American Exception

Wow.

As Blade said in the eponymous movie, “The world you live in is just a sugar-coated topping. There is another world beneath it—the real world.”

American Exception is about the real world.

It is deeply researched, coherently presented, cogently argued. By the time you’re done reading, you’ll wonder how you ever could have believed that things are what they seem or are how the powers that be present them.

Stay-behind operations in Europe. The Kennedy and MLK assassinations. CIA heroin smuggling. Nixon and the CIA having the goods on each other re JFK’s murder and Nixon’s interference in Johnson’s peace talks with North Vietnam. It’s all in here, and much more, all of it run by a tripartite structure, as Good describes it, consisting of the public state (politicians, bureaucrats, the sugar-coated topping); the security state (CIA, FBI, Pentagon, etc); and the deep state (Wall Street, think tanks, establishment media, and the unaccountable factions that exercise power alongside and beyond visible power).

Considering the amount of money and power at stake, it would be borderline delusional to believe that the powerful play by any set of rules other than “How much can I get away with?” I think what causes people to resist this obvious dark truth is emotional discomfort. We ordinary people are powerless, and it’s painful to acknowledge not only that mommy and daddy don’t love us, but that they look at us as something akin to food. It hurts to realize, as George Carlin said of our “owners,” that “They don’t care about you. They don’t care about you. At all. At all. At all.”

But there is some inherent satisfaction in clarity. And hope, too. Because if you can correctly understand the nature of things, your chances of improving them are dramatically better.

For that reason alone, I hope American Exception will be widely read. It deserves to be, and then some.