Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Global Power Project [part 2 of ?]: The Group of Thirty and Its Methods of Financial Governance

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Monday, December 9, 2013

Global Power Project [part 2 of ?]: The Group of Thirty and Its Methods of Financial Governance

Click here to access article by Andrew Gavin Marshall from Occupy.com.

In this series Marshall has identified a Group of Thirty which plans, implements, and coordinates the global capitalist project. In this article he provides translations of their official language in order to shed light on how top level global capitalists direct global practices in their pursuit of more wealth and power for themselves which result in more unemployment, debts, and poverty for us.

It suddenly occurred to me this morning a question about the global makeup of the membership of this group, specifically how the individual membership corresponded to national membership in NATO. Thus, I had to refer back to a link from part 1. I found that there was only one member from each of the following non-NATO countries: China, Brazil, Argentina, Israel, and Singapore. There were two from Japan and Mexico. There was no member from Russia. It's clear to me that this is a top level group of capitalists who overwhelmingly represent the interests of capitalists in the Anglo-American Empire.