by Kerry Bolton
Of note in regard to the 2010 PCIP delegation is their interest in the influence of Hollywood on French culture. This might seem at first glance to be an odd concern. However Hollywood, as the symbol of international cultural excrescence, is an important factor in globalisation, in what amounts to a world culture-war, as discussed previously in regard to the Ralph Peters analysis. It is notable that the instigators of the ‘Arab Spring’ that swept through North Africa, reaching into Iran, were secularised youths without strong traditional roots, and enamoured by the products of global consumerism. These modernised youths are precisely the type that Ralph Peters described as being infected by the ‘lethal culture’ of Hollywood, MTV, etc., who could be mobilised and manipulated into overthrowing not only ‘rejectionist’ regimes such as that of Libya, but even regimes such as the Egyptian, that had traditionally been pro-U.S. but which did not accord with longer term aims for Africa and the Middle East. I have described elsewhere precisely how this was done during the ‘Arab Spring’ with a generation of North Africans as obsessed with ‘social media’ as their rootless counterparts in the West, at the instigation of U.S.-based globalists.[13]
So what are Rivkin and the U.S. State Department up to in France, that they should be so interested in the place of Hollywood and of Muslims in that nation?
The Rivkin Project for Subverting French Youth
When Rivkin invited a delegation of fellow PCIP members to France in 2010 he had outlined a program for the globalisation of France that involves the use of the Muslim minorities and the indoctrination of French youth with multiculturalism. The slogan invoked was the common commitment France and America historically had to ‘equality.’ Wikileaks released the ‘confidential’ Rivkin programme. It is entitled ‘Minority Engagement Strategy.’[14] Here, Rivkin outlines a program that is a far-reaching interference in the domestic affairs of a sovereign nation and, more profoundly, seeks to change the attitudes of generations of Muslim and French youth so that they might be merged into a new globalist synthesis; or what might be called a new humanity: Homo economicus, or Homo globicus; what the financial journalist G. Pascal Zachary calls ‘The Global Me.’[15] Rivkin begins by stating that his Embassy has created a ‘Minority Engagement Strategy,’ that is directed at Muslims in France. Rivkin states as part of the programme: ‘. . . We will also integrate the efforts of various Embassy sections, target influential leaders among our primary audiences, and evaluate both tangible and intangible indicators of the success of our strategy.’[16]
Rivkin is confident that France’s history of ideological liberalism ‘will serve us well as we implement the strategy outlined here . . . in which we press France. . . .’ Note the phrase: ‘press France.’ America’s global agenda is linked by Rivkin to his blueprint for transferring France into ‘a thriving, inclusive French polity [that] will help advance our interests in expanding democracy and increasing stability worldwide.’ The program will focus on the ‘elites’ of the French and the Muslim communities, but will also involve a massive propaganda campaign directed at the ‘general population,’ with a focus on the young.
The programme includes redefining French history in the school curricula to give attention to the role of non-French minorities in French history. It means that the Pepsi/MTV generation of Americans and their mentors in academe will be formulating new definitions of French culture and rewriting French history to accord with globalist agendas. Towards this end: ‘. . . we will continue and intensify our work with French museums and educators to reform the history curriculum taught in French schools.’ The U.S. ‘elite’ arrogates to itself the prerogative to refashion of culture and the very collective consciousness of another people, in order to reshape France for globalisation. This revision of French history and culture to accord with a multicultural, anti-national agenda has already been imposed within the United States itself for decades, to ensure that Euro-American consciousness is obliterated, in favour of the American ‘melting pot,’ while conversely ‘Black Pride’ and ‘Hispanic Pride’ (La Raza) have been promoted as a dialectical battering ram against American Whites. Ultimately the aim remains to create a nebulous mass called ‘Americans’ out of a melting pot.
