In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes
the origins and 'shared values' of the British-American Project for a
Successor Generation, founded in 1983 by Ronald Reagan with support from
Rupert Murdoch. Today's BAP meets every year alternately in the US and
Britain and includes scientists, economists, community leaders and
journalists, a number of them liberals or 'on the left'.
In Indonesia 35 years ago, a military dictator took over, a million people were killed and a red carpet was rolled out for western capital. It was the start of globalisation in Asia, a model for the rest of the world, leaving a legacy of sweatshops and corruption.
There is a view fashionable in the media that the world is being taken over by huge multinational corporations, accountable to no one.
The young people who have had the courage to take to the streets on every continent, and were among the 20,000 protesters at Gothenburg, should take satisfaction from the panic of new right politicians like Blair and Berlusconi.
