by William F. Jasper
For a century, the globalist Council on Foreign Relations has been the
“power behind the throne” in U.S. politics. This tradition has continued
under the Biden administration.
2021 is a big year for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an
organization that often is heralded as the most influential think tank
in America, if not the entire world. Prominent on the Council’s website
(cfr.org) is its centennial page, “Celebrating A Century,” a
self-congratulatory promo of the organization’s accomplishments over the
past hundred years. The promotional features an impressive cavalcade of
pictorials, videos, and articles showcasing the Council’s worldly
influence and power, as demonstrated by the hundreds of presidents,
prime ministers, princes, potentates, politicians, kings, diplomats, and
dictators — including mass-murderers — who have graced the
organization’s meetings, and/or have written for its famed journal Foreign Affairs.
2021 is a big year for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an
organization that often is heralded as the most influential think tank
in America, if not the entire world. Prominent on the Council’s website
(cfr.org) is its centennial page, “Celebrating A Century,” a
self-congratulatory promo of the organization’s accomplishments over the
past hundred years. The promotional features an impressive cavalcade of
pictorials, videos, and articles showcasing the Council’s worldly
influence and power, as demonstrated by the hundreds of presidents,
prime ministers, princes, potentates, politicians, kings, diplomats, and
dictators — including mass-murderers — who have graced the
organization’s meetings, and/or have written for its famed journal
Foreign Affairs. In April 1945, just days before the end of World War II, Secretary of
State Edward Stettinius journeyed to Pratt House, the CFR’s headquarters
in New York City. He had come, he said, to “bear witness, as every
Secretary of State during the past quarter of a century, to the great
services and influence of this organization in spreading knowledge and
understanding of the issues of United States foreign policy.” Every
secretary of state since then has continued the tradition. As you will
see in the accompanying table showing CFR influence in the State
Department (pages 26-27), Secretary Stettinius and almost every one of
his successors — until the Trump administration — has been a member of
the Council. And now, with the enthronement of Joe Biden, that CFR
control of the State Department has resumed, with CFR member Antony
Blinken taking over as secretary, and a bevy of Council members filling
out the top posts at State and in the rest of the Biden Cabinet.
Authors Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomasreferred to the Council’s leading
lights as “The Wise Men,” a reverential term that has been generously
applied to the CFR at large by the Council’s academic and media shills.
Journalist and presidential speechwriter Joseph Kraft famously referred
to the Council as a “School for Statesmen.” Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist-historian David Halberstam called it “the Establishment’s
unofficial club.” Historian and presidential advisor Arthur Schlesinger,
Jr. described the CFR as a “front organization” for “the heart of the
American Establishment.” Like Secretary Stettinius, all of the
individuals offering these respectful remarks were themselves prominent
CFR members, though they were not identified as such when they made the
comments.
However, a description by another Council member, author-journalist
Richard Rovere, conveys a more ominous and telling image. “The directors
of the Council on Foreign Relations,” he said, “make up a sort of
Presidium for that part of the Establishment that guides our destiny as a
nation.” Rovere’s choice of the word “Presidium” was apropos. He
obviously was comparing it to the murderous, unelected, and
unaccountable gang of criminals that ran the Soviet Union and still runs
communist dictatorships such as China and North Korea. That such a body
“guides our destiny as a nation” should be a truly chilling thought for
every American. However, Rovere appears to have offered that evaluation
as a compliment to his fellow CFR members, not as a condemnation, thus
reinforcing the perception gained from decades of observing the CFR
elite hobnobbing with the communist elite that the Pratt House
princelings are far more comfortable with communist absolutism than with
constitutionally limited government.
Those familiar with the true history of the Council on Foreign Relations
know full well that its hundred-year history is a sordid record of
treachery, treason, subversion, and betrayal. That is a serious charge,
but it is not hyperbole, as we will show within the limits of this short
survey. The history of the CFR is a chronicle of a century-long war
against national sovereignty, and an unremitting effort to build an
all-powerful world government, which CFR globalists have frequently
referred to as their “New World Order.”
