7-18-13 Thursday on Parallel University Radio Show on KAOS 89.3 Fm (kaosradio.org Web stream )at 12:05 to 12:30 pm Pacific interview with : Professor ALFRED McCOY McCoy is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He wrote a piece for TomDispatch yesterday titled "Surveillance Blowback: The Making of the U.S. Surveillance State, 1898-2020." The piece is based on his new book Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State. McCoy writes: "Today, as Washington withdraws troops from the Greater Middle East, a sophisticated intelligence apparatus built for the pacification of Afghanistan and Iraq has come home to help create a twenty-first century surveillance state of unprecedented scope. But the past pattern that once checked the rise of a U.S. surveillance state seems to be breaking down. Despite talk about ending the war on terror one day, President Obama has left the historic pattern of partisan reforms far behind. In what has become a permanent state of “wartime” at home, the Obama administration is building upon the surveillance systems created in the Bush years to maintain U.S. global dominion in peace or war through a strategic, ever-widening edge in information control. The White House shows no sign -- nor does Congress -- of cutting back on construction of a powerful, global Panopticon that can surveil domestic dissidents, track terrorists, manipulate allied nations, monitor rival powers, counter hostile cyberstrikes, launch preemptive cyberattacks, and protect domestic communications. ...
Posted on: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 07:25:19 +0000