Michael Parenti - No War But The Class War
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Michael Parenti received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University. He has taught at a number of colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad. Some of his writings have been translated into Arabic, Azeri, Bangla, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
"... this tough, hilarious, right-on mix of scholar and street." KPFA-Pacifica, 1994
Michael Parenti has won awards from Project Censored, the Caucus for a New Political Science, the city of Santa Cruz, New Jersey Peace Action, the Social Science Research Council, the Society for Religion in Higher Education, and other organizations. In 2007 he was awarded a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from U.S. Representative Barbara Lee.
During his earlier teaching career he received grants or fellowships from the Louis Rabinowitz Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Brown University, Yale University, State University of New York, and the University of Illinois. For several years he was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.
He now serves on the advisory boards of Independent Progressive Politics Network, Education Without Borders, and the Jasenovic Foundation; as well as the advisory editorial boards of New Political Science and Nature, Society and Thought. He also served for some 12 years as a judge for Project Censored.
He is the author of twenty-three books:
The Face of Imperialism (Paradigm, 2011)
God and His Demons (Prometheus Books, 2010)
Democracy for the Few (Wadsworth, 9th edition, 2011)
Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader (City Lights Books, 2007)
Democracy for the Few (Wadsworth, 8th edition, 2007) The Culture Struggle (Seven Stories Press, 2006)
Superpatriotism (City Lights Books, 2004)
The Assassination of Julius Caesar (The New Press, 2003)
The Terrorism Trap (City Lights Books, 2002)
To Kill a Nation (Verso Books, 2001) History as Mystery (City Lights Books, 1999)
America Besieged (City Lights Books, 1998)
Blackshirts and Reds (City Lights Books, 1997)
Dirty Truths (City Lights Books, 1996)
Against Empire (City Lights Books, 1995)
Inventing Reality (Wadsworth, second edition, 1993)
Land of Idols (St. Martin's, 1993)
Make-Believe Media (Wadsworth, 1992)
The Sword and the Dollar (St. Martin's, 1989)
Power and the Powerless (St. Martin's, 1978)
Ethnic and Political Attitudes (Arno Press, 1975)
Trends and Tragedies in American Foreign Policy (Little, Brown, 1971)
The Anti-Communist Impulse (Random House, 1969)
Some 320 articles of his have appeared in scholarly journals, political periodicals and various magazines and newspapers.
He appears on radio and television talk shows to discuss current issues and ideas from his published works. Dr. Parenti's talks and commentaries are played on radio stations and cable community access stations to enthusiastic audiences in the United States, Canada, and abroad.
He lectures on college campuses and before a wide range of community audiences, peace groups, labor organizations, scholarly conferences, and various other venues. His books are enjoyed by both lay readers and scholars, and have been used extensively in college courses. Among the many topics he treats are:
Theocracy and Other Religious Sins
Democracy and Economic Power
Imperialism and U.S. Interventionism
Empires, Past and Present
Political Perceptions and Deceptions
Ethnic-Class Experience
Terrorism and Globalization
Political Bias in the U.S. News Media
Ideology and History
Race, Gender, and Class
The Overthrow of Communism
Fascism: Past and Present
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The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear, Part 1 - Baby It's Cold Outsideby 1Freshtymer1310 views
@xMaXiMuSx source?
DeweyZinnChomskyFisk 6 days ago
@DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
no my dispute with Chomsky is that he is clueless with regards to the Libyan conflict.. he think it's a "spontaneous uprisisng" against an "evil dictator".. Nonsense.. It's a US operation all the way..
xMaXiMuSx 6 days ago
@xMaXiMuSx your dispute with Chomsky is over semantics
DeweyZinnChomskyFisk 1 week ago
@DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
well obviously he must have meant strong support from within Gaddafi's own country because because everything else is NOT relevant.
xMaXiMuSx 1 week ago
@xMaXiMuSx did he say "strong support" or "strong support from within Gaddafi's own country?"
