UPCOMING EVENTS
Sunday, July 16, 2023, at 4 PM PDT, At Bookpassage in Corte Madera with Zogetsu Roshi Norman Fischer and Sylvia Boorstein, I will discuss my new book Ecstatic Pessimist: Czeslaw Milosz, Poet of Catastrophe and Hope. https://www.bookpassage.com/event/peter-dale-scott-norman-fischer-sylvia-boorstein-ecstatic-pessimist-corte-madera-store
This may be my only reading event for Ecstatic Pessimist, as well as my first public appearance since the pandemic.
EVENTS
Wednesday, September 9, 2020, at 6:30 PM EDT (3:30 PM PDT). Zoom event by invitation: Peter Dale Scott speaks to The Stoa for 25 minutes on “Deep Politics,” followed by discussion. Attendance is limited.. Register for this event at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqfu-uqz0sH9HBfY5PPCl8YWCXUSqrX-0k.
Thursday, January 9, 2020, 6 PM: “Today’s Great Need: Radical Politics, Conservative Culture.” A talk at the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco.
Thursday, January 16, at 7:30 PM. I will read poetry with David Shaddock at Moe’s Bookstore, 2476 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley, (510) 849-208.
Sunday, October 20, 1-4 PM, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1379 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal. “A Celebration of the Scott Family.” Talks on Frederick George Scott, his son Frank R. Scott, Frank’s wife Marian Dale Scott, and their son Peter Dale Scott (with a 40-minute autobiographical video). The event will take place in the Maxwell Cummings Auditorium (Cinéma du Musée), in the Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion of the MMFA.
Friday, November 8 at 7 PM, I will speak for from 5-7 minutes at the Opening Night of a three-night
San Francisco Leonard Cohen Festival – A Celebration of Leonard’s Words and Music
The events are at the Café du Nord, 2174 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94114, from 7-9:30 PM, November 8, 9, and 10.
Sunday, November 10, at 4 PM I will read with Freeman Ng from my new book Poetry and Terror: Politics and Poetics in Coming to Jakarta.
Sunday, January 28, at 3 PM. I will be one of six poets each reading for about ten minutes at a CHANA BLOCH TRIBUTE, EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, (510) 653-9965 https://www.ebbooksellers.com/event/poetry-flash-pays-tribute-chana-bloch
“REBOOTING THE ENLIGHTENMENT IN THE AGE OF TRUMP” A panel discussion of how “enlightenment values might regain the upper hand” in the Trump Era, with Prof. Caroline Winterer, Prof. Mark Peterson, and myself. MON, NOV 13 / 6:00 PM The Commonwealth Club, 110 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, 94105. N.B. Noun-member Tickets are #22.00 ($8.00 for students). I am scheduled to speak for 12 1/2 minutes. https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2017-11-13/rebooting-enlightenment-age-trump
Saturday June 3 at 3:15, Bay Area Book Festival, Chronicle Stage, Berkeley Civic Center Park: I will be on a panel, “Trump vs. Deep State.” https://www.baybookfest.org/2017-schedule/
Lecture, “Czeslaw Milosz and T.S. Eliot: On Literature, Past and Future.” Athenaeum, Claremont-McKenna College, April 3, 2017,
Tuesday, February 21, 5:30 PM. I will give a lecture, “Czeslaw Milosz, T.S. Eliot, and the Generative Canon,” on the University of California Berkeley Campus. Room D37 – Hearst Field Annex. Introduction by Robert Hass. Reforeshments to follow. Room D37 is near Bancroft Avenue, between the Hearst Women’s Gym and the back of Sproul Hall.
Sunday, December 18, 2016, 4:00 PM. I will read from my new book of poems, Walking on Darkness, at Book Passage,, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA 94925 | (415) 927-0960,
I will read from my new book of poems, Walking on Darkness, Thursday, December 15, 2016, at 7:30 PM, at The Green Arcade 1680 Market Street, San Francisco. <href=https: www.eventbrite.com=”” e=”” come-to-a-post-election-political-roundtable-tickets-29342429998=””>Come to a Post-Election Political Roundtable. Participants include: Laurence Shoup, author, Wall Street’s Think Tank. Peter Dale Scott, author, The American Deep State. Stephen Zunes, author, Tinderbox. David Talbot, founder, Salon Magazine. Rebecca Gordon, author, American Nuremberg. Peter Phillips, author, Project Censored. Saturday, November 19, 1-4 PM. University of San Francisco, Fromm Hall. Maraschi Room (#125). 2497 Golden Gate Ave. (Entrance on Parker) Free, Wheelchairs OK</href=https:>
Thursday, November 17, 2016, 7:30 PM. I will read from my new book of poems, Walking on Darkness, at Mrs. Dalloway’s, 2904 College Avenue. Phone 510.704.8222. More information at http://www.mrsdalloways.com/events.
