Just as San Francisco was the birthplace of the United Nations, now the “City by the Bay” will host a meeting to establish ground rules for governing a united world.
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has been named the “convening chair” and host of a world forum on the “first global civilization” planned for San Francisco from September 27 to October 1, 1995.
Elitists at the conference are scheduled to consider how the so-called “new world order” will be governed.
The last dictator of the fallen Soviet Union, Gorbachev has ensconced his Gorbachev Foundation USA in the former Coast Guard commandant’s residence at the closed U.S. military base, the Presidio, in San Francisco.
The SPOTLIGHT has learned that former President George Bush and ex-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have agreed, among others, to serve as co-chairs of the forum slated at San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel.
Others to co-chair the meeting on the so-called new world order include: Ted Turner, U.S. television mogul; George Shultz, a former secretary of state; Askar Akaev, President of the Soviet break-away republic of Kyrgystan; Tansu Ciller, Prime Minister of Turkey; Vaclav Havel, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic; Bilderberger Ruud Lubbers, ex-Prime Minister of the Netherlands; Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemala, like Gorbachev a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize; Yasuhiro Nakasone, former Prime Minister of Japan; Julius Nyerere, ex-President of Tanzania; and Desmond Tutu, Episcopal Archbishop of South Africa.
In explaining the purpose of the forum, former U.S. Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.), chairman of the Gorbachev Foundation USA, said hopes for a new world order following the cold war have dimmed.
“There appears to be a great cynicism everywhere with government,” Cranston said. “And there is a yearning for new directions.”
About 8,000 business leaders from 75 countries have been invited to attend as paying participants at a cost of $8,000 each, which will bring the tax-exempt Gorbachev Foundation USA a total of $64 million, if all attend.
Other invited guests include Vice President Al Gore, President Nelson Mandela of South Africa, ABC newsman Ted Koppel, novelist Isabel Allende, Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser in the Carter administration, Jessica Tuchman Matthews, senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations who writes a column in the Washington Post, and Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
President Bill Clinton does not appear either on the list of co-chairs or invited guests, which is unusual since he has received high praise from Gorbachev.
According to the Cape Cod (Massachusetts) Times of January 23, 1993, Gorbachev stated:
“The future needs…international institutions acting on behalf of all. A higher institution that operates on a consensus, such a choice would narrow the independence many believe the United States now enjoys… President Clinton will be a success if he uses American influence to accomplish this transformation of international responsibility and increase significantly the role of the United Nations. He will be a great president if he can make America the creator of a new world order based on consensus.”
The “mission” of the world forum, according to literature released by the Gorbachev Foundation USA, “will focus on the fundamental challenges and opportunities confronting humanity as we enter the next century and a new millennium. It is being held in the belief that at this momentous juncture in history, we are giving birth to the first global civilization.
“In this spirit, the intent of the Forum is to articulate a clear vision of new international priorities. Its task will be the generation of innovative approaches to the fundamental challenges facing human society through a process which emphasizes global awareness, individual empowerment and a sense of home…Inherent within the forum is the potential for the establishment of a global brain trust to continue into the next century.”
The dictatorial nature of the “global civilization” becomes clear with the descriptive literature stating that in “new ways…our political leaders are challenged to provide the framework for stability and regulated [SPOTLIGHT emphasis] human interactions; our moral leaders to give expression to the eternal values which have always guided humanity; the business community to assume responsibility for the investment and management necessary for prosperity; scientists to continue technological development to serve human needs; artists to give metaphorical expression to our dreams and our tragedies; our youth to demand that the future be better than the past; and intellectuals to offer penetrating insight concerning humanity’s progress toward shared goals. Only the creative interaction of these groups, rather than the supremacy of one group over others, will allow the answers we all seek to emerge and guide us as we shape the next phase of human development…”
It is worth noting that Gorbachev, as the last leader of the Soviet Union, has never renounced his Marxist ideology.
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