From the Archive: Peter Dale Scott Discusses the Deep State & the American War Machine
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
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🗓️ 4 July 2015
⏱️ 59 minutes
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We speak to Dr. Peter Dale Scott on his latest book, “American War Machine.” We discuss the politically correct atmosphere in education, CIA drug trafficking, assassination, deep politics and the drug war in Mexico.
About the Guest
Peter Dale Scott is a Canadian-born poet, former diplomat, and former English professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
A son of the Canadian poet and constitutional lawyer F. R. Scott and painter Marian Dale Scott, he has been critical of American foreign policy since the era of the Vietnam War. Scott was a signatory in 1968 of the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, in which participants vowed to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. He spent four years (1957–1961) with the Canadian diplomatic service. He retired from the UC Berkeley faculty in 1994.
Scott has written about the role of the “deep state” (as opposed to the “public state”). Rejecting the label of “conspiracy theory”, he has used the phrase “deep politics” to describe his political concerns.
His book, The Road to 9/11 (2007), deals with geopolitical context of events leading to 9/11, and argues “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.” His books The Road to 9/11 and American War Machine was reviewed by Bernard Norlain, a retired French five-star General of the Air Force. In all, his books have been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, and Bahasa Indonesia. His articles have been translated into 16 languages, including Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Chinese, and Japanese.
Of Scott’s book, American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan (2010), Daniel Ellsberg commented: “I said of Scott’s last brilliant take on this subject, Drugs, Oil and War, that ‘It makes most academic and journalistic explanations of our past and current interventions read like government propaganda written for children.’
Peter Dale Scott Website
Peter Dale Scott Books
http://peterdalescott.net/bib.html
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | A Puneado of Humbres, passers of ponches, |
| 0:06.0 | they festecagean the Mexicana |
| 0:09.0 | destrocenting his pass, motels and bars |
| 0:13.0 | Cuestra-bago, no it's costa-bago |
| 0:15.0 | no it costs to the frontera, the stampida to get. You're a front of them Tornado Fulmese |
| 0:21.6 | Fiatto |
| 0:22.6 | You're a former Canadian diplomat, |
| 0:40.3 | a professor emeritus of English at Berkeley, |
| 0:44.3 | as well as a prolific writer on politics and poetry. |
| 0:49.3 | Is there anything we can add to your background? |
| 0:52.3 | Oh, it's about it, I think. I wanted just to start off on the topic of education and teaching at university. |
| 1:02.0 | When you were a diplomat, did you witness any deep politics events? |
| 1:08.0 | I don't think I so much witnessed one, but one of my friends were in Warsaw when I was |
| 1:16.9 | a junior diplomat in the Canadian embassy. |
| 1:20.0 | I knew the first secretary in the Argentine embassy, and he had an infant boy, about six |
| 1:26.9 | months, very sweet sweet dear little boy and about 30 years later |
| 1:33.0 | he was a convicted drug trafficker pilot who testified in the trial against Manuel |
| 1:39.1 | Noriega so he had grown up to be a drug trafficker himself. |
| 1:44.8 | But as I say, when I witnessed him, he was six months old and a baby. |
| 1:49.3 | So I don't think I've got much closer to the drug traffic than that, personally. |
| 1:55.0 | And so where and how did you turn sort of into this way of thinking? |
| 2:00.0 | Well, that's a good question. I was in Warsaw. One of my |
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