Stay Amazed: A Celebration of Poetry and Music Date: Saturday, July 23, 2016 Time: 7:30 pm Location: Berkeley Branch 1414 Walnut St., Berkeley, CA, , Admission: $10.00 General. $8.00 Students and Seniors. I will read one poem for about two minutes, but this is a benefit for Poetry Flash.
Monday Feb. 8, 2016.”Morality of Warfare,” Panel discussion with George Hammond and a Muslim. Commonwealhtn Club, 555 Post St., San Francisco. Time: 5:30 p.m. networking reception, 6 p.m. program Cost: $20 nonmembers, free for members, $7 students (with valid ID) – See more at: http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2016-02-08/morality-warfare#sthash.WDHjMiWS.dpuf
David Talbot and I will discuss David’s new book at the Mechanics’ Institute, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94104, December 2, 2015 – 6:00pm. $15.00. Register by website or calling (415) 393-0102.
Thursday, September 10, 2015, Grand Lake Theater, 9/11 Truth Film Festival. At 1:30 PM there will be shown a video of my talk with David Talbot on the Deep State, following which I will speak for fifteen minutes.
“Peter Dale Scott – The American Deep State,” a presentation in which I am interviewed by the noted meditation teacher Sylvia Boorstein. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd Corte Madera, CA 94925, Sunday, April 26, 2015, 1:00 PM,
March 26, 2015. I speak at Sonoma State University on “Thew American Deep State.” Person Theater at 6 PM.
Wednesday, February 11, 2015, 7pm. At the 3rd Floor McRoskey Mattress Factory, 1687 Market St. David Talbot & Peter Dale Scott in Conversation: Exposing the CIA: The Secret Government’s War on Democracy Join us for an important discussion with Peter Dale Scott, author of The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big Oil, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy and David Talbot, author of The Season of the Witch and the forthcoming The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles and the Rise of America’s Secret Government. $5.00 entrance fee..
December 9, 2014, I will read from The American Deep State at City Lights, San Francisco.
I will be reading from my The American Deep State At Mrs. Dalloway’s bookstore on College Avenue in Berkeley, CA, on Tuesday November 18 at 7:30 PM
Sunday, September 28, 11 AM EDT, at the AARC 2014 Conference, “The Warren Report and the JFK Assassination: A Half Century of Significant Disclosures,” I shall give a talk (by live closed-circuit hook-up: ¿Dallas and Other Deep Events.” In a 30-word description: ‘According to Robert Parry, a secret “CIA within the CIA” helped prevent Carter’s reelection through an “October Surprise.” Their efforts evolved into Iran-Contra. Did such a team contribute to Dallas?’
September 28, 7:30 pm September 28, 7:30 pm An Evening of Political Poetry FSM to Today at FSM Cafe on the UC Berkeley campus, FREE. I shall read about a third of “Greek Theater.”
Thursday, March 27, 2014, at Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, Sherbrooke, Quebec, in the campus bookstore, from 4-5 pm, I shall read from Coming to Jakarta. Following a screening at 6:30 pm in Bishop Williams Hall of the Oscar-nominated documentary An Act of Killing, I shall lecture at 8:30 pm on mass violence, Southeast Asia, and deep politics.
http://www.mrsdalloways.com/events/peter-dale-scott A notice that I will be reading from my new book At Mrs. Dalloway’s bookstore on College Avenue in Berkeley, CA, on Tuesday November 18 at 7:30 PM
On Wednesday, March 26, 2014, at 8 pm, in the Library, North Hatley, Quebec, I shall read sections from my long poem Coming to Jakarta — a poem that connects the massacres in Indonesia to my first experiences of the world of CIA when I was a child in North Hatley.
“Deep Politics, Dark Events”. Talk for KPFA Radio and Project Censored, Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley, March 19, 2014. < On Thursday, January 30, 2014, at 7 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall at 1924 Cedar St., Berkeley, I am scheduled to receive a “Thomas Paine Courageous Spirit Award” from the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Social Justice Committee. Other recipients will be Bonnie Faulkner, Vic Sadot, Diana Bohn, and Cynthia McKinney. Most of the evening will be in celebration of Tom Paine’s birthday, but item 8 at the end of the agenda will be “Remarks by awardees and other comments & discussion.”
