Architects of Chaos: Shelburne and Bentham’s Dark Empire

 

Jeffrey Steinberg exposes the dark and sinister role of Lord Shelburne and Jeremy Bentham in shaping British intelligence and global subversion. Steinberg uncovers how Shelburne’s secretive operations and Bentham’s radical utilitarian philosophy were used to manipulate major historical events like the American Revolution and the French Revolution.

The lecture details how British intelligence, under Shelburne, consolidated power through the East India Company, funding revolutionary leaders like Jean-Paul Marat, Maximilien Robespierre, and Georges Danton during the Jacobin Terror to destabilize France. Bentham, with his infamous Panopticon prison design, sought to control society through surveillance, advocating policies that rejected traditional morality and embraced hedonism.

Steinberg reveals how Shelburne orchestrated the Gordon Riots of 1780, using financial backing from Baring Bank and the East India Company to incite chaos in London, resulting in the fall of Lord North's government. Additionally, Steinberg examines how Shelburne’s promotion of free trade was not about mutual benefit but about using economic dominance to reabsorb the United States into the British Empire after its independence through the Treaty of Paris (1783).

The lecture also delves into British intelligence's infiltration of Latin America, detailing Aaron Burr and Francisco de Miranda’s roles in undermining Spanish rule in Mexico and Venezuela, and their collaboration with Simón Bolívar.

Through Steinberg’s detailed analysis, the audience is taken behind the scenes of British global strategy, showing how Shelburne and Bentham’s ideas of control, espionage, and economic domination shaped Britain’s rise as a global superpower.

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Architects of Chaos: Shelburne and Bentham’s Dark Empire