Posted on 06/08/2018 10:57:03 PM PDT by ransomnote
The Council on Foreign Relations delivered an Orwellian presentation recently that unsurprisingly went unnoticed in the mainstream media, in which CFR’s Richard Stengel forwarded the notion that governments “have to” direct “propaganda” at their own domestic populations. The Council is recognized as one of the United States’ oldest and most establishment think tanks of the American power-elite, and it often sets the agenda on important policy questions—or, as former senior editor at the Washington Post, Richard Harwood, in a column entitled “Ruling Class Journalists,” approvingly described the Council as, “the nearest thing we have to a ruling establishment in the United States.”
Harwood admiringly wrote: “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 worldviews.”
CFR is a key cog in the hub of Washington think-tanks promoting endless war. As former Army Major Todd Pierce described, think-tanks act as “primary provocateurs” using “‘psychological suggestiveness’ to create a false narrative of danger from some foreign entity with the objective being to create paranoia within the U.S. population that it is under imminent threat of attack or takeover.”
In late 2018, WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange publicized the extensive sway the Council on Foreign relations carried over U.S. mass media by Tweeting a graphic created by Swiss Propaganda Research (SPR), a research and information project on geopolitical propaganda in Swiss media, which illustrated the heavy influence CFR exercises over the media narrative delivered to the American public, i.e. domestic propaganda.
List of members of Council on Foreign Relations
Image of the Council on Foreign Relations links to major media holdings"
It turns the entire concept of “civil servant” on its head.
#1. I’m getting a security warning about your first item, “List of members of Council on Foreign Relations”.
Not considered safe to visit it. Can you provide a better link?
Mrs. Ted Cruz has submitted work for their papers.
Thank you for calling it to my attention. I don’t get that warning, but it’s not the correct link anyway. :(
The CORRECT link listing members of the Council on Foreign Relations is a wiki page:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members_of_the_Council_on_Foreign_Relations
Another link for the article itself is here:
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/council-foreign-relations-advocates-using-propaganda-americans/
A false narrative of danger from a foreign source? You mean I should not worry about communism or Islam? OK that is such a relief. And certainly there is no danger from a local source.
The second link in post #1 is still good, that’s a very detailed and disturbing chart of all the media connections to those 3 nebulous groups that have such an influence on the US
thanks
The need for propaganda in itself explains that lies are needed to obscure the truth. The truth if fact based always makes itself known.
Swiss Propaganda Research
The American Empire and its Media
https://swprs.org/the-american-empire-and-its-media/
Half of those people belong in jail. Two sitting SC justices are members, really? Nazi collaborator Soros is a member, really?
And these are the ruling elite? More correctly, they are all POS.
CFR - Created by the same morons who gave us the federal reserve and took every American worker hostage!
Skip the intermediaries. The CFR’s own list is:
https://www.cfr.org/membership/membership-roster-a-f
The CFR also has corporate members.
The CFR is part of the Deep State. A president can fire everyone he wants, but going to the usual CFR/Goldman-Sachs pool for replacements is not remotely draining The Swamp.
There are 90 members with last names beginning with Y or Z (42 and 48, respectively). That membership roster has to be over 2000 names long.
You can only apply between the ages of 30 and 36 for the 5-year membership? But at any time for the lifetime membership? Huh?
If "Only U.S. citizens (native born or naturalized) and permanent residents who have applied for U.S. citizenship are eligible", then how is George Soros on the list?
Yes. Most players in Big Media, as well as politically ambitious in the military, etc. It’s a big Swamp.
Even more insiders are CFRers through companies they control, but may not have the own names on the roster.
It has 4900 members, apparently.
“...Tells Gov’t They “Have To” Use Propaganda on Americans”
What more of that can they do? Been going on for decades.
I browsed the list and its amazing there you see the late Roger Ailes of Fox News along with Fareed Zakaria of CNN.
You all think they are players on different teams but its ultimately not true when it comes to national and international policy.
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