Priceless: How The Federal Reserve Bought The Economics Profession
By Ryan Grim
September 07, 2009
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/07/priceless-how-the-federal_n_278805.html
Final Report Of The Commission On Industrial Relations
In 1913, a coal strike began at a Colorado mine owned by the Rockefellers in the small mining town of Ludlow, where roughly 11,000 workers (mostly Greek, Italian, and Serbian immigrants) went on strike against the “feudal domination of their lives in towns completely controlled by the mining companies.” Repression quickly followed, culminating in what became known as the Ludlow Massacre in 1914, with the Rockefellers hiring the National Guard to attack the strikers and destroy their tent city, machine gunning the crowd and setting fire to tents, one of which was discovered to have housed eleven children and two women, all of whom were killed by the fire.
The Congressional Walsh Commission was founded to investigate the activities which led to violent labour repression at the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company in Ludlow, though the scope of the Commission was expanded to study philanthropic foundations themselves.
"…the creation of the Rockefeller and other foundations was the beginning of an effort to perpetuate the present position of predatory wealth through the corruption of sources of public information… [and] that if not checked by legislation, these foundations will be used as instruments to change to form of government of the U.S. at a future date, and there is even a hint that there is a fear of a monarchy."
In 1916, the Walsh Commission produced its final report, the Manly Report (after the research director, Basil M. Manly), which concluded that the foundations were so “grave a menace” to society, that “it would be desirable to recommend their abolition.” Frank Walsh referred to foundations as “a menace to the welfare of society.”
Chairman: Frank P. Walsh
Director of Research and Investigation: Fasil M. Manly
1915
http://www.andrewgavinmarshall.com/...ent-overclass-is-over-a-century-in-the-making
(PDF Document)
http://archive.org/download/finalreportofcom00unitiala/finalreportofcom00unitiala.pdf
Why AIPAC Took Over Brookings
By Grant F. Smith
November 21, 2007
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/why-aipac-took-over-brookings