by James Corbett
TheInternationalForecaster.com
January 5, 2016
It goes by many names: The shadow government. The deep state. The secret team. Whatever it is called, the idea is simple: there is an unelected, unaccountable, largely unknown group behind the facade of the visible government that wields power and works toward long-term agenda goals no matter which political party or puppet politician holds office.
Long the domain of the dreaded “conspiracy theorist” community, the idea has surfaced here and there over the years. The JFK assassination has given rise to many inside accounts and outside exposés of The Secret Team. The Iran-Contra scandal led to a Bill Moyers documentary on The Secret Government that is still worth watching 19 years later. It was even openly acknowledged that a “shadow government” had kicked into operation on 9/11.
But an odd phenomenon has taken place in recent years and intensified in recent months: the idea of a “deep state” or a “shadow government” controlling politics, even in the US, is becoming mainstream.
It has graced the cover of any number of recent books, including “Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry” and “The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government.”
It has found its way into the online political media from both the left (Salon) and the right (The American Conservative) ends of the controlled political spectrum.
It has been invoked by mainstream financial analysts to describe the actions of the Federal Reserve.
It has been revisited by Bill Moyers on his website.
It has found its way into the headlines of The Boston Globe (“Vote all you want. The secret government won’t change“) and The New York Times (“America’s ‘Establishment’ Has Embraced ‘Deep States’“).
Heck, it has even been talked about on the World Bank’s blog.
This onslaught of attention begs the question: why now? Why are so many mainstream outlets suddenly shining a light on something that has barely been acknowledged in the past?
To be sure, some of this recent coverage is a whitewash, as you would expect. The World Bank blog, for instance, pawns the concept off as something to be found in “newish democracies” in “Latin America, Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and so on,” i.e., not in the West. This qualification–that the “deep state” idea is something only to be found in foreign, backwards polities–harkens back to the origins of the phrase. The term “deep state” itself is a translation of a Turkish phrase, derin devlet, that rose to prominence after the Susurluk incident exposed the Turkish secret government and its NATO/Gladio/drug running/terrorist associations. It has become increasingly allowable for opinion makers in the MSM to cite the Turkish or the Egyptian “deep state” as a real phenomenon (or at least a real possibility) while simultaneously deriding the possibility that it exists in the West.
However in recent years researchers like Peter Dale Scott have developed and expanded the concept to explain how Western political institutions function. This seems to have been picked up by people like Mike Lofgren, a retired Congressional staffer who has described how the American deep state involves a cross-party consensus on key political issues, or Philip Giraldi, the former intelligence agent whose recent musings on the American deep state received copious attention from the mainstream press.
One way to look at this development is as an extension of a phenomenon that I noted several years ago: a process of indoctrination that has begun to inform the public that there is a shadowy elite in control of the world stage and prepare them to accept that fact. Nearly a decade ago Kissinger mini-me David Rothkopf came out with his book “Superclass” revealing the group of 6,000 or so non-state actors with the ability to enact policies and further agendas across state lines. Since that time a remarkable number of conspiracies-that-dare-not-be-mentioned from the CFR to the Bilderberg Group to the Bohemian Grove are now banal political talking points. Whereas mainstream radio hosts once played Twilight Zone music when callers tried to discuss the CFR, now Hillary Clinton blithely admits that the State Department receives marching orders from them; whereas the Bilderberg Group was once subject to a complete media blackout, it now has its own website and press releases.
But again: why now?
Partly this has to be due to the fact that in the post-9/11, post-Iraq, post-bailout, post-Hope and Change world, it has become impossible to maintain the illusion that it is the political front men who are running the show. No one believes this lie anymore, and it shows.
Even scientific studies are now demonstrating that the United States is not run by political parties but by pockets of special interest.
Truly the conspiracy toothpaste is out of the tube and there’s no point in trying to put it back. While in many ways this represents the crowning achievement of the tireless efforts of generations of conspiracy researchers who have toiled in relative obscurity, it is not an unmitigated good. As we will see in the 2016 prospective this weekend, the revelation of the ruling elite coincides with a meltdown of social cohesion that is giving rise to dark forces that portend a very tumultuous year.
