Are we all terrorists now? | By Any Means

Investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein has spent years exposing the hidden architecture of surveillance, national security, and state power. In this episode of By Any Means, James Harr sits down with Klippenstein to talk about the expanding definitions of threat, extremism, and political danger in America—and whether those expansions are becoming a permanent feature of maintaining American capitalism in a period of growing instability. From leaks and information control to protest, media, and the logic of permanent security, this conversation follows a larger question: if empire requires techniques of surveillance, containment, and counterinsurgency abroad, what happens when those same logics begin returning home? If the boundaries of acceptable politics continue to narrow, and left-wing dissent increasingly becomes something to manage rather than respond to, what does that say about the relationship between security, capitalism, and democracy? Watch more By Any Means By Any Means is a production of Means TV, the world's only worker-owned streaming service.