Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Conservatives insist that government should be "run more like a business." One might wonder how that could be possible, since government does… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
My point is that it's incorrect to say that the Iraq policy isn't working. It is working. It is doing what they… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
If Big Brother (of Orwell's 1984) comes to America, he will not be a fearsome, foreboding figure with a heart-chilling, omnipresent glare… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
For the last fifty years we've been supporting right-wing governments, and that is a puzzlement to me...I don't understand what there is… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes, give to… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they should be… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
[The ruling elites] know who their enemies are, and their enemies are the people, the people at home and the people abroad. Their enemies… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Candidates who win while spending less than their opponents still usually have to spend quite a lot. While not a surefire guarantor of victory,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet. — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased. — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through a process… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
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