Shadow government : surveillance, secret wars, and a global security state in a single superpower world / Tom Engelhardt ; foreword by Glenn Greenwald.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2014Description: 174 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781608463657
  • 1608463656
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 355/.033073 23
LOC classification:
  • JK468.I6 E64 2014
Contents:
Foreword / Glenn Greenwald -- The shadow government's secret religion -- How the US intelligence community came out of the shadows -- How to be a rogue superpower -- Mistaking omniscience for omnipotence -- Definitions for a new age -- Why Washington can't stop -- Overwrought empire -- The Obama contradiction -- Destroying the planet for record profits -- A golden age for journalism -- Letter to an unknown whistleblower.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes index.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Foreword / Glenn Greenwald -- The shadow government's secret religion -- How the US intelligence community came out of the shadows -- How to be a rogue superpower -- Mistaking omniscience for omnipotence -- Definitions for a new age -- Why Washington can't stop -- Overwrought empire -- The Obama contradiction -- Destroying the planet for record profits -- A golden age for journalism -- Letter to an unknown whistleblower.

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