{"id":218775,"date":"2025-01-05T21:25:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T19:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=218775"},"modified":"2025-01-05T21:25:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T19:25:43","slug":"us-deep-state-its-roots-tools-and-enablers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=218775","title":{"rendered":"US Deep State: Its Roots, Tools and Enablers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article__header\">\n<div class=\"article__announce-text\" dir=\"ltr\">The &#8220;deep state&#8221;, never part of the Founding Fathers&#8217; design, has turned US democracy into fiction, former US assistant treasury secretary and renowned economist Dr Paul Craig Roberts says. What does he mean?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__body\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\">The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20241220\/whats-the-us-deep-state-and-how-could-de-dollarization-weaken-it-1121222070.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deep state<\/a>, described by US political scientist Francis Fukuyama as a network of\u00a0<em>&#8220;unaccountable professional bureaucrats,&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0is really a far more extensive entity.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\">According to Dr Roberts, it encompasses not only bureaucrats but also elected officials, Wall Street, major corporations and even\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20241213\/clintons-open-to-possible-preemptive-pardon-as-deep-state-may-abandon-them-1121159825.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">foreign government lobbyists<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\">The modern-day Leviathan is deeply embedded within the structure of the US government, with professional bureaucrats serving merely as pawns in the games of their overlords, the economist says. But the game begins long before governance \u2014 it starts at the very phase of elections.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"h3\">\n<div id=\"1121363450-1121363453\" class=\"article__block-anchor\"><\/div>\n<h3 id=\"1121363450-1\" class=\"article__h2\">He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tune<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\">Behind the fa\u00e7ade of democracy in the US, voters can only choose from candidates approved by the establishment or the ruling elite, argues Dr Roberts.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\"><em><strong>&#8220;The power that the Constitution gave to individuals now belongs to interest groups that determine elections with campaign contributions,&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0the former assistant treasury secretary in Ronald Reagan&#8217;s government stresses.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"quote\">\n<div class=\"article__quote\">\n<div class=\"article__quote-bg\">\n<div class=\"article__quote-bg-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__quote-text\">\n<p>&#8220;In the United States elected representatives at all levels of government up to and including the President cannot represent the interests of the people or of the country as a whole because they are dependent for their election to office on campaign contributions,&#8221; writes Dr Roberts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__quote-info\">\n<div class=\"elem-info\">\n<div class=\"elem-info__share\">\n<div class=\"share m-active\" data-id=\"1121363450\" data-url=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20250105\/us-deep-state-its-roots-tools-and-enablers-1121363450.html?share-block=1121363456\" data-title=\"&amp;quot;In the United States elected representatives at all levels of government up to and including the President cannot represent the interests of the people or of the country as a whole because they are dependent for their election to office on campaign contributions,&amp;quot; writes Dr Roberts.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\">He explains that as a result, elected representatives are beholden to the individuals and interest groups who funded and supported them.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\"><strong>Those include the influential\u00a0Israel lobby,\u00a0arms manufacturers,\u00a0intelligence agencies, pharmaceutical companies, agribusiness corporations, Wall Street and others, all of whom provide funding and favorable publicity to those they help elect.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\">Intelligence agencies also occasionally provide staged false flag events to give a candidate or a policy a boost, he notes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"article\" data-article=\"main-photo\">\n<div class=\"article__article m-image\">\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\"><strong>Significant efforts were made in the past history to prevent money from dominating elections. In 1907, the Tillman Act became the first legislation in the United States to prohibit corporations from making monetary contributions to national political campaigns.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\">For nearly a century, various measures were enacted to curb\u00a0the influence of big money\u00a0on the US political system, particularly during elections.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\">But those efforts were effectively overturned in 2010 by a landmark US Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United versus the Federal Election Commission (FEC), which paved the way for unlimited corporate funding of political campaigns.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\">That same year, a related federal court decision in the case of Speechnow.org versus the FEC further expanded the influence of money in politics by allowing unlimited contributions to political action groups who distribute the donations to candidates \u2014 ostensibly isolating the candidate from receiving funds directly from a donor.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\"><strong>Roberts says that those decisions gave corporations, the Israel lobby and the super rich the power to purchase the US government.\u00a0<em>&#8220;For American democracy to be restored, money must be taken out of politics,&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0he argues.