January 17, 2013: Poetry Reading at Moe’s Bookstore, 2476 Telegraph Ave. Berkeley CA 94704, 7:30 PM. I will be one of six readers: Michael Hannon, Lee Perron, Joe Riley, Leslie St. John, Peter Dale Scott & Kevin Patrick Sullivan, Thursday, January 17th This poetry and prose reading will celebrate Word Palace Press, publisher of all six writers.
At 8 PM on Sept. 11, I will speak on “Deep Events” for 30 minutes at this 5th Annual 9/11 Film Festival at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, which will also feature important films on the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, and 7/7 in London.
Poetry reading: Sunday, September 30th, 2012. 2:00pm-3:00pm Place: San Francisco Fire Department Museum, 655 Presidio Ave. (15 minutes, with 3-4 other readers)
Peter Dale Scott will give a talk on “The Role of the United States in the Drug Trade since WWII.” St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA, April 25, 2012,4:30-5:45 PM, Galileo 201
Celebrating Reenchantment: The Philosophical, Religious, and Political Thought of David Ray Griffin, Claremont School of Theology, 1325 North College Avenue,
At 8 PM on Sept. 11, I will speak on “Deep Events” for 30 minutes at this 5th Annual 9/11 Film Festival at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, which will also feature important films on the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, and 7/7 in London.
Poetry reading: Sunday, September 30th, 2012. 2:00pm-3:00pm Place: San Francisco Fire Department Museum, 655 Presidio Ave. (15 minutes, with 3-4 other readers)
Peter Dale Scott will give a talk on “The Role of the United States in the Drug Trade since WWII.” St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA, April 25, 2012,4:30-5:45 PM, Galileo 201
Celebrating Reenchantment: The Philosophical, Religious, and Political Thought of David Ray Griffin, Claremont School of Theology, 1325 North College Avenue, Claremont, CA 91711, April 12-14, 2012. I speak Sat. April 14, 1:30-2:30 PM, in the Mudd Theater, on David Ray Griffin’s book, Christian Faith and the Truth behind 9/11.
Globalization & Spirituality, Berkeley Buddhist Monastery, 2304 McKinley Ave, Berkeley, CA., February 5, 2012, 7-9 PM. Ajahn Guna and special guest Peter Dale Scott share stories, perspectives, and poetry from their experiences living in the Buddhist country of Thailand. With discussion, meditation, chanting.
Celebration of Czeslaw Milosz and the book, An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czeslaw Milosz, San Francisco Library, December 7, 2011, Latino-Hispanic Meeting Room, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m., http://www.friendssfpl.org/?Event&id=478.
Talk, “The Doomsday Project and Deep Events: JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11,” COPA, Dallas, Sunday, November 21, 2011, 10 AM https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/showthread.php?8874-Please-join-us-at-COPA-s-annual-meeting-in-Dallas-November-18-22-2011-Reserve-your-room-NOW.
Wednesday-Friday, October 19-21 “Milosz and the Future: A Festival in Honor of the Czeslaw Milosz Centenary”; W.S. Merwin; C.K. Williams; Azar Nafisi; Adam Michnik; Robert Pinsky; Claudia Rankine; Peter Dale Scott; Tomasz Rozycki; Lillian Vallee; Mira Rosenthal; Jacek Dehnel; Darius Sosnicki; Jacek Gutorow; Pawel Marcinkiewicz; Anthony Milosz. In Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, Claremont McKenna College, 385 E. 8th St., Claremont, CA 91711-6420, (909) 621-8244.
A Celebration of Czeslaw Milosz, with Robert Hass, Peter Dale Scott, Cynthia Haven, Tony Milosz, and others, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Library, 100 Larkin St., San Francisco, October 29, 2011, 2-3 PM.
The International Hearings on the September 11, 2001 Attacks, at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, September 11, 2011.
Public Lecture – American War Machine: Deep Politics and the Road to Extended Wars, Indiana University, Jordan Hall 124, September 15, 2011, 7:15-8:45 PM, College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2011 Themester: Making War, Making Peace (http://themester.indiana.edu/).
Saturday, September 17, 6:30 PM, Poetry Reading at Grolier Bookshop, 6 Plympton St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Sunday, September 18, 4 PM, Poetry Reading at Longfellow House – Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, 105 Brattle St., Cambridge MA 02138.
September 19, 2011, Talk with Alfred McCoy, “CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade,” Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy, 7:00-9:30 PM, Tufts University, 160 Packard Ave., Medford, MA 02155.
A Centenary Celebration of Poetry of UC Berkeley’s Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz , Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 7:00-9:00PM, 315 Wheeler Hall (Maude Fife Room) .
