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	Michael Parenti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Parenti (born 1933) is an American Marxist political scientist, historian, and media critic.
		Parenti is known for his steadfast leftist and radical political convictions, which have seen him maintain a sympathetic view of the orthodox communist movement even after the fall of the Soviet Union saw the disintegration of much of it.
		Parenti has also defended Serbia and in particular its former president Slobodan Milošević against accusations of intolerance, aggression, and war crimes during the Yugoslav wars, as he views these as exaggerations and propaganda on the part of Western media.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Parenti (1092 words)

	The Emperor's New Clothes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Parenti: Roman history, as written by the ancient historians, who were all rich slave-holders, and as written throughout the ages by dons, amateur historians and professors right down to the present day, is heavily slanted against the Roman people, who are usually portrayed as a rabble or mob interested only in bread and circuses.
		Michael Parenti Political Archive: this home page provides a brief biography of Parenti, offers useful links to a number of his articles, and provides up-to-date information about his books, audio talks, and upcoming speaking engagements.
		Michael Parenti's presentation, "Democractic Sovereignty and the Arrogance of Empire" from the Parkland Institute's 7th Annual Fall Conference, Challenging Empire: Citizenship, Sovereignties and Self-Determination, November 14th - 16th, 2003.
	aurora.icaap.org /2003Interviews/Parenti.html (3130 words)

	Booknotes
		PARENTI: The first one was a young one -- oh, you`re going to -- you`re going to put me on the spot to remember their names now.
		PARENTI: There are -- there are accounts which say yes, that two or three of these were pretty much fatal in a matter of minutes, and he collapsed and he bled -- he was -- he was pretty much -- and they kept going at him even when he was down.
		PARENTI: A republic -- republica (ph) -- "ruled by the public," which means that there`s popular rule, that the people are, to some degree, the rulers of the country.
	www.booknotes.org /Transcript?ProgramID=1744 (7801 words)

	The Assassination of Julius Caesar, By Michael Parenti
		Parenti shows, however, that the destruction of ancient culture, the burning of books and the closing down of libraries and educational institutions was done by the "Christ worshipers" when they came to power.
		Parenti also criticizes contemporary classicists who ignore the class struggles of the ancient world – seeing the masses as rabble and expressing sympathy for ancient ruling-class elites and their treatment of the common people.
		Parenti says he has "tried to show [that] what we know of the common people tells us that they displayed a social consciousness and sense of justice that was usually superior to anything possessed by their would-be superiors."
	journals.aol.com /bloomingtoncp/news/entries/696 (615 words)

	Michael Parenti: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Michael Parenti (born 1933) is an American[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] political scientist[For more, click on this link] and historian historian quick summary:
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		The assassination of julius caesar: a peoples history of ancient rome, by author michael parenti, argues that julius caesar was assassinated because the...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/michael_parenti.htm (923 words)

	Amazon.com: America Besieged: Books: Michael Parenti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Michael Parenti, one of America's most astute and entertaining political analysts, is the author of Against Empire, Dirty Truths, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism, Democracy for the Few, Land of Idols: Political Mythology in America, and many other books.
		Michael Parenti is deadly right: democracy is based on distrust, not on yes-men who preach the same gospel.
		Michael Parenti did it, a great well-organized book which step-by-step examines everything revolving around our life, from the media to the economy, to the politics, and relates it to how all these three strangleholds on society are manipulated and/or owned by capital and corporations.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0872863387?v=glance (2116 words)

	Posts tagged with michael \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Michael Parenti has written a new book called The Culture Struggle and talks about it here.
		Michael Brown starts Disaster Planning Firm After doing a "heck of a job", the former Commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association teaches others how to avoid stepping in shit.
		Sure, Michael Crichton says it's all bunk, but Jared Diamond (the author of the infinitely discussable, Pulitzer prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel) recently came out with a new book that suggests that maybe we ought to be worried after all.
	www.metafilter.com /tags/michael (355 words)

	Biography of Michael Parenti
		Michael Parenti received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.
		Michael Parenti has won awards from Project Censored, the Caucus for a New Political Science, New Jersey Peace Action, the city of Santa Cruz, and various academic and political organizations.
		Dr. Parenti's talks and commentaries are played on radio stations and cable community access stations to enthusiastic audiences in the U.S., Canada and abroad.
	www.michaelparenti.org /biography.html (265 words)

