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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787060303321

Autore

Engelhardt Tom <1944->

Titolo

Shadow government : surveillance, secret wars, and a global security state in a single superpower world / / Tom Engelhardt ; foreword by Glenn Greenwald ; cover design by Eric Ruder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, Illinois : , : Haymarket Books, , 2014

[Place of distribution not identified] : , : Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, , [date of distribution not identified]

©2014

ISBN

1-60846-427-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Classificazione

POL004000POL036000POL040000

Disciplina

355/.033073

Soggetti

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

United States Politics and government 2009-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--