Council on Foreign Relations, http://www.cfr.org/ long time ruling class policy planning organization, publishes http://www.foreignaffairs.org/ .Mostly center-right in orientation, however has occasionally hired as fellows lefties like Salih Booker http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidhipc/sbooker.htm http://www.africaaction.org/bp/region.htm Attacked constantly by far right ideologues, see, for example, http://www.ptialaska.net/ ~swampy/illuminati/cfr_1.html , "THE ILLUMINATI AND THE COUNSEL ON FOREIGN RELATIONSB, "by MYRON C. FAGAN.
Best book from the Left on the CFR by Larry Shoup, preface by Bill Domhoff, published by Monthly Review Press in the mid to late 70's. http://www.totse.com/en/conspiracy/the_new_world_order/cfr.html Saw Larry Shoup recently speak with Peter Camejo, a former leader of the US SWP, at LaPena, a Berkeley left hang out founded by ex-MIR cadre http://members.tripod.com/~chilemir/ http://www.broadleft.org/radleft.htm from Chile. Met him originally, as a fellow precinct capt. in the Kesse Jackson campaign in '88. Larry and Peter are Green Party candidates in Ca. (Camejo is polling 7% in the Bay Area for Governor.) Told Larry I'd enjoyed his book on the CFR and on Jimmy Carter for Ramparts Press in '76 and asked if he ever got queries from far right loons. He said the John Birch Society wrote him once, offering to reprint the book on the CFR. He declined, natch. Michael Pugliese