Face of Imperialism: Responsibility-Taking in the Political World - Tapa blanda

“Michael Parenti’s The Face of Imperialism is a powerful, frightening, and honest
book. It will be hated by those who run the Empire, and it will be loved by people
who are searching for truth amidst the piles of garbage of Western propaganda.
Above all, this book will be like a bright spark of hope for billions of men, women,
and children who are fighting this very moment for survival, defending themselves
against the Empire and against all monstrous faces and masks of imperialism.”
―Andre Vltchek, author of Western Terror: From Potosi to Baghdad

“A searing indictment of the ruthless nature of imperial capitalism. Eloquent, deeply researched,
and beautifully argued, The Face of Imperialism is a truly wonderful book
that is essential for understanding the world we live in. Parenti’s compassionate
voice is a much-needed corrective to the lies we are routinely fed.”
―Gregory Elich, author of Strange Liberators: Militarism, Mayhem,
and the Pursuit of Profit

“Michael Parenti’s study of imperialism provides a timely and incisive framework for
understanding the upheavals in North Africa and the Middle East. His analysis of the
links between autocrats and Washington is essential to comprehend the powerful
tide of hostility that informs the popular revolutions.”
―James Petras, Bartle Professor Emeritus, Binghamton University

“Parenti’s new book, The Face of Imperialism, is by far the best and boldest of all
his formidable work. It meticulously exposes the disastrous consequences of the
greed of multinational (mostly U.S.) corporations, and it documents how and why
they control our government, which claims to foster democracy but systematically
supports the dictatorships that cater to the profit motives of those corporations.”
―John Gerassi, Queens College and the Graduate Center of CUNY and author of
Great Fear in Latin America and Talking with Sartre: Conversations and Debates

“Progressive political analyst, Parenti, considers US imperialism and its costs, effects, and manifestations around the globe. An outspoken critic, Parenti pulls no punches when discussing the actions of US corporate and military powers. In chapters like “Why Rulers Seek Global Dominion,” “Globalization for the Few” and “The Omnipresent Arsenal” he argues persuasively against the belief that capitalism fosters democracy and urges a healthy skepticism of the dominant paradigm.” –Eithne O’Leyne, August 2011 Reference and Research Book News

In the last half-century we have witnessed a dramatic expansion of American corporate power into every corner of the world, accompanied by an equally awesome growth in U.S. military power. This book analyzes this global empire: what interests it serves and what effect it has on the peoples of the world and on their struggles for real democracy and social justice. The enormous cost of this superpower expansionism is borne by the U.S. public. The empire feeds off the republic. A richly financed corporate-military complex is matched at home by increasing poverty, the defunding of state and local governments, drastic cutbacks in human services, decaying infrastructure, and impending ecological disaster. This book shows that the people of the targeted nations suffer expropriation of their communal wealth and natural resources, complete privatization and deregulation of their economies, loss of local markets, deterioration of their living standards, growing debt burdens, and the bloodstained suppression of their democratic movements. The empire s wars help maintain the international system of finance capital. Countries that attempt to pursue an independent course of self-development apart from global free-market capitalism are demonized as anti-American and anti-West and subjected to sanctions, economic strangulation, regime change, and if necessary, direct aerial attack and invasion."