9781442214255-1442214252-THE AMERICAN DEEP STATE: Big Money, Big Oil, and the Struggle for U.S. Democracy, Updated Edition (War and Peace Library)

THE AMERICAN DEEP STATE: Big Money, Big Oil, and the Struggle for U.S. Democracy, Updated Edition (War and Peace Library)

ISBN-13: 9781442214255
ISBN-10: 1442214252
Edition: Updated
Author: Peter Dale Scott
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback 354 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781442214255
ISBN-10: 1442214252
Edition: Updated
Author: Peter Dale Scott
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback 354 pages

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THE AMERICAN DEEP STATE: Big Money, Big Oil, and the Struggle for U.S. Democracy, Updated Edition (War and Peace Library) (ISBN-13: 9781442214255 and ISBN-10: 1442214252), written by authors Peter Dale Scott, was published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers in 2017. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Education & Reference (Government & Business, Processes & Infrastructure, United States History, Communication & Media Studies, Social Sciences, International & World Politics, Politics & Government, United States) books. You can easily purchase or rent THE AMERICAN DEEP STATE: Big Money, Big Oil, and the Struggle for U.S. Democracy, Updated Edition (War and Peace Library) (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Education & Reference books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.57.

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Now in a new edition updated through the unprecedented 2016 presidential election, this provocative book makes a compelling case for a hidden “deep state” that influences and often opposes official U.S. policies. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale Scott begins by tracing America’s increasing militarization, restrictions on constitutional rights, and income disparity since World War II. With the start of the Cold War, he argues, the U.S. government changed immensely in both function and scope, from protecting and nurturing a relatively isolated country to assuming ever-greater responsibility for controlling world politics in the name of freedom and democracy. This has resulted in both secretive new institutions and a slow but radical change in the American state itself. He argues that central to this historic reversal were seismic national events, ranging from the assassination of President Kennedy to 9/11.
Scott marshals compelling evidence that the deep state is now partly institutionalized in non-accountable intelligence agencies like the CIA and NSA, but it also extends its reach to private corporations like Booz Allen Hamilton and SAIC, to which 70 percent of intelligence budgets are outsourced. Behind these public and private institutions is the influence of Wall Street bankers and lawyers, allied with international oil companies beyond the reach of domestic law. Undoubtedly the political consensus about America’s global role has evolved, but if we want to restore the country’s traditional constitutional framework, it is important to see the role of particular cabals—such as the Project for the New American Century—and how they have repeatedly used the secret powers and network of Continuity of Government (COG) planning to implement change. Yet the author sees the deep state polarized between an establishment and a counter-establishment in a chaotic situation that may actually prove more hopeful for U.S. democracy.

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