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Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single Superpower World 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 In 2008, when the US National Intelligence Council issued its latest report meant for the administration of newly elected President Barack Obama, it predicted that the planet's sole superpower would suffer a modest decline and a soft landing fifte*n years hence. In his new book The United States of Fear, Tom Engelhardt makes clear that Americans should don their crash helmets and buckle their seat belts.. Terminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare, 2001-2050 (A TomDispatch Book) The first history of drone warfare, written as it happened.  From the opening missile salvo in the skies over Afghanistan in 2001 to a secret strike in the Philippines early this year, or a future in which drones dogfight off the coast of Africa, Terminator Planet takes you to the front lines of combat, Washington war rooms, and beyond. empire; reveals da*ning information about the American reliance on air power, at great cost to civilians in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan. The publication of this splendid collection of dispatches is cause for celebration. The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation America Victorious has been our country's postulate since its birth. Tom Engelhardt, with a burning clarity, recounts the end of this fantasy, from the split atom to Vietnam. It begins at our dawn's early light and ends with the twilight's last gleaming. It is as powerful as Mission Unaccomplished: TomDispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts and Dissenters