Czeslaw Milosz Centennial Anniversary A film screening of “Valley of the Issa” and panel discussion with Michael Heim (UCLA), Madeline Levine (University of North Caolina at Chapel Hill), and Peter Dale Scott (UC Berkeley). Thursday, April 07, 2011, 6:00 PM, 147 Dodd Hall.Reception at 6:00pms. Film screening followed by panel discussion at 6:30pm.
Thursday, January 13, 2011, 7:30 PM, Reading from American War Machine, Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore, 2904 College Avenue [just north of Ashby], Berkeley CA 94705.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 7 PM, “Deep Politics in the Age of Bush and Obama,” with Russ Baker and Peter Dale Scott, City Lights Bostore, San Francisco, 261 Columbus Ave. at Broadway (North Beach).
Tuesday, November 23, 2010, “Continuity of Government: Is the State of Emergency Superseding our Constitution?” Address to Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, 6 PM, http://tickets.commonwealthclub.org/bbshowsCalendar.asp.
Talk to COPA Conference, November 20, 2010
“How the World Changed After 9/11.” Presented by the International News Net. A made for television event in lower Manhattan on September 11th and 12th, 2010. WHERE: Walker Stage – 56 Walker Street, New York, NY WHEN: 12 noon on Sat. Sept. 11th through 6pm Sun. Sept. 12th. http://tickets.commonwealthclub.org/bbshowsCalendar.asp PANEL 6 1:15pm – 3:15pm: Distrust Your Government: How Conspiracy Theorists Become Conspiracy Realists. This panel will peer behind the scenes of events that shape our world. The real motives of power are often hidden behind noble pretexts. This panel will shine light into the archives of historical and future plans for managing and handling societies. Moderator: Brian Madden Thursday, May 6th: Poetry Flash presents Jorn Ake & Peter Dale Scott in a reading of their poetry. Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley CA 94704, May 6, 2010, 7:30 PM. For info, call Moe’s Books at (510) 849-2087.
May 14-16, 2010, Understanding Deep Politics Conference: – Revealing the Driving Forces Behind World Events and Creating Alternative Solutions. University Inn & Conference Center – Santa Cruz, CA – May 14 – 16th, 2010. 10 international intellectual leaders converge in one weekend in pursuit of truth and solutions. With Speakers: Ellen Brown, Ian Crane, David Ray Griffin, Annie Machon, Jim Marrs, Cynthia McKinney, Michael Parenti, Peter Phillips, Peter Dale Scott and Barrie Zwicker. Details at http://understandingdeeppolitics.org/.=
January 30- New England Antiwar Conference, http://ristopwar.com/?p=118
30 Jan 2010 – 10:30AM MIT Building 34-101 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA
Explaining the Drive Towards Empire and Endless War
Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report & Black is Back; Saadia Toor, Action for a Progressive Pakistan; Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space; Michael Schwartz, author of War Without End: The Iraq War in Context
Debunking the War on Terror
Salma Abu Ayyash, Palestinian activist; Pardiss Kebriaei, Guantanamo Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights; Danny Schechter, author of Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception; Peter Dale Scott, The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, & the Future of America.
For more info: David at 508 653-5534 | www.NewEnglandUnited.org
On March 13, 14, and 20, 2010, I shall be the focus of three all-day symposia at the Open Center, 22 East 30th Street, New York City, NY 10016. In addition I shall give a poetry reading at the Center on March 17. The events are listed as follows on the Open Center website, at http://www.opencenter.org/peterdalescott:
3/13: A Symposium in Honor of Peter Dale Scott
3/14: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America: An Exploration of the Deep Politics of War
3/17: An Evening of Poetry with Peter Dale Scott
3/20: Peter Dale Scott: His Life as a Poet, Seeker and Investigator of Politics and Deep Politics
Details of topics to be discussed, as well as the names of speakers, can be seen at www.opencenter.org/peterdalescott. You can register for these events on line.
For more information, please contact Maria Rodriguez at (212) 219-2527 x135, or email mrodriguez@opencenter.org.
- RECENT PUBLICATIONS, MOSTLY ON LINE
D.384. “To All Readers: Help Force Congress To Observe the Law on National Emergencies!!!” (with Dan Hamburg, http.//www.truth.org, March 24, 2009, http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20090324183053848#r7.
D.383 “Martial Law, Financial Bail-Out, and War,” Nexus: New Times Magazine, 16,2, February-March 2009, 11-15. An abridged text version of D.379.
D.381 “Saving American Politics from the Present Two-Party System”, TUC Ra dio, February 11, 2009. This was a talk delivered to the Republican Round Table of San Francisco on Janu ary 27, 2009. Click here for a video on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7FDC3DFD6A52E0EC.Click here for radio br oadcast, and here for text.
