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Global Power & Elites · New World Order & world government
Competing accounts of whether major global institutions are building a singular controlling world political order, versus accounts of contested multipolar bargaining among sovereign states.
Open the caseWorld Economic Forum5
- Official · The World Economic Forum launched an independent probe into founder Klaus Schwab after whistleblower allegations about governance and workplace culture.
- Documented · The World Economic Forum published Great Reset framing materials in 2020.
- Contested · An anonymous letter to the World Economic Forum board alleged that the Schwab family mixed personal affairs with Forum resources without proper oversight.
- Contested · Public commentary has alternately described the World Economic Forum as a premier elite networking venue and as an organization under severe reputational and institutional strain.
- Contested · Reporting has alleged that Klaus Schwab and his wife claimed more than one million dollars in questionable World Economic Forum travel expenses.
United Nations3
- Documented · The United Nations Charter was signed in San Francisco on 26 June 1945.
- Documented · The United Nations has requested responses from the United States regarding allegations of Indigenous peoples’ human rights violations tied to pipeline construction.
- Documented · United Nations peacekeeping missions have faced allegations of abuse, cover-ups, and failures to protect civilians in conflict zones including Darfur and Srebrenica.
New World Order2
- Documented · President George H. W. Bush used the phrase "new world order" in a 1 October 1990 UN General Assembly address.
- Documented · Some academic and institutional treatments classify New World Order global-government claims as a modern conspiracy theory with longer historical roots.
International Monetary Fund1
- Documented · The IMF describes itself as an organization of about 190 member countries.
Other1
- Contested · Critical and prophetic literature has framed a coming singular global government, sometimes including themes such as global currency and population microchipping, as fulfillment of end-times biblical prophecy.