Talk - Michael Parenti - Lies, War, and Empire - Part I

Part I of a talk by Dr. Michael Parenti on "Lies, War, and Empire" given May 12, 2007 at Antioch University in Seattle.

Check out Part II of the talk at http://youtube.com/watch?v=oaTPDFsDdIk#

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Empire
• Objectivity
• Propaganda
• War
• Imperialism
• Lies
• Parenti

[Selbstorganisation]

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

George Orwell

[ScienceArtSpirit]

This talk is my absolutely favorite.

He has those intellectual humor I like very much.

The epistemology at the start , great.

He is very smart.

Thank you talkingsticktv for posting.

Greetings from Germany

[AnotherWayFilms]

@changit6 Read:

"Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader"

Also, History as Mystery. Two of the best Parenti titles.

Add Howard Zinn's "A Peoples History"

and Noam Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent", too.

Then on To John Perkins "The Secret History of American Empire"

Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine".

Naomi Wolfe's "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot"

Finally,

Ralph Nader's "Getting Steamed to Overcome Corporatism: Build It Together to Win"

[emotionalinvalid]

@ScienceArtSpirit even better is his video on the break up of Yugoslavia. And the audience clapped, cheered and laughed here and there. This audience makes me sick, they are so fatuous. And P is as witty and humorous as woody allen at times. He is a great political scientist, an activist, an insightful critic of the "liberal complaint" and "conservative celebration" vs. the radical analysis(i.e. the truth, the facts)

[changit6]

@1upwd what book would you recommend to read? (by Parenti &/or others)

[mieszkomieszko]

Majority of Poles regretting the fall of communism.

I don't believe that.

[1upwd]

If you are an intelligent, socially conscious American who is tired of being ignored by a government that favors corporations above people, and who is interested in affecting REAL social change in this country- you must arm yourself with hard, undeniable facts, or you will be cast out as "fringe," along with the Alien Conspiracy people.

[blearyeyed09]

@fusionguitar I am paying attention...and this man is a jewel...and also more accessible to the general public than anyone else I know doing similar things......

[TheRacistsMustDie]

I've also read an article in Mother Jones likening to the story about the Soviet intellectuals, it's called "The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science".

[oscaringoliling0]

13 people work at the IMF.

[emotionalinvalid]

@smokesceen124 excellent. In other words: nuclear third world war will push back civilization, those few people that are left, to the time of the "caveman" or the stone age.

[123kikiliki123]

@rgs11 You watch TV too much...