Tom Engelhardt — The Making of a Global Security State

The five uncontrollable urges of a secrecy-surveillance world.

The Nation
The Making of a Global Security State
Tom Engelhardt

The totalitarianism of information? "Orwellian" is an understatment. Even George Orwell never imagined this level of technological totalitarianism. And the worst part of all, it's corporate and transnational, at the service of the global elite, ensuring their unbreakable lock on power. Fascism at its most dangerous. Soft now, other than at the margin, but what's happening at the margin says it all. Anyone stepping out of line is defined as a "terrorist."