An edition of Shadow government (2014)

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surveillance, secret wars, and a global security state in a single-superpower world

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An edition of Shadow government (2014)

Shadow government

surveillance, secret wars, and a global security state in a single-superpower world

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  • 2 Want to read

"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"--

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English
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174

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Subjects

Politics and government, Government policy, National security, Electronic surveillance, Intelligence service, World politics, Strategic culture, Internal security, Secrecy, Intelligence service, united states, National security, united states, World politics, 21st century, Geopolitics, International organization, United states, politics and government, 2009-2017, United states, foreign relations, 2009-2017, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Intelligence, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General

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21st century, 2009-2017
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Shadow government: surveillance, secret wars, and a global security state in a single-superpower world
2014
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

"A TomDispatch Book"--Cover.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
355/.033073
Library of Congress
JK468.I6 E64 2014, PS3605.N45

The Physical Object

Pagination
174 pages
Number of pages
174

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OL27170927M
Internet Archive
shadowgovernment0000enge
ISBN 10
1608463656
ISBN 13
9781608463657
LCCN
2014035837
OCLC/WorldCat
890792965, 2014035837

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