The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of AmericaThis 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. |
Contents
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2 Nixon Kissinger and the Decline of the Public State | 26 |
Ford Rumsfeld and Cheney | 50 |
4 Brzezinski Oil and Afghanistan | 65 |
5 Carters Surrender to the Rockefellers on Iran | 80 |
6 Casey the Republican Countersurprise and the Bank of Credit and Commerce International 1980 | 93 |
7 Afghanistan and the Origins of al Qaeda | 114 |
8 The AlKifah Center al Qaeda and the US Government 198898 | 138 |
11 Parallel Structures and Plans for Continuity of Government | 180 |
12 The 911 Commission Report and Vice President Cheney | 194 |
13 The 911 Commission Reports and Cheneys Deceptions about 911 | 212 |
14 Cheney the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Continuity of Government | 236 |
911 and the Future of America | 246 |
Glossary of Open Politics | 267 |
Notes | 273 |
Bibliography | 391 |
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