Instead, Yeltsin presided over years of decline and economic disaster, all the while himself clearly declining into a world of alcohol and illness. It seemed as if the wildly popular Boris Yeltsin would be leading a no-longer-belligerent Russia into a new age of free enterprise and progress. It would not be long before the USSR was no more, and Muscovites would be partying like the Berliners, albeit on a tighter budget. But my meeting with Vladimir was years ahead, and I took the events at face value: as a vindication for Ronaid Reagan's carrot-and-stick approach to better relations with the USSR. Such is the reach of the Shadow Masters.Īt the time I watched the party in Berlin – for that is surely what went on – with as much pleasure as anyone who had experienced Communist rule firsthand. Leaders meet at G-20 meetings, national legislation is enacted, UN resolutions are passed, NATO forces are dispatched, and only rarely do the real reasons for these actions even approximate their justifying rhetoric. It wasn't meant to be.īeyond the significant specifics, the fundamental message of this book is that on the world stage, things are rarely as they seem. The benefits from removing the expense of the arms race and from the spread of Western capitalism and finance – the "peace dividend" – would lead inevitably to a new golden age, a New American Century. Since then it has become emblematic of the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the "post-history," "unipolar" world touted by American neoconservatives. It didn't actually fall, rather the East German authorities announced on November 9 that access to West Berlin was open, and jubilant Berliners simply disassembled most of it over the next days and weeks. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1 Scene Vīy chance the final touches to this book were made during the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in November of 1989. That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain. ISBN: 978-0-979 Contents Preface, Prologue, Chapter 1: Conspirators, Chapter 2: The Economic Rape of Russia, Chapter 3: The Bilderberg War in Kosovo, Chapter 4: The Underbelly of Business as Usual, Chapter 5: Merchant of Death?, Chapter 6: Nuclear Gamesmanship, Epilogue, Photographs & Documents, Index, CHAPTER 1 Shadow Masters How Governments and their Intelligence Agencies are Working with Drug Dealers and Terrorists for Mutual Benefit and Profit By Daniel Estulin Trine Day LLC Copyright © 2011 Daniel Estulin All rights reserved.
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