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"h3\">\n<h3 id=\"1121363450-2\" class=\"article__h2\">eep State Dream: All Power to the Federal Government<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\">Roberts says another long-running and quietly advancing process \u2014 now actively encouraged by the deep state \u2014 is the gradual erosion of state governments in the United States and the consolidation of authority within the federal government.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\"><em><strong>&#8220;The US government today is very different from the one the Founding Fathers set in place,&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0the economist writes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\">&#8220;Democracy was distrusted as mob rule, so members elected to the House of Representatives were limited to two years,&#8221; Dr Roberts notes. &#8220;The Senate was not elected. The Senators from each state were appointed by the State legislators.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"quote\">\n<div class=\"article__quote\">\n<div class=\"article__quote-bg\">\n<div class=\"article__quote-bg-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__quote-text\">&#8220;This ensured that Senators represented the interest of their states, not the interest of foreign countries, such as Ukraine and Israel, or the agendas of interest groups with bases in other states. Most governing rights resided in the individual state,&#8221; he explains.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"h3\">\n<h3 id=\"1121363450-3\" class=\"article__h2\">Will Donald Trump Uproot the Deep State?<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\">Even though Donald Trump vowed on the campaign trail\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20241112\/did-us-deep-state-allow-trump-to-win-1120861699.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to rein in the deep state<\/a>, there are signs that business will continue as usual, the economist said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"quote\">\n<div class=\"article__quote\">\n<div class=\"article__quote-bg\">\n<div class=\"article__quote-bg-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__quote-text\">\n<p>&#8220;During the Obama and Biden years many corporation executives and boards favored Woke agendas that bit them, and now they are aligning with Donald Trump,&#8221; writes Dr Roberts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__quote-info\">\n<div class=\"elem-info\">\n<div class=\"elem-info__share\">\n<div class=\"share m-active\" data-id=\"1121363450\" data-url=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20250105\/us-deep-state-its-roots-tools-and-enablers-1121363450.html?share-block=1121364286\" data-title=\"&amp;quot;During the Obama and Biden years many corporation executives and boards favored Woke agendas that bit them, and now they are aligning with Donald Trump,&amp;quot; writes Dr Roberts.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\">He noted the ongoing &#8220;pilgrimage&#8221; of Silicon Valley giants, US industrial leaders and wealthy tycoons to Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago residence, accompanied by seven-figure donations to the president-elect\u2019s inauguration.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\">Roberts recalls that last month Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr \u2014 nominated for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services \u2014 had dinner with Big Pharma executives, including Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, Lilly CEO David Ricks and Steve Ubl, CEO of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\">The economist highlights how RFK Jr previously condmened the same Big Pharma firms, accusing them of producing unsafe COVID-19 vaccines that harmed millions and creating treatments that undermined the health of American children.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\"><em><strong>&#8220;In other words, even private interests that are harmful have to be negotiated with. This doesn&#8217;t leave much room for reform to reach very far,&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> Dr Roberts says.\\\\<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"h3\">\n<h3 id=\"1121363450-4\" class=\"article__h2\">Is There Democracy in the West?<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"quote\">\n<div class=\"article__quote\">\n<div class=\"article__quote-text\">&#8220;The conclusion is that democracy in America and in Europe, are fictions,&#8221; writes Dr Roberts. &#8220;The entire West is ruled by the US neoconservative doctrine of American hegemony and by the US interest groups who benefit from this hegemony. This is so entrenched that Trump is unlikely to be able to do anything about it.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__quote-info\">\n<div class=\"elem-info\">\n<div class=\"elem-info__share\">\n<div class=\"share m-active\" data-id=\"1121363450\" data-url=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20250105\/us-deep-state-its-roots-tools-and-enablers-1121363450.html?share-block=1121364174\" data-title=\"&quot;This ensured that Senators represented the interest of their states, not the interest of foreign countries, such as Ukraine and Israel, or the agendas of interest groups with bases in other states. Most governing rights resided in the individual state,&quot; he explains.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\">Roberts argues that Abraham Lincoln, the 16th US president, used the Civil War of 1861-1865 to curtail the Constitutional powers given to the states.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\">&#8220;The purpose of the &#8216;Civil War&#8217; was to concentrate all power in Washington&#8217;s hands,&#8221; he notes. &#8220;This anti-American revolution was completed in the 1930s by the Franklin D. Roosevelt regime which turned Congress&#8217; legislative powers over to executive branch regulatory agencies.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\">Once all power is concentrated in the federal center, the deep state will gain nearly unlimited scope for maneuvering and exerting control, the economist warns.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;deep state&#8221;, never part of the Founding Fathers&#8217; design, has turned US democracy into fiction, former US assistant treasury secretary and renowned economist Dr Paul Craig Roberts says. What does he mean? The\u00a0deep state, described by US political scientist Francis Fukuyama as a network of\u00a0&#8220;unaccountable professional bureaucrats,&#8221;\u00a0is really a far more extensive entity. 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