Richard Haass, a Rhodes Scholar and long-time president of the Rockefeller CFR, recently published an article in the CFR journal Foreign Affairs lamenting the ongoing collapse of the "liberal world order" engineered by the CFR and its affiliates during the past century. The article is a well-polished justification for even more of the same corporatist central planning at home and neo-colonialism abroad which is directly responsible for the current unstable situation.

"The economic dimension of this order was designed to bring about a world...defined by trade, development, and well-functioning (sic) monetary operations. 'Free trade' would be an engine of economic growth and bind countries together so that war would be deemed too costly to wage; the dollar was accepted as the de facto global currency. The diplomatic dimension of the order gave prominence to the UN. The idea was that a standing global forum could prevent or resolve international disputes. The UN Security Council, with five great-power permanent members and additional seats for a rotating membership, would orchestrate international relations. Yet the order depended just as much on the willingness of the noncommunist world (and U.S. allies in particular) to accept American primacy...

What we are seeing today resembles the mid-nineteenth century in important ways: the post-World War II, post-Cold War order cannot be restored, but the world is not yet on the edge of a systemic crisis. Now is the time to make sure one never materializes, be it from a breakdown in U.S.-Chinese relations, a clash with Russia, a conflagration in the Middle East, or the cumulative effects of climate change."

-- Foreign Affairs article

We leave it to the reader to spot the inconsistencies and omissions in this story, which glosses over the role of the CFR network, its agents in government, and its corporate partners in banking, energy, defense and the media during the past 80 years. Note the passive voice in the wording above, which falsely suggests that all these events just somehow "happened", even as these self-proclaimed architects of "global governance" are setting the stage for the next "systemic crisis" which will provide the justification to scrap the old order and to roll out an even more onerous replacement.

"The most effective weapon at the disposal of the globalists and their central banking counterparts is an engineered economic crisis...a weapon that can influence a population to embrace even greater enslavement while viewing their slave masters as saviors rather than villains... If the goal of the banking elites is total centralization of the global economy, then keeping the U.S. system alive for another decade or longer makes little sense. They have already created the perfect financial bubble using QE and near zero interest rates to encourage debt accumulation at historic levels. It’s a veritable economic atomic bomb, why not use it?...

At the beginning of this year...I predicted that Jerome Powell would push forward with interest rate hikes and balance sheet cuts. This would put extreme pressure on highly indebted corporations... Not only has Powell in fact done exactly what I predicted, but that he has done it consciously, knowing what the results would be... The truth is that the Fed is working towards an ideological end game of global centralization; this means one economy, one currency and eventually one world government; a plan which has been openly admitted to by globalists in the past. It has no loyalty to the U.S. system, and it will destroy the U.S. system if it must to achieve this prize."

-- Brandon Smith article

The privately owned Federal Reserve System is a major part of the CFR network. Most of the Fed chairmen since WW2 including Powell, Yellen and Greenspan, and nearly all of the presidents of the New York Fed have been CFR members. Bernanke and Yellen are now at Brookings, a CFR affiliate. Banker Paul Warburg of Kuhn Loeb, the "architect of the Fed", was a CFR founding director. Today, banking sector sponsors of the CFR include Citigroup, JPMorgan/Chase, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, Blackstone, and AIG to name a few.

Chairmen of the CFR since WW2 include Russell Leffingwell (JPMorgan), John J. McCloy (Chase), David Rockefeller (Citi, Chase), Pete Peterson (Lehman, Blackstone), Robert Rubin (Goldman, Citi), and David Rubenstein (CarlyleGrp). Other CFR directors include Laurence Fink (BlackRock), Timothy Geithner (Warburg), Maurice Greenberg (AIG), and George Soros. Members include Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan), Lloyd Blankfein (Goldman) and Henry Paulson (Goldman).

Other sponsors of the CFR "liberal world order" include defense contractors Lockheed, Boeing, Northrop, Raytheon; oil companies Exxon, Chevron, Shell, BP; and media giants Time-Warner, Reuters, Google and Facebook. Several of their execs have also been CFR directors.

"It's good to have an outpost of the Council right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of 'advice' from the Council, 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."

-- Hillary Clinton, wife of CFR member Bill Clinton, speech at CFR, 2009-07-15