‘Tactic Number Three’ is entitled: ‘Launch Aggressive Youth Outreach.’ As in other states targeted by the U.S. State Department and their allies in the Soros network, Freedom House, Movement.org, the National Endowment for Democracy, Solidarity Center,[17] and so forth, disaffected youth are the focus for change. Leading the charge on this effort, the Ambassador’s inter-agency Youth Outreach Initiative aims to ‘engender a positive dynamic among French youth that leads to greater support for U.S. objectives and values.’ Can the intentions be stated any plainer? It is cultural and political Americanisation. It is here that we can most easily get past the cant and see what is behind the strategy: to form a generation ‘that leads to greater support for U.S. objectives and values’ (sic). These ‘U.S. objectives and values’ will be sold to the French as ‘French values’ on the basis of the liberal-humanist ideals that instigated both the 1776 American Revolution and the 1789 French Revolution. The young French will be taught to think that they are upholding French traditions, rather than acting as the useful idiots of Americanisation, and the concomitant idiocracy[18] of the global shopping mall. A far-reaching program incorporating a variety of indoctrination methods is outlined by Rivkin:
To achieve these aims, we will build on the expansive Public Diplomacy programs already in place at post, and develop creative, additional means to influence the youth of France, employing new media, corporate partnerships, nationwide competitions, targeted outreach events, especially invited U.S. guests.[19]
The program directed at youth in France is similar to that directed at the youth that formed the vanguard of the ‘velvet revolutions’ from Eastern Europe to North Africa. Potential leaders are going to be recruited by the U.S. State Department in France and cultivated to play a part in the future Americanised France:
We will also develop new tools to identify, learn from, and influence future French leaders. As we expand training and exchange opportunities for the youth of France, we will continue to make absolutely certain that the exchanges we support are inclusive. We will build on existing youth networks in France, and create new ones in cyberspace, connecting France’s future leaders to each other in a forum whose values we help to shape—values of inclusion, mutual respect, and open dialogue.[20]
Here Rivkin is advocating something beyond influencing Muslims in France. He is stating that a significant part of the programme will be directed towards cultivating French youth in ‘American’ ideals, behind the façade of French ideals. The State Department and corporate allies and allied NGOs intend to ‘shape their values.’ The globalist programme for France is stated clearly to be the re-education of French youth. One would think that this is the most important role of the French state, the Catholic Church and the family; the latter two in particular.
As in the states that are chosen for ‘velvet revolutions’ part of the strategy includes demarcating acceptable political boundaries. In the context of France it is clear that the demarcation of French politics cannot include any elements of so-called ‘xenophobia’ which in today’s context would include a return to the grand politics of the De Gaulle era. Hence, ‘Tactic 5’ states:
Fifth, we will continue our project of sharing best practices with young leaders in all fields, including young political leaders of all moderate parties so that they have the toolkits and mentoring to move ahead. We will create or support training and exchange programs that teach the enduring value of broad inclusion to schools, civil society groups, bloggers, political advisors, and local politicians.[21]
Rivkin is outlining a programme to train France’s future political and civic leaders. While the programmes of U.S. Government-backed NGOs such as the National Endowment for Democracy are designed to develop e
ntire programs and strategies for political parties in ‘emerging democracies’ (sic), this can be rationalised by stating that there is a lack of experience in liberal-democratic party politics in certain states. The same can hardly be used to justify America’s interference in France’s party politics. Towards this end Rivkin states that the 1,000 American English language teachers employed at French schools will be provided with the propaganda materials necessary to inculcate the desired ideals into their French pupils: ‘We will also provide tools for teaching tolerance to the network of over 1,000 American university students who teach English in French schools every year.’ The wide-ranging programme will be coordinated by the ‘Minority Working Group’ in ‘tandem’ with the ‘Youth Outreach Initiative.’ One of the issues monitored by the Group will be the ‘decrease in popular support for xenophobic political parties and platforms.’[22] This is to ensure that the programme is working as it should, to block the success of any ‘extreme’ or ‘xenophobic’ party that might challenge globalisation. Hence, one might conclude that the Front National, is or will be the target of agencies of the U.S. Government.