	Amazon.ca: History as Mystery: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Parenti wants a people's history, not just another account of the "gentrification of history." Yet the actual story here is slanted, jumbledAtailored to fit Parenti's all-too-familiar contentions, illustrated at times with bullet points.
		Parenti shows how history is written as a self-serving process by elites, a process sometimes clumsy, sometimes refined, but always geared toward preserving privileged role of wealth and power.
		Parenti's style is easy and accessible to all, and though heavily footnoted, this is a work geared toward a popular audience.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0872863573 (971 words)

	Talk Nation » An interview with Michael Parenti
		MICHAEL PARENTI: “It’s the very troubling aspects of US foreign policy that led me to raise some critical questions about the way the term and the concept of patriotism and love of country are used to justify all these kinds of crimes that are being perpetrated in the name of patriotism.
		Smith: “We are talking with Michael Parenti, he’s author of Democracy for the Few, and that book has been used by many college professors to teach classes on the other side of U.S. History, not often taught in high schools certainly.
		MICHAEL PARENTI: “Saddam Hussein in his worst days as a torturer and a murderer and an oppressor was supported by the CIA and the U.S. Government.
	talknation.org /?p=220 (2389 words)

	Political Affairs Magazine - Tibet and China: A Review of Michael Parenti’s “Friendly Feudalism: The Myth of Tibet” ...
		Parenti begins by reminding us that the followers of all the great historical religions have engaged in wars and inquisitions-- always justified by “a divine mandate.” Buddhism is no exception.
		Parenti points out religion is not only noted for violence to attain its ends, but also for supporting economic exploitation.
		Parenti’s earlier article also mentioned that figure, but thought it strange as in 1953 the entire population of Tibet was 1,274,000.
	www.politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/2431/1/137 (1932 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Michael Parenti On Ancient Rome, the Bush Administration and Nader's Presidential Bid
		MICHAEL PARENTI: More than 20 years ago I coined — I believe I coined the phrase, “two-party monopolies” in my early edition of “Democracy For the Few.” Ralph Nader is right; it is a two-party monopoly.
		MICHAEL PARENTI: He was assassinated by Brutus and Cassius, who were not very nice people; I examine them further.
		Michael Parenti is the author of “The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome.” Among his other books.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=04/02/23/1528222 (1708 words)

	News & Events \| Renowned Political Analyst Michael Parenti to Speak
		Michael Parenti, an internationally known award-winning author and lecturer and one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts, will speak on “Democracy vs. Empire” as part of the University of Hartford’s Spring 2006 Humanities Center Lecture Series.
		Parenti, who has won awards from Project Censored, the Caucus for a New Political Science, New Jersey Peace Action, and the city of Santa Cruz, is the author of 19 books, including his most recent, The Culture Struggle (Seven Stories Press, 2006).
		Parenti is also the author of Superpariotism (City Lights Books, 2004), The Terrorism Trap (City Lights Books, 2002), To Kill a Nation (Verso Books, 2001), and America Besieged (City Lights Books, 1998).
	www.hartford.edu /NewsEvents/Releases/details.asp?id=704 (359 words)

	Michael Parenti: Inventing Reality : The Politics of News Media - Bøger
		Parenti, however, is not this left commentator, and this book is evidence of how out of touch he is.
		Parenti is no better than the conservatives who lionize Ronald Reagan and make apologies for anything that any Republican does.
		If you read Parenti, you will be forced to believe that communist nations such as the old USSR were really workers' paradises and utopias of enlightened policy and good governance.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/product_details.php/0312020139 (781 words)

	portland imc - 2002.09.17 - Michael Parenti Lecture Disappointing
		"Parenti argued that there were only five times when the U.N. weapons inspectors found the government to be in non-compliance (and those five were trivial if not manufactured by spiteful weapons inspectors intent on finding something wrong).
		Parenti was so obsessed with portraying Saddam Hussein as the innocent victim of American imperialism that he failed to see the situation critically."
		He immediately launched into his subject by declaring that state leaders are concerned predominatly with the extraction of surplus value from the labor of people.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2002/09/105042.shtml (456 words)

	Michael Parenti - "Terrorism, Globalism and Conspiracy"
		OCTOBER 9, 2002, VANCOUVER: Dr. Michael Parenti, one of North America's leading radical writers on U.S. imperialism and interventionism, fascism, democracy and the media, spoke to several hunded people at St. Andrews Wesley Church in Vancouver.
		Parenti has taught political science at a number of colleges and universities in the United States and other countries.
		He was written 250 majro magazine articles and 15 books and is frequently heard on public and alternative radio.
	www.workingtv.com /parenti.html (278 words)

