27.04.2016 Author: F. William Engdahl
Column: Politics
Region: Middle East
Country: Saudi Arabia
A flood of uncontrolled war refugees
from Syria, Libya, Tunisia and other Islamic countries destabilized by
Washington’s ‘Arab Spring’ Color Revolutions, has created the greatest social
dislocation across the EU from Germany to Sweden to Croatia since the end of
World War II. By now it has become clear to most that something quite sinister
is afoot, something which threatens to destroy the social fabric of the very
core of European civilization. What few realize is that the entire drama is
being orchestrated, not by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, or by faceless EU
bureaucrats of the Brussels EU Commission. It is being orchestrated by a cabal
of NATO-linked think tanks.
Last October 8, 2015 amid the great stream of
hundreds of thousands of refugees flooding into Germany from Syria, Tunisia,
Libya and other lands, a newly self-confident German Chancellor Angela Merkel
proclaimed on a popular German TV program, “I have a plan.” She took the
occasion to take a sharp dig at coalition partner, Bavarian CSU head, Horst
Seehofer, a stauch critic of Merkel’s open arms refugee position since spring
2015 that saw more than one million refugees enter Germany last year alone.
Since that point, with iron-hard resolve, the
German Chancellor has defended the criminal Erdogan regime in Turkey, an
essential partner in her “plan.”
Most of the world has looked on with
astonishment as she ignored principles of free speech and decided to prosecute
publicly a well-known German TV comedian, Jan Böhmermann, for his satirical
remarks about the Turkish President. They were astonished as the symbol of
European democracy, the German Chancellor, chose to ignore Erdogan’s
imprisonment of opposition journalists ands his shutting of Turk opposition
media as he proceeded with plans to establish a de facto dictatorship rule
within Turkey. They were puzzled as Berlin’s government chose to ignore
overwhelming proof that Erdogan and his family were materially aiding and
abetting ISIS terrorists within Syria who were in fact creating the war refugee
crisis. They were astonished to see her push through an EU committment to give
Erdogan’s regime billions of euros to supposedly deal with the refugee flow
from Turkish refugee camps across the border into EU neighbor land, Greece and
beyond.
The Merkel Plan
All of those seemingly inexplicable actions
from the once-pragmatic German leader appear to go back to her embrace of a
14-page document prepared by a network of pro-NATO think-tanks, brazenly titled
“The Merkel Plan.”
What the newly-self-confident German Chancellor
did not tell her hostess, Anne Will, or her viewers was that “her” plan was
given to her just four days earlier, on October 4, in a document already titled
The Merkel Plan, by a newly-created and obviously well-financed international
think-tank called the European Stability Initiative or ESI. The ESI website
showed that it had offices in Berlin, Brussels and in Istanbul,
Turkey.
Suspiciously, the authors of the ESI plan
titled their plan as if it had come from the German Chancellor’s office and not
from them. More suspicious is the contents of The Merkel Plan of ESI. In
addition to already taking more than one million refugees in 2015, Germany
should “agree to grant asylum to 500,000 Syrian refugees registered in Turkey
over the coming 12 months.” In addition, “Germany should accept claims from
Turkey…and provide safe transport to successful applicants…already registered
with the Turkish authorities…” And finally, “Germany should agree to help
Turkey obtain visa-free travel in
2016.”
That so-called Merkel Plan was a product of US
and NATO-linked think tanks and of governments of NATO member countries or
prospective members. The maxim “follow the money trail” is instructive in this
case to see who really runs the EU today.
The ESI
The ESI came out of NATO-led efforts to
transform South East Europe following the US-instigated war in Yugoslavia
during the 1990’s that resulted in the Balkanization of the country and
establishment of a major USA and NATO airbase, Camp Bond Steel in Kosovo.
Current ESI Chairman directly responsible for
the final Merkel Plan document is Istanbul-based Austrian sociologist, Gerald
Knaus. Knaus is also a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations
(ECFR), and an Open Society Fellow.
Founded in London in 2007, the ECFR is an
imitation of the influential New York Council on Foreign Relations, the
think-tank created by the Rockefeller and JP Morgan bankers during the 1919
Versailles peace talks to coordinate an Anglo-American global foreign policy.
Significantly, the creator and moneybags for the ECFR is American
multi-billionaire and Color Revolution funder, George Soros.
In virtually every
US State Department-backed Color Revolution since the collapse of the Soviet
Union, including in Serbia in 2000, in Ukraine, in Georgia, in China, in Brazil
and in Russia, George Soros and offshoots of his Open Society Foundations have
been in the shadows financing “democracy” NGOs and activists to install
pro-Washington and pro-NATO regimes.
The select members, called Council Members or
associates, of the London-based ECFR include ECFR co-chairman Joschka Fischer,
former German Green Party Foreign Minister who arm-twisted his party into
backing Bill Clinton’s illegal 1999 bombing of Serbia without UN Security
Council backing.
