Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 900 EAN: 9780520258716 ISBN: 0520258711 Label: University of California Press Manufacturer: University of California Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 449 Publication Date: July 31, 2008 Publisher: University of California Press Sales Rank: 49185 Studio: University of California Press
Product DescriptionThis is an ambitious, meticulous examination of how U.S. foreign policy since the 1960s has led to partial or total cover-ups of past domestic criminal acts, including, perhaps, the catastrophe of 9/11. Peter Dale Scott, whose previous books have investigated CIA involvement in southeast Asia, the drug wars, and the Kennedy assassination, here probes how the policies of presidents since Nixon have augmented the tangled bases for the 2001 terrorist attack. Scott shows how America's expansion into the world since World War II has led to momentous secret decision making at high levels. He demonstrates how these decisions by small cliques are responsive to the agendas of private wealth at the expense of the public, of the democratic state, and of civil society. He shows how, in implementing these agendas, U.S. intelligence agencies have become involved with terrorist groups they once backed and helped create, including al Qaeda.
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Rating: - Excellent, but above the capability of average Americans
Very good, thorough, thoughtful analysis - not a wild-eyed conspiracty theorist, he's a respectable professor. I wish average people could/would read books such as this, but it's really not possible if you have the sound-bit mental capacity of a flea with ADD. Too bad. We might not have gotten into this mess. But the Karl Roves have had this figured out for a long time -- make the people too stupid to think independently or care - works like a charm (if you're of the Goebbels or Cheney or Machiavelli ... Read More
Rating: - outstanding and inspirational
Professor Scott, in his book "The Road to 9/11" provides a detailed analysis and discussion of contradictions in the 9/11 timelines, the reports, the inquiries ... In this regard, I believe that Scott writes in a manner that is quite easy to follow. It is well-written and superb in conclusions. I regret that it might have been more comprehensive - although, it introduces topics, such as the history of and manner of operations of the continuity of government.
Somewhere between George Bush and Noam Chomsky, who believe the 9/11 Commission Report, and David Ray Griffin, who believes "the Bush-Cheney administration orchestrated 9/11" (Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11, 2006, p. vii-viii, ), there is Peter Dale Scott.
Scott doesn't say who did it, but as Ola Tunander puts it,
"Peter Dale Scott exposes a shadow world of oil, terrorism, drug trade and arms deals, of covert financing and parallel security structures - ... Read More
Rating: - Someone asked where was Cheney on 9-11?
See 'Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil' by Michael C. Ruppert and Catherine Austin Fitts
Rating: - Very useful study of the US state
The American author Peter Dale Scott shows how the richest 1% control key covert parts of the US state, including the Pentagon and the CIA. The private power of this military-financial complex has been secretly growing ever since President Truman founded the CIA. The US state serves the class interests of Wall Street's owners, not the national interest.
The US state is becoming more repressive: in 1970, 31% of California's budget went to higher education and 4% to prisons, by 2005, 12% and 20% respectively. ... Read More
- Excellent, but above the capability of average Americans
- Deep State Doublethink
- Someone asked where was Cheney on 9-11?
