Shadow government : surveillance, secret wars, and a global security state in a single-superpower world / Tom Engelhardt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Engelhardt, Tom, 1944- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intelligence service--United States.

Intelligence service.

Secrecy.

Strategic culture.

Electronic surveillance.

Government policy.

United States.

Electronic surveillance--Government policy--United States.

National security--United States.

National security.

Internal security--United States.

Internal security.

Strategic culture--United States.

Secrecy--Political aspects--United States.

United States--Politics and government--2009-.

Politics and government.

World politics--21st century.

World politics.

Physical Description:

174 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2014.

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781608463657

1608463656

OCLC:

890792965