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	NOW with Bill Moyers. Politics & Economy. Biography. Christian Parenti \| PBS
		Christian Parenti is a correspondent for THE NATION, and most recently the author of THE FREEDOM: SHADOWS AND HALLUCINATION IN OCCUPIED IRAQ.
		Parenti speaks with David Brancaccio about a very different view of Afghanistan than the portrait of flourishing democracy.
		Christian Parenti is the author of LOCKDOWN AMERICA and THE SOFT CAGE.
	www.pbs.org /now/politics/parenti.html (88 words)

	Interview With Christian Parenti : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Christian Parenti is a San Francisco-based author, activist, and educator.
		CHRISTIAN PARENTI: When I say I'm a Marxist, I'm saying that I think the 150 year-old intellectual tradition called "Marxism" is the most strategically useful set of tools for analyzing capitalism.
		CHRISTIAN: Well, we can ask the question: "Is all of social phenomena contained within capitalism, or are there psychological and cultural and emotional and geographic and economic spaces outside of capitalism?" But I haven't really fully explored that question, because my everyday life is (pretty clearly, and in very non-abstract way) contained within capitalism.
	sf.indymedia.org /news/2001/03/2106.php (583 words)

	Christian Parenti
		This relationship is hardly accidental according to the logic outlined by Christian Parenti in "Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crises."
		Parenti writes, the "crises of over-production, declining profits, and the domestic challenge of racial and class rebellion required a move away from the politics of the carrot toward the politics of the stick."
		The hungry are certainly far more sympathetic than even the pettiest of criminals, yet both books turn on America's unwillingness to directly face the underlying economic crisis which ended the post-World War II boom and expelled millions of families from their once secure places in the middle class.
	christianparenti.com /reviews/lockdown_chris_science.html (511 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Christian Parenti - Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis at ...
		Christian Parenti - Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis
		Parenti does an excellent job of tracing the current problem to its roots in the Nixon Administration, and the attitudes that developed in law enforcement because of its policies.
		Parenti expertly essays these facts, bringing a minimum of rhetorical vitriol and a maximum of facts to bear on his subject.
	www.epinions.com /book-review-112D-38B8115-3973C408-prod6 (561 words)

	Christian Parenti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Parenti's work is usually published in The Nation and he frequently appears on Doug Henwood's radio show "Behind The News" to discuss it.
		Parenti was particularly critical of the 2004 Afghan presidential election, observing that many people in Afghanistan were in possession of three or four photographic ID cards.
		Christian Parenti is the son of noted Marxist scholar Michael Parenti.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christian_Parenti (415 words)

	R A I N T A X I o n l i n e Spring 2004 - The Soft Cage by Christian Parenti
		Parenti chronicles such subversive activities as "re-expropriation of the master's stores, fencing pilfered goods, trading produce, and fraternizing with Native Americans, poor whites, and the fugitive slaves who lived as social bandits on the edge of the plantation world." Naturally, all of this had to be done by getting around the owners' spies.
		Parenti underlines that these last systems have not only been used to nail goof-offs, but to harass union activists who can be pestered about petty errors.
		If this isn't frightening enough, Parenti's conclusion about the threat growing surveillance makes on our civil liberties is downright chilling, for he argues that the upshot of all this watching and being watched will be a stifling of dissent.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/2004spring/parenti.shtml (691 words)

	"For a sneak preview of a future American police state... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Parenti points out that the use of paramilitary police teams increased four-fold between 1980 and 1995.
		Parenti argues that the social struggles that occurred in both the United States and the world as a whole caused a profit squeeze that needed to be addressed.
		Parenti doesn’t contend that the only thing preventing mass social upheavals from happening right now are these changes in policing and prisons.
	www.stormpages.com /micahth/CIJ/laparenti.html (824 words)

	Review of The Soft Cage
		Journalist Christian Parenti sets out to track and chronicle surveillance in the United States, beginning in the 18th century and progressing to the present, and shows that privacy is fast slipping from our grasp.
		Parenti sees modern surveillance as originating in the times of slavery, as a means of identifying and denying true identity to fls as a class.
		Presenting some of the means used to search for runaway slaves, Parenti suggests that these attempts to describe truants were a form of forced identification.
	www.techsoc.com /softcage.htm (975 words)

	The War on the People
		Christian Parenti, author of Lockdown America, Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis, suggests something more than a draconian response to surging crime; he situates the repressive mania for law and order in the social, political and economic crisis that faced the US as the post-war boom went into decline.
		Christian Parenti teaches at the New College of California in San Francisco.
		Christian Parenti: I chart the rise of the emerging anti-crime police state in the United States from the 1960s to the present.
	www.historyisaweapon.org /defcon1/pareinterwar.html (1341 words)

	Crimes Of Punishment
		Christian Parenti can tell you much more than I. He is an expert on the prison system, having researched and studied it as a journalist, scholar, and student for the past decade.
		Parenti: Official criminological histories generally begin in the Northeast, with the birth of American penitentiaries, but there is an alternative history that, I think, makes more sense.
		Parenti: They were applying either too little repression and allowing things to get out of hand, or too much repression - cracking heads indiscriminately - and creating an international scandal and further radicalizing the movements.
	www.thesunmagazine.org /parenti.html (2169 words)

