The US Institute of Peace is an independent government agency established in 1984. The authorization for the Institute was embedded in an Appropriations bill: H.R. 5167, Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985, Public Law 98-525 effective October 19, 1984. Title XVII–United States Institute of Peace (page 158 pdf).
It is the purpose of this title to establish an independent, nonprofit, national institute to serve the people and the Government through the widest possible range of education and training, basic and applied research opportunities, and peace information services on the means to promote international peace and the resolution of conflicts among the nations and peoples of the world without recourse to violence.
USIP Timeline – from policy to operational agency
The La Paz Treaty was the first visible step towards the establishment of Commonwealth of the Americas
United States-Mexico Agreement on the Environment in the Border Area
Treaty signed at La Paz, MX, August 13, 1983
President Donald Trump
Executive Order to shut down
United States Institute of Peace
Note the other agencies that it shuts down – HUGE!
William Engdahl
Geopolitics, Then and Now
England’s Fine Art of Using Rivals
“Mackinder was the central strategist of the highly influential and highly secretive Round Table faction in British policy, a group which included Lord Lothian, Cecil Rhodes, Lionel Curtis, Lord Halifax, Lord Rothschild, William T. Stead, Viscount Escher, Lord Milner, Jan Smuts, Viscount Astor among others, and whose influence shaped British strategic thinking from Churchill’s policies at the beginning of the century, down to Margaret Thatcher’s and key sections of the British Foreign Office of the present day.”
Congressional Record, August 19, 1940, Remarks of Hon. J. Thorkelson of Montana, Steps Toward British Union, a World State, and International Strife (Nine Parts)
USIP map of regions corresponds to Mackinder’s vision of four or five regional powers.