Rivkin clarifies the subversive nature of the programme when he states: ‘While we could never claim credit for these positive developments, we will focus our efforts in carrying out activities, described above, that prod, urge and stimulate movement in the right direction.’[23] What Rivkin is describing is a covert operation to fundamentally change the character of French youth and society and to interfere with the French political process.
What would the reaction be if the French Government through its Embassy in Washington undertook a program to radically change the United States in accordance with ‘French national interests,’ inculcating through an ‘aggressive outreach program’ focusing on youth, ‘French ideals’ under the guise of ‘American ideals on human rights’? What would be the response of the U.S. Administration if it were found that the French Government was trying to influence the attitudes of Afro-Americans, American-Indians, and Latinos? What if French officials were ordered to take every opportunity to ‘press’ U.S. officials to ask why there are not more American Indians in Government positions? What would be the official U.S. reaction if it were found that French-language educators in American schools and colleges were trying to inculcate American pupils with ideas in the service of French interests, and to reshape attitudes towards a pro-French direction in foreign policy?
Multicultural Programmes Sponsored by U.S. Government
What the globalist agenda is for French youth can be seen in what the United States has for decades imposed upon American youth with programmes such as ‘Black History Month’ (February) in which a history of Africans and Afro-Americans is invented, where Cleopatra and Hannibal are portrayed as Black Africans. Black History Month was formally recognised by the U.S. Government in 1976.[24] Black History Month has been extended to Canada,[25] Britain,[26] and France, and is being extended throughout the world via UNESCO. Black History Month in France in February 2013 featured events held by ‘the mainstay American cultural institutions such as The American Church, The American Library, The American Embassy, or Dorothy’s Gallery’ (American Center for the Arts).[27] A feature of Black History Month in France is the denigration of its colonial heritage, which, as with apartheid in South Africa, slavery and segregation in the United States, and colonialism in other European states, serves as a convenient method of social engineering; namely the inculcation of a guilt complex especially among the young. Hence in 2013 the public activities of the ‘Beyond Colonialism’ Association were organised to coincide with Black History Month.[28]
In 2010, the year that the Rivkin memo was issued, the U.S. Embassy in Paris sponsored a symposium featuring Afro-American expatriate Dr. Monique Wells, who runs a travel agency called ‘Black Paris.’ She spoke on the theme ‘Black Paris and the Myth of a Colorblind France.’ The lecture and discussion were evidently of the type structured to promote a guilt complex among the Europeans present, while promoting a sense that French culture owes much to American Negro input.
The lecture was given in three parts: part one—physical traces of African Americans in Paris (i.e. names on buildings, street signs, etc.); part two—the African-American presence in Paris which continues to permeate the city sometimes impalpably so. During this segment Dr. Wells also confronted the question ‘Is France color blind?,’ examining it from both a cultural and historical perspective; part three—was a slide show of images of the contemporary Diaspora in Paris.[29]
Wells stated that Paris and France culturally owe much to Africans: ‘Paris has changed and is the way it is because we continue to be here. We’re not the only force that drives the French way of life but the African-American contribution is definitely not insignificant to the culture of this city and by extension of this nation.’[30]
Music, particularly jazz, made major inroads into French culture, and now a new generation of French youth are being Africanised via hip hop:
Gospel music is very much appreciated in France; however the biggest contribution from African-Americans was jazz music. The famous jazz club Caveau de la Huchette has attracted many top jazz musicians such as Lionel Hampton, Art Blakey, and Sidney Bechet. Hip-Hop is another genre that has permeated French youth culture, not only in music but in fashion, slam poetry/spoken word, graffiti, and dance.[31]
Note that Wells states this corporate-generated Afro-American ghetto subculture has ‘permeated’ French youth not only in music, but in fashion and in speech, which the French have so assiduously attempted to preserve in its purity.
