Secret power is not a conspiracy theory. I absolutely avoided to mention the “deep state” which has become a sort of conspiracy word you can put on all sorts of entities. It has been completely hijacked by the far right conspiracy theorists. I use “Secret Power” basically to refer to the military industrial complex, which is not a conspiratorial entity. I stress how secrecy is abused, and how these military industrial complexes use secrecy not to protect the security of citizens, but rather to protect state criminality at the highest level…this secrecy is highly abused. If you look at the WikiLeaks revelations, all of these revelations are not about military secrets about protecting citizens from terrorist attacks and so on, these are about state crimes.