The Brookings Institution ~ Education for Social Change

“The Brookings [Institution] prepared a report entitled ‘Education for Social Change’ (Establishing Institutes of Public and Business Administration Abroad), written by Mary E. Robinson, based on a conference conducted by the Brookings Institution, for the Public Administration Division of the International Cooperation Administration (ICA) in 1961.

“According to K.M. Heaton, ‘ICA (referred to in the Brookings report) was a successor agency to Harry Truman’s ‘Point Four’ program,…an offshoot of the Marshall Plan.…The 12 years following the Truman ‘Point Four’ program saw the actual beginning of the penetration of foreign governments with the ‘planning idea’; the indoctrination of selected university personnel in this country; the preparation of ‘implementers’; creation of appropriate scenarios; and the schema to be followed in creating the increments of the New World Order.’ This was done with the knowledge and consent of Special Committees of the Senate, as well as the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. ‘The Ford, Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations also contributed. Before 1961, 13 universities in the United States were directly involved in the project…’ In short, ICA was setting up a worldwide program for ‘economic development’ - an integrated, interdependent system of regional government encompassing the whole world…’ (K.M. Heaton, The Impossible Dream, Hart Publications: © 1990, pp. V-40-41.)

“The report, under ‘What Should Future Objectives Be?’ asked: ‘Do the institutes underpin the development of nationalism, and if so should they? Or do they-- and should they--implement efforts to leap-frog this stage and move toward development of multinational or regional political and economic structures as more viable bases for dealing with human and natural resource development, production and distribution? Should the institutes set going ‘permanent revolution’ by introducing the concept of continuing change represented by the American dream of the ever more-perfect society? Implicit in these questions are the ultimate criteria for planning and assessing future efforts to establish indigenous institutions for ‘human capital formation.’’ (‘Education For Social Change,’ (Establishing Institutes of Public and Business Administration Abroad), Report by Mary E. Robinson, based on a conference conducted by the Brookings Institution for the Public Administration Division of International Cooperation Administration; the Brookings Institution, Washington D.C., May 1961, page 85.)

“Doesn't something in this Brookings report remind you of the United Nation’s Global Education Project, the ‘indigenously developed curriculum materials that reflect… ‘Thinking Globally, and Acting Locally,’’…

“The Brookings Institution has also been involved with the Global Interdependence Center (GIC), founded in Philadelphia in 1976, which produced the Declaration of Interdependence with project funding for the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1988, ‘The desire to affect policy changes that might ameliorate this situation (i.e., the United States going from the world's largest creditor to its largest debtor, and global economic instability, etc.), prompted the Board of GIC to convene two roundtables…to which representatives from the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the European Economic Communities, the Federal Reserve, the Organization of American States, the Institute for International Economics and the Brookings Institution were invited.’ A paper was issued as a result of these roundtables entitled, International Economic Policy; A Proposal for Reform - A Policy Statement of the Global Interdependence Center, written by Lawrence R. Klein, A. Gilbert Heebner, and Robert Solomon, ‘a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution,…with the Federal Reserve Board for 28 years…and recipient of the Rockefeller Public Service Award.’” 1.

The Council on Foreign Relations

“There does exist, and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so… [T]he American branch of this organization (sometimes called the ‘Eastern Establishment’) has played a very significant role in the history of the United States in the last generation…

“Money for the widely ramified activities of this organization came from the associates and followers of Cecil Rhodes, chiefly from the Rhodes Trust itself, and from wealthy associates… Since 1925 there have been substantial contributions from wealthy individuals and from foundations and firms associated with the international banking fraternity, especially the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, and other organizations associated with J.P. Morgan, the Rockefeller and Whitney families, and the associates of Lazard Brothers and of Morgan, Grenfell and Company…

“At the end of the war of 1914, it became clear that the organization of this system had to be greatly extended. Once again the task was entrusted to Lionel Curtis who established, in England and each dominion, a front organization to the existing local Round Table Group. This front organization, called the Royal Institute of International Affairs, had as its nucleus in each area the existing submerged Round Table Group. In New York it was known as the Council on Foreign Relations, and was a front for J.P. Morgan and Company in association with the very small American Round Table Group. The American organizers were dominated by the large number of Morgan ‘experts,’ which had been recruited by the Milner group. In fact, the original plans for the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Council on Foreign Relations were drawn up at Paris.” 2.

