Background
Peter Dale Scott 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, [1] 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 [...]"[2]
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.[3]
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. [4]
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. [5] 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 |
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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 | |
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