America besieged

Here is a provocative collection of essays by one of America's most astute and entertaining political analysts. Many of them are revised versions of commentaries that ran recently as a radio series, broadcast by Michael Parenti over forty community stations in the United States and Canada, and on Radio for Peace International. Unlike mainstream pundits who offer superficial observations on the passing events and personalities of the day, Parenti deals with the underlying, enduring forces in U.S. society and the political economy, providing a valuable critical framework for understanding what passes for "the news."