“If the facts concerning the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Council on Foreign Relations be accepted, it will be seen that the proper study of political mankind is the study of power elites, without which nothing that happens can be understood. These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be deduced from what is known of the agencies they employ. There are dozens of such agencies, and financial support received from one or other or all three big American foundations - Rockefeller, Carnegie and Ford - provides an infallible means of recognizing them … Both Chatham House and the Council fit the description of what has been called the Power Elite – ‘a group of men similar in interest and outlook, shaping events from invulnerable positions behind the scenes…’” 3.

“At times Capitalism and Communism would appear to be in conflict, but this writer is confident that their interests are in common and will eventually merge for one-world control. That policy outlined previously in Woodrow Wilson's Point Six has never been dropped. Capitalism and Communism, in terms of power, are merely their twin mechanisms to destroy the sovereignty of Christian nations. They will merge them into the projected super-state, where their financial power will exercise full sway and masterdom through that monopoly of atomic energy which is being sought with such feverish and fiendish persistence. They are selling us into slavery and using our material resources for their own nefarious world-wide purposes.” 4. 

“Increasingly, left vs. right seems to us to be a diversion; it's mostly a matter of top vs. bottom.” 5.

~ CFR Membership List

Origins of Manhattan Institute

“In 1931, [Friedrich] von Hayek accepted an invitation to visit London to deliver a series of lectures at the London School of Economics. During this period, he became formally affiliated with the British Fabian Society. He eventually accepted a full-time teaching chair at LSE. And in 1939, he initiated an organization that would evolve into the Mont Pelerin Society. The earlier group, the Society for the Renovation of Liberalism [laissez faire/free-market economics], included Frank Knight and Henry Simons, both of whom would train [Milton] Friedman at the [Rockefeller-funded] University of Chicago; the American Fabian socialist Walter Lippman; Viennese Aristotelian Society leader Karl Popper; fellow Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises; and Sir John Clapham, a senior official of the Bank of England who from 1940-46 was the president of the British Royal Society.

“It was this group, with the exception of Knight, who died, that gathered--at von Hayek's initiative--at Mont Pelerin, Switzerland in April 1947 to form the Mont Pelerin Society. Among the other founders of Mont Pelerin were Otto von Hapsburg, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne; and Max von Thurn und Taxis, the Regensberg, Bavaria-based head of the 400-year-old Venetian Thurn und Taxis family. The explicit purpose of the society was to revive and spread the Conservative Revolutionary ideas spelled out in von Hayek's book - The Road to Serfdom.

“The sister organization to Mont Pelerin from the very outset was the Pan European Union. Leading Mont Pelerin figures, including von Hapsburg and Walter Lippman, were pivotal figures in the Pan Europe movement. The concept of a Pan-European federation was a cornerstone of von Hayek's scheme, which demanded the replacement of the nation-state with a ‘benign’ feudalist system.

“In 1923, Count Coudenhove-Kalergi launched the Pan-Europa Union, an organization that won the immediate support of the very people who would install Hitler in power. The first person to join the PEU was Hjalmar Schacht, later Hitler's finance minister and the actual author of Hitler's slave labor programs…

“The Mont Pelerin Society, from the outset, was to be a clandestine agency committed to implementing the ‘Hayekian’ Conservative Revolution.

“One of the key figures in this effort was Antony Fisher. Born in London in 1915, educated at Eton and Cambridge, Fisher was elected to the Mont Pelerin Society in 1954. The following year, he founded the Institute of Economic Affairs in London, as the first of dozens of front groups for Mont Pelerin that he would help launch. Other IEA founders included von Hayek, who at this point was at the University of Chicago; Ralph Harris, a leader of the British Eugenics Society which had earlier helped draft Hitler's race laws; Keith Joseph and Allan Walters.

“When Margaret Thatcher was elected Prime Minister of Britain in 1979, the Mont Pelerin apparatus moved right into 10 Downing Street. In recognition of the Mont Pelerin Society's loyal service to the House of Windsor, Queen Elizabeth II appointed Ralph Harris a peer for life, as Lord Harris of High Cross, and knighted Antony Fisher and Allan Walters. Walters was given an office at 10 Downing Street as Thatcher's resident economic advisor.

“By this time, Fisher had already furthered the Mont Pelerin subversion by establishing the Fraser Institute in Vancouver, Canada in 1974, the Manhattan Institute in New York City in 1977, and the Pacific Institute for Public Policy Research in San Francisco in 1978.

