2008 Presidential Candidate's connections to the Council on Foreign Relations

* Michelle Obama is a Director at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs which founded in 1922 as The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations to counter "the fervent isolationism in the United States after World War I." The CCGA is funded by many of the same corporations that fund the CFR.

Council on Foreign Relations Members

Introduction to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

The Council on Foreign Relations was incorporated in 1921. It is a private group which is headquartered in New York City.

The CFR's founder, Edward Mandell House, had been the chief adviser of President Woodrow Wilson. House was not only Wilson's most prominent aide, he actually dominated the Administration. Woodrow Wilson referred to House as "my alter ego".

Philip Dru: Administrator, a book written by Edward Mandell House, laid out a fictionalized plan for the conquest of America. He told of a "conspiracy" which would gain control of both the Democratic and Republican parties, and use them as instruments in the creation of a socialistic world government.

The book called for passage of a graduated income tax and for the establishment of a state-controlled central bank as steps toward the ultimate goal. Both of these proposals are planks in The Communist Manifesto. And both became law in 1913, during the very first year of the House-dominated Wilson Administration.

From its beginning in 1921, the CFR began to attract men of power and influence. In the late 1920s, important financing for the CFR came from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation. In 1940, at the invitation of President Roosevelt, members of the CFR gained domination over the State Department, and they have maintained that domination ever since.

Its members have run, or are running, NBC and CBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Des Moines Register, and many other important newspapers. The leaders of Time, Life, Newsweek, Fortune, Business Week, and numerous other publications are CFR members. The organization's members also dominate the academic world, top corporations, the huge tax-exempt foundations, labor unions and the military

One reason most Americans know little about the CFR is that 171 journalists, correspondents and communications executives are also CFR members, and they don't write about the organization. In fact, CFR members rarely talk about the organization as it is an express condition of membership that any disclosure of what goes on at CFR meetings shall be regarded as grounds for termination of membership.

The April 1974 issue of Foreign Affairs carried a very explicit recommendation for carrying out the world-government scheme of CFR founder Edward Mandell House. Authored by CFR member, State Department veteran and Columbia University Professor Richard N. Gardner, "The Hard Road to World Order" admits that a single leap into world government via an organization like the United Nations is unrealistic.

The organizations he named to accomplish his goal are the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the Law of the Sea Conference, the World Food Conference, the World Population Conference, disarmament programs, and a United Nations military force. This approach, Gardner said, "can produce some remarkable concessions of sovereignty that could not be achieved on an across-the-board basis."

One way to garner support for new treaties is to propagandize world wide predicaments. If the people fear the global war on terror or if they are afraid of global warming, they will be more willing to cede their nation's sovereignty, and eventually their freedom, to a global authority.

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