New World Order

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The phrase New World Order is a probable mistranslation of novus ordo seclorum (which literally means "new secular order" in Latin), part of the seal of the United States. The actual phrase "New World Order" was used by George Herbert Walker Bush in the context of post-Cold-War politics. Wikipedia references prior uses.

As James Carroll lamented, or observed, for the Boston Globe March 16, 2004 [1],

The Bush dynasty has in fact initiated a new order of things. The United States of America has become its own opposite, a nation of triumphant freedom that claims the right to restrain the freedom of others; a nation of a structured balance of power that destroys the balance of power abroad; a nation of creative enterprise that exports a smothering banality; and above all, a nation of forcefully direct expression that disrespects the truth. Whatever happens from this week forward in Iraq, the main outcome of the war for the United States is clear. We have defeated ourselves.

Today the term New World Order is used mostly by opponents of Bush policies. When you see it in someone's writings, they're probably talking about one of the forces at work below...

Some credit President Dwight D. Eisenhower with the concept of a "new" or "one" world order. In November 1956, John Foster Dulles stated that "President Eisenhower spoke at once to the American people and to the world, announcing that we could not have a dual standard of conduct - one for our friends and one for our enemies - but that there was to be a world order, one set of principles had to govern all." -John Foster Dulles, 11 November 1956.

However, the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the predecessor statements of the defunct League of Nations certainly comprised "one set of principles", and the 1946 Nuremburg Principles were supposed to establish a judicial world order based on whatever principles that "the Allies" (successor term to "the West" and predecessor of "the Coalition") could agree on, despite their varying legal codes and legal customs and jurisprudence. So the idea that this originated with Americans rather than being an attempt to extend the British Empire and include the francophonie and Communist bloc, is highly questionable - the USSR was Nuremburg and very nearly joined Bretton Woods:

Keynesian economics and Bretton Woods institutions all emerged also in 1944-48 as a common view of political economy - as did the neoclassical philosophy of Karl Popper and Friedrich Hayek and "Open Society".

The most visible use of the exact phrase New World Order dates to the collapse of the USSR and thus the end to the near-automatic veto of any serious action by the United Nations Security Council. The UN-Iraq war resulted from the first conflict since the UN-North Korean war where the Soviet (by then Russian veto) was not utilized to block a motion by the United States.

George Herbert Walker Bush, President of the United States in 1990, when this matter was broached at the UN, referred to this evolving New World Order in a speech at the time. It was widely speculated that he had received both the term and the inspiration from then-Prime Minister of the UK Margaret Thatcher, who in a public venue where they discussed the Iraq invasion of Kuwait and what to do about it, tapped him firmly on the knee and said clearly: "this is no time to be wobbly, George."

The Bush doctrine announced by George Walker Bush, his son, in 2002, was the first attempt to make New World Order (or Bushtopia or UStopia or UStopiA as some started to call it scornfully) the basis of some kind of military order. He was successful only in putting together the so-called Coalition forces consisting of the US, UK, and some small number of Australian and Polish forces. A larger number of countries, some who refused to be named and others (like Denmark) who questioned US tactics (like the suspected kidnapping of a high-ranking Iraqi general under war crimes investigation and house arrest in Denmark on the very night Bush announced a 48-hour deadline for Saddam Hussein), were announced to be part of a "coalition of the willing" largely defined by White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, as if no political leader was willing to be affiliated with any statement on its exact definition nor its motivation.

Alternative attempts to define a new and legitimate world order include the Kyoto Protocol by which (for the first time) nations would take some measurable and accountable responsibility for their use of the atmosphere's carrying capacity to absorb greenhouse gases, the International Criminal Court at The Hague, and various treaties to control dangerous technology, have all been rebuffed by the latter Bush administration. In effect, these decisions can be seen to implement the position taken by the elder Bush at the 1992 Rio Summit where he announced that "our lifestyle is not negotiable."

The phrase "New World Order" and similar phrases have been used by Christian fundamentalists for decades to discuss their interpretation of prophecy in the Bible's book of revelation. One reading of the text is that in the End Times the Anti-Christ will oversee the creation of a global one world government and one world religion. The phrase is popular with the John Birch Society, which pioneered its use in attacking U.S. participation in the United Nations.

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Alternative References

An alternative--and highly bigoted--term makes reference to the relationship between the USA and Israel, as building a Jew World Order. A related phrase used by U.S. neonazis is Zionist Occupied Government.

These phrases reappeared in an attempt by U.S. neonazis to block the nomination of Joseph I. Lieberman, US Senator from Connecticut and a practicing conservative Jew, as the Democratic Party nominee in the U.S. presidential election, 2004.

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