“In 1973, Mont Pelerin had also been instrumental in launching the Coors family think tank, the Heritage Foundation, in Washington, D.C. Following the Thatcher victory, Mont Pelerin launched an ambitious overhaul of Heritage, importing a half dozen British Mont Pelerinites in anticipation of the 1980 Presidential run by Ronald Reagan.” 6.

Charles Murray of the Manhattan Institute

“While school vouchers and the turning over of public education to religious institutions is being sold by many on the right as a new and very progressive idea, the promotion of religious teachings in public schools was actually a key aspect of the Third Reich…

‘Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith . . . we need believing people.’-- Adolf Hitler, April 26, 1933, from a speech made during negotiations leading to the Nazi-Vatican Concordant of 1933

“More than simply a violation of the separation of church and state which is an essential part of the Constitution, my concern with Bush's ‘religious convictions’ is that they, like those of the Manhattan Institute, are actually a cover for fascism....

“The MI's twin obsessions as evidenced by even a brief visit to their webpage, are race and privatization. Among the ideas they are particularly keen on is getting everyone's DNA in a national database. The best known of their many celebrity scholars is Charles Murray, who wrote his controversial book, The Bell Curve -proposing the genetic inferiority of Blacks as a justification for eliminating affirmative action-while a research fellow of the MI. He continues, despite their claims to the contrary, to publicly speak there about eliminating welfare and on racial issues.”  

 “While the public expression of the ideas of the MI are couched in politically-correct terminology, the ideas themselves are closer to those of late 19th and early 20th century Eugenics than any other source. Eugenics is the application of science to the task of improving the human race by selective breeding (positive Eugenics) and sterilization or elimination of undesirable members of society (negative Eugenics).” 8.

“A century ago, scientists from the top universities in America began to study people's pedigrees in the hopes of creating ‘perfect’ children. Instead, they spawned a monster: the pseudoscience of eugenics...It's more than coincidence that the Cold Spring Harbor Lab hosts this project. It is, after all, home of the Human Genome Project to map DNA...Minority groups were most often the target of this plan...The ERO itself was endowed by a grant from the widow of railroad magnate E.H. Harriman [Prescott Bush was A. Harriman's business partner in Brown Brother Harriman, a firm that specialized in financing Hitler]. Today's breakthroughs in, say, prenatal screening would have been embraced by eugenicists, and there's always a group of people who will subscribe to racial-inferiority theories like those in The Bell Curve. [written by Manhattan Institute scholar, Charles Murray]” 9.

Annie E. Casey Foundation

“For nearly a century, the Rockefeller scions and the Rockefeller Foundation have been the most visible and consistent patrons and agents of an anti-Christian social order, whose religion, as Sir Julian Huxley long ago promised, is eugenics. The foundations 1994 annual report announced a ‘second contraceptive revolution.’ The foundation helped engineer the first contraceptive revolution by funding Margaret Sanger’s Planned Parenthood, as well as supporting the research, development and deployment of many contraceptive/abortifacient products.

“The foundation’s announcement denotes a multi-layered apparatus already in place. In April 1995 the Institute of Medicine, an important adjunct to the Rockefeller-founded National Research Council, published a study, ‘The Best Intentions: Unintended Pregnancy and the Well-Being of Children and Families,’ funded by several long-time eugenics links—the U.S. Public Health Service, the Carnegie Corporation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation—and a new player, the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

“’The Best Intentions’ is a carefully wrought propaganda campaign to induce American to choose ‘longterm contraception,’ including Norplant, Depo-Provera, new brass IUDs, abortifacient vaccines that cause ‘immunological sterilization,’ and, someday, bizarre male and female contraceptives, including a male ‘contraceptive’ that ‘stops sperm production’ but whose side effects will have to be countered with ‘female steroid progesterone.’

“Abortion on demand was but a stopgap measure, although a lethal and ruthless one. Lacking the means to prevent people from having children, surgical abortion had to be the backup until the preferred contraceptives, abortifacients and sterilization methods had been developed. As these move to market, cutting down on surgical abortion will be part of the public relations campaign to achieve a voluntary shift in conduct that will someday explode into outright coercion. Anti-fertility vaccines have long been linked to coercive reproductive social policy.” 10.