The American surveillance state : how the U.S. spies on dissent / David H. Price.
Price pulls back the curtain to reveal how the FBI and other government 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. The author looks through a roster of campaigns by law enforcement, intell...
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| Other title: | American surveillance state : how the United States spies on dissent How the U.S. spies on dissent How the United States spies on dissent |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Las Vegas, NV :
Pluto Press,
2022.
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| Summary: | Price pulls back the curtain to reveal how the FBI and other government 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. The author 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 Cockburn, Native American communists, and progressive factory owners. Price uncovers patterns 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 governmental agencies that remain largely shrouded in secrecy. --From publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 353 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-345) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0745346014 9780745346014 0745346022 9780745346021 |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | "David H. Price is Professor of Anthropology at Saint Martin's University's Department of Society and Social Justice. He is the author of a number of books on the FBI and CIA, and has written articles for The Nation, Monthly Review, CounterPunch, Guardian and Le Monde. His work has been translated into five languages"--Back cover. |