Events

EVENTS

Peter Dale Scott Symposium, Seminars, and Poetry Reading, Open Center, New York City, March 13, 14, 17, and 20, 2010

On March 13, 14, and 20, 2010, I shall be the focus of a symposium and two all-day seminars 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 http://www.opencenter.org/peterdalescott. You can register for these events on line.

To register by phone or for more information, please contact the Open Center at (212) 219-2527 x2, or email mrodriguez@opencenter.org.

  1. 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.25 Empire, Republic & The Neocons – Part 1, discussion with Agha Saeed, Tariq Ali and Michael Parenti, YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC021XGo5pg

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.376 “The Assassinations of the 1960s as `Deep Events,'” 911truth.org, October 28, 2008, http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20081027180954929.

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.354 “Translating Pebble with Czeslaw Milosz,” Words Without Borders Forum, January 2008, http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?thread=Pebble.

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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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).

  1. 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: 1911-2004California 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

  1. 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 at www.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.”

A tribute to Czeslaw Milosz, San Francisco Public Library, April 2, 1 PM. Poets, scholars, and translators spoke of his work and life as well as read from his poems from 1 – 3 p.m. on April 2 in the Koret Auditorium at the Main Library. Event taped by KPFA and by the Poetry Foundation.

D.336 “Czeslaw Milosz and Solidarity; or, Poetry and the Liberation of a People,” Brick 78 (Winter 2006), 67-74. (Edited and expanded version of talk.)

One-hour radio broadcast on Danuta Time, Station KOPT, Eugene, 3/13/06, concerning ” ENDGAME: Office of Detention and Removal Strategic Plan, 2003 – 2012 — Detention and Removal Strategy for a Secure Homeland”.

AARC November 2005 JFK Conference in 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.

Guerrilla News Network Presents- Aftermath- Unanswered Questions from 9-11, an investigative documentary followed by dialogue with Michael Ruppert, Peter Dale Scott, Riva Enteen, the film makers and the public, moderated by Barrie Zwicker, producer of The Great Deception.