Shadow Authorities: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a International Safety State in a Single-Superpower World

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