Umar Iqbal Butt: The Hidden American Ownership Complex, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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The Hidden American Ownership Complex: Inside the Architecture of Integrated Global Powe r argues that corporate power in the United States did not corrupt democracy -- it replaced it, substituting the sovereignty of citizens with the sovereignty of capital, the authority of law with the authority of contract, and the governance of peoples with the governance of markets. This was not accomplished through revolution or coup, but through accumulation: the patient, legally sanctioned consolidation of control over the money supply, the food supply, the information supply, the energy supply, and the political supply.

The book traces this architecture from the Gilded Age monopolies through the Powell Memorandum's blueprint for organized corporate political mobilization, into the modern lobbying-industrial complex, the military-industrial-intelligence nexus that monetizes perpetual conflict, and the techno-feudal enclosure of data and attention.

Expanding outward, the narrative reveals how American institutional power operates beyond democratic oversight to dictate outcomes worldwide. By mapping the transition from domestic monopoly to international dominance, the work serves as a comprehensive diagnostic of how multinational corporate supremacy has fundamentally subsumed both domestic governance and international relations, engineering an architecture that subordinates public policy to the imperatives of capital.