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Author Engelhardt, Tom

Title Shadow Government : Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single Superpower World
Published New York : Haymarket Books, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (193 pages)
Contents FOREWORD; ONE: The Shadow Government's Secret Religion; TWO: How the US Intelligence Community Came Out of the Shadows; THREE: How to Be a Rogue Superpower; FOUR: Mistaking Omniscience for Omnipotence; FIVE: Definitions for a New Age; SIX: Why Washington Can't Stop; SEVEN: Overwrought Empire; EIGHT: The Obama Contradiction; NINE: Destroying the Planet for Record Profits; TEN: A Golden Age for Journalism; AFTERWORD: Letter to an Unknown Whistleblower; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; A NOTE ON THE TEXT; INDEX; ABOUT TOM ENGELHARDT; ABOUT TOMDISPATCH.COM
Summary A powerful survey of a militarized America building a surveillance structure unparalleled in history
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Subject 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.
Intelligence service
Internal security
National security
Politics and government
Strategic culture
World politics
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781608464272
160846427X