The Rise of the Security Industrial Complex

“Big Brother is Watching You.”―George Orwell, 1984

The Rise of the Security Industrial ComplexJohn W. Whitehead – 2024 is the new 1984.

Forty years past the time that George Orwell envisioned the stomping boot of Big Brother, the police state is about to pass off the baton to the surveillance state.

Fueled by a melding of government and corporate power—the rise of the security industrial complex—this watershed moment sounds a death knell for our privacy rights. Continue reading