Gorbachev made a similar appeal in 1992, before the institution of such powerful agencies as NAFTA, GATT, and the WTO, the Maastricht Treaty, and the Asia-Pacific Economic Community Agreement, which are now the de facto tools for implementing his current proposal.

"Globalization has been privatized," he said on September 5. "It has been Westernized and Americanized."

He objected that "transnational corporations" hold monopolies on patents and all new technologies, and the benefits they generate rarely trickle down to the poor. Thus, he said, the United Nations must establish a Soviet-like authority that would direct international economics and the environment.

Gorbachev's well-received speech represents the coming of age for the United Nations, and a culmination of the Soviet Union's patient efforts (and faith in long-term planning) over the past 65 years, ever since Stalin proposed a three-stage process for achieving world government at the 1936 Comintern meeting in Moscow:

[A] socialize the world's governments;
[B] bring about regional unions of various groupings of these socialized nations; and
[C] amalgamate these regional groupings, (such as the European Union) into a final worldwide union of socialist states.

Reflecting on the anti-World Trade Organization riots in Seattle last fall, Soros described rioters - and the U.S. Congress - as "dangers to international institutions."

At that time Former President Bush was speaking of Iraq, yet such project could not be completed at that time. 

It is not a matter of politics. It is not a matter of the Democratic or Republican Party affiliation. It is a matter of  the fulfillment of the Book of Revelations.

[2] September 21, 2000, Paul Likoudis writes in The Wanderer, a national Catholic weekly.
[3] Details of "legal" annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany