WE
ARE?

Zbigniew Brzezinski and the
CFR Put War Plans In a 1997 Book -
It Is "A Blueprint for
World Dictatorship," Says a Former German Defense and NATO
Official Who Warned of Global Domination in 1984,
in an
Exclusive Interview With FTW

by
Michael C. Ruppert

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Summary

"THE GRAND CHESSBOARD - American Primacy And
It's Geostrategic Imperatives," Zbigniew Brzezinski, Basic
Books, 1997.

These are the very first words in the book:
"Ever since the continents started interacting politically,
some five hundred years ago, Eurasia
has been the center of world power."- p. xiii.æ
Eurasia is all of the territory east of
Germany
and
Poland,
stretching all the way through
Russia
and
China
to the Pacific Ocean. It includes the
Middle East and most of the Indian
subcontinent. The key to controlling
Eurasia, says Brzezinski, is
controlling the
Central
Asian
Republics. And the
key to controlling the Central Asian republics is
Uzbekistan.
Thus, it comes as no surprise that
Uzbekistan
was forcefully mentioned by President George W. Bush in his
address to a joint session of Congress, just days after the
attacks of September 11, as the very first place that the
U.S.
military would be deployed.

As FTW has
documented in previous stories, major deployments of
U.S.
and British forces had taken place before the attacks. And the
U.S. Army and the CIA had been active in
Uzbekistan
for several years. There is now evidence that what the world
is witnessing is a cold and calculated war plan - at least
four years in the making - and that, from reading Brzezinski's
own words about Pearl Harbor, the
World
Trade
Center attacks were
just the trigger needed to set the final conquest in
motion.

----------

FTW, November 7, 2001, 1200 PST (Revised Jan.
21,2001) - There's a quote often attributed to Allen Dulles
after it was noted that the final 1964 report of the Warren
Commission on the assassination of JFK contained dramatic
inconsistencies. Those inconsistencies, in effect, disproved
the Commission's own final conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald
acted alone on November 22, 1963. Dulles, a career
spy, Wall Street lawyer, the CIA director whom JFK had fired
after the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco - and
the Warren Commission member who took charge of the
investigation and final report - is reported to have said,
"The American people don't read."

Some Americans do read. So do Europeans and
Asians and Africans and Latin Americans.

World events since the attacks of September 11, 2001
have not only been predicted, but also planned, orchestrated
and - as their architects would like to believe - controlled.
The current Central Asian war is not a response to terrorism,
nor is it a reaction to Islamic fundamentalism. It is in fact,
in the words of one of the most powerful men on the planet,
the beginning of a final conflict before total world
domination by the United
States leads to the
dissolution of all national governments. This, says Council on
Foreign Relations (CFR) member and former Carter National
Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, will lead to nation
states being incorporated into a new world order, controlled
solely by economic interests as dictated by banks,
corporations and ruling elites concerned with the maintenance
(by manipulation and war) of their power. As a means of
intimidation for the unenlightened reader who happens upon
this frightening plan - the plan of the CFR - Brzezinski
offers the alternative of a world in chaos unless the
U.S.
controls the planet by whatever means are necessary and likely
to succeed.

This position is corroborated by Dr. Johannes
B. Koeppl, Ph.D. a former German defense ministry official and
advisor to former NATO Secretary General Manfred Werner. On
November 6, he told FTW, "The interests behind the Bush
Administration, such as the CFR, The Trilateral Commission -
founded by Brzezinski for David Rockefeller - and the
Bilderberger Group, have prepared for and are now moving to
implement open world dictatorship within the next five years.
They are not fighting against terrorists. They are fighting
against citizens."

Brzezinski's own words - laid against the
current official line that the
United
States is waging a war to end
terrorism - are self-incriminating. In an ongoing series of
articles, FTW has consistently
established that the
U.S.
government had foreknowledge of the
World
Trade
Center attacks and
chose not to stop them because it needed to secure public
approval for a war that is now in progress. It is a war, as
described by Vice President Dick Cheney, "that may not end in
our lifetimes." What that means is that it will not end until
all armed groups, anywhere in the world, which possess the
political, economic or military ability to resist the
imposition of this dictatorship, have been destroyed.

