Parenti, Michael 1933- creator text cau San Francisco, CA City Lights Books 1998 monographic eng spa

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x, 205 p. ; 19 cm. 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. 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. Michael Parenti. n-us--- 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 HN 90 P228a 1998 306 0872863387 (pbk.) DLC 980116 20230411090111.0 spa