voice is sharp and urgent, providing a short but comprehensive course in radical analysis.
This book invites the reader to stop blaming the powerless and poor and, in that good old American phrase, start 'following the money.' That is the first and most important step toward lifting the siege and bringing democracy back to life. Others have had their suspicions, although they may not be quite sure how it all adds up. Some Americans are astonished to hear of it. 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 the moneyed power exercises a near monopoly influence over our political life, over the economy, the state, and the media. America Besieged deals with the underlying forces within U.S.
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