Andrew Gavin Marshall — Meet the Elite Business and Think-Tank Community That's Doing Its Best to Control the World

The large foundations of America's industrial giants have played a truly profound – and largely overlooked – role in the shaping of modern society.
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Meet the Elite Business and Think-Tank Community That's Doing Its Best to Control the World
Andrew Gavin Marshall
(h/t Andy Blatchford via email)

A good time to remember this from Carroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope, (1966), Ch. 20, "The Money Power Seeks to Create a World System of Financial Control in Private Hands Able to Dominate Every Nation on Earth":

"The powers of financial capitalism had (a) far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the systems was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank... sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world."  

Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
by Carroll Quigley
Volumes 1-8
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1966
Online copy at archive.org

Carroll Quigley (1910-1977) was Professor of History at Georgetown University, member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and a mentor to Bill Clinton.