Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World
Tom Engelhardt, Glenn Greenwald, "Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1608463656 | 200 pages | MOBI | 0.5 MB
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1608463656 | 200 pages | MOBI | 0.5 MB
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.