The American EstablishmentThe concept of the Establishment was first used in England referring to the established (or official) state church, the Anglican Church or Church of England, created by the usurper and schismatic Henry Tudor during the Protestant Reformation.As two later disparate sources document (Leornard and Mark Silk, The American Establishment, and Samuel Blumenfeld, Is Public Education Necessary?) the origins of the American Establishment began during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson in 1803 during the Massachusetts conflict for control of the Congregationalist State religious establishment and Harvard College, between the liberal Unitarians versus the conservative Trinitarian Calvinists. The Unitarians won and Harvard became the seat of liberalism and the Establishment.Nineteenth-century writer William Cobbett later expanded the concept to include those networks of financial institutions related to the Bank of England, elite public schools and clubs, and publishing entities (such as “the bloody old Times”) the ruling aristocracy used to train and sustain its oligarchic bureaucracy who manned the British empire. Cobbett labeled this power elite as “the Thing.”As Leonard and Mark Silk also observed in their masterful book, The American Establishment, twentieth century British historian A. J. P. Taylor later adapted Cobbett’s “the Thing” into “the Establishment” in a 1953 article in The New Statesman, followed by journalist Henry Fairlie’s usage of the term in The Spectator in 1955.The broad concept was soon adopted by wide-ranging American analysts of the powers-that-be, such as Richard H. Rovere, C. Wright Mills, Dan Smoot, Phyllis Schlafly, Carroll Quigley, John Kenneth Galbraith, and G. William Domhoff.“The American Establishment,” by Richard H. RovereThe Power Elite, by C. Wright MillThe Invisible Government, by Dan SmootTragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, by Carroll QuigleyThese various authors recognized that while the First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits an establishment of religion, our nation does indeed have, like its British cousins across the pond, an Establishment, complete with its own theological canon and doxology of statecraft and spy craft. Its “Vatican” is the Council on Foreign Relations. Its primary source of treasure and alms has been the Morgan and Rockefeller financial empires, which created the Fed, the great enabler of the Welfare-Warfare State. Many of its elite seminarians have studied at Ivy League institutions such as Harvard, Princeton, or Columbia; some in particular, at Yale where they were initiated into Skull and Bones.The immediate post-World War II period of history, tracing the Establishment’s bipartisan “foreign policy consensus” on the Cold War, is the crucial gestation period, a time implementing “the American Century” of Henry Luce, of the Truman administration’s creation of the National Security State and its doctrine of Containment as a public rationale for global intervention and the military-industrial complex (and George F. Kennan’s, Robert A. Lovett’s, and the Dulles Brothers’ clandestine policy of Rollback or Liberation through covert operations of the OPC and CIA).But the Establishment’s rules and credo were sketched on papyrus long before 1947. They were put forth by visionary prophets of pelf, plunder and empire fifty years earlier, during the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection.A central figure was the sinister Elihu Root, later founding chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, who like his fellow interventionists and war criminals Theodore Roosevelt and Barack Obama, was recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the archetype of the Establishment’s much-abused “Wise Man” category, the mainstream media’s designation of select servitors of power stretching from Root to persons such as John J. McCloy to Richard Holbrooke – Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Bilderberg group, Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, former managing director of Lehman Brothers, and board director of AIG to July 2008 (just before the bailouts).Before the acclaimed “Wise Men” of the Truman regime came the “Five Evangelists” of an earlier era. Led by Elihu Root, his protégé “Colonel” Henry L. Stimpson, along with “Colonel” Edward M. House and Raymond B. Fosdick, these little-known five were the real architects of the American Establishment and its interventionist gospel of the Welfare-Warfare State. It is they who wrote its rules and drafted its credo which has transformed the American republic into a squalid and overstretched empire.The American Deep StateAlong with the multinational petroleum and weapons/intelligence industries of the military-industrial complex, the global narcotics trade is one the biggest businesses in the world. It is fueled and enabled by the intersection of drug money, intelligence and money laundering on a vast scale by banks and financial institutions. Researchers have connected the dots linking the underworld of organized crime (narcotics) to the upperworld of the Establishment (Wall Street banks and CFR-connected corporations/foundations/media). Interwoven within the nexus are the covert intelligence agencies.In this time of unprecedented, planned chaos, each of us must steel ourselves to understand, discuss