If you’ve never heard this 13-minute rant, you’ve missed a moment of exquisite beauty. Michael Parenti, in a 1+ hour talk in Seattle in 1999, focused his brilliant intellect and his enormous heart on the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, and more generally on how “NATO destroys nations.” The rant below — the unbelievable rant — is an excerpt from the larger talk. One of his listeners said this about him: ” … Parenti got his doctorate from Yale. He is a writer of about 25 scholarly books. He is truly an intelligent man. But he came from the working class, and I love the fact that not only is Parenti a champion of the workers and poor, anti USA empire, socialist, but also I love that his speaking voice is not phony. He speaks like any guy you might meet in the Bronx or Queens. And he can be funny as woody allen here/there in his speeches. He is one of my favorite speakers. love the dude… “. What Parenti said then about NATO IN 1999 is just as true today, but even more urgent.  [Don]