02216cam a2200337 a 4500 112486 112486 BJBSDDR 20230411090111.0 ta 980116s1998 cau 000 0 eng 0872863387 (pbk.) DLC DLC spa spa n-us--- HN 90 P228a 1998 306 21 Parenti, Michael, 1933- America besieged / Michael Parenti. San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, 1998. x, 205 p. ; 19 cm. America besieged -- The evasion of politics -- The president as corporate salesman -- Our leaders don't know best -- Republicrats and Demopublicans -- The politics of sin -- Before we give away the post office -- The distribution of wealth -- Keeping the rich invisible -- A free market for whom? -- The myth of neutrality : technology and money -- Murder on the job -- A GATT to our heads -- Ecology for the money -- The national insecurity state -- Repressing the left -- Political murder, USA -- Saying "no" to legalized drugs -- Is conspiracy only a theory? -- Methods of media manipulation -- Pack punditry -- Is it sports or is it war? -- Kozy with the Klan -- "Inferior" people -- Pictures in our heads -- What is to be done (for starters)? -- We must fight city hall. America Besieged deals with the underlying forces within U.S. society that deeply affect our lives. Showing how we are being misled and harmed by those who profess to have our interests at heart, Michael Parenti writes: "We are indeed a nation besieged, not from without but from within, not subverted from below but from above. Elite (Social sciences) United States. Political participation United States. United States Economic conditions 1981-2001. United States Social conditions 1980- United States Politics and government 1993-2001. 7 cbc orignew 1 ocip 19 y-gencatlg lcc BK 0 0 0 0 CS BJB BJB APT 2019-05-06 0 HN 90 P228a 1998 00000132532 2019-05-06 00:00:00 1 2019-05-06 BK