Road To 9/11 Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America

Name: Road To 9/11 Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America
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ISBN: 9780520258716

ISBN-10: 0520258711

ISBN-13: 9780520258716

Edition: 2010

Authors: Peter Dale Scott

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This is an ambitious, meticulous examination of how U.S. foreign policy since the 1960s has led to partial or total cover-ups of past domestic criminal acts, including, perhaps, the catastrophe of 9/11. Peter Dale Scott, whose previous books have investigated CIA involvement in southeast Asia, the drug wars, and the Kennedy assassination, here probes how the policies of presidents since Nixon have augmented the tangled bases for the 2001 terrorist attack. Scott shows how America's expansion into the world since World War II has led to momentous secret decision making at high levels. He demonstrates how these decisions by small cliques are responsive to the agendas of private wealth at the…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/4/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface: The America We Knew and Loved: Can It Be Saved?



Introduction: Wealth, Empire, Cabals, and the Public State



Nixon, Kissinger, and the Decline of the Public State



The Pivotal Presidency: Ford, Rumsfeld, and Cheney



Brzezinski, Oil, and Afghanistan



Carter's Surrender to the Rockefellers on Iran



Casey, the Republican Countersurprise, and the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, 1980



Afghanistan and the Origins of al Qaeda



The Al-Kifah Center, al Qaeda, and the U.S. Government, 1988-98



The Pre-9/11 Cover-up of Ali Mohamed and al Qaeda



Al Qaeda and the U.S. Establishment



Parallel Structures and Plans for Continuity of Government



The 9/11 Commission Report and Vice President Cheney



The 9/11 Commission Report's and Cheney's Deceptions about 9/11



Cheney, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Continuity of Government



Conclusion: 9/11 and the Future of America


Glossary of Open Politics


Notes


Bibliography


Index