Not Exactly the CIA

A Revised History of Modern American Disasters By Roger Phelps A piercing look at American bombing disasters in the last fifty years — Gander, Oklahoma City, Lockerbie, 9/11, and others — and at their cumulative effect: intimidation of legislators and citizens into accepting reactionary political measures in the name of “national security.” This book is a vigorous effort to answer the question, “How did we get here?” This question troubles every American over the age of fourteen. How did America lose power in the world? How did American democracy become undermined? One answer starts in a seemingly unlikely place: the desert near the California-Mexico border, home of the poverty-stricken Cabazon Band of Mission Indians. This reservation was exploited by non-Indian political zealots to further plans for America that were truly radical. These radical plans went unnoticed even when they were carried out over ensuing decades. US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote, in 1928: The gre