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The Rise of the American Corporate Security State
The Corporate Security State is increasingly stealing our rights to safety, liberty and fairness, and granting ever-growing power to the corporate elite. Beatrice Edwards discusses this very frightening, very real phenomenon in her book, serialized in cooperation with Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
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We Have Met the Enemy and They Are Us
The Snowden disclosures show not only the specifics of domestic surveillance, but also that the struggle we are facing is not privacy versus security, but democracy versus tyranny.
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In Banking World, Fraud Is an Epidemic
In which the remarkable lack of criminal prosecutions coming from the Justice Department in the aftermath of the financial crisis is explained, also the heightened danger to finance insider …
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Follow the Money: How Finance Keeps the Whip Hand
While the NSA argues that the biggest risk of terrorism is the possibility of a hack attack on our banking system by unspecified assailants, the mortal danger facing the …
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Secret Collaboration Between the Power of Force and the Pursuit of Profit
Secret collaboration between profit-making corporations and public agencies, such as the FBI and the NSA, which are empowered to target citizens for investigation and potential punishment, have brought down …
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The Constitution Impaired; the Bill of Rights Annulled
The separation of powers established by the Constitution is eroding.
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The Powerful Forces Shredding Our Constitution: Preface to “The Rise of the American Corporate Security State”
No foreign terrorist shredded the Constitution, nor did we, as citizens, bankrupt the nation.
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Six Reasons to Be Afraid of the Private Sector/Government Security State
Once corporations have legal immunity for cooperation with intelligence agencies, reclaiming rights that have been secretly annulled will be much more difficult, says author Beatrice Edwards.
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Surveillance Posing as Counter-Terrorism: Foreword to “The Rise of the American Corporate Security State”
This Foreword to Bea Edwards' “The Rise of the American Corporate Security State,” describes how peace, financial stability and civil liberties are threatened by the antidemocratic legal regime.