	PATRIOTWATCH
		PARENTI: There are elements to the proliferation of information technology that are politically problematic and dangerous to our civil liberties.
		PARENTI: Historically there are many examples of real cooperation in surveillance between states but not many examples of friction.
		PARENTI: David Lyon the Canadian sociologist who wrote The Electronic Eye argues that surveillance technologies always start with the weak and then move into the mainstream of society.
	www.patriotwatch.org /2003/12/patriotwatch-interviews-christian.html (1412 words)

	The American Enterprise: Democracy Now Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		CHRISTIAN PARENTI: I think with all due respect to Karl's work on the ground there, he's completely wrong on every count, and like the Bush administration is internally inconsistent.
		CHRISTIAN PARENTI: I was embedded with the Florida National Guard and then with the 82nd Airborne in Fallujah.
		CHRISTIAN PARENTI: Fighting happened in the sewage plants in the South and North sewage plants in particular.
	www.taemag.com /issues/articleID.18258/article_detail.asp (3644 words)

	Why War? Analysis: Civil War In Iraq, Made In the USA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Parenti says that "because the major Shiite parties did run in the election," some insurgents view them as collaborators.
		Christian Parenti says insurgents he spoke to said, "We've read Mao," meaning they know how to conduct a sophisticated guerilla war and isolate their enemy, the United States.
		Parenti notes that domestically the entire "political class is united that the U.S. is not going to leave.
	www.why-war.com /news/2005/08/04/civilwar.html (1223 words)

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		Christian Parenti is a teacher, author and disciplined left scholar with a PhD from the London School of Economics.
		Parenti says that "a crisis of overproduction in global capitalism" threatened to eliminate profit from consumption and in turn threatened the very structure of the system.
		Capitalism, Parenti argued, is flawed in that it needs poverty in order to function.
	www.speciousspecies.com /parenti.htm (2334 words)

	Christian Parenti in Afghanistan: Saturday's Elections Were A "Farce" : Indybay
		Christian Parenti in Afghanistan: Saturday's Elections Were A "Farce" : Indybay
		Tuesday Oct 12th, 2004 3:10 PM We go to Afghanistan to speak with The Nation's correspondent covering Saturday's election where all 15 of incumbent Hamid Karzai's opponents announced they were boycotting the election because of voting problems.
		CHRISTIAN PARENTI: Basically, the election was marked by massive fraud and intimidation, as well as lots of technical errors.
	www.indybay.org /newsitems/2004/10/12/16990811.php (835 words)

	In Reply to Doug Henwood, Liza Featherstone and Christian Parenti
		An article co-authored by Doug Henwood, his wife Liza Featherstone and Christian Parenti has been making the rounds on the Internet.
		Featherstone is a free-lance journalist who wrote red-baiting attacks on the ISO for the Nation Magazine in her capacity as "movement" expert.
		Parenti, the son of Michael Parenti, has written a well-received book on the American prison-industrial system.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/american_left/activistism.htm (1067 words)

	Discussion: The World Was Not Enough -- In These Times
		Parenti’s piece makes clear how long “these guys” have been around, how personal expediency always has over-run conscience, how WE are the CHOSEN race.
		Posted by Ryokan on Jul 29, 2003 at 12:37 AM Parenti’s interesting review of what sounds like a valuable book betrays a commonly-found blindness to the long existence of the U.S. Empire.
		Parenti should stop calling Isaiah Bowman an anti-Semite or he should realize that the latter’s opposition to the Jewish State was motivated by same Judeophobia that animated his opposition to take in more refugees in our own country.
	www.inthesetimes.com /site/main/discuss/87 (1431 words)

	village voice > news > Press Clips by Cynthia Cotts
		Then something went terribly wrong: Parenti suggested that Halliburton and Bechtel have failed to provide "meaningful reconstruction" and that the U.S. occupation might actually be contributing to the instability in Iraq.
		"We think Christian Parenti's reporting has been thorough and reliable," she told me. "This is a journalist who spent a great deal of time on the ground in Iraq." According to vanden Heuvel, Parenti's comments about the failure of meaningful reconstruction were based on his reporting and firsthand observation.
		Did Christian Parenti stray from the boundaries of a TV format in which he was asked to talk about bombings in Iraq, or did he speak uncomfortable truths?
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0411/cotts.php (1054 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: The Latest in Paper
		It is dawn-to-dusk curfews enforced by freaked-out GIs in barbed-wire-wrapped villages and by the smoldering threat of kidnappings and carjackings in parts of Baghdad.
		In his clear, descriptive style, Parenti delivers not only the now-familiar voice of the "embedded" journalist, but also that of one who is intelligent and curious enough to seek out the resistance.
		But it is Parenti's compassion that separates him from the thrill-seeking war reporters who race from death scene to death scene with little regard for the people they pass along the way.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:325826 (685 words)

