Trilateral tentacles extend reach. (The Last Word).

The Trilateral Commission is on the move, broadening its influence. The elitist group that seeks world union initially drew its membership from North America, Western Europe, and Japan. But beginning in 2000 the TC dramatically widened its membership. The Japanese portion became the Pacific Asian Group, the North American Group (the U.S. and Canada) added Mexico, and the European Group's numbers grew "in line with the enlargement of the European Union."

Thirty years ago, the TC's European members came from the nine nations most closely allied to America: UK, Germany, France, Denmark, Belgium, Italy, Norway, Ireland, and the Netherlands. As of 2003, another dozen have been added: Greece, Portugal, Czech Republic, Spain, Finland, Hungary, Poland, Austria, Sweden, Cyprus, Russia, and Estonia. The new Pacific Asian Group has grown from Japanese members alone to include members from New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, South Korea, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia.

With global control as the goal, TC expansion is exactly what its architects had envisioned. The Trilateral approach to world government was proposed by Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski (a protege of capitalist-socialist extraordinaire David Rockefeller) in his 1970 book Between Two Ages. Therein, Brzezinski recommended a "community of the developed nations" as part of a "piecemeal" approach to world government. "[A] council of this sort -- perhaps initially linking only the United States, Japan, and Western Europe, and thus bringing together the political leaders of states sharing certain common aspirations and problems of modernity -- would be more effective in developing common programs than is the United Nations, whose efficacy is unavoidably limited by the Cold War and by north-south divisions," he wrote.

According to Brzezinski: "Movement toward a larger community of the developed nations ... cannot be achieved by fusing existing states into one larger entity.... It makes much more sense to attempt to associate existing states through a variety of indirect ties and already developing limitations on national sovereignty."

Indeed it does, from the global architects' point of view. In building this house of world order, linking the U.S., Japan, and Western Europe constituted not the final objective but an opening phase. "The second phase," Brzezinski explained, "would include the extension of these links to more advanced communist countries. Some of them -- for example, Yugoslavia or Romania -- may move toward closer international cooperation more rapidly than others, and hence the two phases need not ...