Michael Parenti on Time

"Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the world."

"Our fear that Communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti-communism already has."

"It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support."

"At the same time, the rise in and has given us,, of waterways, shrinking grasslands, disappearing water supplies and, and the, with hundreds more on the."

"To complain about how the media are dominated by liberals, Limbaugh has an hour a day on network television, an hour on cable, and a radio show syndicated by over 600 stations."

"Street crime has also increased sharply . In the former Soviet Union, women and elderly who once felt free to sit in parks late at night now dare not venture out after dark. Since the overthrow of communism in Hungary, thefts and other felonies have nearly tripled and there has been a 50 percent increase in homicides . The police force in Prague today is many times greater than it was under communism, when "relatively few police were needed" . How odd that fewer police were needed in the communist police state than in the free-market paradise."

"For years the Dalai Lama was on the payroll of the CIA, an agency that has perpetrated killings against rebellious workers, peasants, students, and others in countries around the world. His eldest brother played an active role in a CIA-front group. Another brother established an intelligence operation with the CIA, which included a CIA-trained guerrilla unit whose recruits parachuted back into Tibet to foment insurgency. The Dalai Lama was no pacifist. He supported the U.S./NATO military intervention into Afghanistan, also the 78 days' bombing of Yugoslavia and the destruction of that country."