10. Advancement of the Cloward-Piven Strategy of Organized Crisis
Frances Fox Piven, co-architect of a strategy to overload the U.S. welfare system to precipitate a transformative economic crisis, was an early builder of the socialist-leaning New Party, which, according to reliable evidence, once had Barack Obama as a member.
Piven, together with her late husband, activist and fellow Columbia professor Richard Cloward, developed the Cloward-Piven strategy, which called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system.
The duo’s stated goal was to agitate a financial crisis that would collapse the U.S economy and replace it with a national system with "a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty.”
Conservatives believe this is Obama’s playbook, while liberals dismiss it as right-wing paranoia.
But the agenda of the Cloward-Piven strategy and Obama's relationship with the corrupt community organizing group ACORN seems to provide the best explanation for many of Obama's actions.
It even explains why his promotion of a national health-care strategy seems to have been designed to fail, writes WND founder and CEO Joseph Farah in a column.
Farah said most Americans "still can't conceive of the notion that a president of the United States would actually want to promote policies that could never work in the conventional understanding of the word 'work.'"
However, he continued, "if your ultimate goal is greater and greater state control of the population and the economy, which Obama's ultimate goal surely is, then it all begins to make sense."
The strategy also can be seen in Obama's foreign policy, Farah said.
He noted the Washington elite, including the Republican elite, favor internationalism.
What's the goal of international interventionism? It is to promote a global one-world order – or New World Order, as George H.W. Bush candidly explained a long time ago," Farah wrote.
But something has changed recently, he said, pointing out Obama faced serious opposition domestically to attacking Syria at the behest of the Saudis and changed directions.
He also did a 180-degree turn on Iran. Now he's talking to Iran, proposing a cutback on sanctions that has come as a major shock to the Saudis, which are now turning to Russia and others.
Why is Obama apparently turning away from Saudi Arabia after bowing and scraping to its leaders since he entered office?
"It's because Obama doesn't have what we would call a coherent foreign policy at all," Farah said. "It's simply about fostering crises that only international authorities can resolve."