and analyze the crucial global dimensions of what the Elites have scheduled to take place and how it plays into the technocrats’ plan to control the world’s resources and implement genocidal eugenics-based austerity.The father of the US Constitution, James Madison, in Federalist Paper #47, observed, ”the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”The deep state is beyond the Constitution. It is separate from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government that we all learned about in grade school.The deep state has no restrictions on its extra-constitutional actions, no separation of powers, no checks and balances, no transparency or open accounting for its egregious and invasive behavior.We are no longer governed by Congress or the President or the Courts, but by a corporate, financial, and military Elite that write the laws to suit themselves. It is the cloistered class of professional managerial credentialed elites of the administrative regulatory captured bureaucracy and covert intelligence agencies who rule us all.At the beginning of 2025 we believed Donald Trump, J. D. Vance, RFK Jr., Elon Musk, and Tulsi Gabbard would jointly forcefully challenge the despotic tyranny and regimentation of the governing elites composing the regulatory captured bureaucratic administrative state and its corrupt crony enablers, particularly in Big Pharma, the warmongers of the military industrial complex, and the invasive surveillance/intelligence deep state at the core of this infamy.All of that has dramatically changed with Trump’s delusional purge of his administration, and the two ongoing, illegal, unconstitutional, wars involving Ukraine/Russia and Iran.But we can still critically and methodically examine the geopolitical and historical record of how we reached this perilous and precipitous moment.Establishment StudiesLibertarian Class AnalysisConsult these two articles — Who Rules America: Power Elite Analysis, the Deep State, and American History — and — The Deep State or Invisible Government: A Brief Bibliographic RetrospectiveWho Rules America: Power Elite Analysis, the Deep State, and American HistoryThe Deep State or Invisible Government: A Brief Bibliographic RetrospectiveThe Rockefeller World EmpireIt is crucial that discerning students of what the late Murray N. Rothbard called “power elite analysis” or “libertarian class theory” understand the true significance of what he described as “the Rockefeller World Empire,” and its central role in fostering and enhancing imperial intervention abroad and the welfare-warfare state at home.“The Special Relationship”Explore ‘The Special Relationship’ — a curated reading list of compelling books on the unique bond between nations and partners. Perfect for fans of political history, diplomacy, and cross-cultural insight.“The Special Relationship” IIO.S.S. and the Special RelationshipExplore the secretive world of intelligence with our curated book list on O.S.S. and the Special Relationship. Featuring Tim Weiner’s award-winning exposé, Legacy of Ashes, delve into political science, espionage history, and the complex UK-US alliance through essential books on spies and statecraft.The OSS, CIA, and the “Special Relationship”Our Pilgrim FathersAt the very core of “the special relationship” between the governing, financial, and intelligence elites of the United States and the United Kingdom has been the little known (or discussed) Pilgrims Societies.For over a hundred years these members of the Anglo-American Establishment have played a decisive role in shaping world history.To illustrate only one specific example for which readers will be familiar, all of the individuals who secretly met in 1910 at Jekyll Island, Georgia to draft and concoct what became the Federal Reserve were Pilgrims.“The Morgans and their henchmen really were a dominant influence in American economic and political circles in the early part of the 20th century. The Morgans, Mellons, Rockefellers, Vanderbilts and Andrew Carnegie really were great Anglophiles, this in contrast to the general population which still remembered the wars of independence. These same families really were great supporters of the United Nations and continue to be so until this very day. This analysis of the Pilgrims Society has shown all these things. Leading Pilgrims have been among the founders and leaders of the Royal Institute for International Affairs, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Atlantic Councils, Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission, the Atlantic Institute of International Affairs, the International Institute of Strategic Studies, the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations, the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Trade and Economic Council, the U.S.-China Business Council, the America-China Society, the Americas Society, the OECD, the Institute for International Economics, Ditchley, Brookings, the British Invisibles, LOTIS, etc., etc. The absolute core of the globalist movement largely consists of Pilgrims. Examples are the membership of Lord Roll, Lord Carrington, Arthur Dean, Gabriel Hauge, Henry Heinz, Richard Holbrooke, Henry Kissinger, John J. McCloy, Lord Kerr, David Rockefeller, Robert V. Roosa, Cyrus Vance, Paul Volcker, and John Whitehead.”Version 1.0.0The post The American Establishment and The Deep State appeared first on LewRockwell.