DeweyZinnChomskyFisk 1 week ago
@DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
lol.. I hope that that was a joke.. It's about support from within his own country not what a bunch of imperialist organizations think.
xMaXiMuSx 1 week ago
@xMaXiMuSx support by the US and UN seems strong to me
DeweyZinnChomskyFisk 1 week ago
@DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
difference is that Parenti basically questions the media reports, because they are probably lying like they did about Yugoslavia.. Chomsky for whatever reason said that there was "strong support" for getting rid of Ghadaffi which is an outright lie..
xMaXiMuSx 1 week ago
@xMaXiMuSx does PArenti say that there was not strong support for the anti-Gaddafi forces? sorry about asking a million questions, but i can't figure out the difference in their opinions on libya.
DeweyZinnChomskyFisk 1 week ago
@DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
no parenti didn't say. I think you misunderstood me that but I'm talking overall.. It's pretty obvious now though.. Hopefully parenti will have a presenation about Libya like he is having one here on Yugoslavia.
xMaXiMuSx 1 week ago
@xMaXiMuSx i can't find anything on Google about Parenti saying that the anti-Gaddafi forces were CIA-backed
DeweyZinnChomskyFisk 1 week ago
@DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
what do you mean?? just google it, it's all over the place. Guy was 20 years in Virginia.
xMaXiMuSx 1 week ago
@xMaXiMuSx it's hard to take you seriously since you refuse to give a source
DeweyZinnChomskyFisk 1 week ago
@DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
the viewpoints sifference is that chomsky thinks that the overthrow of ghadaffi had "strong support".. He seems competely clueless that it didn't and it was a CIA operation all the way.. basically the same disagreements they have about Yugoslavia where Parenti's knowledge of what happened in yugoslavia is vastly superior to that of Chomsky..
xMaXiMuSx 1 week ago
f.y.i. everyone, i suggest also listening to Parenti's "Conspiracy AND Class Power" (watch?v=O9DoQMMBY_Y)
DeweyZinnChomskyFisk 1 week ago
@Truthseaker001 they don't need to kill him to keep the majority of people from listening to him
DeweyZinnChomskyFisk 1 week ago
@xMaXiMuSx i listened to them both talk about Libya and i can't figure out a difference between their viewpoints. do you have any source for him saying that the CIA created/backed the anti-Gaddafi forces?
DeweyZinnChomskyFisk 1 week ago
@DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
I think that's pretty obvious by now.. One of the main rebel leaders was from Virginia, that was public news..Who gave them the weapon? I dont think privatizing is the right word. Privatization is a voluntary contract. It's more like stealing and looting and destroying..
xMaXiMuSx 1 week ago
@xMaXiMuSx i can find information about Parenti talking about how NATO was used by the US to overthrow the Libyan government and privatize the economy, but I can't find anything he's said about CIA supporting the anti-Gaddafi forces. do you have a link?
DeweyZinnChomskyFisk 1 week ago
@DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
Sarkozy is a total US puppet, comes from a CIA family. Maybe Chirac who opposed US policy would have have been against this.
xMaXiMuSx 1 week ago
@xMaXiMuSx France, etc. are extremely influenced by US policy, but I wouldn't go so far as to call them "US puppets."
DeweyZinnChomskyFisk 1 week ago
@DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
when you say "numerous nations" you mean US puppets.. The fact is NO one really supported it, especially those who knows it's a CIA operation all the way..
There was no "support of the people in Libya".. Islamic CIA controlled terorrists and a bunch of tribesman loyal to the old monarchy(maybe about 10% of the population) is not "support of the people:.
xMaXiMuSx 1 week ago
@xMaXiMuSx numerous nations supported the overthrow of Gaddafi. when he says "strong support," he partially means international support, not just support of the people in Libya itself
DeweyZinnChomskyFisk 1 week ago
@DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
strong support means just that.. So there was no strong support unless you count a bunch of CIA recruted slaughteres and a bunch of monarchical tribes.. They would have been DESTROYED by the pro-ghadaffi people in less than a day if it wasn't for NATO "humanatarain" bombardment and slaughter of over 50,000 Libyans.
xMaXiMuSx 1 week ago
@xMaXiMuSx "strong support" doesn't mean "majority"
DeweyZinnChomskyFisk 1 week ago