Please call your station and urge them to air these tapes. Each of the following is an 8-minute commentary by Dr. Parenti from the People's Radio series. To hear them, you'll need the Real Audio TM player, which you can download for free from Real Networks . The punishments given to corporate criminals do not match their crimes. They do great damage to human life and the environment and receive sentences that make scarcely a dent in their net worth.
Some people have more free speech than others.
Parenti discusses how the right has its voice amplified, while the left must shout to be heard, and includes an analysis of what distinguishes the left from the right. We often think that the U.S. is free of the kind of political murders and death squads that characterize other countries. In fact, there have been numerous murders of Cubans, Vietnamese, and even some Americans who have opposed prevailing conservative policies at home and abroad. U.S. enforcers have done little about them. The National Insecurity State Within the government there exists a national security apparatus composed of the CIA, military intelligence, and other covert agencies that operate as a law unto themselves, spying on and disrupting left and liberal organizations at home and abroad, posing a real threat to democracy.