1. Bringing the Battlefield to the Border
   The Wild World of Border Security and Boundary Building in Arizona
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2012
   The U.S.-Mexican border has not only become Ground Zero for every experiment in immigration enforcement and drug interdiction, but also the incubator, testing site, showcase, and staging ground for ever newer versions of border-enforcement technology that, sooner or later, are sure to be applied globally.
2. Capitalist Surveillance State: Everyone's a Target
   Threatening Reporters, Spying on Public
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   There is an inherent tendency for the state, which governs on behalf of a minuscule, ruthless class of obscenely wealthy exploiters, to attempt to amass ever greater power to control the population because it hates and fears the working people.
3. Cointelpro
   The FBI's Secret War on Political Freedom
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1976
   The first in-depth look at the covert and illegal FBI counterintelligence program - code-name COINTELPRO.
4. COINTELPRO
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   A series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States.
5. Eavesdropping on the Planet
   The Inalienable Right to Snoop?
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   Like a mammoth vacuum cleaner in the sky, the National Security Agency (NSA) sucks it all up: home phone, office phone, cellular phone, email, fax, telex … satellite transmissions, fiber-optic communications traffic, microwave links … voice, text, images … captured by satellites continuously orbiting the earth, then processed by high-powered computers … if it runs on electromagnetic energy, NSA is there, with high high tech. Twenty-four hours a day. Perhaps billions of messages sucked up each day. No one escapes. Not presidents, prime ministers, the UN Secretary-General, the pope, the Queen of England, embassies, transnational corporation CEOs, friend, foe, your Aunt Lena …
6. If U.S. Mass Media Were State-Controlled, Would They Look Any Different?
   Snowden Coverage
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   The Edward Snowden leaks have revealed a U.S. corporate media system at war with independent journalism. Many of the same outlets that missed the Wall Street meltdown and cheer-led the Iraq invasion have come to resemble state-controlled media outlets in their near-total identification with the government.
7. IntelligentSearch.ca
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2017
   A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
8. The Intercept
   Resource Type: Website
   A platform to report on the documents previously provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, with a long-term mission is to produce fearless, adversarial journalism across a wide range of issues.
9. Lessons of the Snowden Revelations
   You are the Target!
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   We in the Left have long worried about “police state tactics”. Now we have to confront the police state structure. It’s here and it can morph into a real police state with very little effort. Opposing and dismantling it should now be among our top priorities.
10. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 22, 2017
    Secrecy and Power
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    Secrecy is a weapon the powerful use against their enemies: us. This issue of Other Voices explores the relationship of secrecy and power.
11. The Police State is Real
    It Has Happened Here
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The Bush regime’s response to 9/11 and the Obama regime’s validation of this response have destroyed accountable democratic government in the United States. So much unaccountable power has been concentrated in the executive branch that the US Constitution is no longer an operable document.
12. Spooky Business: Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofit Organizations
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    This report is an effort to document something about corporate espionage against nonprofit organizations. Law enforcement should prioritize investigating and prosecuting corporate espionage against nonprofits.
13. Spying by the Numbers
    Hundreds of Thousands Subject to Government Surveillance and No Real Protection
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Thanks to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden many more people in the US and world-wide are learning about extensive US government surveillance and spying. There are publicly available numbers which show the reality of these problems are bigger than most think and most of this spying is happening with little or no judicial oversight.
14. Strike! 
    The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972   Published: 1997
    A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
15. Terror Takeover
    The monstrous march of the security state
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2009
    Has our panic over terrorism given permission for unchecked abuse? The fear of terrorism has been used to curtail our liberties and violate human rights.
16. Whose National Security?
    Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    Examines RCMP monitoring of trade unionists, Left-wing political groups, students, gays and lesbians, feminists, consumers' associations, Black activists, First Nations people, and Quebec sovereignists.

Experts on S‚curit‚ & Surveillance in the Sources Directory

1. Wikileaks