The Puppet Masters: How Think Tanks, Private Spies, and Intelligence Contractors Run the Shadow Government

In this explosive investigation, William Brown pulls back the curtain on the hidden network that shapes global policy without a single vote cast. From the invasion of Iraq to modern regime change operations, we expose how think tanks, surveillance firms, and defense contractors manufacture crises, control narratives, and profit from war—all while staying invisible to the public.

We trace the money trails and paper trails from the boardrooms of Brookings and the Council on Foreign Relations to the dark corridors of Palantir, NSO Group, and Stratfor—the so-called “Shadow CIA.” Learn how black budgets fund projects that even Congress can’t see, and how laws are written not in Capitol Hill but in classified meetings and ghostwritten op-eds.

This isn’t a conspiracy. It’s the infrastructure of modern empire. This is the story of the people who never appear on ballots—because they already write the rules.