Pikkukuvaa napsauttamalla pääset Google Booksiin.
Ladataan... The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of AmericaTekijä: Peter Dale Scott
- Ladataan...
Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. This book covers a period from immediately after WWII to the presidency of Bush the younger. It traces various efforts, and the connections between them, to steer the course of events and to maintain power in the hands of groups that still rule today. The main battle seems to have been against the Communists, in particular against the Soviet Union. The flames of radical political Islam were fanned, to serve as an agent destabilizing the Soviet Union. Of course as those flames spread so do the cover-ups and then further cover-ups. I don't read a lot of this sort of literature but I am aware that a lot of it exists. The general category of "conspiracy theory" is filled with the wildest speculation and irresponsible use of evidence. Scott, I fear, is no exemplar of this general trend. He surely speculates, but generally keeps his trail well in view. The sad truth is that much of what he presents likely captures the general flavor of business in the back halls of Washington. Quite disconcerting to have the Boston Marathon bombing occur as I am reading this book. So the older brother was interviewed by the FBI a couple years ago at the request of the Russians but was released after being determined not to be a threat? I was not following the news much in the mid 1990's and perhaps that is why I did not see the connection between al Qaeda and Bosnia. The Chechan connection is a bit clearer, and then Kirghizstan etc. Fear and violence break down civil society and move their power to the purveyors of fear and violence. This cycle has led again and again to brutality and the collapse of societies. Scott suggests some approaches that might defuse such explosive possibilities, but I fear the years since the publication of this book have not led in any such a positive direction. The book has lots none of its relevance and urgency, I regret to report. näyttää 4/4
[in French]: "There is no book of history more exciting, more rich, more vital, to understand the secrets of September 11 than "The road to the new world disorder" [translation of French title] by Peter Dale Scott. [In French]: "Here is a book that is fascinating, revealing, one could say terrifying.... This work astonishes by its originality and its power of analysis. It should be a reference work for all the defenders of the legal state and for all those who concern themselves with the future of our democracies." [General Norlain is a retired five-star French general who also served as military adviser to French Prime Ministers Jacques Chirac and Michel Rocard.] Afrique contemporaine no.236, 2010/4 [in French]: "As long as you have not read this book, your persisting naivete will prevent you from understanding how the world has evolved...." "In a remarkable preface to the book, he contrasts the America of 1961 with the America of today, maintaining that we as a nation have lost our way. Libertarians will perhaps bristle at some of his conclusions. It may be possible to refute him on some particulars, but I fear the broad picture he paints is all too accurate. I found particularly resonant his comparison of present-day America, awash in unneeded consumer products and mindless diversions, to the simpler life he and his wife discovered in Thailand, where they recently spent some 18 months. ... This is not a standard narrative such as academics have been producing since the 19th century - that is, a presentation of generally agreed upon facts that are analyzed according to the author's ideological predilections. Rather, it is an attempt to reveal the deep politics of the period - the stories that never make the newspapers (or are misreported), the facts that are somehow left out of the standard academic works. Let me stress that we are not here entering the world of conspiracy mongering. This book, like all of Scott's prose works, is meticulously researched and sourced. His formulations are grounded in the evidence. His conclusions may be disputed, but not on evidentiary grounds. In short, the scholarship is excellent. ...Should we then consider, after all, the possibility that our own government may have had foreknowledge of the 9/11 plot, and allowed it to go forward? Scott does not make this quantum leap, but he insists that many important questions about 9/11 remain unanswered; that a cover-up (the reasons for which we can only speculate about) occurred. His arguments in this regard are persuasive." "The Road to 9/11, by Peter Dale Scott, former Canadian diplomat and English professor at the University of California, Berkeley, sees the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq as expansionist, driven by imperial and elite interests. Or, as he puts it, they are the work of the "deep state" (military and intelligence interests) led by "meta-groups" (alliances between private and public figures) who belong to the "overworld" (the influential rich). This semi-Scientological prose is combined with a Pynchonesque vision of world affairs in which almost everything is secretly connected to everything else, usually by oil and heroin. Hard facts are scarce, but Scott's logic is fascinating, especially since it leads to the grand suspicion that al-Qaeda was merely a puppet of a "cabal" led by Dick Cheney, plotting to take over the United States. The key evidence, rather disappointingly, is that a dozen or so minutes of Cheney's time are unaccounted for on the morning of Sept. 11. Scott is sincere, passionate and profoundly right about the corrupting influence of secrecy, but his larger thesis is grossly unconvincing." [Author's Response]
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. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
Current Discussions-Suosituimmat kansikuvat
Google Books — Ladataan... LajityypitMelvil Decimal System (DDC)973.931History and Geography North America United States 1901- Bush Administration And Beyond George W. BushKongressin kirjaston luokitusArvio (tähdet)Keskiarvo:
Oletko sinä tämä henkilö? |
Genius: This book can be read by 911 propaganda worshipers without them rejecting it, because it studiously avoids rejecting the big print version of the 911 propaganda story. At the same time, it is full of (1) US dealing in Asia, and (2) the dishonesty and corruption of the 911 commission.
Genius: The 911 Commission Report's lies and omissions can, should and are used to extract the deeper truths that the Commission is/was trying to hide. Genius!
Good: overview of back-office, covert actions in Asia and the middle east
Good: very full of information and leads off to other areas
Good: I am pretty well informed about these subjects, and I was educated
Good: Completely ignores the propaganda story about hijackers learning to fly, or anything that in support of that story, even though noting the bizarre history and ownership of the flight schools that "they" or some people attended
Neutral: This is two books: (1) A history of US interference in Asia, the Middle East and the like, and (2) the corruption and incompetence of the 911 commission.
Bad: Really, in the book's design, it supports the "muh, Arabs did it".
Bad, or necessary: Avoids out-right mocking of the 911 propaganda fantasy. ( )