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In this new edition of a cult classic, Henrik KrÜger and Jerry
Meldon have added new material and provided updates of the
investigations Danish investigative author Henrik KrÜger
set out to write a book about Christian David, a French criminal
with a colorful past, and wound up writing a book—originally
published in 1980—that spans all continents and names names all
the way up to Richard Nixon. The Nixon administration and CIA
wanted to eliminate the old French Connection and replace it with
heroin from the Golden Triangle, partly in order to help finance
operations in Southeast Asia. The book delves into the
relationships between French and U.S. intelligence services and
organized crime probing into the netherworld of narcotics,
espionage, and international terrorism. It uncovers the alliances
between the Mafia, right-wing extremists, neo-fascist OAS and SAC
veterans in France, and Miami-based Cuban exiles. It lifts the veil
on the global networks of parafascist terrorists who so frequently
plot and murder with impunity, thanks to their relationships and
services to the intelligence agencies of the so-called “free
world.” In short, this updated edition tells a story which our
own media have systematically failed to tell.
Peter Dale Scott's meticulously documented investigation uncovers
the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Offering a
wholly new perspective - that JFK's death was not just an isolated
case, but rather a symptom of hidden processes - Scott examines the
deep politics of early 1960s American international and domestic
policies. Scott offers a disturbing analysis of the events
surrounding Kennedy's death, and of the 'structural defects' within
the American government that allowed such a crime to occur and to
go unpunished. In nuanced readings of both previously examined and
newly available materials, he finds ample reason to doubt the
prevailing interpretations of the assassination. He questions the
lone assassin theory and the investigations undertaken by the House
Committee on Assassinations, and unearths new connections between
Oswald, Ruby, and corporate and law enforcement forces. Revisiting
the controversy popularized in Oliver Stone's movie JFK, Scott
probes the link between Kennedy's assassination and the escalation
of the U.S. commitment in Vietnam that followed two days later. He
contends that Kennedy's plans to withdraw troops from Vietnam -
offensive to a powerful anti-Kennedy military and political
coalition - were secretly annulled when Johnson came to power. The
split between JFK and his Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the
collaboration between Army Intelligence and the Dallas Police in
1963, are two of the several missing pieces Scott adds to the
puzzle of who killed Kennedy and why. Scott presses for a new
investigation of the Kennedy assassination, not as an external
conspiracy but as a power shift within the subterranean world of
American politics. "Deep Politics and the Death of JFK" shatters
our notions of one of the central events of the twentieth century.
If the past hundred years will be remembered as a century of war,
Asia is surely central to that story. Tracing the course of
conflicts throughout the region, this groundbreaking volume is the
first to explore systematically the nexus of war and state
terrorism. Challenging states' definitions of terrorism, which
routinely exclude their own behavior, the book focuses especially
on the nature of Japanese and American wars and crimes of war. The
authors also assess significant acts of terror instigated by other
Asian nations including China, Cambodia, and Indonesia. Offering a
rare comparative perspective, the authors consider how state terror
leads to massive civilian casualties, crimes of war, and crimes
against humanity. In counterbalance, they discuss anti-war and
anti-nuclear movements and international efforts to protect human
rights, and the interwoven issues of responsibility, impunity, and
memory. Interdisciplinary and deeply informed by global
perspectives, this volume will resonate with readers searching for
a deeper understanding of an epoch that has been dominated by war
and terror.
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NATO? No Thanks! (Paperback)
Zhores A. Medvedev, Stuart Holland, Peter Dale Scott; Edited by Tony Simpson
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"Scott's brilliantly perceptive account of the underpinnings of
American governmental authority should be made required reading.
