EIR’s Daniel Burke asked journalist David Hundeyin the legacy and import of the 1974 Kissinger report, National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM-200), and why talk about it today. Hundeyin, a renowned investigative journalist from Nigeria, who is also the founder of The Spearhead digital media platform, replied, “This report has had a very direct and measurable effect on the lives, on healthcare, and so many things, on people around the world.” The report he notes boils down to “population growth in ‘less developed’ areas, the resource rich but less developed areas of the world is a threat to U.S. hegemony.” So, it was to be stopped by wars or famine. The interview is posted on EIR.News’ YouTube channel at this link.
What is the seemingly religious obsession of imperialists with the idea that some must be impoverished so that others can be enriched? From the secret blueprints of 1974 to the modern-day battle for “critical minerals” in Nigeria, Hundeyin reveals how the Malthusian ideology of population control remains the dominant operating system of Western foreign policy. But as the Alliance of Sahel States rises and the BRICS-Plus process offers a “win-win” alternative, a new world—where “everyone gets to have nice things”—is no longer a utopian dream, but a pending reality, if we bring it to fruition.
