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This book is a unique meditation on poetry, history, philosophy, religion, and politics from one of the most important poets of our time. It is the result of decades of deep thinking about the fate of poetry in human history as well as the nature of our shared human condition.

Scott marshals evidence for an American deep state, institutionalized in non-accountable intelligence agencies and private corporations. When the influence of Wall Street and international oil are added, the author argues that these powerful interests form a supranational state, repeatedly at odds with U.S. policies and interests

With a foreword by Rex Bradford and a preface by Bill Simpich: From deep within American society emerged the plot that killed a president Beneath the orderly façade of the American government lies a complex network, only partly structural, linking Wall Street influence, corrupt bureaucracy, and the military-industrial complex. Here lies the true power of the American empire: This behind-the-scenes web is unelected, unaccountable, and immune to popular resistance. Peter Dale Scott calls this entity the deep state, and he has made it his life's work to write the history of those who manipulate o

pt. 1: Overview. Sanctioned violence, the dominance machine, and the overworld -- pt. 2: The CIA and drugs abroad. Mexico, drugs, the DFS, and the United States -- Operation paper: The United States and drugs in Thailand and Burma -- Rollback, PARU, and Laos: preparing for offensive war -- Laos: Financing a war by drugs -- The war on drugs in Asia: A phony war with real casualties -- pt. 3: Deep events and the drug connection at home. The CIA, the global drug connection, and terrorism -- Inside the war machine: the profiteers from enduring violence -- 9/11 and the American tradition of engineered deep events -- pt. 4: America and Afghanistan today. Obama and Afghanistan: America's drug-corrupted war -- Conclusion: The war machine and the deep politics of drugs.

Peter Dale Scott's brilliantly researched tour de force illuminates the underlying forces that drive U.S. global policy from Vietnam to Colombia and now to Afghanistan and Iraq. He brings to light the intertwined patterns of drugs, oil politics, and intelligence networks that have been so central to the larger workings of U.S. intervention and escalation in Third World countries through alliances with drug-trafficking proxies. The result has been a staggering increase in global drug traffic. Thus, the author argues, the exercise of power by covert means, or parapolitics, often metastasizes int