Download The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens AudioBook Free
Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive administration monitoring and profiling. Social media marketing that distract and trail us. All of these, contends Bernard E. Harcourt, are areas of a new and radical regulating paradigm in america - one rooted in the methods of warfare actually developed to suppress anticolonial revolutions and, more recently, to prosecute the battle on terror. The Counterrevolution is a penetrating and troubling bill of the rise of counterinsurgency, first as a military strategy but increasingly as a means of ruling typical People in the usa. Harcourt shows how counterinsurgency's principles - bulk cleverness collection, ruthless targeting of minorities, pacifying propaganda - have taken hold domestically despite the absence of any radical uprising. This counterrevolution against phantom opponents, he argues, is the tyranny of our own age. Viewing it plainly is the first step to resisting it effectively.
