The First Global Revolution [SEP] publisher
The First Global Revolution
The First Global Revolution is a book written by Alexander King and Bertrand Schneider, and published by Pantheon Books in 1991. The book follows up the earlier 1972 work-product from the Club of Rome titled "The Limits to Growth". The tagline of "The First Global Revolution" is, A Report by the Council of the Club of Rome. The book was intended as a blueprint for the 21st century putting forward a strategy for world survival at the onset of what they called the world
. The success of the operation begins a pattern of CIA-fomented coups and assassinations in the global fight against expansion of the political, economic, and military interests of the USSR, ultimately culminating in the fiasco of US combat involvement in Vietnam.
- December: Marilyn Monroe centerfold: the first issue of "Playboy" magazine appears. Publisher Hugh Hefner becomes an early player in the coming sexual revolution.
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- April 6: On the floor of the US Senate, Senator John F. Kennedy opines that