These are the "terrorists" the
U.S.
now fights in
Afghanistan
and plans to soon fight all over the globe.

Before exposing Brzezinski (and those he
represents) with his own words, or hearing more from Dr.
Koeppl, it is worthwhile to take a look at Brzezinski's
background.

According to his resume Brzezinski, holding a
1953 Ph.D. from Harvard, lists the following achievements:

Counselor, Center for Strategic and
International Studies

Professor of American Foreign Policy,
Johns
Hopkins
University

National Security Advisor to President Jimmy
Carter (1977-81)

Trustee and founder of the Trilateral
Commission

International advisor of several major
US/Global corporations

Associate of Henry Kissinger

Under Ronald Reagan - member of NSC-Defense
Department Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy

Under Ronald Reagan - member of the
President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board

Past member, Board of Directors, The Council
on Foreign Relations

1988 - Co-chairman of the Bush National
Security Advisory Task Force.

Brzezinski is also a past attendee and
presenter at several conferences of the Bilderberger group - a
non-partisan affiliation of the wealthiest and most powerful
families and corporations on the planet.

The Grand Chessboard

Brzezinski sets the tone for his strategy by
describing
Russia
and
China
as the two most important countries - almost but not quite
superpowers - whose interests that might threaten the
U.S.
in Central Asia. Of the two, Brzezinski
considers
Russia
to be the more serious threat. Both nations border
Central Asia. In a lesser context he
describes the Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Iran and Kazakhstan as
essential "lesser" nations that must be managed by the U.S. as
buffers or counterweights to Russian and Chinese moves to
control the oil, gas and minerals of the Central Asian
Republics (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and
Kyrgyzstan).

He also notes, quite clearly (p. 53) that any
nation that might become predominant in Central
Asia would directly threaten the current
U.S.
control of oil resources in the Persian
Gulf. In reading the book it becomes clear why the
U.S. had a direct motive for the looting of some $300 billion
in Russian assets during the 1990s, destabilizing Russia's
currency (1998) and ensuring that a weakened Russia would have
to look westwardæ to Europe for economic and political
survival, rather than southward to Central Asia. A dependent
Russia
would lack the military, economic and political clout to exert
influence in the region and this weakening of
Russia
would explain why Russian President Vladimir Putin has been
such a willing ally of
U.S.
efforts to date. (See FTW Vol. IV, No. 1 - March 31, 2001)

An examination of selected quotes from "The
Grand Chessboard," in the context of current events reveals
the darker agenda behind military operations that were planned
long before September
11th, 2001.

"...The last decade of the twentieth century
has witnessed a tectonic shift in world affairs. For the first
time ever, a non-Eurasian power has emerged not only as a key
arbiter of Eurasian power relations but also as the world's
paramount power. The defeat and collapse of the
Soviet Union was the final step in the
rapid ascendance of a Western
Hemisphere power, the
United
States, as the sole and,
indeed, the first truly global power... (p. xiii)

"... But in the meantime, it is imperative
that no Eurasian challenger emerges, capable of dominating
Eurasia and thus of also challenging
America.
The formulation of a comprehensive and integrated Eurasian
geostrategy is therefore the purpose of this book. (p.
xiv)

"The attitude of the American public toward
the external projection of American power has been much more
ambivalent. The public supported
America's
engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect
of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
(pp 24-5)

"For
America,
the chief geopolitical prize is
Eurasia... Now a non-Eurasian power is
preeminent in Eurasia - and
America's
global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how
effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is
sustained. (p.30)

"America's
withdrawal from the world or because of the sudden emergence
of a successful rival - would produce massive international
instability. It would prompt global anarchy." (p. 30)

"In that context, how
America
'manages' Eurasia is critical.
Eurasia is the globe's largest
continent and is geopolitically axial. A power that dominates
Eurasia would control two of the
world's three most advanced and economically productive
regions. A mere glance at the map also suggests that control
over Eurasia would almost automatically
entail Africa's subordination,
rendering the Western Hemisphere and
Oceania geopolitically peripheral to
the world's central continent. About 75 per cent of the
world's people live in Eurasia, and
most of the world's physical wealth is there as well, both in
its enterprises and underneath its soil.
Eurasia accounts for 60 per cent of the
world's GNP and about three-fourths of the world's known
energy resources." (p.31)

It is also a fact that
America
is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits
the use of
America's
power, especially its capacity for military intimidation.
Never before has a populist democracy attained international
supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that
commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden
threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic
well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense
spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among
professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial
to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial
mobilization." (p.35)

"Two basic steps are thus required: first, to
identify the geostrategically dynamic Eurasian states that
have the power to cause a potentially important shift in the
international distribution of power and to decipher the
central external goals of their respective political elites
and the likely consequences of their seeking to attain
them;... second, to formulate specific U.S. policies to
offset, co-opt, and/or control the above..."æ (p. 40)

"...To put it in a terminology that harkens
back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three
grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent
collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals,
to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the
barbarians from coming together." (p.40)

"Henceforth, the
United
States may have to determine
how to cope with regional coalitions that seek to push
America
out of Eurasia, thereby threatening
America's
status as a global power." (p.55)

æ"Uzbekistan,
nationally the most vital and the most populous of the central
Asian states, represents the major obstacle to any renewed
Russian control over the region. Its independence is critical
to the survival of the other Central Asian states, and it is
the least vulnerable to Russian pressures." (p. 121)

Referring to an area he calls the "Eurasian
Balkans" and a 1997 map in which he has circled the exact
location of the current conflict - describing it as the
central region of pending conflict for world dominance -
Brzezinski writes: "Moreover, they [the Central Asian
Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security
and historical ambitions to at least three of their most
immediate and more powerful neighbors, namely Russia, Turkey
and Iran, with China also signaling an increasing political
interest in the region. But the Eurasian Balkans are
infinitely more important as a potential economic prize: an
enormous concentration of natural gas and oil reserves is
located in the region, in addition to important minerals,
including gold." (p.124) [Emphasis added]

"The world's energy consumption is bound to
vastly increase over the next two or three decades. Estimates
by the U.S. Department of energy anticipate that world demand
will rise by more than 50 percent between 1993 and 2015, with
the most significant increase in consumption occurring in the
Far East. The momentum of
Asia's economic development is already
generating massive pressures for the exploration and
exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian
region and the Caspian Sea basin are
known to contain reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf
those of
Kuwait,
the Gulf of Mexico, or the
North Sea." (p.125)

"Uzbekistan
is, in fact, the prime candidate for regional leadership in
Central Asia." (p.130)

"Once pipelines to the area have been
developed,
Turkmenistan's
truly vast natural gas reserves augur a prosperous future for
the country's people. (p.132)

"In fact, an Islamic revival - already
abetted from the outside not only by Iran but also by Saudi
Arabia - is likely to become the mobilizing impulse for the
increasingly pervasive new nationalisms, determined to oppose
any reintegration under Russian - and hence infidel -
control." (p. 133).

"For
Pakistan,
the primary interest is to gain Geostrategic depth through
political influence in
Afghanistan
- and to deny to
Iran
the exercise of such influence in
Afghanistan
and
Tajikistan
- and to benefit eventually from any pipeline construction
linking Central Asia with the
Arabian Sea."æ (p.139)

"Turkmenistan...
has been actively exploring the construction of a new pipeline
through
Afghanistan
and
Pakistan
to the Arabian Sea..." (p.145)

"It follows that
America's
primary interest is to help ensure that no single power comes
to control this geopolitical space and that the global
community has unhindered financial and economic access to it."
(p148)

"China's
growing economic presence in the region and its political
stake in the area's independence are also congruent with
America's
interests." (p.149)

"America
is now the only global superpower, and
Eurasia is the globe's central arena.
Hence, what happens to the distribution of power on the
Eurasian continent will be of decisive importance to
America's
global primacy and to
America's
historical legacy."æ (p.194)

"Without sustained and directed American
involvement, before long the forces of global disorder could
come to dominate the world scene. And the possibility of such
a fragmentation is inherent in the geopolitical tensions not
only of today's Eurasia but of the
world more generally." (p.194)