Yet, despite being composed of the high and mighty of American society,
and despite its central role in global events and its extensive
connections to world movers and shakers, the Council was largely unknown
to most Americans for much of its existence. That is as the Council’s
leaders desired, since they preferred to be the power behind the scenes.
Modesty was not the reason they operated in the shadows; they knew that
openly revealing their agenda would invite a severe public backlash
from the American people. In the past two decades, the CFR has come out
more into the open, and its president, Richard N. Haass, and various CFR
spokesmen and “experts” now appear regularly as Wise Men in the major
media, dispensing their wisdom to the masses on sundry topics. Their
increased public visibility has not brought any genuine transparency,
but for those with eyes to see and brains to reason, the past four years
and the past few months have removed all doubt about the existence of
the Deep State and its tyrannical designs for our future.
The unprecedented fury of the non-stop attacks on President Trump, his
family, his administration, and his supporters — not only by the
“liberal” media and “progressive” Democrats, but also by
neoconservatives, “moderate” Republicans, and a host of high-level
government officials (some retired and some still serving) — has
awakened millions of Americans to the fact that there is a hostile power
operating not only within the highest levels of our government but
within the top levels of institutional power throughout our society. If
you are among the newly awakened, it is crucial that you understand that
this hostile power — this “power elite,” as leftist professor C. Wright
Mills and conservative columnist Edith Kermit Roosevelt referred to it —
is not a recent phenomenon. The CFR Deep State, as noted above, has
been building and concentrating its power for a century, patiently
penetrating and corrupting all of our foundational institutions.
The Council on Foreign Relations’ founders were the architects of, and
prop-agandists for, the failed League of Nations following World War I,
as well as engineers of the successful effort that launched the United
Nations after World War II, and the multitude of UN agencies and
international organizations that have burgeoned forth since then. They
have been the primary moving force behind virtually every destructive
policy that has been undermining America on all fronts, while
simultaneously aiding our enemies. Through both Democrat and Republican
administrations, the CFR’s members and minions have provided the
leadership for the devastating programs and policies that are now
dangerously close to extinguishing freedom as we know it and terminating
our constitutional republic. They are, for example, the main promoters
of, and cheerleaders for, open borders, unsustainable spending and
taxing, foreign aid, LGBTQ “diversity,” racial polarization and discord,
election thievery, gun confiscation, feminization and politicization of
our military, fanatical environmentalism, global-warming hysteria,
COVID panic and medical dictatorship, Trump Derangement Syndrome, Fake
News, Big Tech censorship, oppressive regulation, trade policies that
are outsourcing our industry and technology, communistic cancel culture,
federal usurpation of state and local authority, indoctrination of our
children and youth in immorality and Marxist ideology — and much, much
more.
Deep State Comes Out
The CFR elite are celebrating 2021 not only because it is their
organization’s centennial year, but because they have succeeded
fabulously in creating chaos by undermining our nation in all the areas
listed above. And they have succeeded in ousting President Donald Trump
and installing their favored candidate, Joe Biden, in the White House.
Biden is not a CFR member, but he has loaded his administration with
Pratt House “Wise Men” (see page 17) and has reversed course on nearly
every front where President Trump had moved against the CFR globalists’
New World Order agenda. During a videotaped appearance on January 23,
2018 at the Council’s headquarters, Biden uttered a revealing comment.
When CFR President Richard N. Haass introduced himself and remarked that
he worked for the Council, Biden, who was sitting next to Haass,
quipped, “And I work for Richard.” Just a harmless joke, right? But, as
the well-known adage goes, “Many a truth is spoken in jest.” The same
applies to the comment by Hillary Clinton, who, while secretary of
state, admitted at the CFR’s new Washington, D.C., office that she had
been many times to the organization’s “mothership” in New York, but that
the new office was much more conveniently located. “We get a lot of
advice from the Council,” she claimed, “so, this will mean I won’t have
as far to go to be told what we should be doing, and how we should think about the future.” (Emphasis added.)
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