The American Empire & Its Media
by Tyler Durden
Sat, 06/02/2018
Via Swiss Propaganda Research
Largely unbeknownst to the general public, executives and top journalists of almost all major US news outlets have long been members of the influential Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
Established in 1921 as a private, bipartisan organization to
“awaken America to its worldwide responsibilities”, the CFR and its close to 5000 elite members have for decades shaped U.S. foreign policy and public discourse about it. As a well-known Council member once
explained, the goal has indeed been to establish a global Empire, albeit a “benevolent” one.
Based on official membership rosters, the following illustration for the first time depicts the extensive media network of the CFR and its two main international affiliate organizations: the
Bilderberg Group(covering mainly the U.S. and Europe) and the
Trilateral Commission (covering North America, Europe and East Asia), both
established by Council leaders to foster elite cooperation at the international level.
In a column entitled
“Ruling Class Journalists”, former
Washington Post senior editor and ombudsman Richard Harwood once described the Council and its members approvingly as “the nearest thing we have to a ruling establishment in the United States”.
Harwood continued:
“The membership of these journalists in the Council, however they may think of themselves, is an acknowledgment of their active and important role in public affairs and of their ascension into the American ruling class. They do not merely analyze and interpret foreign policy for the United States; they help make it.
They are part of that establishment whether they like it or not, sharing most of its values and world views.”
However, media personalities constitute only about five percent of the overall CFR network. As the following illustration shows, key members of the private Council on Foreign Relations have included:
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several U.S. Presidents and Vice Presidents of both parties;
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almost all Secretaries of State, Defense, and the Treasury;
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many high-ranking commanders of the U.S. military and NATO;
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almost all National Security Advisors, CIA Directors, Ambassadors to the U.N., Chairs of the Federal Reserve, Presidents of the World Bank, and Directors of the National Economic Council;
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some of the most influential Members of Congress (notably in foreign & security policy matters);
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many top jounalists, media executives, and entertainment industry directors;
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many prominent academics, especially in key fields such as Economics, International Relations, Political Science, History, and Journalism;
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many top executives of Wall Street, policy think tanks, universities, and NGOs;
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as well as the key members of both the 9/11 Commission and the Warren Commission (JFK)
Eminent economist and Kennedy supporter, John K. Galbraith,
confirmed the Council’s influence: “Those of us who had worked for the Kennedy election were tolerated in the government for that reason and had a say, but foreign policy was still with the
Council on Foreign Relations people.”
And no less than
John J. McCloy, the longtime chairman of the Council and advisor to nine U.S. presidents,
told the
New York Times about his time in Washington
: “Whenever we needed a man we thumbed through the roll of the Council members and put through a call to New York.”
German news magazine
Der Spiegel once
described the CFR as
the “most influential private institution of the United States and the Western world“ and a “politburo of capitalism”. Both the Roman-inspired logo of the Council (top right in the illustration above) as well as its slogan (
ubique – omnipresent) appear to emphasize that ambition.
“The directors of the CFR make up a sort of Presidium for that part of the Establishment that guides our destiny as a nation.
[I]t rarely fails to get one of its members, or at least one of its allies, into the White House. In fact, it generally is able to see to it that both nominees are men acceptable to it.”
Until recently, this assessment had indeed been justified. Thus, in 1993 former CFR director George H.W. Bush was followed by CFR member Bill Clinton, who in turn was followed by CFR “family member” George W. Bush. In 2008, CFR member John McCain lost against CFR candidate of choice, Barack Obama, who
received the names of his entire Cabinet already one month prior to his election by CFR Senior Fellow (and Citigroup banker)
Michael Froman. Froman later negotiated the TTP and TTIP free trade agreements, before returning to the CFR as a
Distinguished Fellow.
It was not until the 2016 election that the Council couldn’t, apparently, prevail. At any rate, not yet.
Editor:
It’s a real shame that essays of this importance on this subject seem to attract the most questionable “intellects” in the commentary section of their Blog post. It makes one think that there is some sort of strategy afoot to de-ligitimize the thoughts behind these posts. But that in itself surely smacks of “conspiricy theory.” Maybe a reluctance to swallow the party line is common to both the extreme fringe and the patriot.
We firmly disavow any and all of the anti-semitic rants exhibited in the comment section.
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