"With warning signs on the horizon across
Europe and Asia,
any successful American policy must focus on
Eurasia as a whole and be guided by a
Geostrategic design." (p.197)

"That puts a premium on maneuver and
manipulation in order to prevent the emergence of a hostile
coalition that could eventually seek to challenge
America's
primacy..." (p. 198)

"The most immediate task is to make certain
that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to
expel the United
States from
Eurasia or even to diminish
significantly its decisive arbitration role." (p. 198)

"In the long run, global politics are bound
to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of
hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence,
America
is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global
superpower, but it is also likely to be the very last."
(p.209)

"Moreover, as
America
becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it
more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy
issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and
widely perceived direct external threat."æ (p. 211) [Emphasis
added]

The Horror - And Comments From Someone Who
Worked With Brzezinski

Brzezinski's book is sublimely arrogant.
While singing the praises of the IMF and the World Bank, which
have economically terrorized nations on every continent, and
while totally ignoring the worldwide terrorist actions of the
U.S. government that have led to genocide; cluster bombings of
civilian populations from Kosovo, to Laos, to Iraq, to
Afghanistan; the development and battlefield use of both
biological and chemical agents such as Sarin gas; and the
financial rape of entire cultures, it would leave the reader
believing that such actions are for the good of mankind.

While seconded from the German defense
ministry to NATO in the late 1970s, Dr. Johannes Koeppl
traveled to
Washington on
more than one occasion. He also met with Brzezinski in the
White House on more than one occasion. His other
Washington
contacts included Steve Larabee from the CFR, John J. McCloy,
former CIA Director, economist Milton Friedman, and officials
from Carter's Office of Management and Budget. He is the first
person I have ever interviewed who has made a direct
presentation at a Bilderberger conference and he has also made
numerous presentations to sub-groups of the Trilateral
Commission. That was before he spoke out against them.

His fall was rapid after he realized that
Brzezinski was part of a group intending to impose a world
dictatorship. "In 1983/4 I warned of a take-over of world
governments being orchestrated by these people. There was an
obvious plan to subvert true democracies and selected leaders
were not being chosen based upon character but upon their
loyalty to an economic system run by the elites and dedicated
to preserving their power.

"All we have now are pseudo-democracies."

Koeppl recalls meeting U.S. Congressman Larry
McDonald in Nuremburg in the early 80s. McDonald, who was then
contemplating a run for the Presidency, was a severe critic of
these elites. He was killed in the Russian shootdown of Korean
Air flight 007 in 1985. Koeppl believes that it might have
been an assassination. Over the years many writers have made
these allegations about 007 and the fact that someone with
Koeppl's credentials believes that an entire plane full of
passengers would be destroyed to eliminate one man offers a
chilling opinion of the value placed on human life by the
powers that be.

In 1983, Koeppl warned, through Op-Ed pieces
published in NEWSWEEK and elsewhere, that Brzezinski and the
CFR were part of an effort to impose a global dictatorship.
His fall from grace was swift. "It was a criminal society that
I was dealing with. It was not possible to publish anymore in
the so-called respected publications. My 30 year career in
politics ended.

"The people of the western world have been
trained to be good consumers; to focus on money, sports cars,
beauty, consumer goods. They have not been trained to look for
character in people. Therefore what we need is education for
politicians, a form of training that instills in them a higher
sense of ethics than service to money. There is no training
now for world leaders. This is a shame because of the
responsibility that leaders hold to benefit all mankind rather
than to blindly pursue destructive paths.

"We also need education for citizens to be
more efficient in their democracies, in addition to education
for politicians that will create a new network of elites based
upon character and social intelligence."

Koeppl, who wrote his 1989 doctoral thesis on
NATO management, also authored a 1989 book - largely ignored
because of its controversial revelations - entitled "The Most
Important Secrets in the World." He maintains a German
language web site at http://www.antaris.com/ and he can be reached
by email at [email-masked].

As to the present conflict Koeppl expressed
the gravest concerns, "This is more than a war against
terrorism. This is a war against the citizens of all
countries. The current elites are creating so much fear that
people don't know how to respond. But they must remember. This
is a move to implement a world dictatorship within the next
five years. There may not be another chance."

end

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