AnteDote DeepCore: Texts

We will read and give perspectives on segments of interesting & relevant political &/or historical texts that help us understand our contemporary moment.

Texts we will read from are included from the following list among others. Please contact a club founder if you have suggestions of texts &/or authors to feature.

Church Committee Report

A Strategy for Israel in the 1980’s [In Kivunim “Directions” by Oded Yinon]

Discriminate Deterrence: Report of Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy [Commission on Long-Term Strategy, Co-Chairs Fred C. Ickle & Albert Wohlstetter]

A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm [The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies’ "Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000” including Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav Wurmser]

Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century [A Report of The Project for the New American Century, Co-Chairs Donald Kagan & Gary Schmitt, Principal Author Thomas Donnelly]

Navigating Through Turbulence: America and the Middle East in a New Century [Washington Institute for Near East Policy Presidential Study Group, Co-Convenors Patrick Clawson & Robert Satloff]

Trump-Russia dossier [Christopher Steele]

The Weaponization of Postmodernism:
Russia’s New War with Europe [P. B. Craik]

REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE UNITED STATES SENATE ON
RUSSIAN ACTIVE MEASURES CAMPAIGNS AND INTERFERENCE IN THE 2016 U.S. ELECTION VOLUME 5: COUNTERINTELLIGENCE THREATS AND VULNERABILITIES

“A People’s History of the United States” [Howard Zinn]

“The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order” [Samuel P. Huntington]

“Votescam: The Stealing of America” [James M. Collier & Kenneth F. Collier]

“Code Red: Computerized Election Theft and the New American Century” [Jonathan Simon]

“Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference” [David Shimer]

“Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob has Invaded America” [Robert I. Friedman]

“Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America’s Hidden Power Brokers” [Gus Russo]

“McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld” [Misha Glenny]

“The Blood Bankers: Tales from the Global Underground Economy” [James S. Henry]

“Proof of Conspiracy: How Trump’s International Collusion is Threatening American Democracy” [Seth Abramson]

“Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America” [Sarah Kendzior]

“Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction” [David Enrich]

“Deep Politics and the Death of JFK” & “The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire and the Future of America” [Peter Dale Scott]

“9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press” [David Ray Griffin]

“Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-Up of 9/11” [Barry Zwicker]

“The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation” [Philip Shenon]

“9/11 and American Empire (Vol. I): Intellectuals Speak Out” [edited by David Ray Griffin & Peter Dale Scott]

“9/11 and American Empire (Vol. II): Christians, Jews and Muslims Speak Out” [edited by Kevin Barrett, John Cobb, Jr. & Sandra Lubarsky]

“Black 9/11: Money, Motive and Technology” [Mark H. Gaffney]

“Solving 9/11: The Deception that Changed the World” & “Solving 9/11: The Original Articles”[Christopher Bollyn]

“Pollution and Deception at Ground Zero:
How the Bush Administration’s Reckless Disregard of 9/11 Toxic Hazards Poses Long-Term Threats for New York City and the Nation” [Suzanne Mattei, Sierra Club]

“Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed” [Ben Rich & Leo Janos]

“Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA” [Terry Reed & John Cummings]

“Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion” [Gary Webb]

“The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World” [Douglas Valentine]

“Secrets: The CIA’s War At Home” [Angus Mackenzie]

“JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters” [James W. Douglas]

“The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government” & “Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years” [David Talbot]

“Final Judgment: The Missing Link in the JFK Assassination Controversy” [Michael Collins Piper]

“NASA, Nazis & JFK: The Torbitt Document & The JFK Assassination” [intro by Ken Thomas & forward by David Hatcher Childress]

“JFK: The CIA, Vietnam and the Plot To Assassinate John F. Kennedy” [Fletcher Prouty]

“The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy” [Graeme MacQueen]

“The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy” [Seymour M. Hersh]

“Israel and the Bomb” [Avner Cohen]

“Stealing the Atom Bomb: How Denial and Deception Armed Israel” [Roger J. Mattson]

“The Third Temple's Holy of Holies: Israel's Nuclear Weapons” [Lieutenant Colonel Warner D. Farr, U.S. Air Force. Counterproliferation Center]

“Taking Sides: America’s Secret Relations with a Militant Israel” [Stephen Green]

“Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network” [Ari Ben-Menashe]

“Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship” [Andrew & Leslie Cockburn]

The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa [Sasha Polakow-Suransky]

“Robert Maxwell: Israel’s Super Spy - The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul” [Gordon Thomas & Martin Dillon]

“Seeds of Fire: China and the Story behind the Attack in America” [Gordon Thomas]

“Israel and China: From Silk Road to Innovation Highway” [Lionel Friedfeld & Philippe Metoudi]

“Unrestricted Warfare” [Qiao Liang & Wang Xiangsui]

Controlling Chaos: How Russia manages its political war in Europe [Mark Galeotti]

“The Fourth Political Theory” [Aleksandr Dugin]

“Iraq and the Politics of Oil: An Insider’s Perspective” [Gary Vogler]

Team B intelligence coups [G.R. Mitchell]

“Against Our Better Judgment: The hidden history of how the U.S. was used to create Israel” [Alison Weir]

“The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” [John J. Mearsheimer & Stephen M. Walt]

“The Armageddon Network” [Michael Saba]

“The Power of Israel in the United States” [James Petras]

“Guilt by Association: How Deception and Self-Deceit Took America to War” [Jeff Gates]

“The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel” [Stephen J. Sniegoski]

