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outgoing RBF Chairman, Abby M. O'Neill, noted how the RBFhad — Stewardship" (1997), noted with alarm the "waning of public and long been committed to a number of "core program ideas", among political support" within the US for "cooperative international them "the challenge of global interdependence and American engagement". To remedy this, the report recommended that US leadership". These programs were occasionally adjusted, and in leaders work to convince the American public that such an 1983 the RBF adopted a "One World" strategy with an "explicitly approach was consistent with their values and interests. And to global perspective and an emphasis on the convergence of national support the leadership, a wide-ranging "public" constituency should and international frameworks". Some 15 years later, O'Neill be built, combining NGOs, businesses, educators, unions, the observed, "the One World theme is more relevant than ever".* media, religious groups and philanthropic foundations. NGOs During the 1980s, the RBF's "One World" programs focused on would be "central to any constituency-building effort" and could nuclear non-proliferation and international relations, development, also be used by multilateral and bilateral institutions to "bypass cor- trade and finance. In 1996, following the end of the Cold War, the rupt governments". As with all Rockefeller efforts, changing pub- RBF revised its "One World" strategy, lic attitudes is the key. The implications launching what was intended to be a of this report and others in this project two-year review of its grant-making. To . . . . are simple: public attitudes, especially help develop new guidelines, a "Project The implications of this in the US, must be changed to make on World Security" was started. The A A "One World" possible. RBF also funded a program of research report and others In this Written into the Charter of the on "transnational governance" at the project are simple: public Rockefeller Foundation, when it was Carnegie Endowment for International . . . originally founded in 1913, is the Peace. The RBF's new guidelines for its attitudes, especially in the US, objective of contributing to "the well- "Global Security Program", released in must be changed to make being of mankind throughout the 1999, committed the Fund to building " " . world". During much of its life, the "strong domestic constituencies for One World possible. Foundation has realised this goal cooperative international engagement" through its involvement in mostly med- and supporting efforts to "understand, ical and educational programs around adjust to and steer the process of the world and, for a time during the increased economic integration..."” 1920s, the provision of direct financial support to certain operations A look at the Global Security Program's grants for 1999 and 2000 _ of the League of Nations. In 1999, however, the Rockefeller reveals the RBF gave grants to: the International Forum on Foundation announced a "new global mission" of helping "poor Globalization "For efforts to develop a positive vision of global people excluded from globalization's benefits". governance"; US$70,000 to the Benton Foundation to bring its The aims or "themes" seemed laudable: to "improve poor peo- oneworld.org website to the US; $500,000 to the Aspen Institute for _ple's lives and livelihoods through the application of knowledge, its role in the "Global Interdependence Initiative" project; $300,000 science, technology, research and analysis"; and to "ensure that to the CEIP for its "Managing Global Issues Project"; and $200,000 _ globalization processes are more democratic and equitable and ben- to the South Centre in Switzerland to support developing-country efit the most vulnerable, disenfranchised populations, cultures and NGOs and governments on "trade and global governance issues".“° communities around the world". One of the first reports of the RBF's Global Interdependence Though we might note that as this last "theme", actually Initiative, "Global Interdependence and the Need for Social designated a "cross-theme", is "global inclusion", the ultimate Endnotes Organization of the United Nations, 1961, pp. 16. For a more detailed account, see 1, Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. 9, 16-18. Weissman, "Why The Population Bomb Is A Rockefeller, Sr, Warner Books, 1999, pp. 653- 9. This was a report that then President Richard Rockefeller Baby". 656. Nixon dismissed in a brief but stiff meeting 17. For one of few accounts of this dispute, 2. Ferdinand Lundberg, The Rich and The with JDR3, adding to the long list of deliberate though one that is severely limited by being Super-Rich: A Study in the Power of Money snubs Nixon directed at the Rockefellers, possi- from David Rockefeller's point of view alone, Today, Lyle Stuart, Inc, 1968, p. 597. bly to his ultimate cost. For details of this inci- see David Rockefeller, Memoirs, Random 3. John E. Harr and Peter J. Johnson, The dent, see Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The House, 2002, pp. 336-355. Nelson died six Rockefeller Conscience: An American Family Rockefe fellers: An American Dynasty, New months later, when, according to David, most in Public and in Private, Charles Scribner's American Library, 1976, pp. 374-375. of the dispute had been resolved. Sons, 1991, pp. 90-96. 10. John D. Rockefeller Ill, The Second 18. David Icke, "Crop Circle Mystery Solved. 4, ibid., p. 98. American Revolution: Some Personal Phew! What Would We Do Without The 5 P P : Observations, Harper & Row, 1973, pp. 62-63. Rockefellers? Thanks, Colin", at 5. See Asia Society website at http://www.asi- Bs 4 : S, > , i 11, Quoted in Weissman, "Why The http://www.davidicke.com/icke/articles2/crop- asociety.org. A ” 6. Se a ect Barkley and Steve Weissman, popuation Bomb Is A Rockefeller Baby", pp. circles.html; and Michael Hesemann, quoted in "The Eco-Establishment"; and Steve 12. David Rockefeller, "The Population DE EE et appearance Explained, Weissman, "Why the Population Bomb Is A ic 33". Vi Insight, July 8, 2001 (emphasis added), ec hanaa 4 Problem and Economic Progress”, Vital 19. Lundberg, The Rich and the Super-Rich, p Rockefeller Baby", in Editors of Ramparts, Speeches of the Day, April 1, 1966, p. 367. 5 96: and Robin W. Winks, "Laurance S one Blo Cotcurerelta ag Ee Aa, WO. 13. See, for example, "Genocide" at Rockefe! ler: Catalyst for Conmemetiten— 7. Weissman, "Why the Population Bomb Is a__ttp://www.africa2000.com; and Mark and (Chenin ch Nae vot Riaras Reventon 8 Rockefeller Baby", p. 29; and Raymond B. Louise Zwick, "Population Control: Ethnic a Fosdick, The Story of the Rockefeller Cleansing: Return of Nazi Eugenics", Houston ; y Foundation, Odhams Press, 1952, p. 244. Catholic Worker, July-August 1999. t Oued Tian Bp 658.659. 8. John D. Rockefeller III, "People, Food and 14. Rockefeller, The Second American Rockefe! ler" > . the Well-Being of Mankind", Second Revolution, pp. 66-68. : McDougall Lecture 1961, Food and Agriculture 15. ibid., pp. 106-110, 117, 119-120, 125-130. Continued on page 36 NEXUS = 35 FEBRUARY — MARCH 2004 www.nexusmagazine.com