Mass Surveillance and State Control The Total Information Awareness Project

by Cohen, Elliot D.

• ISBN13: 9780230103047
• ISBN10: 0230103049
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

A global system of mass, warrantless, government surveillance now imperils privacy and other civil liberties essential to sustaining the free world. This project to unilaterally, totally control information flow is a product of complex, ongoing interplay between technological, political, legal, corporate, economic, and social factors, including research and development of advanced, digital technologies; an unremitting "war on terror"; relaxed surveillance laws; government alliances with information technology companies; mass media manipulation; and corporate globalism. This book details these and other factors contributing to this degenerative trend; specifies recommendations for constructive change; and provides a platform for grassroots efforts to stop the decline before it is too late.

Author Biography

Elliot D. Cohen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Humanities at Indian River State College and Adjunct Professor of Clinical Ethics in the College of Medicine at Florida State University. He is Executive Director of the American Society for Philosophy, Counseling and Psychotherapy; Director of the Institute of Critical Thinking; and a principal founder of philosophical counseling in the United States. Founder and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Applied Philosophy and ethics editor of Free Inquiry Magazine, he also writes a blog for Psychology Today and is an author or editor of fifteen books, including Ethics and the Legal Profession; Critical Thinking Unleashed; News Incorporated: Corporate Media Ownership and Its Threat to Democracy; Philosophical Issues in Journalism, and What Would Aristotle Do? Self-Control through the Power of Reason. The first prize recipient of the 2007 Project Censored Award for his investigative reporting on the corporate threat to net neutrality, his articles have appeared in such independent news sources as Truthdig, Buzzflash, OpEd News, Huffington Post, and the Alternet.

Table of Contents

Introduction Warrantless Mass Surveillance in a Culture of Control	p. 1
Post-9/11 America's Culture of Control	p. 7
The Total Information Awareness Project	p. 19
Legal Pretexts for Continuing the TIA Project	p. 31
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review: Purveyor of "DoubleThink"	p. 39
The Military-Industrial Information Network	p. 47
Ignorance is Strength: Complicity of the Corporate Media Behemoths	p. 57
Web of Deceit: The Tenuous Future of Net Neutrality	p. 71
The Global Firewall: Internet as a Military Weapon of Mass Deception and World Domination	p. 83
War is Peace: The War on Terror	p. 93
Obama's War on Terror: Not Change We Can Believe In	p. 99
World Government, Incorporated: The Bilderberg Plan	p. 109
The American Death Squads	p. 123
Big Brother is (Literally) Watching You: The Manhattan Security Initiative	p. 129
Beyond 1984: New Frontiers of Mass Surveillance	p. 137
Reality and the Politics of Power	p. 147
Freedom is Slavery: Authoritarianism and Emotional Manipulation in a Culture of Control	p. 157
An Ethics of Belief for a Free America	p. 171
Total Information Awareness and the Right to Privacy	p. 177
Change We Can Believe In	p. 189
Appendix Selected Organizations that Advocate for Constructive Change	p. 205
Notes	p. 209
Bibliography	p. 233
Index	p. 243
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