Shadow Government
Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World
- 200 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Shadow Government
Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World
About this book
Praise for Tom Engelhardt's The United States of Fear:
"Tom Engelhardt, as always, focuses his laser-like intelligence on a core problem that the media avoid.... A stunning polemic."—Mike Davis
Praise for The American War of War:
"A tour de force."—Jeremy Scahill
In 1964, a book entitled The Invisible Government shocked Americans with its revelations of a growing world of intelligence agencies playing fast and loose around the planet, a secret government lodged inside the one they knew that even the president didn't fully control. Almost half a century later, everything about that "invisible government" has grown vastly larger, more disturbing, and far more visible. 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.
Tom Engelhardt created and runs the TomDispatch.com website, a project of the Nation Institute, where he is a fellow. He is the author of The American Way of War and The United States of Fear, both published by Haymarket Books; a highly praised history of American triumphalism in the cold war, The End of Victory Culture; and of a novel, The Last Days of Publishing. He lives in New York.
Glenn Greenwald is a columnist on civil liberties and US national security issues for the Guardian.
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- ONE: The Shadow Government’s Secret Religion
- TWO: How the US Intelligence Community Came Out
- 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
- About Tom Engelhardt