The book vividly depicts the political forces that have pushed this
country toward an abyss, threatening constitutional democracy at
home and world peace abroad. Its central message can be understood
as an urgent wake-up call to everyone concerned with the future of
America."--Richard Falk, author of "The Great Terror War"
"Peter Dale Scott is one of that tiny and select company of the
most brilliantly creative and provocative political-historical
writers of the last half century. "The Road to 9/11" further
secures his distinction as truth-teller and prophet. He shows us
here with painful yet hopeful clarity the central issue of our
time--America's coming to terms with its behavior in the modern
world. As in his past work, Scott's gift is not only recognition
and wisdom but also redemption and rescue we simply cannot do
without."--Roger Morris, former NSC staffer
""The Road to 9/11" is vintage Peter Dale Scott. Scott does not
undertake conventional political analysis; instead, he engages in a
kind of poetics, crafting the dark poetry of the deep state, of
parapolitics, and of shadow government. As with his earlier work
"Deep Politics and the Death of JFK," Scott has no theory of
responsibility and does not name the guilty. Rather, he maps out an
alien terrain, surveying the topography of a political shadow land,
in which covert political deviancy emerges as the norm. After
reading Scott, we can no longer continue with our consensus-driven
belief that our so-called 'liberal' order renders impossible the
triumph of the politically irrational."--EricWilson, Senior
Lecturer of Public International Law, Monash University, and
co-editor of "Government of the Shadows"
"Peter Dale Scott exposes a shadow world of oil, terrorism, drug
trade and arms deals, of covert financing and parallel security
structures-from the Cold War to today. He shows how such parallel
forces of the United States have been able to dominate the agenda
of the George W. Bush Administration, and that statements and
actions made by Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary
Rumsfeld before, during and after September 11, 2001, present
evidence for an American 'deep state' and for the so-called
'Continuity of Government' in parallel to the regular 'public
state' ruled by law. Scott's brilliant work not only reveals the
overwhelming importance of these parallel forces but also presents
elements of a strategy for restraining their influence to win back
the 'public state', the American democracy."--Ola Tunander,
International Peace Research Institute, Oslo
"A powerful study of the historic origins of the terrorist strikes
of September 11, this book offers an indispensable guide to the
gluttonous cast of characters who, since Watergate and the fall of
Nixon, fashioned an ever more reckless American empire. By exposing
the corrupt U.S. 'deep state'-transfer of public authority to
America's wealthy and to the nation's unaccountable secret
intelligence agencies-Peter Dale Scott's "The Road to 9/11"
illuminates the path toward a more democratic and inclusive
republic."--David MacGregor, King's University College at the
University of Western Ontario
""The Road to 9/11" provides an illuminating and disturbing history
of the American government since World War II.Scott's account
suggests that the 9/11 attacks were a culmination of long-term
trends that threaten the very existence of American democracy, and
also that there has been a massive cover-up of 9/11 itself. This
book, which combines extensive research, perceptive analysis, and a
fascinating narrative, will surely be considered Scott's magnum
opus."--David Ray Griffin, author of "Debunking 9/11 Debunking"
"'The America we knew and loved. Can it be saved?' That question
opens this book, and getting to the answer called for the honed
intellect of a scholar and the sensitivity of a poet. Peter Dale
Scott has both, in spades, and here gives us much, much more than a
book about 9/11. In a time of fear, he speaks for sanity and
freedom."--Anthony Summers, author of "The Arrogance of Power"
When the San Jose Mercury News ran a controversial series of
stories in 1996 on the relationship between the CIA, the Contras,
and crack, they reignited the issue of the intelligence agency's
connections to drug trafficking, initially brought to light during
the Vietnam War and then again by the Iran-Contra affair. Broad in
scope and extensively documented, "Cocaine Politics" shows that
under the cover of national security and covert operations, the
U.S. government has repeatedly collaborated with and protected
major international drug traffickers. A new preface discusses
developments of the last six years, including the Mercury News
stories and the public reaction they provoked.
Now in a new edition updated through the unprecedented 2016
presidential election, this provocative book makes a compelling
case for a hidden "deep state" that influences and often opposes
official U.S. policies. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale
Scott begins by tracing America's increasing militarization,
restrictions on constitutional rights, and income disparity since
World War II. With the start of the Cold War, he argues, the U.S.
government changed immensely in both function and scope, from
protecting and nurturing a relatively isolated country to assuming
ever-greater responsibility for controlling world politics in the
name of freedom and democracy. This has resulted in both secretive
new institutions and a slow but radical change in the American
state itself. He argues that central to this historic reversal were
seismic national events, ranging from the assassination of
President Kennedy to 9/11. Scott marshals compelling evidence that
the deep state is now partly institutionalized in non-accountable
intelligence agencies like the CIA and NSA, but it also extends its
reach to private corporations like Booz Allen Hamilton and SAIC, to
which 70 percent of intelligence budgets are outsourced. Behind
these public and private institutions is the influence of Wall
Street bankers and lawyers, allied with international oil companies
beyond the reach of domestic law. Undoubtedly the political
consensus about America's global role has evolved, but if we want
to restore the country's traditional constitutional framework, it
is important to see the role of particular cabals-such as the
Project for the New American Century-and how they have repeatedly
used the secret powers and network of Continuity of Government
(COG) planning to implement change. Yet the author sees the deep
state polarized between an establishment and a
counter-establishment in a chaotic situation that may actually
prove more hopeful for U.S. democracy.