In the meantime, I’m interested in your thoughts on this subject. Why do you think the “deep state” idea is being taken up in the mainstream now? Do you think there is a strategy to these revelations or is it a rearguard effort to whitewash the undeniable? Corbett Report members are invited to leave your comments below.
This is all very interesting. I recently read a book by John Coleman call the Tavistock Institute on Human Research. The book describes an institute that studies behavior and conducts opinion polling to control the masses through mind control. Have you ever read this material and if so, I’d like to know your thoughts on it. John’s theory is that our state of being is created and manipulated through the use of mind control to accept our current condition in-order to establish a one world government, and the group behind the one world government is this “shadow government”, running things world wide. I appreciate your reply.
I think that’s a pretty good point Al Saleh, how do we know what is being presented is not another fabrication? In fact, I think we have to assume that it is, that there will be targets to go after, if we ever had the opportunity, but that the real power will likely be too fearful to be truly exposed.
This reminds me of all the ‘advertising’ of new weapons for military being put on the streets of the US via militarized police, and all of the heavy-handed “drills” meant to terrorize.
Or was it pre-terror for the final revelations, to ensure everyone feels utterly powerless?
Is this just to confirm to all we are truly powerless?
I suspect it constitutes part of a “limited hangout” in order to avoid cognitive dissonance; i.e. it has become so very obvious that the politicians are not in control that SOME alternative explanation must be offered. Since “they” are not subject to “elections”, the “learned helplessness” is reinforced.
welcome back james! thx.
I disagree with the deep state idea. We have bureaucracy established in 1884. The unstated purpose is to void citizens votes. For example, there were 306,000 federal crimes, the people you voted for only created 6,000 of those crimes, while the bureaucracy created all the rest. You did not vote for these laws nor did the people you vote for review the laws and the courts largely ignore them. This a strong argument not to vote. The recent housing bubble was created by Sec. of Housing Cumo, who changed the underwriting rules for home loans. This action was pushed and supported by Congress via letters, not by passing laws. Administrative law is to difficult to change by Congress, they have 90 days and need a veto proof majority. Few Adm. laws have ever been stopped. Calling Admin. Law something else is like blaming lobby groups for the many actions demanded by the general populace. The California water problems are all done via Administrative Law. You the voter did not vote for the laws and your elected representatives have been unable to stop or alter the actions.
First I would like to say it was nice to see Peter Dale Scott referenced as he is the one credited with first using the English translation of the Turkish coined “Deep State” moniker in his many well written books on various aspects of the subject.
I believe Jame’s several suppositions of why there is no longer the stiff denial of the operation of a “Deep State” as wacko conspiracy theory are all correct to various degrees. Why deny and look entirely conspiratorial when the best play is to make this now broadly acknowledged state of affairs look like a normal part of societal order, with a story line of the “Deep State’s” beneficial aspects for a historical proper functioning democratic society soon to follow? Of course if the people decide that the myth of democracy and rep by pop no longer meets their perception and expectations of a true and properly functioning democratic society and moves to establish a new order then the velvet glove of the “Deep State” will come off very rapidly to reveal the iron fist backing the interests of those very real persons who actually make up the cadre of this inter generational plutocracy and its true interests of lust to control and hold power in complete domination of the world and everything in it. When they achieve this, if they ever do, what prey tell (not prAy) will their goals be next, coming as they do from some very very warped thought patterns?
Nice summary, James, but as the replies by others above indicate, it may not be so simple. How far does the rabbit hole go? Still, the notion of Deep State has high heuristic value and even if it remains somewhat inchoate, still serves to protect from political delusions from the punch and judy show that “must go on” on the surface.
It seems to me this is a function of increasing the learned helplessness, i.e. ‘Just accept it, you’re a slave and we own you’ sort of thing. I don’t know if it’s rearguard or not, the efforts to silence-ridicule were tremendous for a long time. However, with the internet, that could only go on so long. It would definitely be easier for them if we all just adopted a serf mentality and didn’t bother questioning “our betters”. One thing I’ve noticed with some millennials is that is that the concepts are there but the outrage is missing. This is a disturbing development.
The water is warming up! Svali (an ex-illuminati whistle blower) proclaimed many years ago that within this shadowy organization they are greatly anticipating the great unveiling, at which time those who truly hold power can come out of the closet and practice their totalitarian control of the Earth openly and directly. But they clearly can’t reveal all in one big bombshell, so the pot is slow to boil.
The Snowden revelations (and all the mainstream attention paid to them) is a good example of this. They want people to know how things work, and to accept it as normal. Gradually, they will reveal more and more about who is really in charge and what plans they have laid. They are hoping that the fluoride, the toxic food, and the endless streams of propaganda and mindless entertainment will soften the blow enough to prevent widespread uprising.
These are very patient, disciplined, people, who have studied crowd psychology extensively, and who have been working towards these goals for over two centuries. They also have unlimited funds and technology they withhold from the rest of the world, so beating them at this will only happen if we swarm against them, or unite in refusal to comply and participate.
To prevent the revolution rush, they plan to provoke and then eliminate opposition in small steps, targeting small special interest groups. What’s happening in Eastern Oregon right now appears to be an example of this – get a bunch of armed, anti-government people to step into the forefront alone so they can be eliminated without angering the rest of the population. We must tread with great caution, my friends, and we must not be baited into their traps!
Excellent observations.
Pray tell, what sort of “technology” is being withheld?
All technology of significance, no doubt. How is it possible that we’re still using combustion engines, which is an 18th century technology?
I was blown away by a recent presentation by Steven Greer, who went into great detail about the secret government: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHxGQjirV-c
I have not been able to reach a final conclusion on the issue of UFO/ET coverups, but this presentation is fairly compelling. If anyone can debunk Steven Greer, then I would greatly appreciate the info. (I’ve been meaning to ask this directly to James, but I have too many other questions I want to ask him too, and I don’t know where to even start…)
Even if you totally reject the idea that interplanetary technology has been back engineered by the shadow government, there are still plenty of things that point to the government developing technology secretly. What do we really know about what is going on with geo-engineering, nanotech, microwave weaponry, or transhuman technology? How about Tesla’s work, which was confiscated by the FBI?
I remember when I was in elementary school they unveiled the stealth plane (I saw it at an airshow, guarded by guys with machine guns), which had been admittedly developed ten years earlier. It’s only logical that if these guys fund and control the scientific community and military deveopment then they would be fools to share the most powerful technologies with the rest of the world.
Specifically, though, anti-gravity, zero-point energy, and scalar physics. I don’t claim to be an expert on this, or to have definitive proof, but this notion that the powers that shouldn’t be have been developing all sorts of advanced technology and deep underground bases is put forth by quite a few people, and it passes the smell test for me. Of course they are! Why wouldn’t they be? I would, if I were them.
I do think the “Deep State” is operating more openly in order to let people become accustomed to the idea of its existence and less likely to fight it.
The Chris Dorner case was an example that bothered me a lot. The way he was hunted with drones for execution. With very little evidence of his guilt or innocence and no trial of any kind.
That whole incident…..really bothered me because it looked like “The Running Man”.
I have no idea what to think about it even now.
You know what I think is contributing to the development of totalitarian states? Social networks and reality television. They’re socially engineering people to spy on one another as a form of entertainment.And then at the same time people are being encouraged to be detached from reality and their own empathy and connection with others by investingbtheir identities into role playing and virtual reality I.e. the popularity of video games and larpimg.
Slowly but surely the idea of a private life or boundaries both internal and external are being eroded. I dread thinking of what the future will look like?
Even scientific studies are now demonstrating that the United States is not run by political parties but by pockets of special interest.
pockets of special interest?
appears more like systemic flooding with NGO’s,Think-tanks and more psychopathic associates
not pockets, no multiple trunks full of them
defacto members of the latter group include even flag waving think of them selves patriots lacking ability to differentiate past “glory”
USA forces did never rebutted any attacks; the name USDefence Dept. an Orwellian new speak
Happy New Year to everyone and to you James
All of these comments, as well as James’ article, are very thought provoking and excellent.
Recently I received a newsletter by Bill Bonner, who I believe has long been rumored to be involved with a certain alphabet soup agency. In it he talks about the “deep state,” yet he described the “deep state” as essentially lobbyists and the federal bureaucracy. !?! This is where I think the directed public conversation may be going. Just like every important term in politics, “deep state” will come to mean the bureaucratic machinery of the federal gov’t, not the violent machinery of the ultra-wealthy.
