The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens Audiobook (Free)

Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive federal government security and profiling. Social media marketing that distract and monitor us. All of these, contends Bernard E. Harcourt, are areas of a new and radical regulating paradigm in the United States-one rooted in the modes of warfare originally created to suppress anticolonial revolutions and, more recently, to prosecute the battle on terror.

The Counterrevolution is a penetrating and disturbing account from the rise of counterinsurgency, first being a armed service strategy but increasingly as a way of ruling ordinary Americans. Harcourt displays how counterinsurgency’s principles-bulk intelligence collection, ruthless focusing on of minorities, pacifying propaganda-have taken hold domestically despite the lack of any radical uprising. This counterrevolution against phantom enemies, he argues, may be the tyranny of our age group. Seeing it clearly is the first rung on the ladder to resisting it efficiently.