Shadow government : surveillance, secret wars, and a global security state in a single-superpower world
Tom Engelhardt
Bok · Engelsk · 2014
| Utgitt | Chicago, Ill. : Haymarket Books , 2014
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| Omfang | 174 s. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | "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 pr- - esident into an assassin-in-chief. Shadow Government offers a powerful survey of a democracy of the wealthy that your grandparents wouldn't have recognized"--. - 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.
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| Emner | USA . Central Intelligence Agency
Electronic surveillance - Government policy - United States Intelligence service - United States Internal security - United States Vis mer... National security - United States
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| ISBN | 9781608463657
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