V.24 “Peter Dale Scott & former Democratic Congressman Dan Hamburg on Continuity of Government,” http://911blogger.com/node/18336. (Part 1, connect from there to Parts 2-6).
V.23 “GTV: Empire, Republic & The Neocons – Part 1”, GTV, http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UC021XGo5pg. (Connect from there to Parts 2-6.)
D.375 “Deep Events and the CIA’s Global Drug Connection,” 911Truth, http://911truth.org/article.php?story=20081012142525948. A revised version of D.373, with a slightly augmented text and footnotes.
D.373 “Deep Events and the CIA’s Global Drug Connection.” Global Research, September 19, 2008, http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=SCO20080906&articleId=10095> [The text of this article does not include text and endnote numerals. To consult article with numbered references and endnotes in word document format click here.
Peter Dale Scott reading at Atwatwer Poetry Project, September 18, 2008.
D.372 “Ueber Hegel, Geheimdienste und Drogenhandel: Ein Gespraech mit Peter Dale Scott,” Teil I. In German.
D.371 “Bush Extends 9/11 National Emergency Yet Again”. Global Research, September 4, 2008, http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10065.
D.370 [Poem] “A Simple, Difficult Lesson in Thai.” Literary Review of Canada, 16,7 (September 2008), 19.
V.22 “Peter Dale Scott on the Alex Jones Show,” August 20, 2008, http://adap2k.blogspot.com/2008/08/peter-dale-scott-alex-jones.html.
D.369 “The Showdown Between the Congress and the COG,” Amass, 30, 23-25. A condensed version of D.359.
A.45 Peter Dale Scott on Carol Brouillet show, August 11, 2008, http://mp3.wtprn.com/Brouillet/0808/20080811_Mon_Brouillet1.mp3.
D.367 “Billions: The Politics of Influence in the United States, China and Israel,” by Peter Dale Scott and Connie Bruck. Japan Focus, http://www.japanfocus.org/products/details/2829.
D.366 (Poem) “Breathing Exercise: A How-To Poem,” Queen’s Quarterly, June 2008, 316-17.
D.365 “The JFK Assassination and 9/11: the Designated Suspects in Both Cases,” Global Research, July 5, 2008, http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9511.
D.364 “Korea, the Tonkin Gulf and 9/11: Deep Events in Recent American History,” Japan Focus [June 22, 2008], http://japanfocus.org/_Peter_Dale_Scott-Korea__1950___the_Tonkin_Gulf_Incident__and_9_11__Deep_Events_in_Recent_American_History. An updated version of D.363.
D.363 “9/11, Deep State Violence and the Hope of Internet Politics,” GlobalResearch, June 11, 2008, http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9289.
C.70 Zbigniew Herbert 1924-1998. Warszawa: Department of Promotion, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, 2008. Contains “To Marcus Aurelius,” translated by Peter Dale Scott.
D.360 “Marianna.” AQR: Alaska Quarterly Review, Vol. 25, No. 1 & 2, Spring & Summer 2008, 229-30.
D.359 “Congress, the Bush Adminstration and Continuity of Government Planning: The Showdown”, Counterpunch, March 31, 2008, http://www.counterpunch.org/scott03312008.html.
D.358 Transcript of Talk, Santa Cruz Media Strategy Summit, January 26, 2008. Education Forum, March 13, 2008, http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=11241&st=30&gopid=141066&#entry141066.
D.357 “Mosaic of Orpheus: Five Canadian Poems”. (“Occitanian Spring,” “Something Precious,” “Holy Land I: Truth,” “Holy Land II: Force,” “Confession”.) FlashPoint #10, Spring 2008, http://www.flashpointmag.com/index10.htm.
D.355 Dan Benbow, “Off the Books: The Outsourcing of American Foreign Policy, Part I — A Roll of the Dice, An Interview with Peter Dale Scott, Part I,” Get Underground, Feb. 3, 2008 http://www.getunderground.com/underground/features/article.cfm?Article_ID=2244.
D.353 “Expanses of the Unspoken: An Interview with Peter Dale Scott” [about translating Zbigniew Herbert]. Words Without Borders Forum, January 2008, http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?thread=PeterDaleScottInterview.
D.352 (two poems) “Luzern Symposium: Der inszenierte Terrorismus” and “Recalling V-J Day, 8/15/1945.” nthposition online magazine, January 8, 2008.http://www.nthposition.com/luzernsymposiumder.php.
