Table of Contents

Part One: Class, Race, and Empire
Chapter 1 Thinking about the Great Class Divide
Chapter 2 Ethnicity and Exploitation: A Quick History of the Boiling Pot
Chapter 3 Empire in Extremis? Some Urgent Notations

Part Two: The Corporate Beast at Home
Chapter 4 A Case of Death and Profits
Chapter 5 Free Market Medicine: A Personal Account
Chapter 6 Free Market Medicine: More True Stories

Part Three: Cultural Aberrations and Other Oppressions
Chapter 7 Pedophiles, Popes, Priests, Preachers, and Papa
Chapter 8 Inequality: 85 Billionaires and the Poorer Half

Part Four: Global Rule and Ruin
Chapter 9 Capitalism, a Self-Devouring Beast
Chapter 10 Profit Pathology and Disposable Planet
Epilogue The Next Trip

About the Author

Michael Parenti is an award-winning author, scholar, and lecturer. He is the author of God and His Demons (2010), Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader (2007), The Culture Struggle (2006), The Assassination of Julius Caesar (2003), and Democracy for the Few, 9th edition (2010).

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