Was COVID-19 An Unwitting Ally In The US Strategy Of Depopulation Of Nations? Has The Pandemic Altered The World Order?

By Yvonne Sam
Contributing Columnist

The Coronavirus brought, in its wake, a sense of inchoate danger, not aimed at any one race or country specifically, but, nevertheless, striking with unprecedented scale and ferocity, leaving a surreal atmosphere.

Its spread was exponential. In the United States especially, cases were doubling, every second to third day. Medical supplies were insufficient to cope with the widening waves of cases, while intensive care units were overwhelmed, filled to the hilt, and beyond. Testing was insufficient to the task of identifying the extent of infection, much less reversing its spread.

At the outset, a successful vaccine was viewed as being somewhat distant, maybe 12 to 18 months away. Endurance was fortified by an ultimate national purpose, unprecedented in magnitude and global scope, in both America and Canada.

The vaccines arrived, and the necessities of the moment were ultimately coupled with a global collaborative vision and program. However, maintaining the public trust is pivotal to social unification, to the relations of countries with each other and to international peace and stability.

Countries associate and thrive on the assumption that their institutions and health agencies can foresee disaster, halt its impact and reestablish stability. Once the COVID-19 pandemic has ceased, the institutions of many countries will be perceived as having failed.

If such a judgment, or statement, is to be given any degree of objective credence is totally irrelevant to the topic at hand. The reality is, the world will never be the same, after the coronavirus.

Nations cohere and flourish on the belief that their institutions can foresee calamity, arrest its impact and restore stability. When the Covid-19 pandemic is over, many countries’ institutions will be perceived as having failed. Whether this judgment is objectively fair is irrelevant. The reality is, the world will never be the same after the coronavirus, as the pandemic has forever changed the world order. Now countries, the world over, must begin the urgent work of planning for a new era.

In one way, or another, did the pandemic succinctly fulfill the expressed desire of former American President, Richard Nixon, as regards the issue of population growth?

In July 1969, American President Richard Nixon held a historic address, before Congress, on the issue of population. In this first speech, he said: “One of the most serious challenges to human destiny, in the last third of this century, will be the growth of the population.” www.population-security.org/09-CH1.html

The President called for the formation of a high-calibre commission that would handle the consequences of a possible overpopulation. On March 16, 1970, President Nixon signed the Bill Establishing the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future.

He appointed, as chairperson, economics magnate, John D. Rockefeller III, who had been pushing for the creation of this kind of expert panel, since the Eisenhower administration. www.population-security.org/10-CH2.html        core.ac.uk/download/pdf/5171276.pdf

In 1971, The India-Pakistan War resulted in famine and mass starvation in Bangladesh. Over 3,800 soldiers of India and Pakistan sacrificed their lives in this war, to end the genocide Pakistan had been conducting against the Bengali population of East Pakistan.

The mass media publicized the Bangladesh holocaust, across the United States and Western Europe, peddling the line that overpopulation had provoked the crisis. www.indiatoday.in/education-today/gk-current-affairs/story/indo-pakistani-war-of-1971

In 1972, the Commission on Population Growth published 60 recommendations, including a proposal to legalize abortions, across the country, paid for by the government. It also suggested providing teenagers, in particular, with contraceptives.

Although President Nixon remained quiet, his Secretary of State and former national security advisor, Dr. Henry Kissinger, accorded the population issue the highest priority. Under Kissinger’s aegis, the National Security Council submitted the so-called National Security Study Memorandum 200 to the President in 1974. www.pop.org/nssm-200-understanding-national-security-study-memorandum-200/.

The Kissinger Report explicitly laid out the detailed strategy, by which the US government aggressively promoted population control in developing nations, in order to regulate, or have greater access to the natural resources of these countries. pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/Pcaab500.pdf.

Classified in 1989, the document bears the heading: “Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for US Security and Overseas Interests.” In it, Kissinger and other like-minded associates called for a massive reduction of the population in less-developed countries.

