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What era is it anyway? / The Christian Science Monitor
In the late 1980s, with the cold war (hat tip to presidential adviser Bernard Baruch for the term, with an assist by columnist Walter Lippmann) coming to a close, President George H.W. Bush’s national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft, began talking of the “New World Order.” Goodbye to the long, twilight struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union, capitalism and communism. Something new was dawning. New World Order sounded innocent enough, but it became a sinister acronym to people worried about “world government,” “the “gnomes of Zurich,” and a dozen other global conspiracies. By the mid-1990s, amid ethnic cleansing and collapsed states, NWO was mostly us...
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