So, does that mean this latest is a limited hangout? I think that’s where I’m coming out on this. I also agree that it’s a message to enforce the learned helplessness of those who are watching and opposed.
Ya know, tptb could reveal themselves completely tomorrow, and most people would, 1. not notice, and b. if they noticed, not understand, and finally, ask where the remote is.
Haha, thanks for letting me know. No test implied; the link has been corrected.
No DVD release for the latest podcast, but you’re free (as always) to download/burn the video to DVD yourself for free distribution.
No need to apologize, I just find that “walls of text” impede the flow of conversation in the comments section.
Is this just to confirm to all we are truly powerless? yes I think so.
It is EVERYWHERE, James. We recently talked about this same subject after I caught an episode of The Blacklist with James Spader
http://www.zengardner.com/blacklist/
Season 2 Episode 22 season finale: (I think he had just called some secret meeting), “My name is Raymond Reddington. The United States Government has placed me on the list of most wanted fugitives…..that’s who I am. You, in turn, are by my estimation 11 of the finest investigative journalists in the world. I’m here to tell you a story (see wiki)…….. I’m sure you recognize many of the faces behind me (never shows faces — just seeing CGI’s popping up along with WORLD BANK written all over the digital screen shots). They are among the most powerful men and women on the planet. They are also part of a global conspiracy. A shadow organization that spans across every continent, and has for the last 3 decades, consisting of leaders in world government and the private sector. Some call this group the Cabal. The world you live in is the world they want you to think you live in. They start wars, create chaos, and when it suits them they resolve it. Cabal members will move more money in the next quarter than the world bank will in the next year. Their alliance affects change in every aspect of human life: The value and distribution of money, commodities, weapons, water, fuel, the food we eat to live, the information we rely on to tell us who we are.”
JOURNALIST: Just what do you expect us to do with this information?REDDINGTON: Study it. Investigate it to determine the truth, and then report it. LET ME BE CLEAR…….. Investigating this group will immediately position you as a threat, if you do what I am asking, you will be putting your lives and the lives of those you love at grave risk. In the end, the truth will come out. Not all of us will live to see that day but the truth will come out.
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THE TRUTH?? the truth shall set you free don’t even get me started.
Bill Bonner! a blast from the past — he was my first! just moved to NJ in 2001, got a new computer and started blogging. The Daily Reckoning was my first stop on the www for financial “advice” . I certainly fell for his entertaining style – he was always my first morning read. after awhile I had to stop — the goldbugs were over the top (price was 250 an ounce at the time and you all know the rest of the story) Buy Gold! Get your Guns! Get your Passport!
http://wolfblitzzer0.blogspot.com/2012/04/bill-bonneragora-incproof-that-new-york.html
we’ll never know what’s going on and I guess that’s the name of the game now — especially with the internet.
Bill Bonner Raymond Reddington – who knows – maybe it is the Jews & the Jesuits! beware of the double!
Maybe it’s a fake Libertarian Rising — everything seems to be rising to the top these days — OVER the top is more like it.
so long and thanks for all the fish?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojydNb3Lrrs
The study of the history of the House of Morgan shows one part of the nexus of the controlling matrix.
David Wilcock has been saying for years that a group called the White Hats or the Dragon Society (or something) have been organizing against the cabal, and that mass arrests are imminent. His claim is that these are very wealthy people, based mostly out of Asia, who are working with (or who have organized?) a 130 something country alliance against the cabal. When I first read about all this, it seemed fairly credible, but that was some three years ago, and it’s the same story every time I check in – any day now the mass arrests will begin.
I stopped taking it all so seriously when I started hearing that these white hat fellows were going to reset global debt and give everyone a whole bunch of money to everyone to start over. Silver bullets don’t generally solve problems, I’ve found, but I have not been able to totally abandon Wilcock as a player who is working to bring about positive change, even if some of his claims stretch further than my imagination can reach.
As with Steven Greer, I would love for someone to provide me some good info (as in sourceable research) as to what is really going on with Wilcock… Is he a fraud? A psy op distraction? A genuine guy who may not always be right, but who truly wants good? He seems genuine to me, but even shills can write the right words and speak with emotion in their voices…
Although it is sometimes taken for granted, one must acknowledge that one of the oldest, most lucrative (and I’d say inherent) ‘technological advancements’ of mankind is government. Ever since we euphemistically left the tree and started agriculture, society never ceased to evolve (albeit with some hicups) seemingly more complicated organizational forms as time went by.
