The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America
by Peter Dale Scott
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Author: Peter Dale ScottEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-07-31
ISBN: 0520258711
Number of pages: 449
Publisher: University of California Press
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Summary: 5 Stars
In this extremely well documented book, P.D. Scott lifts the veil on a secret overworld, a small clique op people, who apparently control the US political decision making process. It is, what he calls, the `deep State' (the private State) within elected governments (the public State), which makes top-down decisions possible if necessary. The deep State represents super wealthy private interests who finance the political parties.
The aim of the deep State is global dominance at any price and with any means: direct or indirect military interventions (ex. `the US military is being converted into a global oil-protection service'), the killing of d?tente (ex. the fall of Nixon after his overtures to China and the USSR), the financing by covert off-the books operations and drug trafficking (ex. Iran-Contra scandal), support of the opposition against secular Arabic (ex. Nasser in Egypt, Saddam in Iraq, Afghanistan) and democratic regimes (the fall of the Awami League of Sheikh M. Rachman in Pakistan).
For the author, the power of the private State is a major threat to democracy.
It created the FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) and COG planning (Continuity of Government) which should be installed in `any national security emergency'. Those plans call for a suspension of the Constitution (civil rights and liberties) and national government (to be replaced by secret parallel institutions) and sequestration of `alien citizens' and dissenters (even environmental activists.
This plan was apparently partly implemented during and after the 9/11 attack, the largest homicide in US history. For P.D. Scott, there is a serious possibility that a global meta-group (overworld), which had the necessary resources and the deep connections to make the plot successful, was implicated in the attack. The role of an alleged member of this group is meticulously scrutinized in this book.
The author complains all too rightly that the corporate media have become less a vehicle of information than of mind control. True democrats are saved by the internet, but internet itself is under threat. As one former intelligence officer said: `Access to the World Wide Web might need to be limited to those who take security seriously.'
Ultimately, what is the result of all these secrets cabals? An aggravation of all security threats.
This book is a must read for all those who want to understand the world we live in.
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