Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
[PDF file]: […] states of 500 years ago? But in the USA, the subject of 95% of this book, there is no war. There is conflict and oppression and mass surveillance and Red Squads in-all-but-name in all the cities, with computers up the wazoo and big budgets. But the US cities are not yet in a state […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] world’s population seized upon by the intelligence-IT-media bloc that enabled it to implement an authoritarian state equipped with the full array of new digital capabilities for permanent surveillance. (p. 112) Professor van der Pijl does not believe there was any need for the great Covid shutdown. This is the first pandemic in history that […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
[PDF file]: […] prison to start rebuilding his life by setting up a small removals business. This became increasingly difficult due to what he alleged was ‘highly intrusive and unlawful surveillance’ including interference with his phones, mail and emails. This had the effect of blocking him from going about his everyday affairs whilst preventing potential customers making […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] moment. He has also been a witness at the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI), as he and his fellow anti-apartheid campaigners in the Young Liberals9 were placed under surveillance by the Special Demonstration Squad of the Metropolitan Police Special Branch in the early 1970s. Professor Rosenhead has had a 34 page statement10 entered as evidence […]