What is quite fascinating (to me at least) is the possibility that the shadow government might not exist at all in factuality but rather as an expression of all dirty unknowns that are present in the ways societies are controlled (or control themselves ?) and intereact at a higher level, made more apparent by technological advances in communications and information access. Not to say that hidden stuff (secret societies, hidden agendas etc.) do not play their part but rather that events that play out in the third dimension that James is talking about in the game of chess are not deterministic in nature. Therefore they may be un-deterministic or maybe chaotic. By un-deterministic, I mean that top-level hidden policies may yield different results depending on various circumstantial factors that cannot be foreseen, probably related to the target population characteristics (e.g. see reaction against GMOs in certain countries, regions, demistification of recent false-flags) and large difficulties may arise (over the longer term) in controlling their effects, making them and the shadow government, de facto ineffectual.
If the events are chaotic (they seem like that over very long time periods anyway), it is impossible to determine the outcome since it depends on the current state of the ‘system’, meaning ‘everything’ 🙂
…unless some attractor is postulated.
Thanks James for this timely observation. I noticed recently that Politics and Prose, maybe Washington, DC’s most savvy bookstore, had nothing by Douglas Valentine (whom even you have featured only twice.) But prominently displayed on the bestseller shelf is this new book:
http://www.amazon.com/Devils-Chessboard-Dulles-Americas-Government/dp/0062276166/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government – October 13, 2015 by David Talbot (Author)
The Beast of Revelation and Daniel. The King James Bible is true and we will see 2016 become a “game changer” for the inhabitants of the earth.
I think your comments show the state of mind that is being cultivated. People have no idea what’s true. So much nonsense and disinformation is fed into the system. I see it’s effects everywhere,,from activists, to Youtube, where David Icke and Judy woods have astronomically more views than David Chandler or Jim Hoffman, for example.
There was a day a while back when I noticed YouTube all of a sudden recommending all of these flat earth conspiracy videos (the ‘everything is a conspiracy’ meme I call it) and as I clicked around I noticed they’d all been uploaded by different usernames in last 4 weeks or so and the accounts themselves had been created in roughly the same period. I didnt spend more than 15mins making a few screenshots to make a small Disinfo Gallery as a sort of snapshot example, with some links there.* But it’s just everywhere,,as insanely blatant as this to the silence of Greenwald et al. on 911/anthrax. The level of control runs the gamut of almost everything most people see for the whole of their lives. You can find clips on youtube of all the different local news channels repeating talking points literally verbatim. It’s insanely creepy. There are people out there working very hard to make sure the internet is seen as the domain of kooks. Still, the more crap we see the greater the effect we must be having. Tx, James… And keep up the good fight.
‘The people who control the stories of a culture control its behavior.’ -George Gerbner
* https://ajl.smugmug.com/911/Disinformation/
For an interesting read , a comparative study on the inception, development and decay of civilizations: Neagu Djuvara-“Civilisations et lois historiques. Essai d’étude comparée des civilisations” (“Civilizations and Historical Laws. Essay of Comparative Studies on Civilizations”), Mouton, 1975. The essay (Phd thesis) treats the rise and (in some cases decline) of the indian, chinese, ancient greek (roman included here), arab and western european civilizations. Contains also small studies on the political of post-colonial africa.
In connection with the deep state rising, I have been watching the legislative and executive actions that have been implemented under the banner of “security.”
With the U.S. having a such a well armed citizenry, it is the most targeted nation at the moment. The rights of the people have been strategically whittled away and the most dangerous oppositional groups against tyranny have been stripped of their rights to bear arms. It began with felons, then went to men that are violent (such as have been charged with domestic violence) and then the mentally unstable were added to the list; and then once those infringements were made, The definitions of felons violent offenders, and psychologically ill people have evolved to reduce gun ownership of the vast majority of groups that would pose the greatest threats against tyranny. The targets are now patriotic citizens, religious fundamentalists, and now with this new wave of executive action that Obama has made, those that expose corruption in government (i.e. conspiracy theorists) are targeted.
The Bundy situation (as with most staged events) has multiple purposes to persuade public opinion and advance the disarmament of the citizenry.
