The American Surveillance State:How the U.S. Spies on Dissent

by: David H. H. (Author)

Publisher: Pluto Press

Publication Date: 2022/11/20

Language: English

Print Length: 368 pages

ISBN-10: 0745346022

ISBN-13: 9780745346021

Book Description

New evidence has come to light proving how far the FBI monitored its citizens throughout the Cold War and beyond When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post-9/11 world, it’s accepted that corporations are vested with human rights, and govement agencies and corporations use computers to monitor our private lives. David H. Price pulls back the curtain to reveal how the FBI and other govement agencies have always functioned as the secret police of American capitalism up to today, where they luxuriate in a near-limitless NSA surveillance of all.Price looks through a roster of campaigns by law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and corporations to understand how we got here. Starting with J. Edgar Hoover and the early FBI’s alignment with business, his access to 15,000 pages of never-before-seen FBI files shines a light on the surveillance of Edward Said, Andre Gunder Frank and Alexander Cockbu, Native American communists, and progressive factory owners. Price uncovers pattes of FBI monitoring and harassing of activists and public figures, providing the vital means for us to understand how these new frightening surveillance operations are weaponized by powerful govemental agencies that remain largely shrouded in secrecy.

About the Author

New evidence has come to light proving how far the FBI monitored its citizens throughout the Cold War and beyond When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post-9/11 world, it’s accepted that corporations are vested with human rights, and govement agencies and corporations use computers to monitor our private lives. David H. Price pulls back the curtain to reveal how the FBI and other govement agencies have always functioned as the secret police of American capitalism up to today, where they luxuriate in a near-limitless NSA surveillance of all.Price looks through a roster of campaigns by law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and corporations to understand how we got here. Starting with J. Edgar Hoover and the early FBI’s alignment with business, his access to 15,000 pages of never-before-seen FBI files shines a light on the surveillance of Edward Said, Andre Gunder Frank and Alexander Cockbu, Native American communists, and progressive factory owners. Price uncovers pattes of FBI monitoring and harassing of activists and public figures, providing the vital means for us to understand how these new frightening surveillance operations are weaponized by powerful govemental agencies that remain largely shrouded in secrecy.