Shadow government : surveillance, secret wars, and a global security state in a single superpower world /
Engelhardt, Tom, 1944-
Shadow government : surveillance, secret wars, and a global security state in a single superpower world / Tom Engelhardt. - 174 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
includes index.
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.
"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"--
9781608463657 (pbk.)
2014035837
Intelligence service--United States.
Electronic surveillance--Government policy--United States.
National security--United States.
Internal security--United States.
Strategic culture--United States.
Secrecy--Political aspects--United States.
World politics--21st century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Intelligence.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General.
United States--Politics and government--2009-
JK468.I6 / E64 2014
355/.033073
Shadow government : surveillance, secret wars, and a global security state in a single superpower world / Tom Engelhardt. - 174 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
includes index.
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.
"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"--
9781608463657 (pbk.)
2014035837
Intelligence service--United States.
Electronic surveillance--Government policy--United States.
National security--United States.
Internal security--United States.
Strategic culture--United States.
Secrecy--Political aspects--United States.
World politics--21st century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Intelligence.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General.
United States--Politics and government--2009-
JK468.I6 / E64 2014
355/.033073