Look Out for America’s “Independent” Think Tanks

Published in Huanqiu
(China) on 26 January 2013
by Ding Jin (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Ann Kubusek. Edited by Rachel Smith.
Recently in China there have been many scholars who believe America’s think tanks are independent organizations. For example, there are some who introduce America’s Brookings Institute by saying, “The key factor in determining the quality of the Brookings Institute's products is the quality of the employees, the effectiveness of the operating mechanism and, in a nutshell, it’s the independent character of the think tank itself.” I worked at a think tank for many years; the structure of America’s think tanks is complex and cannot be generalized.


The reason why America’s think tanks are “independent” is because the framework for analysis still rests on the idea that America’s political institution is based on the separation of three powers, with the two parties sharing power. My research leads me to believe that America’s political essence is tyranny of a hereditary financial system. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's shareholders are the ones behind the scenes with the real power. The president in Washington is just an actor on the stage. The main source of funds for numerous American think tanks are the Rockefeller family, the Morgan Foundation, Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street multinational financial groups and families. The leaders have an inseparable relationship with Wall Street.


To take the Brookings Institute as an example: Their funding source is the Rockefellers and other big companies. Government funding does not exceed 20 percent of their income structure. The Brookings Institute’s current chairman of the board, John Thornton, was the former deputy secretary of state. This type of think tank is clearly not an independent organization and is representative of America’s financial hereditary system. These think tanks are responsible for providing suggestions and information to the American government and at the same time they are cooperating behind the scenes to serve the tyrannical financial hereditary system.


Think tanks' format of servicing both Wall Street and the American government is carried out clandestinely. One example is the “revolving door” mechanism; this is when research personnel take government positions and directly influence government policy, or the results of the research are delivered directly to government departments and indirectly affect government policies.


Another modus operandi is having a government department secretly fund the think tank’s specific target and make it untraceable to avoid any danger. According to the British author Francis Stonor Saunders, as disclosed in her book “The Cultural Cold War: CIA and the World of Arts and Letters”, the CIA allocated a large amount of money to the Ford Foundation and Carnegie Foundation. They used the big names of these organizations to donate the money for a specific reason – to go abroad and foster a bunch of intellectual elite to use “American standards” to judge what is right and what is wrong, and through these intellectual elite, to influence public opinion and the government policies of that country. In the French Intelligence Research Center’s new book Arab Revolution: The Hidden Side of Purpose, there is a chapter dedicated to discussing several of the different NGOs' and foundations' schemes to organize the Arab Spring.


Some of America’s seemingly neutral think tanks are definitely not independent organizations. The reality is their mission is to aid and provide consultation for America’s ruling financial families and multinational groups. My country’s universities and research institutes that have any connection to these types of think tanks need to maintain vigilance and be cautious of any cooperation that could potentially affect the financial security and social stability of our country. We should restrict the entry of any think tank that could possibly endanger our national security.

The author is from Jiangsu province and is the Deputy Director of Research on Administrative Management Science.


丁进:警惕美国的“独立”智库
2013-01-26 09:30 环球时报 134 字号:TT

  近年来国内多有学者认为美国智库是“独立”机构。如有的学者在介绍美国布鲁金斯学会时,称“决定布鲁金斯学会产品质量的关键因素在于其研究人员的素质、有效的运行机制,而归根结底是因为智库本身的独立性”。笔者供职智库多年,深感美国智库结构复杂,不能一概而论。

  之所以得出美国智库是“独立”机构的结论,是因为其分析框架尚停留在美国政治体制是三权分立和两党轮流执政的基础上。而笔者研究认为美国政治实质是金融僭主世袭体制,纽约美联储世袭股东才是幕后的权力核心,华盛顿的美国总统只是在前台活跃的一个表演者。美国众多智库的资金主要来源,正是来自洛克菲勒家族、摩根财团、高盛财团等华尔街金融集团和跨国金融家族,其主要领导人也和华尔街有着密不可分的关系。

  以布鲁金斯学会为例,其资金主体是洛克菲勒基金会和其他大公司,政府资金比例不超过收入结构的20%。布鲁金斯学会现任董事局主席约翰·桑顿,是高盛银行前总裁兼首席运营官、现任汇丰银行北美主席。布鲁金斯学会现任总裁塔尔博特,则是美国政府前副国务卿。这样的智库显然并非“独立”机构,而是美国金融僭主世袭体制的智囊团和思想库。这些智库负责出谋划策,美国政府具体执行,一唱一和,暗中配合,共同为金融僭主世袭体制服务。

  服务于华尔街的美国智库和美国政府的合作形式非常隐蔽。一种形式是通过“旋转门”机制,就是智库研究人员进入政府任职,直接影响政府决策,或者将智库研究成果输送给政府部门,间接影响政府决策。另一种形式是美国政府部门通过智库资助指定对象,让人羚羊挂角,无迹可寻。根据英国作家桑德斯的《文化冷战:中央情报局与文学艺术》一书披露,美国中央情报局将大笔经费拨给福特基金会、卡内基基金会等机构,让这些机构以它们的名义把钱捐助给中情局的指定对象,在国外培养一批“以美国是非为是非”的知识精英,再通过他们去影响本国的公共舆论和政策制定。法国情报研究中心的新书《阿拉伯革命:不为人知的一面》,其中有《美国非政府组织对“阿拉伯之春”的影响——美国国家民主基金会的例子》等章节,专门讨论美国各种非政府组织和基金会策划、组织了“阿拉伯之春”。

  因此,美国某些貌似中立的智库并非独立机构,其使命实则为美国统治集团和跨国金融家族摇旗呐喊,提供咨询。我国有关高校和科研机构在和这类智库合作时需要保持警惕,对可能影响经济安全和社会稳定的项目应谨慎合作,而有关部门对可能危及国家安全的某些美国智库应禁止进入。▲(作者是江苏省行政管理科学研究所副所长)
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