Of all of your stellar research, I have not seen this particular issue discussed. It is a necessary move for tyranny to rise. From my understanding, gun control and disarmament has been instituted in most “civilized” societies already.
And Obama has done quite a job at playing his role, in disarming the U.S. citizens, well.
Deep State, Shadow Government, New World Order might be three names of the evil they use. As they control all of the news media and have an army of writers to set the spin, they would also respond to threats. Thus, as example, the New York Times is part of the main stream media gulag but they print some surprising articles to make themselves look non biased. At this time, however Russia/Putin has caused a shock wave in all evil endeavors. I have posted that we can expect NATO to attack Russia in less than 2 years. They will use all of their corrupted computer systems to launch a clandestine attack. They will not rely on the member countries. (NATO will lose). Dr.Ronald Cutburth, engineering scientist, intelligence expert.
Explained: The gov started an illegal corporate CIA has specializes in computer systems and connections. With that they used privileged contracts in all of our government agencies including the NSA and homeland security and military operations. Thus they own files all all of the US. They now have split into claimed two corporations that do all the same in Europe. Holding all the files in strategic information they can proceed with an attack on Russia without the consent of the NATO members or their government authorities. The named Shadow government will arrange the attack. Check out SAIC corp and LIEDOS corp. They have generals running them and going back and forth to the CIA and all gov places of authority. (Russia will win) Dr. Ronald Cutburth, engineering scientist, intelligence expert.
sorry for this late reaction, just missed the post somehow.
first i must object to this deep state thinking being something modern. some 500 years ago macchiavelli must have said: ‘true power never shows to the eye’, or something like that. and this is a basic rule any true power must obey in order to be able to play the fenix whenever a battle is lost. because true power does not die, that is what makes it ‘true’. so the struggle continues, same true power, still hidden to the eye behind different faces or even different concepts of apparent power. it does not matter what they believe, as long as their believes blind their judgement.
still ‘democracy’ had a remarkable long lifespan, although it went through quite some version changes over the centuries, before it’s death in our days. just take mh17 and the boycot against russia. how could a dutch goverment act in total disregard of the misery of dutch families and general dutch interests? the simple answer is that there is no dutch government, this mr.rutte is just a pitifull victim of his own ambitions, and so is his entire ambience. but of course we wonder with james what made this higher power decide to publicly peel off one of it’s snake hides. and indeed, it may have something to do with growth.
the total lack of logic of the clearly dysfunctional european goverments seems to reveal the true power aka the deep state, but this may be an illusion, because we do not know it’s structure and there may be many layers of power between politicians and the ultimate one and only. how deep must we dig to find the real pudel with all these kennels barking around. it seems logical that each new layer will hold less persons carrying it, so that in the end a single person may emerge who will claim his power to be of divine origin, if only to keep it hidden from the eye. sounds familiar, doesn’t it.
so in short, i think there is an essential growth in power going on that requires restructuring and the liquidation of the political layer, thus inevitably revealing the existence of higher powers to the public.
in order to keep the true power invisible, it seems logical that the next layer or something figuring as such will also have to go before a new credible power mechanism can be put in place, with new illusions and new visible structures. this proces may get extremely unpleasant for all of us.
ad.
There is a mention in the Clinton Email Investigation FBI files about a group in the State Department overseeing everything FOIA-related in the Clinton case called “The Shadow Government.” (see page 56)
https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/hillary-r.-clinton-part-04-of-04/view
State Dept. cable from 1975 mentions Henry Kissinger’s powerful “Seventh Floor” group.
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975STATE153429_b.html
Email from Todd Stern to John Podesta, possible mention of two governments?
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/30231
“The next three months are going to be rougher internally than in Beijing. Between 7th and 1600, no fun.”
1600 = 1600 Pennsylvania Ave?
7th = 7th Floor Group?
Troubling revelations about Seoul’s ‘Shadow President’
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/troubling-revelations-about-seouls-shadow-president-the-korea-herald-columnist
What in the heck is going on in S.korea?
The Deep State Is Real – Politico
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/05/deep-state-real-cia-fbi-intelligence-215537
“But it might not be what you think.” Then what is it? Won’t find the answers in this article.
So has this term been institutionalized in the lexicon of public discourse now?