Essay: Anatomy of the Deep State by Mike Lofgren.

On How the Deep State is Sucking Money In this clip, Lofgren explains how a combination of the national security state and the corporate state are sucking money out of our economy, while Rome burns.

In conjunction with this week’s show, Mike Lofgren has written the following essay. The Anatomy of the Deep State. Rome lived upon its principal till ruin stared it in the face. Industry is the only true source of wealth, and there was no industry in Rome.

Mike Lofgren was the first to use the term Deep State, in an essay and exclusive interview on Moyers and Company, to refer to a web of entrenched interests in the US government and beyond (most notably Wall Street and Silicon Valley, which controls access to our every click and swipe) that dictate America’s defense decisions, trade policies.

It wasn’t until Mike Lofgren’s essay, “The Anatomy of the Deep State,” published in early 2015, that I began to know that the huge dislocation between Candidate Obama and newly inaugurated President Obama was more than a few contradictions in his nomination campaign.

Mike Lofgren is a former career congressional staff member who served on the House and Senate budget committees. His latest book is The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a.

The truth, as Mike Lofgren reveals in this devastating takedown of beltway business, is that U.S. elected leaders provide a fig leaf for those who really hold the levers of power; the unelected functionaries of ever-growing bureaucracies who decide America's defence, intelligence and foreign policy, and the corporate titans who control them.

Mike Lofgren is an American former Republican aide, who retired in May 2011 after 28 years as a staff member in the U.S. Congress. Lofgren, who has a B.A. and M.A. in history from the University of Akron, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study European history at the University of Bern and University of Basel in Switzerland and completed the strategy and policy curriculum at the Naval.

They came in response to Mike Lofgren’s important essay, “Anatomy of the Deep State”. Lofgren is a former congressional staffer. Mike Lofgren’s long experience on the Hill has given him a small window, he might say only an aperture, into a vast network of unaccountable governmental and private institutions he calls the “Deep State.

Mike Lofgren, 66, is a former congressional staffer who wrote the 2016 book, The Deep State. He says the term, as he defined it, is being badly misused by President Trump and his supporters.

Mike Lofgren argues that the Deep State controls everything, but he attributes too much to malice, and not enough to ignorance and self-interest. by Mark David Hall by Samuel Gregg by Glenn A. Moots.

No conspiracy, writes the author, this hidden “Deep State” has arisen from historical circumstances dating to the end of World War II. Its leaders, from government, finance, and industry, are united in a web of influence that includes contractors, think-tank experts, lobbyists, and other nonelected players, all connected by money and mutual goals.

Former GOP congressional analyst Mike Lofgren talks to Bill about America’s “Deep State,” in which elected and unelected figures collude to serve powerful vested interests. Also, an exclusive essay on the Deep State, by Lofgren. “It is the big story of our time,” Lofgren tells Moyers.