Illusions of Security: Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post-9/11 World (City Lights Open Media)

In gentle of terrorist threats at U.Okay and U.S. airports, this e-book is a well timed and provocative examine what governments ought to and shouldn’t be doing to guard us from additional terrorist assaults. It’s a essential have a look at a little-examined facet of the U.S.-led “warfare on terror”—the transfer towards the usage of mass, globalized surveillance and a “preemptive” mannequin of safety, and its results on democratic values and human rights all over the world.

“George Orwell and Michel Foucault collectively couldn’t have imagined the longer term that Maureen Webb warns is already right here—a state of worldwide surveillance that challenges all of our most deep-seated expectations of privateness. Extremely readable and critically essential. Learn it to see who’s watching you.”—David Cole, creator of Enemy Aliens: Double Requirements and Constitutional Freedoms within the Battle on Terrorism

“By means of the assorted ‘frozen scandals’ of the Battle on Terror—from extraordinary rendition to torture to warrant-less wiretapping and surveillance—runs a single theme: the Bush Administration’s obsessive concern with ‘the preemption of threat.'”—Mark Danner, creator of Torture and Reality: America, Abu Ghraib and the Battle on Terror

“Monitoring the myriad methods wherein governments—aided by superior know-how and profit-hungry companies—are monitoring and manipulating us, she reminds us that the one predictable consequence of all of it is human struggling, with little or no improve in actual safety.”—Robert Jensen, College of Texas at Austin professor and creator of The Coronary heart of Whiteness and Residents of the Empire

“This precious information makes clear how dramatically civil liberties have been attacked lately.”—Christian Parenti, creator of The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq, The Mushy Cage and Lockdown America

“In measured, lucid element, Webb presents a wide-ranging account of the rising world community of surveillance that’s infringing on the private privateness and civil liberties of individuals in the US and worldwide.”—Nadine Strossen, Govt Director, ACLU

“It is a compelling e-book and it ought to be obligatory studying.”—Jeremy Waldron, Professor of Philosophy, NYU and creator of The Dignity of Laws and Regulation and Disagreement

Writer ‏ : ‎ Metropolis Lights Publishers
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 15, 2007
Version ‏ : ‎ First Version
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print size ‏ : ‎ 312 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0872864766
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0872864764
Merchandise Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.8 x 8 inches