Populist political movements are gaining momentum around the world as a backlash to the global schemes which enrich the capitalists and rape and pillage the Third World nations of the world.

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By Martin Mann

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As summer turns into the first fall of 2000, the revival of Pat Buchanan's fortunes marks just the latest surge in the rising tide of populist and patriotic movements around the world.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is far and away the most acclaimed leader in Latin America. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad is revered by vast jultitudes of Asians as the standout statesman of their era. In Europe, fast-rising nationalist parties led by Joerg Haider in Austria and Christoph Blocher in Switzerland command the largest constituencies. And in Africa Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi has not merely survived decades of venomous-and occasionally violent-Zionist attacks, he is making an unexpected comeback.
What these world leaders have in common is that they are all unbending and far-sighted populists, who have rebuffed the blandishments of the cosmopolitan financial elite and fought to curb their scheming global enforcers, the International Monetary Fund(IMF), the World Bank, the World Trade Organization(WTO)and other invasive internationalist bureaucracies.
POPULIST EXAMPLES
When Haider's Freedom Party emerged as the clear winner from Austria's presidential elections last fall, expressing the will of the majority to install a nationalist-populist administration, the frightened politicians in charge of the European Union(EU), a 14 nation amalgam of elitist and globalist governments, slapped diplomatic sanctions on the small Germanic Central European country.

But the sanctions could claim, at best, only "dubious" legitimacy, and even worse, they were "counterproductive" and unwarranted," reported a study group, known as the "three" wise men" appointed by the EU to review the sanctions regime.
The new Austrian government, in which six members of Haider's Freedom Party held ministerial positions, was "scrupously respectful" of minority rights and maintained a "spotless" human-rights record. the committee of "three wise men" headed by Martti Ahtisari, Finland's former president, found.
Haider, who was brutally targeted by the Establishment median and Zionist agencies such as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for his refusal to render the required obeisance to Israel by condemning Germany's wartime leaders and fighting men, declined to accept the top position of Austrian Chancellor (head of government) offered himby the electorate in order to avoid further controversy."
Noting this "conciliatory" decision, the "three wise men" urged the lifting of all anti-Austrian sanctions-a decision accepted and reluctantly announced in the evening of Sept. 14 by French President Jacques Chirac who curently occupies the rotating chair of the EU.
"It was the French politicians who forced these absurd sanctions on the rest of the EU because they are frightened that the populist-nationalist movement in France led by Jean-Marie Le Pen is growing almost as fast as Haider's Freedom Party did in Austria," explained Alain Segonzac, the veteran dean of French foreign correspondents.
At the other end of the world, Mahathir, Malaysia's democratically elected leader, found himself under even more savage siege than Haider after he confronted the mob of money-market marauders who raided-and wrecked- Southeast Asia's vulnerable payments systems and hard-working national economies in the spring of 1997.
Denouncing the cosmopolitan curency speculators who have "destroyed" in weeks what our people have struggled to build for decades," Mahathir identified them as a "criminal gang of international financiers."
Categorically rejecting the "aid" hypocritcally offered by the IMF and the World Bank as "poison" pills, Mahathir pledged to revive his nation's shattered economy by "our own efforts, resources, hard work and patriotic pride."
"Unlike Indonesia and South Korea, where the meddling of the IMF and the World Bank has prolonged economic disorder and civil unrest to this day, the populist polices enforced by the Mahathir administration have restored Malaysia's productive capacity and financial stability in a single year-a miraculous recovery," said Dr. Mahfouz Bayan, the noted Philipine economist.
But the global financial elites now considered Mahathir a dangerous enemy and attempted to oust him by means of what has become know in Southeast Asia as the "Marcos treatment."
To make the anti-Marcos disturbances look like a genuine revolt," the CIA staged-and Wall Street financed-violent street demonstrations by corrupt unions and by students incited by a campaign of disinformation spread by undercover-U.S. agents.
Leading U.S. coup plotters, such as Assistant Secretary of State Paul Wolfowitz, directly linked to the back-room policy planners of the Bilderberg Society, promised the Philippine military commanders major promotions if they deserted Marcos-and eventually most of the generals went along.
But when the global enforcers of Wall Street and the off-stage Bilderberger strategists attempted to overthrow Mahathir by means of a similiar strategy, they came a cropper.
The steely and street-smart Asian leader kept a tight grip on key supports of his regime-the military, the markets and the masses-and the internationalist attempts to oust him were firmly repulsed.
In Northern Africa, Libyan strongman Qaddafi has similarly kept his hold on power in the face of unremitting attackes by a global coalition of enemies led by Israeli agents and their powerful U.S. lobby.
In the Netherlands, the special tribunal set up to try two Libyan intelligence agents accused of complicity in the downing of a PanAm flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, has so far turned up next to no hard evidence linking the Libyan government to this tragic terrorist crime.
As a result, the Clinton administration is now actively engaged in behind-the scenes negotiations with Qaddafi's top aides about a relaxation of the longstanding tensions between the two nations and the lifting of the U.S. imposed economic embargo.