Format:
Online-Ressource (445 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780520237735
Content:
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 demonst
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Cover; Contents; 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 The Al-Kifah Center, al Qaeda, and the U.S. Government, 1988-98
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9 The Pre-9/11 Cover-up of Ali Mohamed and al Qaeda10 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's 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; Glossary of Open Politics; A; C; D; G; I; M; O; P; R; S; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520929944
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520258716
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Road to 9/11 : Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America
Language:
English
Keywords:
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