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

by Peter Dale Scott

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520258711
• ISBN13: 9780520258716
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

a map of the subterranean sewers beneath 9/11

Just like in "Deep Politics and the Death of JFK," Peter Dale Scott here gives us something so often missed by focusing exclusively on the surface events: a stark yet densely detailed map of the subterranean sewers that are the sources of 9/11. Scott is that rare thinker-writer whose sustained attention and audacious inquiry have pursued the ugly truth to its deepest roots: To read this fearless document is to be denied the comfort offered by our systemic denial. So be forewarned: delusions and simplistic reductionisms die on the very first pages; for reading the rest of the book, one must at times remind oneself to breath.

Overworld

In this extremely well documented book, P.D. Scott lifts the veil on a secret overworld, a small clique op people, who apparently control the US political decision making process. It is, what he calls, the `deep State' (the private State) within elected governments (the public State), which makes top-down decisions possible if necessary. The deep State represents super wealthy private interests who finance the political parties. The aim of the deep State is global dominance at any price and with any means: direct or indirect military interventions (ex. `the US military is being converted into a global oil-protection service'), the killing of détente (ex. the fall of Nixon after his overtures to China and the USSR), the financing by covert off-the books operations and drug trafficking (ex. Iran-Contra scandal), support of the opposition against secular Arabic (ex. Nasser in Egypt, Saddam in Iraq, Afghanistan) and democratic regimes (the fall of the Awami League of Sheikh M. Rachman in Pakistan). For the author, the power of the private State is a major threat to democracy. It created the FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) and COG planning (Continuity of Government) which should be installed in `any national security emergency'. Those plans call for a suspension of the Constitution (civil rights and liberties) and national government (to be replaced by secret parallel institutions) and sequestration of `alien citizens' and dissenters (even environmental activists. This plan was apparently partly implemented during and after the 9/11 attack, the largest homicide in US history. For P.D. Scott, there is a serious possibility that a global meta-group (overworld), which had the necessary resources and the deep connections to make the plot successful, was implicated in the attack. The role of an alleged member of this group is meticulously scrutinized in this book. The author complains all too rightly that the corporate media have become less a vehicle of information than of mind control. True democrats are saved by the internet, but internet itself is under threat. As one former intelligence officer said: `Access to the World Wide Web might need to be limited to those who take security seriously.' Ultimately, what is the result of all these secrets cabals? An aggravation of all security threats. This book is a must read for all those who want to understand the world we live in.

A deep, convincing analysis of the road to conspiracy and disaster.

Peter Dale Scott's long-in-the-works THE ROAD TO 9/11 is outstanding, powerful, sad, in a way, and quietly gripping. (It's also notable for the fact that the University of California Press only reportedly published it after they'd spent the better part of a year scrupulously fact checking and cautiously vetting it for accuracy). Glib summaries aren't likely to do it justice. There have been several books published so far that address the official story offered about 9/11 with a critical eye, all of which basically allege that the White House and US intelligence agencies have covered up their own, complicated roles in the terror attacks of 2001. Scott's new book makes some reference to and generally builds upon a number of those works, but simultaneously encompasses a far broader sweep, wields (conversely) a simpler, more direct argument, and provides a new level of hard-to-argue-with credibility to the process of naming specific names. The first lengthy section of the book features Scott's run through of recent events in US history, with an emphasis on various 'shadow government' elements of the US political system, and how these elements have moved into the foreground in recent years. (Scott uses the term `shadow government' to encompass the various avenues used by governments - not just in the US - to undertake certain activities off the books, under the radar, or illegally). Scott notes the disintegration of the Nixon presidency as being a starting-point for slowly building incidents and trends related to an active `shadow government' that have re-emerged in the disaster of 9/11 and the subsequent, seemingly comprehensive cover-up. Little known government plans from the Nixon era for militarily suppressing public dissent (via the secretive, innocuously titled `Operation Garden Plot') are discussed here. Then, following the post-Nixon rise to prominence of Cheney and Rumsfeld during the Ford presidency, Scott notes how these martial-law ambitions eventually reappeared in a different form during the Iran-Contra events via the newly politicized FEMA and Lt. Col. Oliver North's `REX 84' plan. REX 84 evoked (in the event of an unspecified future `national emergency') the widespread surveillance (and possible detention) of political dissenters, the suspension of the U.S. constitution, and the activation of a secretive, parallel government set up to run things away from the pesky oversight of Senate and Congress. It's carefully noted early on that these aims were strongly desired by both Cheney and Rumsfeld, with the two of them conducting much of the highest level planning at the time for all the above, and the accompanying process given the title of `Continuity of Government', or `COG'. (Scott jokes darkly that in the light of the sweeping measures it would, and eventually did, enable post 9/11, `Change of Government' is a much more accurate description). Cheney pushed hard to enable and lay the groundwork for COG through FEMA in the 8

Stunning Work of Immense Value to Every American

I put this book down in something of a daze. This is one of the top five books relevant to understanding Dick Cheney, 9/11, Iraq, and the demise of the Republic. This author is a Nobel-level researcher who has specialized in cover-ups and conspiracies, who with this book has fourteen serious books in being, a few of them poetry of a serious nature. The book begins with a lovely list of nineteen trailblazers that is galringly incomplete, but a nice touch and worthy of note. As I worked my way through the book I was thinking to myself that this author has brought together, in one volume in which half the pages are endnotes, much of what I have been trying to address in my 950+ reviews and my lists on Cheney and 9/11 and anti-Americanism. The author is superbly credible and well-written in documenting the many miscalculations that have been the result of the intersection between Saudi Arabia, Texas and Geneva, and aggravated (my own view) by Zionists and Israeli genocide against the Palestinians and the Lebanese. I have a note, "tontos utiles," which is what Americans are called in Latin America: "useful idiots." In reality, Cheney is not an idiot, he is simply the most amoral war criminal to ever sit in the Oval Office. The author is extremely good at showing how Cheney's power emerged with the creation of the Continuity of Operations (COG) parallel government during the Reagan Administration. I am quite certain that Dick Cheney was controlling every aspect of US Government operations on 9/11, and I believe this book and the other books listed below to the point that I feel the 9/11 Commission was a cover-up, and We the People must indict and impeach Dick Cheney or be forever disgraced in the eyes of the world as accomplices to his murderous misdeeds and his 25 high crimes and misdemeanors. The author ends the book beautifully, with a call for Open Politics that ends with glossary of open politics. Readers may be interested in my keynote speech to Gnomedex in Seattle, "Open Everything, which will shortly be available at my web site as a 9 minute download, with the slides easily found at my website/GNOME. The author is an English professor, and I can think of no higher praise for his work than to say he is the most erudite patriot I have ever read. This is a moving thoughtful work of enormous importance to those who wish to save the Republic and the Constitution from the criminals and traiors that have hijacked the three branches of the federal government. There are 27 secessionist movements for good reason. If we do not act now, before 2008, every one of those 27 secessionist movements will have every right to withdraw from what has become the most dangerous rogue nation on the planet. What is being done "in our name" is immoral, unaffordable, unsustainable, and unnecessary. It's time we took the Republic back. See also: Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the America