all the way back to just after the second World War, if memory serves. Life magazine published an article in I think 1941 titled "The American Century". A snip, from an article quoting the one by Henry Luce in that issue of Life; taken from
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/649 paragraph 5:
"The fundamental trouble with Americans has been, and is, that whereas their nation became in the 20th century the most powerful and the most vital nation in the world, nevertheless Americans were unable to accommodate themselves spiritually and practically to that fact. Hence they have failed to play their part as a world power--a failure which has had disastrous consequences for themselves and for all mankind. And the cure is this: to accept wholeheartedly our duty and our opportunity as the most powerful and vital nation in the world and in consequence to exert upon the world the full impact of our influence, for such purposes as we see fit and by such means as we see fit."
Here's another article on Luce and fascism:
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/site_packages/3125ccf_luce.htmledited to add, that site seems somewhat fishy. Here's one from PBS:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/luce_h.htmland then there's this:
http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/rc_055000_lucehenry.htmA snip from that last:
"Both the style and substance of Luce journalism was under constant attack. "Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind," Wolcott Gibbs wrote in a parody of Time. Adjectives in Luce magazines were regarded warily by people in public life. Luce's objectives were clear enough. He believed in figures of destiny—politicians, entrepreneurs, spiritual leaders—and put them on the covers of his magazines and sought their company."
as well as:
"He liked the intellectual excitement of dissenters on his staff, but what they reported seldom got into his magazines. "
Sound familiar?
The Luce article and the goals of the Project for a New American Century (note the title similarities) are, not coincidentally, identical. This is, in effect, a call for world domination by any means necessary to any purpose desired, and its architects are currently the people who posess the political power to make it happen.
"This is our due," someone once said. They meant much, much more than anyone sane ever thought they did.