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pb |
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9780872864764 |
| Publisher: |
City Lights |
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2007-02-27 |
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ITEM OVERVIEW
The government is spying on us, accessing our email, our bank records, and our cell phone calls. Maureen Webb exposes the shadowy global network of surveillance that is infringing on the personal privacy and civil liberties of people in the United States and worldwide. Biometrics, chip implants, abductions, and torture are no longer sci-fi, they are in practice today and paid for with our taxes. Maureen shows us the scope of the problem and how to resist.
"Maureen Webb pulls all the pieces together – special rendition, no-fly lists, biometric surveillance, warrant-less wiretaps, torture – to create a harrowing picture of post 9-11 state repression. This valuable guide makes clear how dramatically civil liberties have been attacked in recent years." – Christian Parenti, author of The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq, The Soft Cage and Lockdown America
"Tracking the myriad ways in which governments – aided by advanced technology and profit-hungry corporations – are monitoring and manipulating us, she reminds us that the only predictable consequence of it all is human suffering, with little or no increase in real security." – Robert Jensen, University of Texas at Austin professor and author of The Heart of Whiteness and Citizens of the Empire
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