Other members of the Council of Soros’ European
Council on Foreign Relations think tank include former NATO Secretary General,
Xavier Solana. It includes disgraced plaigarist and former German Defense
Minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg; Annette Heuser, Executive Director
Bertelsmann Stiftung in Washington DC; Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman, Munich
Security Conference; Cem Özdemir, chairman, Bündnis90/Die Grünen; Alexander
Graf Lambsdorff, German Liberal Party (FDP) MP; Michael Stürmer, Chief
Correspondent, Die Welt; Andre Wilkens, Director of Mercator Foundation;
pederasty defender, Daniel Cohn-Bendit of the European Parliament. Cohn-Bendit,
known as “Danny the Red” during the May, 1968 French student riots, was a
member of the the autonomist group Revolutionärer Kampf (Revolutionary
Struggle) in Rüsselsheim, Germany along with his close ally, now ECFR chairman,
Joschka Fischer. The two went on to found the “realo” wing of the German Greens.
The Open Society Foundations is the network of
tax-exempt “democracy-promoting” foundations created by George Soros on the
collapse of the Soviet Union to promote “free market” pro-IMF market
liberalization of former communist economies that opened the doors for the
systematic plundering of invaluable mining and energy assets of those
countries. Soros was a major financier of the liberal economic team of Boris
Yeltsin including Harvard “Shock Therapy” economist, Jeffrey Sachs, and Yeltsin
liberal adviser, Yegor Gaidar.
Already it becomes clear that the “Merkel Plan”
is the Soros Plan in fact. But there is more if we wish to understand the
darker agenda behind the plan.
The ESI Funders
The European Stability Initiative think-tank of
Soros-tied Gerald Knaus is financed by an impressive list of donors. Their
website lists them.
The list includes, in addition to Soros’ Open
Society Foundations, the Soros-tied German Stiftung Mercator, and the Robert
Bosch Stiftung. ESI funders also include European Commission. Then, curiously
enough the funder list for The Merkel Plan includes an organization with the
Orwellian name, The United States Institute of Peace.
Some research reveals that the United States
Institute of Peace has anything but a peace-loving background. The United
States Institute of Peace is chaired by Stephen Hadley, former US National
Security Council adviser during the neo-conservative war-waging Bush-Cheney
administration. Its Board of Directors includes Ashton B. Carter, current Obama
Administration neo-conservative hawkish Secretary of Defense; Secretary of
State John Kerry; Major General Frederick M. Padilla, President of the US
National Defense University. These are some very seasoned architects of the US
Pentagon Full Spectrum Dominance strategy for world military domination.
The “Merkel Plan” authors at the European
Stability Initative, in addition to the largesse of George Soros’ foundations,
list as “core” funder, the German Marshall Fund of the United States. As I
describe in my book, The Think Tanks, the German Marshall Fund is anything but
German. With its seat in Washington, as I noted in the book, “It’s an American
think tank with its headquarters in Washington, D.C. In point of fact, its
agenda is the deconstruction of postwar Germany and more broadly of the
sovereign states of the EU to fit them better into the Wall Street
globalization agenda.”
The German Marshall Fund of Washington has been
involved in the post-1990 USA agenda of regime change around the world in
league with the US-funded National Endowment for Democracy, Soros Foundations,
and the CIA front called USAID. As I describe it in the think tanks book, “The
major focus of the German Marshall Fund according to its 2013 Annual Report was
to support the US State Department agenda for so-called democracy-building
operations in former communist countries in eastern and south-eastern Europe,
from the Balkans to the Black Sea. Significantly their work included Ukraine.
In most instances, they worked together with the USAID, widely identified as a
CIA front with ties to the State Department, and the Stewart Mott Foundation
which gives funds to the US Government-funded National Endowment for
Democracy.”
Notably, the same Stewart Mott Foundation is
also a funder of the ESI-authored Merkel Plan, as is the Rockefeller Brothers
Fund.
This all should give pause for reflection as to
who and for what goals the Merkel-Erdogan deal for dealing with the EU refugee
crisis is intended. Does the Rockefeller-Bush-Clinton faction in the United
States intend to use it as a major social engineering experiment to create
chaos and social conflict across the EU at the same time their NGOs such as the
NED, Freedom House and the Soros Foundations are stirring things up in Syria
and Libya and across the Islamic world? Is Germany, as former US presidential
adviser and Rockefeller crony, Zbigniew Brzezinski called her, a “vassal” of US
power in the post-1990 world? To date the evidence is pretty strong that that’s
the case. The role of US and NATO-linked think tanks is central to get an
understanding of how the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Union are
actually controlled from behind the Atlantic curtain.
F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant
and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University
and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the
online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”
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