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Dreamcraft is a book that crosses distances and straddles boundaries. Moving from whistleblower law to the mimetic properties of DNA, from "the entropic spread / of the drifting cosmos / after the big bang" to "the push of lawn grass / under foot, " Scott interrogates topics that have occupied his later life and writing.

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.

In Reading the Dream the poet and scholar Peter Dale Scott has composed a poem in prose for our time. This is a work of art emerging from a passionate social vision. Scott examines our present state of post-secularity through the imagination of the past. Using devices such as the rational and nonrational, or the yin and the yang, Scott focuses not just on the reasoned current of written history but also on myths, beliefs, and even dreams. The ...

Erstmals erscheint ín deutscher Sprache eine zweiteilige Ausgabe mit vielen umfangreichen Essays aus der Feder von Peter Dale Scott, einem Pionier im Bereich der Forschung zum Tiefen Staat in den USA. Das Resultat ist ein Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika seit 1945 und ihren einschneidenden Episoden wie dem Vietnamkrieg, Iran-Contra und den 9/11-Terrorangriffen.

Erstmals erscheint ín deutscher Sprache eine zweiteilige Ausgabe mit vielen umfangreichen Essays aus der Feder von Peter Dale Scott, einem Pionier im Bereich der Forschung zum Tiefen Staat in den USA. Das Resultat ist ein Nachschlagewerk zur Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika seit 1945 und ihren einschneidenden Episoden wie dem Vietnamkrieg, Iran-Contra und den 9/11-Terrorangriffen.

Ecstatic Pessimist is a timely book about the Central and Eastern European experience of the mid 20th century, as told through the poetry and experiences of Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Laureate for literature, who wrote on the horrors of war and the human experience. Written by a colleague and friend of the poet, it is part literary criticism and part memoir. This biography/memoir of Czes¿aw Mi¿osz is a first hand account of the poet's life and his...

Ecstatic Pessimist address several topics and strands in the literary production and life of Czeslaw Milosz, the Nobel Prize Polish-language poet and American citizen. It is also a personal history of the relations between Milosz and the author of the book, himself a poet who worked on translations with the Polish poet in 1960s.

A study at many levels of Scott's long poem Coming to Jakarta, a book-length response to a midlife crisis triggered in part by the author's initial inability to share his knowledge and horror about American involvement in the great Indonesian massacre of 1965. Interviews with Ng supply fuller information about the poem's discussions of: a) how this psychological trauma led to an explorations of violence in American society and then, after a ke...

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A study at many levels of Scott's long poem Coming to Jakarta, a book-length response to a midlife crisis triggered in part by the author's initial inability to share his knowledge and horror about American involvement in the great Indonesian massacre of 1965. Interviews with Ng supply fuller information about the poem's discussions of: a) how this psychological trauma led to an explorations of violence in American society and then, after a ke...

Our most provocative scholar of American power" reveals the forces behind the assassination of JFK-and their continuing influence over our world (David Talbot, Salon). On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald. Shortly after, Oswald himself was killed. These events led many to believe there was a far greater plan at work, with a secret cabal of powerful men manipulating the public and sha...

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. go...

This provocative, thoroughly researched book explores the covert aspects of U.S. foreign policy. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale Scott marshals compelling evidence to expose the extensive growth of sanctioned but illicit violence in politics and st

This provocative, thoroughly researched book explores the covert aspects of U.S. foreign policy. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale Scott marshals a convincing array of evidence to expose the extensive trail of sanctioned but illicit violence in politics and state affairs, especially when related to America's long-standing involvement with the global drug traffic. Beginning with Thailand in the 1950s, Americans have become inured to the CI...

Peter Dale Scott examines the many ways in which war policy has been driven by "accidents” and other events in the field, in some cases despite moves toward peace that were directed by presidents. This book explores the "deep politics” that exerts a profound but too-little-understood effect on national policy outside the control of traditional democratic processes.An important analysis into the causes of war and the long-lasting effects that m...

A devastating revelation of violence, exploitation, and corrupt politics, Coming to Jakarta derives its title from the role played by the CIA, banks, and oil companies in the 1965 slaughter of more than half a million Indonesians.

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 b...

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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. This strategy wa...

A devastating revelation of violence, exploitation, and corrupt politics,  Coming to Jakarta derives its title from the role played by the CIA, banks, and oil companies in the 1965 slaughter of more than half a million Indonesians. A former Canadian diplomat and now a scholar at the University of California, Peter Dale Scott has said that the poem "is triggered by what we know of the bloody Indonesian massacre... However it is not so much a na...