![]() ![]() And I think Ralph’s presence, the use of scarce resources, volunteers and all of that, I think that is not what we need right now. So, we’re really facing a very crucial, and very dangerous enemy. ![]() They’re redoing census and gerrymandering in states at any time they want. They carry out role call votes where they’ll a vote open for 15 hours to shift it over it their way. I believe we are at a pivotal point, a very crucial pivotal point, and there are times when you have to pursue coalition politics against the forces like the kind we’re facing in the white house today. I wish wasn’t do it being it, despite everything I say. I believe his presence will move the center of political gravity a little further to the left. Everything he says it about the influence of corporate America is true. MICHAEL PARENTI: More than 20 years ago I coined - I believe I coined the phrase, “two-party monopolies” in my early edition of “Democracy For the Few.” Ralph Nader is right it is a two-party monopoly. It’s systematically undermines any movement, any country, any leadership, any popular group that tries an alternative way of self-defining, self-developing, using the resources, the markets, the labor of their society for their own needs, rather than for a multi-corporate global system, a neo-liberal system, which seems to be the goal of this reactionary clique in office today.ĪMY GOODMAN: Can I ask you what you think about Ralph Nader running for President of United States? I think it’s a brilliant policy filled with many brilliant, terrible, horrible victories. foreign policy is confused, or stupid, or misinformed, or well-intentioned but it goes awry. I’m not one of those critics that believes U.S. They have a right to plunder the rest of the world for self-enrichment, and I think we see the same thing today. They have an entitlement to the resources and labor of society. Many of the same issues attain an overweening, ruling aristocratic class that believes that everything belongs to them. MICHAEL PARENTI: Well, I discovered that ancient history is not so ancient. Welcome to Democracy Now!.ĪMY GOODMAN: I would like to try to look at where we stand today, the state of the world, and why at this point you have decided to write this book about ancient Rome. He is the author of many books, and his latest is called “The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome.” It has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His newest book “The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome” has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.ĪMY GOODMAN: We are joined by Michael Parenti, who has taken these large issues on. * Michael Parenti*, author and political analyst.Some international observers say that the whole world should be able to vote in the elections because US policy has such a dramatic impact on countries across the world. This November’s presidential election is certainly one of the most significant in recent history. In Haiti, the armed gangs who are now occupying almost half the country and threatening to overthrow the government, are being led by some of the leaders of the paramilitary death squads that terrorized Haiti in the early 1990s. Cuban leader Fidel Castro charged recently that the Bush administration was planning to assassinate him. In Latin America, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has accused the US of seeking to overthrow his government. In Afghanistan, where the US military has a sizeable presence, the situation remains unstable and violent. Perhaps as many as 10,000 Iraqi civilians have died. The US occupation of Iraq has seen more than 540 US soldiers killed in less than a year. ![]() From Iraq to Afghanistan to Haiti and beyond, many parts of the world are in turmoil. ![]()
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