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    The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War

    By Peter Dale Scott

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    “A provocative ‘alternative’ history now pushing its way into the mainstream as a result of several events, including America’s wars in Vietnam and Iraq” (Howard Jones, author of Death of a Generation).
     
    Peter Dale Scott examines the many ways in which war policy has been driven by “accidents” and other events in the field, in some cases despite moves toward peace that were directed by presidents. This book explores the “deep politics” that exerts a profound but too-little-understood effect on national policy outside the control of traditional democratic processes.
     
    An important analysis into the causes of war and the long-lasting effects that major events in American history can have on foreign and military policies, The War Conspiracy is a must-read book for students of American history and foreign policy, and anyone interested in the ways that domestic tragedies can be used to manipulate the country’s direction.
     
    First published in 1972, this edition of The War Conspiracy is fully updated for the twenty-first century and includes two lengthy additional essays, one on the transition in Vietnam policy in the wake of the Kennedy assassination, and the other discussing the many parallels between that 1963 event and the attacks of 9/11.
     
    “Convincing reasons to believe that the American public has for many decades been manipulated by ‘deep events,’ the most important of which have been the assassination of JFK and the attacks of 9/11.” —David Ray Griffin, author of Bush and Cheney
     
    “Scott exposes an element in the American system of global power that poses an increasing threat to the victims of this system, the American people among them.” —Noam Chomsky, author of Requiem for the American Dream
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateSep 1, 2013
    ISBN9781628735642
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    The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War
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    Peter Dale Scott

    Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, is a poet, writer, and researcher. His diplomatic service from 1957 to 1961 included two years of work at UN conferences and the UN General Assembly, as well as two years in Poland. In addition to teaching poetry and medieval literature at Berkeley, he was a cofounder of the university’s Peace & Conflict Studies (PACS) program. Scott’s most recent political books are The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America (2007); The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War (2008); American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan (2010); and The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big Oil, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy (2014). Scott’s books have been translated into six languages, and his articles and poems have been translated into twenty. The former US poet laureate Robert Hass has written that, “Coming to Jakarta is the most important political poem to appear in the English language in a very long time.” In 2002, Dale Scott received the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry. Scott’s website is www.peterdalescott.net and his Facebook page is www.facebook.com/peter.d.scott.9.

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    • 4/5
      Imagine a skyscraper with thick black smoke billowing out of every window. That means there must be a fire raging inside, right? That's exactly what is presented here, so much circumstantial evidence of pre- and post-assassination shenanigans going on at the very highest levels that the very idea that Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby were loners acting on their own initiative is ludicrous. Unfortunately, the waters were so muddied by both the FBI's and CIA's innumerable ploys and counter-ploys that we'll never be able to single out which anti-Kennedy faction was really responsible and who actually was pulling the trigger. If this was Game of Thrones Hoover would be both Varys and Littlefinger.I do like the author's approach to "Deep Politics", the idea that you have to consider not only the actions of Local Politicians and Local Law-enforcement but also Organized Crime when attempting to figure out what's going on. No one will ever admit it, but that seems to be a perfectly logical explanation for just how the big bad world actually works.
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      Great information, just so damn academic it's difficult to get through