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

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-520-25871-6
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 604 g

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 expense of the public, of the democratic state, and of civil society. He shows how, in implementing these agendas, U.S. intelligence agencies have become involved with terrorist groups they once backed and helped create, including al Qaeda.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scott, Peter Dale

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

1 Introduction: Wealth, Empire, Cabals, and the Public State
2 Nixon, Kissinger, and the Decline of the Public State

3 The Pivotal Presidency: Ford, Rumsfeld, and Cheney

4 Brzezinski, Oil, and Afghanistan

5 Carter’s Surrender to the Rockefellers on Iran

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

7 Afghanistan and the Origins of al Qaeda

8 Al-Kifah, al Qaeda, and the U.S. Government, 1988–98

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

10 Al Qaeda and the U.S. Establishment

11 Parallel Structures and Plans for Continuity of Government

12 The 9/11 Commission Report and Vice President Cheney

13 The 9/11 Commission Report and Cheney’s Deceptions about 9/11

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

15 Conclusion: 9/11 and the Future of America

Notes

Glossary of Open Politics

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Dale Scott is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America (1993) and Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1996), both from UC Press.