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In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 715-716
ISSN: 1469-8684
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In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 715-716
ISSN: 1469-8684
In: Le débat: histoire, politique, société ; revue mensuelle, Band 51, Heft 4, S. 4-21
ISSN: 2111-4587
In: International relations: the journal of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 91-92
ISSN: 1741-2862
In: Eco-labelling in Fisheries, S. 86-93
In: Australian journal of social issues: AJSI, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 10-22
ISSN: 1839-4655
In: The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 20-29
ISSN: 1468-2311
Peter Dale Scott's meticulously documented investigation uncovers the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Offering a wholly new perspective-that JFK's death was not just an isolated case, but rather a symptom of hidden processes-Scott examines the deep politics of early 1960s American international and domestic policies.Scott offers a disturbing analysis of the events surrounding Kennedy's death, and of the "structural defects" within the American government that allowed such a crime to occur and to go unpunished. In nuanced readings of both previously examined and newly available materials, he finds ample reason to doubt the prevailing interpretations of the assassination. He questions the lone assassin theory and the investigations undertaken by the House Committee on Assassinations, and unearths new connections between Oswald, Ruby, and corporate and law enforcement forces.Revisiting the controversy popularized in Oliver Stone's movie JFK, Scott probes the link between Kennedy's assassination and the escalation of the U.S. commitment in Vietnam that followed two days later. He contends that Kennedy's plans to withdraw troops from Vietnam-offensive to a powerful anti-Kennedy military and political coalition-were secretly annulled when Johnson came to power. The split between JFK and his Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the collaboration between Army Intelligence and the Dallas Police in 1963, are two of the several missing pieces Scott adds to the puzzle of who killed Kennedy and why.Scott presses for a new investigation of the Kennedy assassination, not as an external conspiracy but as a power shift within the subterranean world of American politics. Deep Politics and the Death of JFK shatters our notions of one of the central events of the twentieth century
In: World social change
Cover -- Contents -- Note about the Cover Image -- Acknowledgments, Leading to a Very Brief Note on Method -- Introduction -- Enlightenment -- The Sh'ma, the Three Refuges, and the Axial Moment -- The Lord's Prayer: A Second Pivotal Shift -- Yang and Yin: Torah, Psalter, and Disruption -- Yang and Yin in the Polis: The Pre-Socratics and Plato -- Yang and Yin in Hellas: The Post-Socratic Philosophers -- Yin and Yang in Alexandria: The Song of Songs -- Virgil as Prophet of the Second Pivotal Shift -- Endarkenment -- Disruptive Shifts in the Evolution of Culture -- Earlier Dark (Yin) Ages, Disruptions, and Mnemohistory -- Benign Cultural Progress in the Third Pivotal Shift: The Dark Age -- Secular and Spiritual Power -- St. Martin and the Diminution of Social Violence -- Augustine as Prophet of the Third Pivotal Shift -- Bede, Alcuin, and the Waning of the Dark Age -- End of the Poem in Prose -- A Personal Note after Finishing This Book -- Four Poems -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.
In: War and Peace Library
In: Forbidden Bookshelf
In: Forbidden Bookshelf Ser. v.17
With a foreword by Rex Bradford and a preface by Bill Simpich: From deep within American society emerged the plot that killed a president Beneath the orderly façade of the American government lies a complex network, only partly structural, linking Wall Street influence, corrupt bureaucracy, and the military-industrial complex. Here lies the true power of the American empire: This behind-the-scenes web is unelected, unaccountable, and immune to popular resistance. Peter Dale Scott calls this entity the deep state, and he has made it his life's work to write the history of those who manipulate o
In: War and peace library
pt. 1: Overview. Sanctioned violence, the dominance machine, and the overworld -- pt. 2: The CIA and drugs abroad. Mexico, drugs, the DFS, and the United States -- Operation paper: The United States and drugs in Thailand and Burma -- Rollback, PARU, and Laos: preparing for offensive war -- Laos: Financing a war by drugs -- The war on drugs in Asia: A phony war with real casualties -- pt. 3: Deep events and the drug connection at home. The CIA, the global drug connection, and terrorism -- Inside the war machine: the profiteers from enduring violence -- 9/11 and the American tradition of engineered deep events -- pt. 4: America and Afghanistan today. Obama and Afghanistan: America's drug-corrupted war -- Conclusion: The war machine and the deep politics of drugs.
In: War and Peace Library
Peter Dale Scott's brilliantly researched tour de force illuminates the underlying forces that drive U.S. global policy from Vietnam to Colombia and now to Afghanistan and Iraq. He brings to light the intertwined patterns of drugs, oil politics, and intelligence networks that have been so central to the larger workings of U.S. intervention and escalation in Third World countries through alliances with drug-trafficking proxies. The result has been a staggering increase in global drug traffic. Thus, the author argues, the exercise of power by covert means, or parapolitics, often metastasizes int