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The American Deep State: Big Money, Big Oil, and the Struggle for U.S. Democracy (War and Peace Library)

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Now in a new edition up to date through the unprecedented 2016 presidential election, this provocative book makes a compelling case for a hidden “deep state” that influences and continuously opposes official U.S. policies. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale Scott begins by tracing The usa’s increasing militarization, restrictions on constitutional rights, and income disparity since World War II. With the start of the Cold War, he argues, the U.S. government changed immensely in both function and scope, from protecting and nurturing a reasonably isolated country to assuming ever-greater responsibility for controlling world politics in the name of freedom and democracy. This has resulted in both secretive new institutions and a slow but radical change in the American state itself. He argues that central to this historic reversal were seismic national events, ranging from the assassination of President Kennedy to 9/11.
Scott marshals compelling evidence that the deep state is now partly institutionalized in non-accountable intelligence agencies like the CIA and NSA, but it also extends its reach to private corporations like Booz Allen Hamilton and SAIC, to which 70 percent of intelligence budgets are outsourced. At the back of these public and private institutions is the influence of Wall Street bankers and lawyers, allied with international oil companies beyond the reach of domestic law. Undoubtedly the political consensus about The usa’s global role has evolved, but if we wish to restore the country’s traditional constitutional framework, you will need to see the role of particular cabals—such as the Project for the New American Century—and how they have repeatedly used the name of the game powers and network of Continuity of Government (COG) planning to implement change. Yet the creator sees the deep state polarized between an establishment and a counter-establishment in a chaotic situation that may in truth prove more hopeful for U.S. democracy.

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