	What Kind of Freedom? An Interview with Christian Parenti
		As Akeel, a resident of Baghdad and Parenti's 26-year-old translator, remarked when asked of life in the newly freed Iraq: "Ah, the freedom.
		Parenti recently came by the MotherJones.com office to discuss his reporting from Iraq.
		Christian Parenti: Well, I wanted to see the situation and I also wanted to have the right to speak about the war.
	www.motherjones.com /news/qa/2005/01/parenti.html (3217 words)

	CRIMES OF PUNISHMENT: AN INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTIAN PARENTI
		Parenti: They were applying either too little repression and allowing things to get out of hand, or too much repression — cracking heads indiscriminately — and creating an international scandal and further radicalizing the movements.
		Parenti: That’s why the proposition was condemned by many of the players who normally come out for law and order — because it’s insane overkill.
		Parenti: The policing of immigrants is an important piece of the puzzle, and one that isn’t talked about enough.
	www.derrickjensen.org /parent.html (6040 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Christian Parenti in Afghanistan: Saturday's Elections Were A "Farce"
		Christian Parenti, correspondent for the Nation Magazine and author of the forthcoming book The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq.
		CHRISTIAN PARENTI: Well, you know, I mean that, I can't say much about that.
		CHRISTIAN PARENTI: Well, yeah, he definitely met with people before the presidential election.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=04/10/12/1347201 (1928 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Occupied Elections: Journalist Christian Parenti on Voting from Afghanistan to Iraq
		Christian has gone to Iraq three times, most recently was in Afghanistan for their elections.
		CHRISTIAN PARENTI: Well, I think that the Iraqi elections in many ways pose two approximate for the Bush administration.
		CHRISTIAN PARENTI: Well, the elections in Afghanistan were riddled with frauds and all journalists on the ground saw that.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=05/01/31/1517212 (1478 words)

	LOCKDOWN AMERICA
		In his powerful book, Lockdown America, Christian Parenti, a teacher at the New College of California and a writer whose work has appeared in The Nation, The Progressive, In these Times, and The Christian Science Monitor, explores the epidemic of imprisonment in the United States.
		Parenti then takes us on a tour of the strongly anti-democratic horrors that characterize our modern American police state, from SWAT teams terrorizing suspected criminals, their relatives, their neighbors, witnesses, journalists, and people who happen to live in the wrong (read poor and nonwhite) neighborhoods to the increased militarization of our southern border.
		He suggests popular protest, education, and perhaps most radically of all, that we listen to the poor and the young, to those who have the most to lose--the possibility of living free--from the American police state.
	www.derrickjensen.org /parenti.html (682 words)

	The Modern Populist - Daily News - Christian Parenti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		By Christian Parenti - The Nation - September 9, 2005
		The empty streets of this city present a vista of apocalyptic desolation: wind-ripped roofs, downed trees, smashed fast-food signs, dangling power lines, columns of dark smoke and everywhere heaps of garbage.
		By Christian Parenti - The Nation - August 23, 2004
	www.neverwillbes.com /index.php?q=author:Christian-Parenti (476 words)

	Big Brother is watching you 24/7 \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Parenti, a historian and author of the well- received, " Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis" (1999), has hit another sociopolitical nerve with this analysis of America's culture of surveillance.
		Parenti defines a concept he calls "the right to illegality." In the spirit of Henry David Thoreau, he asks, "Are the rules and laws of this society all rational, benevolent and just?
		Soon, in light of the world Christian Parenti describes, we will all have to give an answer.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0918/p20s02-bogn.html (690 words)

	The Razor Wire, Vol. 8, No. 3: Lockdown America Revisited
		A Conversation with Christian Parenti on Prisons, Policing, and the War on Terror
		His 1999 book, Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in an Age of Crisis, was a groundbreaking text on the rise of the prison and policing system in the United States.
		I spoke with Parenti in Ossining, New York in August about the history of prisons, policing and how the criminal justice project has changed since his book was first published.
	www.november.org /razorwire/2005-02/Lockdown.html (1303 words)

	Fear and Favor at the PBS NewsHour
		Journalist Christian Parenti was invited to talk about Iraq on the March 2 broadcast of PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
		But Parenti's criticism of the reconstruction contracts granted to corporations like Halliburton and Bechtel apparently crossed a line for the program's host.
		Ask them why Parenti's analysis merited an on-air apology, while Rumsfeld's distortions were not challenged or corrected.
	www.fair.org /index.php?page=2517 (866 words)

	Christian Parenti "reporting" from Falluja
		James Woods (a reactionary in real life) plays a hardboiled reporter whose primary message seems to be "war is hell".
		Although I can't imagine why anybody would want to aspire to this kind of cliché in real life, Christian Parenti angles for exactly that persona in the pages of the Nation.
		If I was treated this way, I'd also want to warn the pwogessives of the world against allowing Iraqis to determine their own future, free from imperialist interference.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/fascism_and_war/Parenti.htm (625 words)

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