Background
Barnet, Richard Jackson was born on May 7, 1929 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Carl J. and Margaret L. (Block) Barnet.
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An authoritative portrait of the global corporations as they have evolved--replacing national power; controlling the world's money, assets, goods, and information; and dominating the fate of the world's economy and people. Barnet is the co-author of Global Reach.
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Barnet, Richard Jackson was born on May 7, 1929 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Carl J. and Margaret L. (Block) Barnet.
After attending The Roxbury Latin School, he graduated from Harvard University in 1951 and from Harvard Law School in 1954.
Born in Boston, Richard Barnet was raised in Brookline. After serving two years in the United States. Army, he worked as a lawyer in Boston. In 1959, he became a fellow at Harvard"s Russian Research Center (renamed in 1996 the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies).
After publishing his first book, Who Wants Disarmament? (1960), a study of United States.-Soviet disarmament negotiations, Barnet joined the State Department in 1961 as an aide to John Jay McCloy in the United States. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
Disillusioned by his experience of the inner workings of government, Barnet left government service in 1963 to co-found, with Marcus Raskin, the Institute for Policy Studies (Identity and Passport Service). He served as its co-director until 1978, and remained active at the institute he had helped create until his retirement in 1998.
Identity and Passport Service was the first influential politically activist think tank according to Sidney Blumenthal, who said that the structure of Identity and Passport Service served as a model for the ideologically antagonistic Heritage Foundation.
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1st lieutenant Judge Advocate General Corps United States Army, 1955-1957. Member World Peacemakers, Council on Foreign Relations.
Married Ann Birnbaum, April 10, 1953. Children: Juliana, Beth, Michael.