D.351 “Five poems: Cape Flattery, Washington, Turn of a Century, Mendocino, Words to Du Fu from the Oakland Airport Parking Lot, The Tao of 9/11.” Jacket 34, October 2007. (For earlier versions of “The Tao of 9/11,” see D.316 “A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11.” FlashPoint, Spring 2006; also Lobster, October 2005.)
D.350 “9/11, JFK, and War: Recurring Patterns in America’s Deep Events.” Journal of 9/11 Studies, 2007.
- 349[Six poems] “Difficulty,” “Pelican,” “Kingfisher,” Graces,” “Non E Cosa in Terra,” “Christmas Retreat: Commuting to the Land of Medicine Buddha,”Heyoka Magazine, http://heyokamagazine.com/HEYOKA.9.PeterDaleScott.htm.
D.348 {A review of] Back on the Fire: Essays by Gary Snyder. Inquiring Mind, 24, 1 (Fall 2007), 31.
D.347 “9/11 Commission Deception, Cheney’s Actions on 9/11, and Why He Should Testify Under Oath.” Journal of 9/11 Studies [September 26, 2007], http://journalof911studies.com/volume/2007/ProfScottWhyCheneyMustTestify.pdf.
D.346 “JFK, Watergate, 9/11: Recurring Patterns in America’s Deep Events,” Talk in Vancouver, June 24, 2007, 9/11truth.org.
D.345 “Exclusive excerpt: The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America,” Guerrilla News Network, August 14, 2007.
D.344 “Threat to world peace: The possibility of a US attack on Iran Excerpts of presentation, Vancouver 9/11 Truth Conference, Global Research, June 26, 2007, http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6155.
D.343 “Laos’ Secret Drug War Lives On: Vang Pao and the CIA”. New American Media, June 12, 2007.
D.338 [Poem] “Making History, Unfolding World.” FlashPoint, Spring 2007, http://www.flashpointmag.com/scottmh.htm.
D.339 [Poem] “The Size of Earth: A Short, Simple Poem to Get Us Out of Iraq.” FlashPoint, Spring 2007, http://www.flashpointmag.com/scottse.htm.
D.337 “Professors to the rescue of trees.” Contains poem, “Call to Chancellor Birgeneau.” BAHA News, Journal of the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association, January 27, 2007.
D.336 “Czeslaw Milosz and Solidarity; or, Poetry and the Liberation of a People,” Brick 78 (Winter 2006).
D.335 “JFK and 9/11: Insights Gained from Studying Both. Global Research, December 20, 2006, http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=SCO20061220&articleId=4207. Text of talk delivered at COPA Conference, Dallas, 11/18/06.
- 335 “JFK and 9/11: Insights Gained from Studying Both.Global Research, December 20, 2006, http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=SCO20061220&articleId=4207. Text of talk delivered at COPA Conference, Dallas, 11/18/06.
D.334 “9/11’s Trainer in Terrorism Was an FBI Informant” (Peter Dale Scott Talk in Palo Alto, October 27, 2006).
- 333. (Poems) “Two Meditations” (“Mae Salong,” “Wat Pa Nanachat”),Conjunctions47, Fall 2006.
D.332 [A Review of] Mindful Politics: A Buddhist Guide to Making the World a Better Place, edited by Melvin McLeod. Inquiring Mind, 23.1 (Fall 2006), 37.
D.331 “How the FBI protected Al Qaeda’s 9/11 Hijacking Trainer: New Revelations about Ali Mohamed,” GlobalResearch.ca, 10/8/06, http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=SCO20061008&articleId=3422. The following text is an expanded version of Peter Dale Scott’s Talk at Berkeley, September 24, 2006.
D.330 “The 9/11 Report and Ali Mohamed, Al Qaeda’s Chief Terrorism Trainer.” Talk delivered on September 24 at public event, “9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out.” Audio of the event can be heard on line at Guns and Butter, KPFA, Oct. 4, 2006.
D.328 “Tons of Cocaine: Caracas to Washington.” From the Wilderness, 7/23/06, http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/092206_caracas_washington_summary.shtml.
D.325 “Peter Bergen, Peter Dale Scott, and Webster Tarpley”, 911blogger, 8/29/06, http://www.911blogger.com/node/2348. Contains extract from The Road to 9/11, concerning the degree of past CIA assistance and support for Osama bin Laden. Connects to video of remarks made by PDS at the DC Emergency Truth Conference, July 24, 2005.
D.324 “A Meta-Group Managing Drugs, Violence, and the State”, Journalismus: Nachrichten von Heute, 8/28-9.7/06, http://oraclesyndicate.twoday.net/stories/2585325/, etc. (A revised update of D.321 and D.323, as presented at the University of Melbourne, August 10, 2006).