Ecstatic Pessimist is a timely book about the Central and Eastern
European experience of the mid 20th century, as told through the
poetry and experiences of Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Laureate for
literature, who wrote on the horrors of war and the human
experience. Written by a colleague and friend of the poet, it is
part literary criticism and part memoir. This biography/memoir of
Czeslaw Milosz is a first hand account of the poet's life and his
relationship to the author, beginning in the 1960s. Milosz was a
Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat.
Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the
1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish
Academy called Milosz a writer who "voices man's exposed condition
in a world of severe conflicts".
Ecstatic Pessimist is a timely book about the Central and Eastern
European experience of the mid 20th century, as told through the
poetry and experiences of Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Laureate for
literature, who wrote on the horrors of war and the human
experience. Written by a colleague and friend of the poet, it is
part literary criticism and part memoir. This biography/memoir of
Czeslaw Milosz is a first hand account of the poet's life and his
relationship to the author, beginning in the 1960s. Milosz was a
Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat.
Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the
1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish
Academy called Milosz a writer who "voices man's exposed condition
in a world of severe conflicts".
A study at many levels of Scott's long poem Coming to Jakarta, a
book-length response to a midlife crisis triggered in part by the
author's initial inability to share his knowledge and horror about
American involvement in the great Indonesian massacre of 1965.
Interviews with Ng supply fuller information about the poem's
discussions of: a) how this psychological trauma led to an
explorations of violence in American society and then, after a key
recognition, in the poet himself; b) the poem's look at east-west
relations through the lens of the yin-yang, spiritual-secular
doubleness of the human condition; c) how the process of writing
the poem led to the recovery of memories too threatening at first
to be retained by his normal presentational self, and d) the
mystery of right action, guided by the Bhagavad Gita and the maxim
in the Gospel of Thomas that "If you bring forth what is within
you, what you bring forth will save you." Led by the interviews to
greater self-awareness, Scott then analyses his poem as also an
elegy, not just for the dead in Indonesia, but "for the passing of
the Sixties era, when so many of us imagined that a Movement might
achieve major changes for a better America." Subsequent chapters
develop how human doubleness can lead to an inner tension between
the needs of politics and the needs of poetry, and how some poetry
can serve as a non-violent higher politics, contributing to the
evolution of human culture and thus our "second nature." The book
also reproduces a Scott prose essay, inspired by the poem, on the
U.S. involvement in and support for the 1965 massacre. It then
discusses how this essay was translated into Indonesian and
officially banned by the Indonesian dictatorship, and how
ultimately it and the poem helped inspire the ground-breaking films
of Josh Oppenheimer that have led to the first official discussions
in Indonesia of what happened in 1965.
This provocative, thoroughly researched book explores the covert
aspects of U.S. foreign policy. Prominent political analyst Peter
Dale Scott marshals compelling evidence to expose the extensive
growth of sanctioned but illicit violence in politics and state
affairs, especially when related to America's long-standing
involvement with the global drug traffic. Beginning with Thailand
in the 1950s, Americans have become inured to the CIA's alliances
with drug traffickers (and their bankers) to install and sustain
right-wing governments. The pattern has repeated itself in Laos,
Vietnam, Italy, Mexico, Thailand, Nigeria, Venezuela, Colombia,
Peru, Chile, Panama, Honduras, Turkey, Pakistan, and now
Afghanistan-to name only those countries dealt with in this book.
Scott shows that the relationship of U.S. intelligence operators
and agencies to the global drug traffic, and to other international
criminal networks, deserves greater attention in the debate over
the U.S. presence in Afghanistan. To date, America's government and
policies have done more to foster than to curtail the drug trade.
The so-called war on terror, and in particular the war in
Afghanistan, constitutes only the latest chapter in this disturbing
story.
