By Harold Pease, Ph.D.
The Deep State, often referred to as the establishment or the shadow government of the United States, is the Council on Foreign Relations (hereafter referred to as CFR) headquartered in New York City. There is no organization in the world more influential or important than it. It has 5,103 members composed of the most influential politicians , business executives, bankers, professors, and media figures, —indeed with tentacles in every aspect of society. Its overriding objective is globalism or world government (for the extent of their power see “Shadows Across the Land,” William F. Jasper, New American, June 7, 2021, pp. 17-27). Officially created in July 29, 1921, as the CFR, it is now 100 years old.
In American politics it is the moneyed elite capable of bringing to candidates the millions of dollars and media exposure needed to win. In return they expect support and silence as to their influence. They are in both major political parties and they own the major media outlets including, more recently, those of the Internet. Thus, their influence over presidential candidates for over a hundred years is never really covered, but ALL CANDIDATES KNOW OF THEIR INFLUENCE AND POWER. In modern times no candidate for president has gotten to office without their approval, until Donald J. Trump. They elevated their favored candidate in both major political parties, then let America choose which of their anointed America wanted. These they called free elections.
All presidents from Herbert Hoover on, excepting Trump, have either been members of, had a close relationship with, or worked with the CFR. Important foreign dignitaries normally stop here before, or after, a White House visit. This combination of power is only-secret to the masses. When a president was not a member himself his vice president usually was. Once the organization’s “kingmaker” status was known and unpopular, future presidential contenders shied away from acknowledged membership—not from support. Since the late 1920’s virtually all our secretaries of state, United Nation ambassadors, and ambassadors to Russia and China were members of this Wall Street special interest group. Moreover, CFR members largely filled the majority of presidential cabinets.
No special interest group had more impact than the CFR over foreign policy the last 100 years, leading many to question if we had but one political party in the United States with two arms Democrat and Republican. Indeed, many saw no significant difference in foreign policy between George W. Bush and Barack Obama, or George Bush and Bill Clinton.
Until Trump there was little difference in foreign policy between Democrat and Republican presidents. They got their advisors from the same Wall Street special interest group—the CFR. They all supported extensive foreign aid, policing the world with over 900 military bases in other lands, and continual wars without declaration or pre-established end. They all supported international trade agreements that enhanced the power of the United Nations and exported jobs formerly held by Americans. None stood against globalism.
On domestic policy they all supported the bank bailouts and its management of the money supply through the bankers’ private Federal Reserve Bank. None talked about returning a third of the United States (called government land) to the states from which it was taken or withheld. None problem solved with the Constitution as first consideration. Nor did either give more than lip service to limited government or the national debt. They all supported problem solving on the federal or international level rather than the state, county, or city level.
Notable political scientist Lester Milbraith observed in his work Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy, p. 247, that “the influence of the CFR throughout government is so pervasive that it is difficult to distinguish the CFR from government programs.” Prominent political scientist Thomas R. Dye in his textbook Who’s Running America? The Bush Restoration, p. 188, wrote, “The history of CFR policy accomplishments is dazzling” then traced in detail their dominating role in foreign policy accomplishment from the 1920’s through the George Bush Administration from their own boasts of success in CFR Annual Reports.
What is wrong with this mostly “secret combination” governance? In 1954, The Reece Congressional Committee noted that its productions “are not objective but are directed overwhelmingly at promoting the globalism concept.” How powerful was it by the time Congress first discovered its influence? It had come, they wrote, “to be in essence an agency of the United States government, no doubt carrying its internationalist bias with it” (pp. 176-177).
John J. McCloy, Chairman of the CFR from 1953 to 1970 and an advisor to nine presidents, explained how this worked, in an interview with the New York Times, “Whenever we needed a man we thumbed through the roll of the Council members and put through a call to New York.” Such was the case thereafter as well (“CFR: Still the Power Behind the Throne,” William F. Jasper, New American, June 7, 2021, p. 15).
Until Trump, politics appeared to be divided between two “warring” parties Democrat vs. Republican, but because of the same-shared source of direction and pool of advisors, it is hard to believe at the top we were really divided at all. Remember, both Republican George Bush presidents, father and son, voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016 and against Trump. During and after the election it was open CFR warfare onTrump by both parties.
Again until Trump, the CFR governed elections and America. For four years Trump took them out of power. This is why they hate him. Every CFR viper, all 5,103 of them, plus wannabes many times that number, as membership is limited by invitation from within, emerged to rid this threat to the throne they believed belonged to them. Between 1921 and 2020, no candidate for president obtained office without CFR approval except Trump and, once there, none had more opposition—even combined.
Today at least 60% of Americans believe election fraud brought Joe Biden to office. This returned the 100 year old globalist CFR to power.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.