The American Deep State, Deep Events, and Off-the-Books Financing | Global Research
The American Deep State, Deep Events, and Off-the-Books Financing | Global Research
I have been writing about deep politics
since 1993, when I gave the example of how the United States after
World War sent American mafia figures to fight communism in Italy,
thereby creating a corrupted politics that was soon out of control – as
bad as the influence the mafia once possessed in cities like Marseille,
or Chicago.1
Since then I have written about deep events, by which I mean
mysterious events, like the JFK assassination, the Watergate break-in,
or 9/11, which repeatedly involve law-breaking or violence, and are
embedded in fact in deep politics. Some of these may be low-level, as
when data is filched from a personal computer, or mid-level, like the
murder of Karen Silkwood. But what I have called structural deep events
are large enough to affect the whole fabric of society, with
“consequences that enlarge covert government, and are subsequently
covered up by systematic falsifications in media and internal government
records.” We still live in the official state of emergency imposed
after the last great deep event – 9/11; and this has left us in a
deconstitutionalized era of warrantless surveillance, warrantless
detentions, and militarized homeland security.2 In the remainder of this essay, the deep events I refer to will all be structural deep events.
I have come to believe that most structural deep events (or SDEs) are
interrelated, and that the study of any one of them helps understand
others. Their interrelationship leads to two levels of history in
America, and two levels of historical narrative: official or archival
history, which ignores or marginalizes deep events, and a second level –
called deep history by its practitioners or “conspiracy theory” by its
critics – which incorporates them. As an example of an officially
ignored or distorted deep event, I like to give the example of the Royal
Canadian Mounted Policy (RCMP) detention in 1993 of a major al Qaeda
figure, Ali Mohamed. In 1993 Ali Mohamed was ordered released by the
FBI, freeing him to fly to Kenya where (as the 9/11/ commission report
notes) he began the planning of the 1998 US Embassy bombing. This rather
significant event was given a good account in Canada’s leading
newspaper, the Toronto Globe and Mail; but it has never been properly reported in any American mainstream newspaper.3
