Focus on the Americas / Blase Bonpane and Michael Parenti.

Blase Bonpane and Michael Parenti discuss the domestic causes and repercussions of the Gulf War. They examine the use of chemical weapons by the United States, class interests of war, the selling of militarism to the American public, the inconsistant United States foreign policy concerning oppressed peoples, Arab nationalism as a threat to international corporate power, the revival of American jingoism, media and war, the tricks of imperialism, the lack of anti-war coverage, and the need to support alternative media now and in the future. Concludes with listener call-ins.|FOCUS ON THE AMERICAS / Blase Bonpane and Michael Parenti. - Blase Bonpane and Michael Parenti discuss the domestic causes and repercussions of the Gulf War. They examine the use of chemical weapons by the United States, class intersts of war, the selling of militarism to the American public, the inconsistant U.S. foreign policy concerning oppressed peoples, Arab nationalism as a threat to international corporate power, the revival of American jingoism, media and war, the tricks of imperialism, the lack of anti-war coverage, and the need to support alternative media now and in the future. Concludes with listener call-ins. - RECORDED: Apr. 1991.