The Real Rulers of America

The Real Rulers of America: The Challenge of the Awakening People—What You Can Do to Help presents an investigation of the Council on Foreign Relations and its influence within American government, business, the military, education, communications, and foreign policy. The booklet argues that political power extends far beyond elected officials and identifies the CFR as a central network connecting influential figures in presidential administrations, the State Department, Treasury, defense establishment, Congress, major corporations, foundations, universities, newspapers, and international institutions. Using membership lists, official documents, correspondence, government publications, and CFR material, it highlights the organization’s presence in the Kennedy administration and examines its foreign-policy programs, committees, publications, corporate support, and extensive membership. The authors contend that these overlapping relationships have enabled a relatively small establishment to exercise disproportionate influence over national policy while advancing internationalism, the United Nations, and an increasingly centralized world order, and they present the documentation as a means of awakening Americans to the political forces they believe operate behind the visible machinery of constitutional government.