American Deep State

Big Money, Big Oil, and the Struggle for U.S. Democracy

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-05-02
Mått149 x 231 x 19 mm
Vikt472 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieWar and Peace Library
Antal sidor354
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781442214255

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Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, is a leading political analyst and poet. His books include Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina (R&L) and American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan (R&L). His website is www.peterdalescott.net.

Chapter 1: The Doomsday Project, Deep Events, and the Shrinking of American DemocracyChapter 2: The Deep State, the Wall Street Overworld, and Big OilChapter 3: The Doomsday Project: How COG on 9/11 Subordinated the U.S. ConstitutionChapter 4: The Falsified War on Terror: The Deep History of U.S. Protection for al-Qaeda Terrorist Ali MohamedChapter 5: The Falsified War on Terror II: How the Deep State Has Protected Gulf Arab States Rather than the American PeopleChapter 6: Deep State Uses and Protection of al-Qaeda TerroristsChapter 7: The U.S. Terror War: The CIA, 9/11, Afghanistan, and Central AsiaChapter 8: The Fates of the Presidents Who Challenged the Deep State, 1963–1980Chapter 9: The Doomsday Project and Deep Events: JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11Chapter 10: The American Deep State, Deep Events, and Off-the-Books FinancingChapter 11: America’s Unchecked Security State: The Continuity of COG Planning, 1936–2001Chapter 12: America’s Unchecked Security State and LawlessnessChapter 13: Why Americans Must End America’s Self-Generating WarsEpilogue: Greek Theater—Mario Savio and the Socratic QuestSelected Bibliography

We are living under a government that in certain respects is increasingly lawless and out of control' Scott writes in his latest examination of the alleged underbelly of the U.S. Government. The milieu he shows is rife with shady business deals with the Mafia, as well as terrorists and the countries that harbor them, while encouraging war and eroding personal liberties, all with the stated goal of protecting the country. Scott argues for the existence of what are essentially two governments—the one we’re familiar with and the 'deep state,' actually running things. In this telling, the latter has been in the works for some time, under the auspices of the need to keep the government running in the event of a major attack or national disaster. Skeptics will be quick to dismiss Scott as a tinfoil-hatted loon looking for conspiracies and collusion under every rock, but the volume of his cited sources begs to differ, suggesting that our current political climate truly is a toxic one in dire need of fixing. He offers a handful of suggestions for doing exactly this in the closing pages of this alarming and thought-provoking work.