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

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

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

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

[royalecraig]

This guy needs a wider audience, it's up to you, if you like the video pass it to two other people.

[nbm34]

THE issue to counter Capitalist right wing propoganda,is an important one. This is possible now on a scale never possible for the left until the internet.

We need a standard credible NEWS center like ALJEZERA,in which we can counter the systems

control of the media.

This should be just a diverse left wing responce to the right wing propaganda,and to keep the concept of educating the masses beyond the classical garbage they are fed,in the hope the struggle can enter a new phase in

history.

[madtrade]

@nbm34 ahhaha AL-jazeera is no more

it is now the biggest propaganda machine ever

[vivascargill1]

this is good--but the left is corrupted by magical neo-populist thinking you cannot educate by argument--it has to be experience--he in fact talks about this in part I --who is he talking to?

people who already agree with him--

[Licmycat]

AMEN! Keep going Michael! Blessings!

[intrascoobz]

@TheRacistsMustDie It's interesting you say that. In comparison , your comment reminds me of the same thing said about edward gibbons's 1802 'the decline and fall of rome'. He included notes in which he was in communication with other worldly scholars in the confirming of his sources. The pattern I took note? how many of those , gibbons included , were yet alive when a stereotyped version 40+years later published by wtfdotgov? What do you think I think of awkward truths?

[TheRacistsMustDie]

@Timasion Yeah he's not really that keen I get the idea. Especially his methodological individualism is a bit awkward don't you think?

[Timasion]

Wow. Parenti loves to make facts up to suit his own interests. The Prime Minister that Saddam attempted to assassinate (Abd al-Karim Qasim) was not democratically elected. He overthrew the existing monarchy and replaced the prime minister. He ordered the deaths of the Royal Family and the two prior Prime Ministers.

Qasim was overthrown by the Ba'ath party which eventually lead to Saddam taking power in 1979.

Iraq did not have a democracy until today.

[Dmacleod50]

@hipnoticed you sound like Alex Jones lol

[hipnoticed]

RIGHT AND LEFT PARADIGM IS A FRAUD

[boskilove]

Cheney knew in '94 what a mess Iraq was going to be.

Just look up "Cheney 1994"

[thelucidherb]

You'll probably never read this since you posted your comment 3 years ago, but what you don't understand is that the left/right paradigm is irrelevant. BOTH sides are controlled. Who is the mind between the left and right wings of the eagle? Who are the referees or team owners watching their football teams play? We all get caught up in the drama and the action, while those sitting above discuss in secret what they are planning for the future.