D.323 “The Far West Drug Meta-Group — Part 2.” Article for Nexus: New Times Magazine, 13.5, August-September 2006, 21-25, 81. Without footnotes; go to “The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11” for footnoted version.
D.323a “The Far West Drug Meta-Group — Part 2.” Article for Nexus: New Times Magazine, 13.5, September-October 2006, 21-25, 81. Without footnotes; go to “The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11” for footnoted version.
D.322 “A Review of ‘The One Percent Doctrine'”. Consortium, 7/26/06, http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/072606a.html. Click here to see longer version.
D.321 “The Far West Drug Meta-Group — Part 1.” Article for Nexus: New Times Magazine, 13.3, June-July 2006, 25-31, 82. Without footnotes; go to “The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11” for footnoted version.
D.320 “A Poem: The Power of Prayer.” Brick 77 (Summer 2006), 64-67.
D.319 “Politicians Must Offer a Solution to the Immigration Crisis, Not Just a Fix.” Article for Pacific News Service, May 8, 2006.
D.317 “10-Year U.S. Strategic Plan For Detention Camps Revives Proposals From Oliver North.” Article for Pacific News Service, February 21, 2006. concerning ” ENDGAME: Office of Detention and Removal Strategic Plan, 2003 – 2012 — Detention and Removal Strategy for a Secure Homeland”. The plan is to build the capability to “remove all removable aliens,” and the detained population is to include “illegal economic migrants, aliens who have committed criminal acts, asylum-seekers (required to be retained by law) or potential terrorists.” Click here to see brief excerpts.
D.316 “A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11.” FlashPoint, Spring 2006.
D.315 “Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps.” Article for Pacific News Service, January 31, 2006.
(with Rex Bradford) D.314 “Castro Did It – Again.” (1/10/06)
D.313 “Cheney-Rumsfeld Surveillance Plans Date Back to 1980s”. Article for Pacific News Service, January 3, 2006.
“The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11”. October 31, 2005.
This hotlinks to a related Ballad of Drugs and 9/11″, which can be read as an introduction to my rather complex essay.
D.306 Czeslaw Milosz: 1911-2004. California Monthly, December 2004, 48-49.
D.305 A Post-Election Wrap-Up: Iraq, 9/11/ Cheney, and the Need for a Watergate Two (Revised and expanded 11/30/04)
D.304 Why the U.S. Must Withdraw from Iraq. www.salon.com, 10/28/04.
D.303 “How to Fight Terrorism.” California Monthly, September 2004. A reading of the 9/11 Commission Report.
D.302 9/11 Commission Misses FBI’s Embarrassing Al Qaeda Dealings, Pacific News Service, June 24, 2004.
D.301 Torture Photos, Videos, a Time-Honored CIA Tradition
Pacific News Service, CA – May 14, 2004
D.300 Bush, Kerry Wrong on UN’s Future Role in Iraq
Pacific News Service, CA – Apr 15, 2004
More on Private Saudi Jet Flights Right after 9/11, 4/7/04
D.303 “How to Fight Terrorism.” California Monthly, September 2004. A reading of the 9/11 Commission Report.
D.302 9/11 Commission Misses FBI’s Embarrassing Al Qaeda Dealings, Pacific News Service, June 24, 2004.
Update on Chalabigate: Chalabi, Michael Rubin, and the Office of Special Plans June 2, 2004
D.301 Torture Photos, Videos, a Time-Honored CIA Tradition
Pacific News Service, CA – May 14, 2004
Bush, Kerry Wrong on UN’s Future Role in Iraq
Pacific News Service, CA – Apr 15, 2004
D.294 “The CIA’s Secret Powers: Afghanistan, 9/11, and America’s Most Dangerous Enemy.” Critical Asian Studies, 35:2 (2003), 233-258.
D.293 “U.S. Dilemma in Iraq — Bombs and Bullets Hit Hearts and Minds, Too”. Article for Pacific News Service, June 16, 2003.
D.292 “Why Baghdad Fell Without a Fight — Does Saddam’s General Have the Answer?” Article for Pacific News Service, May 28, 2003. Reprinted in Hindustan Times (India), 5/30/03.
A 6 minute version of my 1/5/02 talk on 9/11 is available for streaming at the Free Speech website: http://www.freespeech.org/.
Tapes of this one-hour talk are available. 1. For sale for $10 ($12 if by mail). 2. For free loan to community groups, schools, churches, etc. and to Peninsula Peace and Justice Center members. 3. If a local library is willing to carry it, the Center will be glad to donate a tape.
