Peter Dale Scott

Peter Dale Scott

Peter Dale Scott is the early 21st century Doyen of Deep Political Theory

Brief Biographical details

Peter Dale Scott (born 11 January 1929) is a former Canadian diplomat, and retired English professor at the University of California, Berkeley. The son of noted Canadian poet and constitutional lawyer F. R. Scott and painter Marian Dale Scott, he is known for his anti-war stance and his criticism of U.S. foreign policy dating back to the Vietnam War. He spent four years (1957-1961) with the Canadian diplomatic service. He retired from the UCB faculty in 1994. He is currently a Deep Politics researcher.

Investigator

Scott has earned a reputation for painstaking research and caution in his publications. Scott rejects the label of "conspiracy theory" and has coined the phrase "deep politics" to describe his extensive investigations into the role of the "deep state" (as opposed to the "public state"). Daniel Ellsberg commented about his most recent book, American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan (2010), "I said of Scott's last, brilliant take on this subject, Drugs, Oil and War(2003), that 'It makes most academic and journalistic explanations of our past and current interventions read like government propaganda written for children.' Now Scott has written an even better book [...]"

The Road to 9/11 (2007), deals with historical and geopolitical context of the events of 9/11, and describes "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.

An interesting aspect of Scott's work that combines both his investigating interests and his poetry is illustrated by Lobster Magazine article The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11.

Literary Works

Scott has described his poem Minding the Darkness as his most important, though he concedes that "Like other long poems by older men. . . it toys dangerously with abstract didactic principles." Introductory matter to excerpts from Minding the Darkness. The poem is intended as the culmination of a major poetic project of which Coming to Jakarta was the inception.  

Documents by Peter Dale Scott

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:911 JFK and War	essay	18 August 2007	9-11 War JFK Assassination
Document:A Long History of America's Dark Side	article	7 October 2010	"Terrorism" Torture US/Foreign policy	Americans are encouraged to unquestioningly view their country and its soldiers as the "good guys" spreading “democracy” and “liberty” around the world. When the US inflicts death and destruction, it’s viewed as a mistake or an aberration. This article reviews the long history of these acts of brutality, a record that suggests they are neither a “mistake” nor an “aberration” but a conscious counterinsurgency doctrine on the "dark side".
Document:American War Machine	book introduction	1 November 2010	Deep politics Deep state Military-industrial-congressional complex Illegal drug trade	A precis of the entire book, an analysis of the hidden mechanisms behind the exercise of real power in the Western World. The book is a culmination and synthesis of all of the author's earlier work on 'Deep Events' and the 'Deep State. Together with the work of Ola Tunander on the same subjects, it is a highly recommended for anyone seeking more than superficial understanding of the predicament of 21st Century humanity.
Document:Bosnia, Kosovo, and Now Libya: The Human Costs of Washington’s On-Going Collusion with Terrorists	webpage	29 July 2011	US Government Support Of Terrorists
Document:Glossary of Open Politics	glossary	1 January 2007	Glossary
Document:Is the State of Emergency Superseding the US Constitution	article	29 November 2010	"Continuity of Government"
Document:Norway’s Terror as Systemic Destabilization	webpage	23 August 2011	2011 Norway attacks
Document:Peter Dale Scott - COPA 2010	speech	2010	"Gulf of Tonkin Incident" False flag JFK Assassination
Document:Systemic Destabilization in Recent American History	article	24 September 2012	Deep politics SCAD Strategy of tension Oklahoma City bombing "Continuity of Government" JFK Assassination
Document:The Deep State and 9/11	article	11 June 2008	Deep politics Deep state 9-11 "Continuity of Government"
Document:The Doomsday Project and Deep Events	article	21 November 2011	Deep event 9-11 Watergate coup Doomsday Project "Continuity of Government" "Iran-Contra" JFK/Assassination
Document:The Global Drugs Meta-Group	article	October 2005	False flag Russian apartment bombings Adnan Khashoggi Illegal drug trade New Bridge Strategies Audrius Butkevičius Kosovo Liberation Army Far West Albert Einstein Institution
Document:The Hidden Government Group	Wikispooks Page	15 May 2015	9-11 Watergate coup "Continuity of Government" Structural deep event JFK/Assassination Mount Weather October Surprise White House/Communications Agency	Beginning from the assassination of JFK, Peter Dale Scott reviews the Continuity of Government group's connections to the structural deep events - the Watergate coup, October Surprise and 9/11
Document:The State, the Deep State, and the Wall Street Overworld	paper	10 March 2014	Safari Club Bank of Credit and Commerce International Deep state/Supranational nature SDS	An recommended and highly referenced overview of the deep state in action centering on the complex milieu of Khashoggi, the BCCI, and the Safari Club.
Document:Transnationalised Repression Parafascism and the US	article	September 1986	Deep politics Deep state Operation 40 "War on Drugs" Orlando Bosch Illegal drug trade Parafascism United States/Mafia
Document:War Martial Law and the Economic Crisis	book extract	1 November 2010	War Martial law "Bailout" "Economic crisis"
File:ScottPreparata.pdf	review		Conjuring Hitler
File:The Assassinations of the 1960s.pdf	essay	17 October 2008	JFK Assassination MLK Assassination RFK Assassination
Document:The Libyan War, American Power and the Decline of the Petrodollar System	paper	17 April 2011	2011 Attacks on Libya Petrodollar	A collection of insights that provide a more realistic explanation of the deep political background to the attacks on Libya.
Document:Who are the Libyan Freedom Fighters?	commentary		2011 Attacks on Libya

See Also

• Peter Dale Scott's personal web site

• Set of radio shows featuring Peter Dale Scott