Shadow government
Subtitle: surveillance, secret wars, and a global security state in a single-superpower world
By: Tom Engelhardt
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781608463657
Subjects: Politics and government; Government policy; National security; Electronic surveillance; Intelligence service; World politics; Strategic culture; Internal security; Secrecy
Description: "In his new book, Tom Engelhardt takes in something new under the sun: what is no longer, as in the 1960s, a national security state, but a global security one, fighting secret wars that have turned the president into an assassin-in-chief. Shadow Government offers a powerful survey of a democracy of the wealthy that your grandparents wouldn't have recognized"--
Notes: Includes index.

"A TomDispatch Book"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: The shadow government's secret religion; title: How the US intelligence community came out of the shadows; title: How to be a rogue superpower; title: Mistaking omniscience for omnipotence; title: Definitions for a new age; title: Why Washington can't stop; title: Overwrought empire; title: The Obama contradiction; title: Destroying the planet for record profits; title: A golden age for journalism; title: Letter to an unknown whistleblower.