Wells’ presentation concluded with a discussion, seemingly as a type of ‘group therapy’ session long popular in the United States among corporate and government organisations, and political and religious cults, as a method of imposing conformity of opinions through induced guilt.[32] Hence, ‘The positive feed-back allowed audience members from different racial backgrounds to interact and discuss racial inequalities experienced in Paris; not just among Blacks but among others outside the traditional construct of mainstream French.’[33] The a priori assumption is that ‘the traditional construct of mainstream French’ is still not sufficiently open to cultural subversion from alien sources.
One project of particular concern that was exposed in France was the U.S. backing of an immigrant lobby. Such U.S. sponsorship of NGOs via the National Endowment for Democracy, Freedom House, USAID, and many others, is generally directed at states marked for ‘regime change,’ such as Libya, Syria, Iraq, Serbia, former Soviet bloc states, etc. However, in 2011 Abdelaziz Dahhassi, described like many U.S. dupes as a ‘human rights activist,’ set up a ‘think tank to find new ways of fighting ethnic and religious discrimination in France,’ with ‘backing from the U.S. State Department.’[34]
The Globe & Mail specifically points to the support given by the United States to groups as part of the Rivkin programme, and pointed to the cultivation of Muslim youth by the United States. Such ‘leadership programs’ are a long-used method of influencing potential leaders of states marked for ‘regime change,’ and have been used since the days of the Cold War, when the U.S. was trying to take over from Europe’s colonial rule in Africa and elsewhere, as we have previously seen. The Globe and Mail report states of the programme:
A U.S. embassy official in Paris said the program focused on building relationships with potential leaders in Muslim groups and other minorities, mainly by inviting young up-and-comers to participate in the U.S.-sponsored International Visitor Leadership Program. The program has traditionally sent members of the white French elite on educational visits to the United States. Last year, about a third of French participants belonged to minority groups, mostly Muslims.[35]
It also seems that U.S. diplomats actually encourage discontent and legitimise insurgency from within Muslim enclaves in France by visiting ‘troubled immigrant suburbs’ and inviting youths to U.S. Em
bassy functions. It might well be asked whether the U.S. Embassy is recruiting radical Muslim youth leaders for direction as cadres against France, just as youths in Serbia, Ukraine, Georgia, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, and so forth, have been selected, funded, and trained to agitate in states marked for ‘regime change’? In 2009, the U.S. Embassy helped fund a mural project in the Paris suburb of Villiers-le-Bel, where there had been violent riots in 2007.[36] Three wall daubings included two other suburbs, undertaken under the direction of three muralists from the Mural Arts Program (MAP) of Philadelphia, which the U.S. Embassy described as having worked for 25 years on murals that bring urban populations together;[37] a euphemism for what in liberal-speak is called ‘empowering’ ethnic enclaves. Rivkin inaugurated the first of the murals in September 2009 before 200 guests at Martin Luther King Middle School, the first mural honouring King.[38] Hence, the message of U.S. officialdom to volatile ethnic minorities in France is to look to the example of Martin Luther King, whose sit-downs and other so-called ‘passive resistance’ strategies were designed to provoke violent confrontations with the authorities of local communities.[39] Note the fact that there is even a ‘Martin Luther King Middle School’ in France. King was just the type of Black ‘Uncle Tom’ that the globalists love; an integrationist, in contrast to ‘Black separatists’ and the ‘Nation of Islam’ that also emerged among Blacks, repudiating assimilation in favour of Black racial consciousness,[40] with a widespread belief that the ‘Whites’ who were responsible for Black woes, including slavery, were often Jews.[41] When King (and now also President Obama) are upheld by the United States as a beacon towards which the non-White ethnic minorities of the world can turn, they are providing a black face—as with Nelson Mandela also—for an oligarchical slavery of all races.