A devastating revelation of violence, exploitation, and corrupt
politics, Coming to Jakarta derives its title from the role played
by the CIA, banks, and oil companies in the 1965 slaughter of more
than half a million Indonesians.
A study at many levels of Scott’s long poem Coming to Jakarta, a
book-length response to a midlife crisis triggered in part by the
author’s initial inability to share his knowledge and horror
about American involvement in the great Indonesian massacre of
1965. Interviews with Ng supply fuller information about the
poem’s discussions of: a) how this psychological trauma led to an
explorations of violence in American society and then, after a key
recognition, in the poet himself; b) the poem's look at east-west
relations through the lens of the yin-yang, spiritual-secular
doubleness of the human condition; c) how the process of writing
the poem led to the recovery of memories too threatening at first
to be retained by his normal presentational self, and d) the
mystery of right action, guided by the Bhagavad Gita and the maxim
in the Gospel of Thomas that "If you bring forth what is within
you, what you bring forth will save you.” Led by the interviews
to greater self-awareness, Scott then analyses his poem as also an
elegy, not just for the dead in Indonesia, but “for the passing
of the Sixties era, when so many of us imagined that a Movement
might achieve major changes for a better America.” Subsequent
chapters develop how human doubleness can lead to an inner tension
between the needs of politics and the needs of poetry, and how some
poetry can serve as a non-violent higher politics, contributing to
the evolution of human culture and thus our “second nature.”
The book also reproduces a Scott prose essay, inspired by the poem,
on the U.S. involvement in and support for the 1965 massacre. It
then discusses how this essay was translated into Indonesian and
officially banned by the Indonesian dictatorship, and how
ultimately it and the poem helped inspire the ground-breaking films
of Josh Oppenheimer that have led to the first official discussions
in Indonesia of what happened in 1965.
“Our most provocative scholar of American power” reveals the
forces behind the assassination of JFK—and their continuing
influence over our world (David Talbot, Salon). On November
22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas by
Lee Harvey Oswald. Shortly after, Oswald himself was killed. These
events led many to believe there was a far greater plan at work,
with a secret cabal of powerful men manipulating the public and
shaping US policies both at home and abroad for their own
interests. But no one could imagine how right they were.
Beneath the orderly façade of the American government,
there lies a complex network, only partly structural, linking Wall
Street influence, corrupt bureaucracy, and the military-industrial
complex. Here lies the true power of the American empire. This
behind-the-scenes web is unelected, unaccountable, and immune to
popular resistance. Peter Dale Scott calls this entity the deep
state, and he has made it his life’s work to write the history of
those who manipulate our government from the shadows. Since the
aftermath of World War II, the deep state’s power has grown
unchecked, and nowhere has it been more apparent than that day at
Dealey Plaza. In this landmark volume, Scott traces how
culpable elements in the CIA and FBI helped prepare for the
assassination, and how the deep state continues to influence our
politics today. As timely and important as ever in the
current chaotic political climate, Dallas ’63 is a
reality-shattering, frightening exposé not of those who govern
us—but of those who govern those who govern us.
Peter Dale Scott's brilliantly researched tour de force illuminates
the underlying forces that drive U.S. global policy from Vietnam to
Colombia and now to Afghanistan and Iraq. He brings to light the
intertwined patterns of drugs, oil politics, and intelligence
networks that have been so central to the larger workings of U.S.
intervention and escalation in Third World countries through
alliances with drug-trafficking proxies. This strategy was
originally developed in the late 1940s to contain communist China;
it has since been used to secure control over foreign petroleum
resources. The result has been a staggering increase in the global
drug traffic and the mafias associated with it a problem that will
worsen until there is a change in policy. Scott argues that covert
operations almost always outlast the specific purpose for which
they were designed. Instead, they grow and become part of a hostile
constellation of forces. The author terms this phenomenon
parapolitics the exercise of power by covert means which tends to
metastasize into deep politics the interplay of unacknowledged
forces that spin out of the control of the original policy
initiators. We must recognize that U.S. influence is grounded not
just in military and economic superiority, Scott contends, but also
in so-called soft power. We need a "soft politics" of persuasion
and nonviolence, especially as America is embroiled in yet another
disastrous intervention, this time in Iraq."
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