Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World

In 1964, a guide entitled The Invisible Authorities shocked People with its revelations of a rising world of intelligence businesses enjoying quick and unfastened across the planet, a secret authorities lodged contained in the one they knew that even the president did not totally management. Virtually half a century later, all the pieces about that “invisible authorities” has grown vastly bigger, extra disturbing, and much more seen. In his new guide, Tom Engelhardt takes in one thing new underneath the solar: what’s now not, as within the Sixties, a nationwide safety state, however a world safety one, preventing secret wars which have turned the president into an assassin-in-chief. Shadow Authorities presents a robust survey of a democracy of the rich that your grandparents would not have acknowledged.

Writer ‏ : ‎ Haymarket Books
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 7, 2014
Version ‏ : ‎ Illustrated
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print size ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1608463656
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1608463657
Merchandise Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.3 inches
A part of collection ‏ : ‎ TomDispatch Books