An Interview with Globalist Robert Pastor: North American Community, Regional Integration and Global Government (Video)

Source: American University

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Robert Pastor is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and essentially the man in charge of creating the blueprint for the regional integration of North America. Some have dubbed him the “Father of the American Union”.

Once continental or regional integration is achieved to varying degree, it is logical that the integration of the world will follow.

In the brief history of North American regional integration, one early verifiable item that stands out is the leaked 1980 scan or report of the Bilderberg group which details its desire for a North American common bloc, established first by free trade and later built upon sequentially by further institutions. Looking upon recent history, these deal with regional economic integration, continental security structures and eventually, someday, political cohesion.

Indeed, Canada and the U.S. signed a bilateral free trade agreement in 1989, integrating Mexico in 1994. In 2011, Canada and the U.S. signed a bilateral common security agreement. Taking into account agreements such as The Merida Initiative, it is logical that Mexico will eventually be integrated into what will be some type of North American Common Security Perimeter.

A month or two ago, Dr. Stephen Zamora paid a visit to a university campus down in Mexico. The first question he asked the crowd was whether they were “North Americans” versus “Mexicans” or “US citizens”.

Zamora, too, is a proponent of North American integration having proposed a regional development fund to move the process along.

I suppose the goal of speakers like Zamora and Pastor is to plant the seeds of the North American idea in the minds of the North American youth and academic institutions, in order to acclimate the next generation so that they would be more sympathetic to the idea.

I surmise the reason Pastor made a low-key visit to the campus, early in the morning, was either because he was extremely busy or that he did not wish to attract too much nationalist sentiment. I was actually surprised and dismayed at the low level of lecture attendees, for here was the man himself, the “Father of the North American Union”!

He gave a rather dry take on the need for a “North American Idea” and “North American Community”. One interesting point he made was that the percentage of trade between the three countries, something like 50-60% was equal to that of the European Union, demonstrating how far integration has come on certain issues.

Dr. Pastor goes on to state, as always, how the nation state is still “the single most important entity in the world.” How global issues such as the environment require problem solving beginning with a “region like North America, toward greater cooperation and greater governance.” Where “we should talk less about greater global government because that just sets the nationalists more on their heels and gets them to stop any cooperation at all. And it’s also unrealistic.”

He argues for “new mechanisms of cooperating among states to deal with issues that can’t be dealt with solely by each one right now. And, for a new generation of students [to] be more relaxed about integrating and interacting with other states and other people.”

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