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

By: Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2014Description: 174 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781608463657 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 355/.033073 23
LOC classification:
  • JK468.I6 E64 2014
Other classification:
  • POL004000 | POL036000 | POL040000
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.
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks JK468 .I6 E64 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001356731

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.

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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