Mel K argues that while Americans celebrated victory and the return of peace after WWII, a new international architecture was taking shape—one built around permanent bureaucracies, intelligence networks, powerful financial institutions, and international organizations that operated beyond control by voters.

Newman and Mel K examine the origins and influence of institutions, including the United Nations, the Bretton Woods system, and the Bank for International Settlements, as well as the role of intelligence agencies, international finance, diplomatic networks, and unelected technocrats in shaping the postwar world.

Mel K says that the International Organization Immunity Act of 1945 gave immunity from oversight and audit to the Bank for International Settlements. This extraordinary immunity was extended to the IMF, the World Bank, and 63 other development banks around the world. Two of which, the IMF and World Bank are in Washington DC. And yet, the United States of America has zero jurisdiction over them.

It was also extended to the United Nations, and 75 tentacles of the United Nations including the World Health Organization, because it was created by the same people, the same international lawyers, the same bankers.

Any president could rescind the International Organization Immunity Act of 1945 at any time, but none has.