The countries explicitly mentioned were India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, the Philippines, Thailand, Egypt, Turkey, Ethiopia and Columbia. The plan was to be achieved by means of food scarcity, sterilization programs and war. www.hli.org/resources/exposing-the-global-population-control/.

The NSSM-200 linked rapid population growth in the developing regions of the world to civil disturbances and other disruptions, arguing that such agitation would lead to interruptions in the flow of strategic minerals and other materials to the United States and, as such, would constitute a threat to national security.

The Kissinger Report was made public, when it was declassified and transferred to the U.S. National Archives in 1990. history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76ve14p1/ch3.

Since 1974, the United States government has issued hundreds of policy papers, dealing with various aspects of American national security. However, The Kissinger Report continues to be the foundational document on U.S. government population control. It therefore continues to represent official United States policy on government population control.

The Vietnam War ended in 1975, with population experts announcing their astonishment that the war had failed to succeed in lowering the birth rates in the combat zones. larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1981/eirv08n19-19810512/eirv08n19-19810512_050-origins_of_global_2000_a_map_of.pdf .

The Cambodia depopulation project, which would kill three-sevenths of that nation’s population, by 1977, had begun.

It was reported that Kissinger and his new bureau were fully aware of the extent of the genocide taking place in Cambodia-murder, on a scale beyond that of Hitler. The Office of Population Affairs admitted that it had studied the effects of the Pol Pot government’s deurbanization and deindustrialization policies very carefully. scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1607&context=gsp

Under the prompting of the Population Crisis Committee networks, Congress established the House Select Committee on Population in 1977. Headed by Rep. James David Stockman Scheuer, the Select Committee was the first formal committee of any national legislature, dedicated exclusively to population questions. The committee held more than 2 years of hearings to publicize the need for the U.S. to commit itself to reduce population growth, and to sound the alarm on the global population crisis. www.congress.gov/bill/95th-congress/house-resolution/70

On July 24, 1980, the Jimmy Carter White House released the findings of its Global 200 commission. The commission call to reduce world population by 2 billion people, by the turn of the century, was endorsed by Secretary of State, Edmund Muskie. www.jec.senate.gov/reports/96th%20Congress/The%20Global%202000%20Report%20(998).pdf

Population Crisis Committee member, Gen. Maxwell Taylor, drafted a paper on the “Population Crisis and U.S National Security Interests.” Discussion around this paper, and other documents, centered on decisions to immediately write off more than 1 billion people in the developing·sector as “unsavable”. By early 1981, it was reported that this “triage list” concept was being used for United States National Security planning by the State Department. The revised paper was released in February 1981.

www.nytimes.com/1981/09/01/opinion/in-the-nation-spending-and-security.html

The Global Future document was released, by the Council on Environmental Quality, in 1981, one week before Jimmy Carter demitted office. This report reduced the projected population at the end of the century, from .8 billion to 6.35 billion. The new projection was based on factors, including the effects of high oil prices, and the changes in global economic development patterns. history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76ve14p1/d121

Stated facts clearly show that America, as an advanced nation, deliberately meddled in the most intimate affairs of less–developed and prior-selected nations, thereby reinforcing the image of being the “world’s police”. It advocated violation of the freedom and autonomy of humans, via coercive family planning programs.

While The Kissinger Report claimed to display concern for the welfare of individuals and of nations, it was conceived, from the belief of the right of the US to have unlimited and unhindered access to the natural resources of developing nations.

With the pandemic still raging and the death toll unprecedented, questions abound. Was COVID-19 an unwitting partner in the U. S game of eugenics, or simply the means to the end?

Yvonne Sam, a retired Head Nurse and Secondary School Teacher, is the Chair of the Rights and Freedom Committee at the Black Community Resource Centre. A regular columnist for over two decades with the Montreal Community Contact, her insightful and incursive articles on topics ranging from politics, human rights and immigration, to education and parenting have also appeared in the Huffington Post, Montreal Gazette, XPressbogg and Guyanese OnLine. She is also the recipient of the Governor General of Canada Caring Canadian Citizen Award.