© Alex Brandon/APFormer VP Joe Biden at CFR
A Joe Biden presidency means a "return to normality" simply because it means a return of the US Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).In 2008, Barack Obama received the names of his entire future cabinet already one month prior to his election by CFR Senior Fellow (and Citigroup banker) Michael Froman, as a
Wikileaks email later revealed. Consequently, the
key posts in Obama's cabinet were filled almost exclusively by CFR members, as was the case
in most cabinets since World War II. To be sure, Obama's 2008 Republican opponent, the late John McCain, was a CFR member, too.
Michael Froman later negotiated the TPP and TTIP international trade agreements, before returning to the CFR as a Distinguished Fellow.
In 2017, CFR nightmare President Donald Trump immediately canceled these trade agreements - because he viewed them as
detrimental to US domestic industry - which allowed China to conclude its own, recently announced
RCEP free-trade area, encompassing 14 countries and a third of global trade.
Trump also canceled other CFR achievements, like the multinational Iran nuclear deal and the UN climate and migration agreements, and he tried, but largely failed, to withdraw US troops from East Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa, thus
seriously endangering the global US empire built over decades by the CFR and its 5000 elite members.
Unsurprisingly,
most of the US media, whose owners and editors are themselves members of the CFR, didn't like President Trump.
This was also true for most of the European media, whose owners and editors are members of
international CFR affiliates like the
Bilderberg Group and the
Trilateral Commission, founded by CFR directors after the conquest of Europe during World War II. Moreover, it was none other than the CFR which in 1996
recommended a closer cooperation between the CIA and the media, i.e. a restart of the famous CIA Operation Mockingbird. Historically, OSS and CIA directors since William Donovan and Allen Dulles
have always been CFR members.
Joe Biden promised that he would form
"the most diverse cabinet" in US history. This may be true in terms of skin color and gender, but
almost all of his key future cabinet members have one thing in common: they are, indeed, members of the US Council on Foreign Relations.This is
the case for Anthony Blinken (State),
Lloyd Austin (Defense),
Alejandro Mayorkas (Homeland Security),
William J. Burns (CIA Director),
Janet Yellen (Treasury),
Linda Thomas-Greenfield (Ambassador to the UN),
John Kerry (Special Envoy for Climate),
Cecilia Rouse (Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors), as well as
Richard Stengel (US Agency for Global Media; Stengel famously called propaganda
"a good thing") and even
Tom Vilsack (Agriculture).
Jake Sullivan, Biden's National Security Advisor, is not (yet) a CFR member, but Sullivan has been a Senior Fellow at the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (a think tank "promoting active international engagement by the United States") and a member of the
US German Marshall Fund's "Alliance For Securing Democracy" (a major promoter of the "Russiagate"
disinformation campaign to restrain the Trump presidency),
both of which are run by senior CFR members.(
Update: Additional CFR members in Joe Biden's incoming administration
include Susan Rice (White House Domestic Policy Council Director),
Jeffrey Zients (Coronavirus Coordinator),
Wendy Sherman (Deputy Secretary of State) and
Jon Finer (Deputy National Security Advisor).
Victoria Nuland (Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs) is the wife of former CFR member Robert Kagan.)
Most of Biden's CFR-vetted nominees supported recent US wars against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen as well as the 2014 regime change in Ukraine. Unsurprisingly, neoconservative
Max Boot, the CFR Senior Fellow in National Security Studies and one of the most vocal opponents of the Trump administration, has called Biden's future cabinet
"America's A-Team".
Thus, after four years of "populism" and "isolationism", a Biden presidency will mean the return of the Council on Foreign Relations and the continuation of a tradition of
more than 70 years. Indeed, the CFR was founded in 1921 in response to the
"trauma of 1920", when US President Warren Harding and the US Senate turned isolationist and renounced US global leadership after World War I. In 2016, Donald Trump's "America First" campaign reactivated this 100 year old foreign policy trauma.
(
Update: In November 2020, Donald Trump fired almost all members of the high-level Pentagon Defense Policy Board, including former CFR directors Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright.)
Was the 2020 presidential election "stolen", as some allege? There are certainly indications of
significant statistical anomalies in key Democrat-run swing states. Whether these were decisive for the election outcome may be up to courts to decide. At any rate,
Joe Biden may well be the first US President known to be involved in international corruption before even entering office.Why are most US and international media hardly interested in this? Well, why should they?
Comment: The complicated and overlapping connections to this political cabal show exactly why President Trump has been so valuable to the American people and why he changed course in so many agreements. It also shows the depth, breadth and strength of his opposition and likewise his courage to uncouple its hold on America.