The American Deep State: Big Money, Big Oil, and the Struggle for U.S. Democracy

355 Pages·2017·1.627 MB·English

by  Peter Dale Scott

ALSO BY PETER DALE SCOTT
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The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond (1976, with Paul Hoch and Russell
Stetler)
Crime and Cover-Up: The CIA, the Mafia, and the Dallas-Watergate Connec-
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1998, with Jonathan Marshall)
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china (2003)
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Mosaic Orpheus (2009, poetry)
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The American Deep State

The American Deep State
Big Money, Big Oil, and
the Struggle for U.S. Democracy
Updated Edition
Peter Dale Scott
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Note about the Cover Image x
Introduction xi
1 The Doomsday Project, Deep Events, and the Shrinking
of American Democracy 1
2 The Deep State, the Wall Street Overworld, and Big Oil 11
3 The Doomsday Project: How COG on 9/11 Subordinated
the U.S. Constitution 31
4 The Falsified War on Terror: The Deep History of U.S.
Protection for al-Qaeda Terrorist Ali Mohamed 43
5 The Falsified War on Terror II: How the Deep State Has
Protected Gulf Arab States Rather than the American People 57
6 Deep State Uses and Protection of al-Qaeda Terrorists 67
7 The U.S. Terror War: The CIA, 9/11, Afghanistan, and
Central Asia 81
8 Deep Power Takes Its Toll on U.S. Presidents, 1961–1980 101
9 The Doomsday Project and Deep Events: JFK, Watergate,
Iran-Contra, and 9/11 109
10 The American Deep State, Deep Events, and Off-the-
Books Financing 121
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11 America’s Unchecked Security State: The Continuity of COG
Planning, 1936–2001 135
12 America’s Unchecked Security State and Lawlessness 151
13 Why Americans Must End America’s Self-Generating Wars 167
Epilogue—Greek Theater: Mario Savio and the Socratic Quest 183
Notes 191
Selected Bibliography 277
Permissions 283
Index 285
About the Author 319
Acknowledgments
I could never have finished this book without the generous
assistance of three skilled editors: Mark Selden at Japan Focus, my French
translator Maxime Chaix, and my wife Ronna Kabatznick. I also owe a great
debt to the guidance and patience of my editors, Susan McEachern and
Jehanne Schweitzer at Rowman & Littlefield, and to the many people who
have offered me support, advice, and criticism over the last few years. Among
these I would particularly like to thank Daniel Ellsberg, Jonathan Marshall,
Gary Aguilar, Paul Hoch, Brian Kabatznick, Rex Bradford, Jefferson Mor-
ley, David Talbot, and Karen Croft. For my thinking about the deep state in
particular, I would like once again to acknowledge my general debt to Ola
Tunander and Eric Wilson.
My thanks to Freeman Ng for his generous assistance and perseverance
with the cover of this book. And my thanks to the copyeditor Naomi Mindlin
who devoted so much labor to these pages, to my indexer PJ Heim, and to my
longtime agent, Victoria Shoemaker.
My thanks and love to all my family and close friends who have suffered
with me through these last four years.
My greatest debt of all can never be acknowledged enough or too often: to
my wife Ronna Kabatznick, who has sustained me now for a quarter century,
and given me the life I so cherish. I wish to say to her here, in the words of
Hermann Hesse, “If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
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