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The American Deep State
Big Money, Big Oil, and the Struggle for U.S. Democracy
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2017
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Now in a new edition updated through the unprecedented 2016 presidential election, this provocative book makes a compelling case for a hidden “deep state” that influences and often opposes official U.S. policies. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale Scott begins by tracing America’s increasing militarization, restrictions on constitutional rights, and income disparity since World War II. With the start of the Cold War, he argues, the U.S. government changed immensely in both function and scope, from protecting and nurturing a relatively isolated country to assuming ever-greater responsibility for controlling world politics in the name of freedom and democracy. This has resulted in both secretive new institutions and a slow but radical change in the American state itself. He argues that central to this historic reversal were seismic national events, ranging from the assassination of President Kennedy to 9/11.
Scott marshals compelling evidence that the deep state is now partly institutionalized in non-accountable intelligence agencies like the CIA and NSA, but it also extends its reach to private corporations like Booz Allen Hamilton and SAIC, to which 70 percent of intelligence budgets are outsourced. Behind these public and private institutions is the influence of Wall Street bankers and lawyers, allied with international oil companies beyond the reach of domestic law. Undoubtedly the political consensus about America’s global role has evolved, but if we want to restore the country’s traditional constitutional framework, it is important to see the role of particular cabals—such as the Project for the New American Century—and how they have repeatedly used the secret powers and network of Continuity of Government (COG) planning to implement change. Yet the author sees the deep state polarized between an establishment and a counter-establishment in a chaotic situation that may actually prove more hopeful for U.S. democracy.
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Copyright year
2017
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-1425-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-5381-0025-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
322
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Note about the Cover Image No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 1: The Doomsday Project, Deep Events, and the Shrinking of American Democracy No access Pages 1 - 10
Chapter 2: The Deep State, the Wall Street Overworld, and Big Oil No access Pages 11 - 30
Chapter 3: The Doomsday Project No access Pages 31 - 42
Chapter 4: The Falsified War on Terror No access Pages 43 - 56
Chapter 5: The Falsified War on Terror II No access Pages 57 - 66
Chapter 6: Deep State Uses and Protection of al-Qaeda Terrorists No access Pages 67 - 80
Chapter 7: The U.S. Terror War No access Pages 81 - 100
Chapter 8: Deep Power Takes Its Toll on U.S. Presidents, 1961–1980 No access Pages 101 - 108
Chapter 9: The Doomsday Project and Deep Events No access Pages 109 - 120
Chapter 10: The American Deep State, Deep Events, and Off-the-Books Financing No access Pages 121 - 134
Chapter 11: America’s Unchecked Security State No access Pages 135 - 150
Chapter 12: America’s Unchecked Security State and Lawlessness No access Pages 151 - 166
Chapter 13: Why Americans Must End America’s Self-Generating Wars No access Pages 167 - 182
