02183cam a2200325 a 4500999001900000003000800019005001700027007000300044008004100047020002200088040001800110041000800128043001200136050002200148082001200170100002900182245004100211260005100252300002400303505078000327520033501107650004401442650004401486651005101530651004401581651005501625906004501680942001201725952012001737 c112486d112486BJBSDDR20230411090111.0ta980116s1998 cau 000 0 eng  a0872863387 (pbk.) aDLCcDLCbspa aspa an-us---00aHN 90bP228a 199800a3062211 aParenti, Michael,d1933-10aAmerica besieged /cMichael Parenti. aSan Francisco, CA :bCity Lights Books,c1998. ax, 205 p. ;c19 cm. aAmerica 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. a 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. 0aElite (Social sciences)zUnited States. 0aPolitical participationzUnited States. 0aUnited StatesxEconomic conditionsy1981-2001. 0aUnited StatesxSocial conditionsy1980- 0aUnited StatesxPolitics and governmenty1993-2001. a7bcbccorignewd1eocipf19gy-gencatlg 2lcccBK 001040708CSaBJBbBJBcAPTd2019-05-06l0oHN 90 P228a 1998p00000132532r2019-05-06 00:00:00t1w2019-05-06yBK