This is Part 4 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott. He is the iconoclastic poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. Also accompanied by special co-host Ben Howard, Peter reflects upon a number of topics including:
Malcolm X
the other the post-JFK political assassinations of the 1960’s
Peter’s involvement with the Pentagon Papers
the Ellsberg trial and Ellsberg’s parapolitical detractors
the rise and fall of the count...
This is Part 4 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott. He is the iconoclastic poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. Also accompanied by special co-host Ben Howard, Peter reflects upon a number of topics including:
- Malcolm X
- the other the post-JFK political assassinations of the 1960’s
- Peter’s involvement with the Pentagon Papers
- the Ellsberg trial and Ellsberg’s parapolitical detractors
- the rise and fall of the counterculture
- the CIA and LSD
- Peter’s important early book, The War Conspiracy
Here is the fascinating Pacifica Radio broadcast over at Our Hidden History that Ben referenced: What the Pentagon Papers Do and Do Not Reveal and JFK & Vietnam w/ Peter Dale Scott (1971)
Follow Ben on Twitter and check out his latest series on NATO over at TrueAnon: Episode 212: NATO (Part 1)
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
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