The Spectacle of the False Flag: Parapolitics from JFK to Watergate
Synopsis
Eric Wilson’s work poses crucial challenges to social theory,
unsettling our understanding of the nature of the liberal
democratic state. In The Spectacle of the False Flag, he urges
the reader to examine the, often unconsidered, deep state
practices that confound conventional notions of the state as
monolithic or uniform. This compelling volume traces deep
state conflicts and convergences through central cases in the
development of American political economic power—
JFK/Dallas, LBJ/Gulf of Tonkin, and Nixon/Watergate.
Rigorously documented and unflinchingly analyzed, “The
Spectacle of the False Flag” provides a stunning example
of a new criminological practice—one that takes the state
seriously, making the inner workings of the state rather than
its effects the primary object of study. Drawing upon a
wealth of historical records and developing the theoretical
insights of Guy Debord’s writings on spectacular society,
Wilson offers a glimpse into a necessary criminology to come.