Global Dominance – Part 2

TimeWatch Editorial
July 26, 2016

It is not very often that you will find two authors describing a similar situation in almost the same words. What is even a bit more unusual is the probability of two authors using the same title for their books. In our last Editorial, we quoted an author named Dr. Rahul Mahajan who authored a book entitled: “Full Spectrum Dominance, U.S. Power in Iraq and Beyond.” That book was published November 2, 2002. Seven years later on October 10, 2009, F. William Engdahl published a book entitled: “Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order.” The Free Encyclopedia lists his Bio this way: “Born in Minneapolis , Minnesota , United States , Engdahl is the son of F. William Engdahl, Sr., and Ruth Aalund (b. Rishoff). Engdahl grew up in Texas , and after earning a degree in engineering and jurisprudence from Princeton University in 1966 (BA ), and graduate study in comparative economics at the University of Stockholm from 1969 to 1970, he worked as an economist and freelance journalist in New York and in Europe.”

What is intriguing about the book written by William Engdahl is not just the fact that the first part of the title is “Full Spectrum Dominance,” but the second part of the title is “Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order.” But what does ‘Totalitarian Democracy’ mean? Shouldn’t those two words speak of opposite systems of government? A Totalitarian System of government is one in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed. A Democratic System of government is one in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections. So how is it possible that these two systems could ever be merged? Totalitarian democracy is a term popularized by Israeli historian J. L. Talmon . In his book “The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy;”Published in Britain: Secker & Warburg, 1960. J. L. Talmon defines it this way:

“A system of government in which lawfully elected representatives maintain the integrity of a nation state whose citizens, while granted the right to vote , have little or no participation in the decision-making process of the government.”Talmon, J.L. The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy Published in Britain: Secker & Warburg, 1960.

So F. William Engdahl opens up his book “Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order.” in his introduction with the following paragraph:

“The collapse of the Soviet Union brought jubilation everywhere, with the exception of the White House where, initially, President George H.W. Bush reacted with panic. Perhaps he was unsure how the United States would continue to justify its huge arms spending and its massive intelligence apparatus – ranging from the CIA to the NSA to the Defense Intelligence Agency and beyond – without a soviet foe. H.W. Bush was a product and a shaper of the Cold War National Security State. His world was one of ‘enemy image’ espionage, and secrecy, where people often sidestepped the US Constitution when ‘national security’ was involved. In its own peculiar way it was a state within the state, a world every bit as centrally run and controlled as the Soviet Union had bee, only with private multinational defense and energy conglomerates and their organizations of coordination in place of the Soviet Politburo. Its military contracts linked every part of the economy of the United States to the future of that permanent war machine.” F. William Engdahl, “Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order.” Page 7

But William Engdahl did not stop there. He continues his description of the situation this way:

“As the sole hegemonic power remaining after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States was faced with two possible ways of dealing with the new Russian geopolitical reality. The United States had the option of gradually dismantling NATO just as Russia had dissolved the Warsaw Pact, and furthering a climate of mutual economic cooperation that could turn Eurasia into one of the world’s most prosperous and thriving economic zones. Yet Washington chose another path to deal with the end of the Cold War. The path could be understood only from the inner logic of its global agenda – a geopolitical agenda. The sole remaining Superpower chose stealth, deception, lies and wars to attempt to control the Eurasian Heartland – its only potential rival as an economic region – by military force.” F. William Engdahl, “Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order.” Page 8

So here we are. Full spectrum dominance established and described. Again the prophecy found in Revelation 13 is validated.

“I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.” Revelation 13, 11, 12

Cameron A. Bowen