num_pages: 229
description: Richly informed and written in an engaging style, Against Empire exposes the ruthless agenda and hidden costs of the U.S. empire today. Documenting the pretexts and lies used to justify violent intervention and maldevelopment abroad, Parenti shows how the conversion to a global economy is a victory of finance capital over democracy.As much of the world suffers unspeakable misery and the Third-Worldization of the United States accelerates, civil society is impoverished by policies that benefit rich and powerful transnational corporations and the national security state. Hard-won gains made by ordinary people are swept away.
language: English
title: Against Empire
titlecomplete: Against Empire
genres: Theory, Politics, The United States Of America, Philosophy, Political Science, Nonfiction, American History, Economics, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 841
publisher: City Lights Publishers