TY  - BOOK
AU  - Engelhardt,Tom
TI  - Shadow government: surveillance, secret wars, and a global security state in a single superpower world 
SN  - 9781608463657 (pbk.)
AV  - JK468.I6 E64 2014
U1  - 355/.033073 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Chicago, Illinois
PB  - Haymarket Books
KW  - Intelligence service
KW  - United States
KW  - Electronic surveillance
KW  - Government policy
KW  - National security
KW  - Internal security
KW  - Strategic culture
KW  - Secrecy
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - World politics
KW  - 21st century
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Intelligence
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 2009-
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -