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The '''Council on Foreign Relations''' ('''CFR''') is an international organization founded in 1921, which has long promoted the involvement of the [[United States]] in other nations and the protection of international business interests.<ref>http://www.cfr.org/about/</ref> The CFR seeks to influence [[American]] politics by inviting presidential candidates to speak at its events and by encouraging potentially influential businessmen, lawyers and government officials to join its organization or participate in its events. Many [[American]] presidents have spoken at CFR events.
The '''Council on Foreign Relations''' ('''CFR''') is a [[globalist]] international organization founded in 1921, which has long promoted the involvement of the [[United States]] in other nations and the protection of international business interests.<ref>http://www.cfr.org/about/</ref> The CFR seeks to influence [[American]] politics by inviting presidential candidates to speak at its events and by encouraging potentially influential businessmen, lawyers and government officials to join its organization or participate in its events. Many [[American]] presidents have spoken at CFR events.
It publishes a bi-monthly journal entitled ''Foreign Affairs'', which has long been influential in some political circles.
It publishes a bi-monthly journal entitled ''Foreign Affairs'', which has long been influential in some political circles.
Membership in the CFR is complex procedure designed to ensure continuation of its globalist vision.<ref>http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/</ref> President [[Ronald Reagan]] was unusual among leading [[American]] politicians in shunning the CFR. Cong. [[Larry McDonald]] of Georgia was another strong opponent of the CFR.
Membership in the CFR is complex procedure designed to ensure continuation of its globalist vision.<ref>http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/</ref> President [[Ronald Reagan]] was unusual among leading [[American]] politicians in shunning the CFR. Cong. [[Larry McDonald]] of Georgia was another strong opponent of the CFR.
==The "power behind the throne"==
The CFR has welded a very large amount of power in U.S. and international politics, and some of its [[conservative]] critics have described it as "the most visible manifestation of" the [[establishment]].<ref name="Perloff2009">Perloff, James (July 23, 2009). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/1213-council-on-foreign-relations Council On Foreign Relations]. ''The New American''. Retrieved December 31, 2017.</ref> CFR members have "dominated" each U.S. presidential administration since [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], irrespective of whether each administration was Republican or Democrat.<ref name="Perloff2009"/> By mid-2009, 21 secretaries of defense or war, 19 secretaries of the treasury, 17 secretaries of state, and 15 CIA directors had been CFR members.<ref name="Perloff2009"/> Thus, coupled with the other globalist organizations, such as the [[Trilateral Commission]], that Republican and Democrat administrations consistently relied upon for appointees, one can see why succeeding administrations failed to bring change that they had promised while on the campaign trail.<ref name="Perloff2009"/>
==Support for globalism and one-world government==
{{See also|War on Sovereignty}}
The Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921, shortly after the United States rejected membership in the [[League of Nations]].<ref name="Perloff2009"/> The founders, who included the Rockefeller, Morgan, and Rothschild families, wanted to use the organization "to lead America into the League."<ref name="Perloff2009"/> Ever since, the CFR has been pushing for globalist and one-world policies.<ref name="Perloff2009"/>
Many globalist international organizations, including the [[United Nations]], [[World Bank]], and the [[International Monetary Fund]], where created in large part by CFR members and used to help bring about a system of global governance.<ref name="Perloff2009"/> Additionally, the [[Vietnam War]] and the disastrous strategies that fueled the rise of the [[New Left]] were engineered by CFR members in the U.S. government.<ref name="Perloff2009"/>
According to Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the granddaughter of [[Theodore Roosevelt]], the CFR's goal is "a One World Socialist state governed by 'experts' like themselves."<ref name="Perloff2009"/> According to Admiral Chester Ward, a former Judge Advocate of the U.S. Navy who was a member of the CFR for 16 years before resigning in disgust, "the main purpose of the Council on Foreign Relations is promoting the disarmament of U.S. sovereignty and national independence, and submergence into an all-powerful one-world government."<ref name="Perloff2009"/>
The [[Trilateral Commission]] was founded in 1973 in order to coordinate the globalist CFR agenda in the U.S. with similar organizations in Europe and Asia.<ref name="Perloff2009"/> These globalists decided to create regional alliances such as [[NAFTA]] and the [[European Union]] as a steppingstone for a world government.<ref name="Perloff2009"/>
==See also==
==See also==
== References ==
== References ==
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