“Israel’s Sacred Terrorism: a study based on Moshe Sharrett’s Personal Diary and other documents” [Livia Rokach]

“State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel” [Thomas Suárez]

“By Way of Deception: An Insider’s Devastating Exposé of The Mossad” [Claire Hoy & Victor Ostrovsky]

“The Other Side of Deception: A Rogue Agent Exposes the Mossad's Secret Agenda” [Victor Ostrovsky]

“Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community” [Dan Raviv & Yossi Melman]

“Bye Bye Gaza” [Barry Chamish]

“The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton” [Jefferson Morley]

“Wilderness of Mirrors: How the Byzantine intrigues of the secret war between the CIA and the KGB seduced and devoured key agents James Jesus Angleton and William King Harvey” [David C. Martin]

“Molehunt: The Secret Search for Traitors that Shattered the CIA” [David Wise]

“Cold Warrior - James Jesus Angleton: The CIA’s Master Spy Hunter” [Tom Mangold] 

“Moscow’s secret weapon: Ariel Sharon and the Israeli Mafia” [EIR Special Report]

“Henry Kissinger: Soviet Agent” [Frank A. Capell]

Henry Kissinger Exposed - Collection of Documents [Various]

“Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy” [Robert Chadwell Williams]

“The Fifth Man: The Soviet Super Spy” [Roland Martin]

“Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer” [Edward J. Epstein]

“Quiet Diplomat: A Biography of Max M. Fisher” [Peter Golden]

“The Fish that Ate the Whale: The Life & Times of America’s Banana King” [Rich Cohen]

“Bronfman Dynasty: The Rothschilds of the New World” [Peter C. Newman]

“Prince of Darkness: Richard Perle - The Kingdom, the Power & the End of Empire in America” [Alan Weisman]

“JFK, Nixon, Oliver Stone and Me: An Idealist's Journey From Capitol Hill To Hollywood Hell” [Eric Hamburg]

“Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan” [Meir Doron & Joseph Gelman]

“American Warrior in Crises: Tales of a Political Psychiatrist” [Steve Pieczenik]

“The Ugly Truth About The ADL” [EIR]

“House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia” & “American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery” [Craig Unger]

“Blowing up Russia: The Fake Bombings that Launched Putin” [Alexander Litvinenko & Yuri Felshtinshky]

“The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep: Russia’s Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin” [David Satter]

“Terrorism: How the West Can Win” [edited by Benjamin Netanyahu]

“Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of The American Empire” [Alex Abella]

“Defusing Armageddon: Inside NEST, America’s Secret Nuclear Bomb Squad” [Jeffrey Richelson]

“The Ground Zero Model” [Heinz Pommer and Colleagues]

VT Nuclear Education [Gordon Duff, Jeff Smith, Sandia Lab US nuclear scientists et al]

“Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket” [Fraser MacDonald]

“Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons” [George Pendle]

“City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles” [Mike Davis]

“Weaponizing Anthropology” [David H. Price]

“The Praetorian Guard: The U.S. Role in the New World Order” [John Stockwell]

“Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil” [Michael Ruppert]

“Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War” [Gerry Docherty & James MacGregor]

“Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia” [Paul L. Williams]

“Blowback: The First Full Account of America’s Recruitment of Nazis, and Its Disastrous Effect on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy” & “Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare, 1945-1960”  [Christopher Simpson]

“Psychological Operations Principles and Case Studies” [Editors Frank L. Goldstein, Col, USAF & Benjamin F. Findley, Jr., Col, USAFR]

“The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine” [Edwin Black]

“51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis” [Leni Brenner]

“American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century” [Kevin Phillips]

“Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq” [Stephen Kinzer]

“Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” [John Perkins]

“The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” [Naomi Klein]

Cyber Warfare Conflict Analysis and Case Studies. [Mohan B. Gazula]

“The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America” & “Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency” [James Bamford]

The Effect of Cyberwar Technologies on Force Buildup: The Israeli Case. [Gil Baram]

The Political Economy of Israel's Homeland Security/ Surveillance Industry. [Neve Gordon]

“Israel’s Edge: The Story of IDF’s Most Elite Unit — Talpiot” [Jason Gewirtz]

“Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle” [Dan Senor & Saul Singer]

“Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon”  [Kim Zetter]

“Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War” [Fred Kaplan]

“Worm: The First Digital World War” [Mark Bowden]

“Technion: The Story of Israel’s Institute of Technology” [Carl Alpert]

“Industrial Zionism: Espionage, Deception, & Interstitial Compromise: Kissinger’s Modern Legacy” [Sufyan Jan]

“The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into The Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal” [Cheri Seymour]

“Plague Wars: A true story of biological warfare” [Tom Mangold & Jeff Goldberg]

“Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola. Nature, Accident, or Intentional?” [Leonard G. Horowitz]

“Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health” [Ivan Illich]

“The Myth of the Machine: The Pentagon of Power” [Lewis Mumford]

“Pentagon Capitalism: The Political Economy of War” [Seymour Melman]

“The American Empire and the Fourth World” & “Earth into Property: Colonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism” [Anthony J. Hall]

“Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time” [Carroll Quigley]

“The Origins of Totalitarianism” [Hannah Arendt]

“Politics and Vision” [Sheldon Wolin]

“Brave New World” [Aldous Huxley]

“1984” [George Orwell]

“Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & The Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream” [David McGowan]

“Who Paid the Piper? — The CIA and the Cultural Cold War” [Frances Stonor Saunders]

“Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era” by Zbigniew Brzezinski