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DESCRIPTION:Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library\n\n“Dangerous 
 Circumstances:”\nThe CFR Proposes a New Grand Strategy Towards 
 China\n\n“…preserving U.S. primacy in the global system ought to remain 
 the central objective of U.S. grand strategy in the twenty-first 
 century.”\nBackground: The CFR and its Grand Strategy China Report: The 
 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is the think tank of monopoly-finance 
 capital, Wall Street’s think tank. It is also a membership organization: 
 the ultimate networking, socializing, strategic planning and consensus 
 forming institution of the dominant sector of the U.S. capitalist class. 
 The CFR’s activities help unite the capitalist class to become not just a 
 class in itself, but also a class for itself. It is the world’s most 
 powerful private organization, the “high command” body of the American 
 plutocracy. The Council has an almost century long history of forming study 
 groups to plan America’s overall “grand” strategic policies. It sets 
 the agenda for debate, builds consensus among both the powerful and 
 attentive publics, then inserts its own network of people into public 
 office to implement its favored doctrines in the real world. One of its 
 latest efforts, a study group on U.S. grand strategy toward China, 
 completed its work and issued a report-- approved by the CFR board of 
 directors--entitled Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China, in March of 
 2015. This report used the term “dangerous circumstances” to describe 
 the growing tensions between the world’s most powerful two nations.\n   
 Laurence H. Shoup will outline the CFR's worldview, their critique of 
 current U.S. policy toward China, their view of China's grand strategy, 
 what they think U.S. grand strategy should be, a critique of this CFR 
 report, and the eco-socialist revolution that we now need.\nLaurence H. 
 Shoup is author of Wall Street’s Think Tank: The Council on Foreign 
 Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics 1976-2014 (forthcoming, 
 New York: Monthly Review Press, 2015).\n\nSunday, August 9, 2015 - 10:30 am 
 to 12:30 pm\n6501 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland (just North of Alcatraz 
 Ave.)\n\nSeating is limited, so plan to come early. We start 
 promptly.\nFREE - but hat will be passed for donations to NPML\n\nAbout 
 Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library\nA weekly discussion series inspired 
 by our respect for the work of Karl Marx and our belief that his work will 
 remain as important for the class struggles of the future as they have been 
 for the past. \n\nFor info or to subscribe to our weekly announcements, 
 \nCall Gene Ruyle at 510-332-3865 or email: cuyleruyle@mac.com\nFor our 
 full schedule, go to icssmarx.org \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/07/27/18775432.php
SUMMARY:“Dangerous Circumstances:” The CFR Proposes a New Grand Strategy Towards China
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library\n6501 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland (just North 
 of Alcatraz Ave.)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/07/27/18775432.php
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