The Captured State

The Captured State

Eisenhower’s Warning and the Permanent War Economy

On how permanent warfare became structurally embedded in American institutions through the interlocking interests of military, corporate, and political power

The Captured State

The Locust Economy

On how private equity extracts wealth by loading debt onto companies while transferring all risk to workers, customers, and pensioners, leaving only shells behind

The Captured State

The Efficiency Myth

On how the efficiency argument for privatization masks a fundamental conflict between profit maximization and public interest, and why contracts almost always resolve this in capital's favor

The Captured State

The Captured State

On the extraction-capture cycle, regulatory capture, and how private capital transforms democracy into a self-perpetuating machine for its own protection

The Captured State

What Dulles Built

On the CIA's operational playbook for managing populations perceived as threats, its explicit turn inward through COINTELPRO and the Reagan-era War on Drugs, and why the Goetz moment was not an eruption of white rage but its legible surface expression