[Peace-discuss] "Wall Street’s Think Tank"

Wed Mar 27 17:38:16 UTC 2019

I have the original hardback published in 2015, it’s indispensable to understanding who/what is running the country. It lays the foundation for all that follows, such as “The Deep State,” which is less academic, a bit more trivial, naming the names of those in power in DC and their connections.

Previous to “Wall Streets Think Tank,” also written by Laurence Shoup, is his “Imperial Brain Trust," written in collaboration with Wm. Minter, publ. 1977, on the same topic.

Of the three, I found “Wall Streets Think Tank," the most valuable and enlightening.

On Mar 27, 2019, at 08:37, C G Estabrook <cgestabrook at gmail.com<mailto:cgestabrook at gmail.com>> wrote:

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The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics, 1976-2019

by Laurence H. Shoup

“Lucidly written and deeply informed, this book reveals how the super-rich class organizes itself into a consciously directed, ruling plutocracy. Shoup offers a treasure of insights into a subject that seldom gets the attention it very much needs.”
—Michael Parenti, author, The Face of Imperialism
“Shoup [reveals] how a small group of planners, drawn from sectors of concentrated private and state power, closely linked, along with ‘experts’ whose commitments are congenial to their ends, have set the contours for much of recent history.... A welcome and very valuable contribution.”
—Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor (emeritus), MIT; writer and activist
“Wall Street’s Think Tank is a very important book, and its information is essential for an understanding of how our politics, and the world’s, has come to its sorry state.”
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The Council on Foreign Relations is the world’s most powerful private foreign-policy think tank and membership organization. Dominated by Wall Street, it claims among its members a high percentage of past and present top U.S. government officials as well as corporate leaders and influential figures in the fields of education, media, law, and nonprofit work. Wall Street’s Think Tank follows the Council on Foreign Relations from the 1970s to the present, and this new paperback edition includes an Afterword discussing the Trump Administration and the Council.

In his book, Laurence Shoup explains how the Council on Foreign Relations and its members both shaped and responded to rapid changes in the world scene: globalization, the rise of China, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the launch of a “War on Terror.” Shoup argues that the CFR now operates in an era of “Neoliberal Geopolitics,” a worldwide paradigm that its members helped to establish and that reflects the interests of the U.S. ruling capitalist class. Shoup’s new Afterword brings the workings of the CFR up-to-date in three ways: It notes changes in the CFR’s leadership over the last three years; it examines the connections between the Trump Administration and the CFR; and it looks at recent U.S. policy toward North Korea to see whether the CFR’s hegemony over U.S. foreign policy has weakened or remained constant. Wall Street’s Think Tank is an essential guide to understanding the Council on Foreign Relations and the shadow it casts over recent history and current events.

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Laurence H. Shoup received his Ph.D. in History from Northwestern University in 1974. He is the author of five books, including Imperial Brain Trust(with William Minter) and Rulers and Rebels: A People’s History of Early California, 1769-1901, as well as many articles in scholarly and popular publications. He has taught U.S. history at the University of Illinois, San Francisco State University, Sonoma State University, and has been active in the anti-war and social justice movements since the 1960s.

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