Originally Published at American Free Press on July 28, 2008. Archived at the Piper Report.

An influential figure in the global “superclass” says that the “political fault line” for the 21st century is the battle of “globalists vs. nationalists.”

This is a candid admission, in no uncertain terms—echoing what American Free Press has been saying since its inception. It also echoes what Liberty Lobby, the longtime populist institution in Washington (before it was crushed by CIA agents and corrupt judges), insisted for years—that the real conflict in our world today is (and always has been) the fight by nationalists worldwide to preserve their nations’ sovereignty in face of an energetic push by super-rich cosmopolitan elitist internationalists to set in place what has commonly come to be known as the New World Order.

The tired and worn labels of “liberal” and “conservative” never meant anything of consequence, just as there is very little difference, on the major international issues, between the Democratic and Republican Party. The real battle is between the globalists and the nationalists.

This is what David Rothkopf—former managing director of Kissinger Associates, the powerful international consulting firm of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger—asserts in his book, Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making, a volume that openly acknowledges the influence of such powerful groups as Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, even citing the work of AFP editor Jim Tucker and his book Bilderberg Diary, which details Tucker’s many years following the intrigues of those whom Rothkopf calls “the global elite.”

Rothkopf’s book—described as a “taxonomy of the rich and powerful who shape foreign policy and business in our globalized world” and as a “masterful portrait of this century’s global elite”—acknowledges in a chapter frankly titled “Globalists vs. Nationalists” that that there is an emerging “global network of antiglobalists” who stand in opposition to the aims of the New World Order “superclass.”

What is interesting is that Rothkopf actually admits that among the foremost opponents of the agenda of the global elite are such figures as Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez and Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Rothkopf wrote:

At the core of the “anti-network” is a small group of leaders, linked by many shared characteristics and attitudes though they come from widely different regions of the world. They might be characterized as “nationalists,” or opponents of the United States, or critics of Western-led globalization. . . . In their view, globalization is old Western imperialism dressed up in new clothes, and they are reacting to it much as they were trained to react to such incursions. . . .

Whether you characterize it as nationalist vs. internationalist, populist vs. globalist, or anti-neo- imperialist vs. pro-American globalization,” the fact is that the battle lines are drawn.

The fact that a genuine “insider” such as Rothkopf is now openly confirming the nature of the conflict that is now raging on the global stage is a clear sign that the global elite recognize that there are serious forces aligned against their agenda.

Unfortunately, groups such as the John Birch Society continue to promote the globalist line by attacking nationalist figures such as Ahmadinejad, Chavez and Putin, failing to recognize (or perhaps deliberately ignoring) the fact that these leaders stand in opposition to the New World Order.

Ironically, Rothkopf’s chapter reads much like the concluding chapter of this author’s recent work, The Golem, which scores the “Israelization” of American foreign policy and asserts that the United States is now engaged in planning for global war in the name of “democracy” with targets such as Iran, Venezuela and Russia now in the gunsights of the global elite, the high priests of war.