![]() These places are heavily guarded and people do not have direct access. These places are inaccessible or prohibited from the common public. Though some of you might have seen these places on Google maps, photographs on the internet or even worked at these locations, but the majority of the people do not know what exactly happens at these places and what functions are carried out at these locations. government are focused around its defense, be it nuclear or weapon R&D. Most of the secrets maintained by the U.S. Government? There must be a place, a building, into the dense forest, or dungeons or underground caves and bunkers. So where are these top-secret places owned by the U.S. There is so much to be hidden by such superpowers so that such technologies, resources, machines, and weapons do not go into the wrong hands. Surveillance State.The USA is a known superpower today, with extreme military capabilities, and defense secrets, operations, and conspiracies. Glenn Greenwald is a columnist on civil liberties and US national security issues for "The Intercept" and the author, most recently, of No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. 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. Tom Engelhardt created and runs the website, a project of the Nation Institute, where he is a fellow. This collection, focused on the new Orwellianism, is some of the finest writing and finest public service gathered together in book form for your portable pleasure and outrage." - Rebecca Solnit, author, Men Explain Things to Me Tom himself, a legendary book editor, is also one of the country's most eloquent and tenacious political writers, electronically publishing three essays a week for all these years and writing many of them himself. For more than a dozen years, Tom Engelhardt and his website or blog or postnewspaper wire service have been one of the great forces on the side of clarity, democracy, openness, and really good writing. "This is a book about secrets and surveillance, but I'm here to tell you one secret its contents won't. Again and again, he goes to the heart of the matter, drawing on his awesomely wide reading, his knowledge of history, and his acute political radar system that uncovers small but deeply revealing nuggets of news and often makes me feel, enviously: how could I have missed that?" - Adam Hochschild, author, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa Stone before him, he has bypassed conventionally minded newspapers and magazines, and with his remarkable website and in books like this, found a way of addressing readers directly about the issues central to our time. "Tom Engelhardt is an iconoclast, but he also is the latest exemplar of a great American tradition. ![]() Shadow Government offers a powerful survey of a democracy of the wealthy that your grandparents wouldn't have recognized. 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. Almost half a century later, everything about that "invisible government" has grown vastly larger, more disturbing, and far more visible. 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.
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