The Trilateral Commission: Effect on the Middle East

 Created in 1973, the Trilateral Commission has exerted a dramatic effect on the entire Third World. Its effect on the Middle East is due to the vast amounts of oil in the region and the West's need to have a cheap source of energy for industry and transportation.

The need to dominate the entire Third World, not the least of which includes the Middle East, is caused by the ever increasing quest for profit. Capitalism creates the necessity to earn more and more profit necessitating sacrifices in wages and benefits to those who are not owners.

To the extent that this organization needs to gain huge profits for those who share in their wealth, namely the stockholders, the Trilateral Commission is compelled or forced to control the government. Government, therefore, becomes subservient to the corporations so corporations will continue to make ever larger and larger profits.

Thus, the multinational corporations provide the means by which to dominate the federal government, controlling the Congress and parliaments of the following areas of the world: United States, Japan, and Western Europe.

Since the original research was completed, Japan and Western Europe have tended to pull away from the United States for various reasons which should be examined in another article. The United States, however, is still embraced in this phenomenon which is now hurting the poor and the middle class in the United States.

There was an economic crises in the early 1970s which precipitated the formation of this commission. The organization of OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) was basically caused because the West, or as some who are wiser than many say North, as the northern countries dominate over the southern hemisphere, decreased the price of oil twice within one year. There were other factors also, such as the Soviet Union's increased military capacity and Cuba's support for developing countries. The developments in the oil rich nations enabled them to directly invest heavily in foreign lands thereby threatening a significant loss of ownership control by the First World community.

All these circumstances caused the formation of the Trilateral Commission, a relatively secret organization composed of elites. Headed by David Rockefeller, who was considered at that time to be "the most widely recognized leader of transnational enterpÑises" according to Kowalewski and Leitko, the Trilateral Commission was formed to achieve cooperation in government policy making.

David Rockefeller claimed that the Trilateral Commission was begun by a group of concerned citizens interested in fostering greater understanding and cooperation among international allies in the present day international political climate. This statement is vague at its best and dishonest at worst.

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