To order a tape, go to the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center website For loans or donations, people should call the office at (650) 326-8837.
A.19 Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. Pp. xx, 227.
C.60. Mark Selden and Alvin Y. So (eds.), War and State Terrorism: The United States, Japan, and the Asia-Pacific in the Long Twentieth Century . Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. Contains “Drugs and Oil: The Deep Politics of US Asian Wars.”
C.58 “US Wars in the Light of the International Drug Trade.” In Confronting 9-11, Ideologies of Race, and Eminent Economists, P. Zarembka (ed.), Research in Political Economy, Volume 20, JAI/Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, New York, Oxford (2002 in press).
C.57 Adam Jones, ed. Genocide, War Crimes and the West: Ending the Culture of Impunity. Contains “Atrocity and its Discontents: U.S. Double-Mindedness About Massacre.”
III. NEW ON MY WEB SITE
POETS OF ENGAGEMENT BLURBED BY PETER DALE SCOTT
- RECORDS OF RECENT APPEARANCES:
February 23-25, 2007: 9/11 Accountability: Strategies and Solutions. Conference. Chandler, Arizona.
November 17-19, 2006: The 2006 COPA Conference in Dallas.
VIDEO: Video of my talk, “JFK and 9/11: Insights Gained from Studying Both.” COPA, Dallas, November 18, 2006.
Q & A with Peter Dale Scott 11-18-2006
November 3-4, 2006 I appeared at the 2006 Project Censored Media Accountability Conference, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 94928. I spoke at a panel on detention camps and martial law. A DVD will be available from www.projectcensored.org.
October 27, 2006 Peter Dale Scott appeared with The Terror Timeline author Paul Thompson on Friday, October 27 at 7:00 pm at the Spangenberg Theater in Gunn High School at 780 Arastradero Road in Palo Alto, CA.
D.334 “9/11’s Trainer in Terrorism Was an FBI Informant” (Peter Dale Scott Talk in Palo Alto, October 27, 2006).
Click here for video/audio of Q and A session.
September 24, 2006, 7:00 PM, Martin Luther King Middle School, 1781 Rose St., Berkeley, CA: “9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out” — Talks by David Ray Griffin, Peter Dale Scott, Ray McGovern, Peter Phillips, Kevin Ryan. KPFA and Pacifica Radio benefit supported by independent bookstores, Interlink Books, and Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance. This event will be broadcast on Pacifica stations as well as on C-Span.A DVD is now available from www.911TV.org. You can also hear Audio of the event on line at Guns and Butter, KPFA, Oct. 4, 2006. Audiotape of my remarks can be heard on line at at Guns and Butter, KPFA, 10/18/06, http://www.gunsandbutter.net/archives.php. Audio of the whole event atwww.911podcasts.com. The footnoted text of my talk is on this website as “The 9/11 Report and Ali Mohamed , Al Qaeda’s Chief Terrorism Trainer.” Bethesda, MD: See conference program to the Nov 18-20 2005 conference in Bethesda entitled “Cracking the JFK Case.” The speaker lineup includes Former Senator Gary Hart, HSCA Chief Counsel Robert Blakey, Peter Dale Scott, John Newman, James Bamford, Joan Mellen, Anthony Summers, David Talbot, Gerald McKnight, Gary Aguilar, Josiah Thompson, David Wrone, Don Thomas, and others.
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Documentary DVD and VHS video AfterMath, plus discussion and panel in April, 2003, etc.. An investigative documentary by the Sundance Award winning producers, Guerrilla News Network. Available in DVD and VHS from GNN.
The Film Features:
Peter Dale Scott (Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley), Riva Enteen (Exec. Director SF National Lawyer’s Guild), Mike Ruppert (Publisher: From the Wilderness, former LAPD detective), David McMichael (former CIA analyst), Michel Chossudovsky (Author: War and Globalization), Nafeez Ahmed (Author: The War on Freedom), Mary Schiavo(Aviation Disaster Attorney), Alex Jones (Editor: Infowars.com), John Judge (Founder: COPA).
Film followed by dialogue with Riva Enteen, Mike Ruppert, Peter Dale Scott, the filmmakers and the public. Moderated by Stephen Marshall (Creative Director GNN).
Although the two following April 2003 events are now past, they can also be listened to at www.radio4all.net:
Aftermath: Unanswered Questions From 9/11.
Herbst Theatre, San Francisco – April 21, 2003 at 7:30 PM. Benefit Reception – 5:30 PM.
Spangenberg Theatre, Palo Alto – April 22, 2003 at 7:30 PM. Benefit Reception – 5:30 PM.