	A critique of Democracy For The Few by Michael Parenti; eugenics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		[Parenti tries to state that governments evolved because a few select people wanted to protect their wealth, when in fact hierarchical systems of social orders evolved when humans were first able to start accumulating wealth in the form of food surplus, then material wealth, etc. about 12,000 years ago.
		Parenti seems to infer that capitalists are a different human species, with different goals and aspirations as everyone else.
		The desire to "make it," even at the expense of others, is not merely a wrong-headed attitude but a reflection of the material conditions of capitalist society wherein no one is ever really economically secure except the superrich, and even they forever seek to augment and secure their fortunes.
	home.comcast.net /~neoeugenics/few.htm (18226 words)

	Michael Parenti at ACME Summit : SF Bay Area Indymedia
		Michael Parenti speaks on "Political Bias in the U.S. News Media" at the Action Coalition for Media Education at USF on 7/3; 53 minutes
		Parenti was big into describing the murderous capitalist regime of Milosevic in Serbia as "socialist" because they hadn't manged to privatize the state sector of the economy -- due to working class resistance, but let's not go there!
		But Parenti describes history in a style where the indoctrination quotient is low.
	www.indybay.org /news/2004/07/1690167_comment.php (383 words)

	TUC Radio: Catalog/Michael Parenti, Democrocray, what went wrong?
		Michael Parenti uses the history of the Spanish American War to answer several very intriguing questions.
		Parenti says that fascism is a new order and consciousness that served the same old power structure and promised to solve the ills of the many while protecting the interests of the few.
		Parenti explains that those who reap the benefits are not those who bear the extraordinary costs of maintaining the US Empire.
	www.tucradio.org /parenti.html (1765 words)

	Amazon.com: Against Empire: Books: Michael Parenti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Documenting the pretexts and lies used to justify violent intervention and maldevelopment abroad, Parenti shows how the conversion to a global economy is a victory of finance capital over democracy.
		Parenti is probably the most consistent high-profile academic courageous enough to trace public policy to class interest.
		Parenti's talent is putting matters that seem complicated into terms that the layman can understand.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0872862984?v=glance (1498 words)

	Alibris: Parenti
		Parenti's provocative critique of class power within traditional political institutions will arouse classroom debate and introduce students to a unique viewpoint of American capitalism.
		Parenti ranges overs such crucial issues and free speech, the rise of neofascism, the relationship between wealth and poverty, the "terrorism" hype, the continuing mystifications about the Kennedy...
		Essays on how history's victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate their power and privilege, and how historians are influenced by the professional and class environment in which they work.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Parenti (949 words)

	Swans Commentary: Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth, by Michael Parenti - mparen01
		Michael Parenti is an internationally known author and lecturer.
		Parenti's most recent books are To Kill a Nation (Verso); The Terrorism Trap (City Lights); and The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome (New Press).
		George Ginsburg and Michael Mathos Communist China and Tibet (1964), quoted in Deane, "The Cold War in Tibet." Deane notes that author Bina Roy reached a similar conclusion.
	www.swans.com /library/art9/mparen01.html (6281 words)

	Michael Parenti talks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Friends told Michael his observations about the economic-political-power relationships, and "who benefits?", were "Marxist questions" or a "radical analysis" of "root causes".
		Parenti introduced at U of Vermont upon the 25 year anniversary of him being fired.
		Michael Parenti discusses the real intentions of our Founding Fathers, from their own statements and actions.
	home.neo.rr.com /takeoverworld/parenti_talks.html (1059 words)

	Michael Parenti Weighs in on Terrorism and Business as Usual (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Parenti's brief description of the kind of imperialism that creates hatred in third world countries for the United States -- a nation that has historically been the ringleader of the push for a global economy at the expense of less wealthy, powerful, and influential states -- offers nothing new to the discussion.
		"Business profiteering in the name of patriotism," Parenti reminds us early on, "has occurred in every war this nation has fought." Capitalization on bloodshed is a national trope, he suggests, although this administration appears to have taken the practice to new heights.
		Parenti documents well the means by which big business, in the immediate aftermath of September 11, was catered to directly through the airline bailout and the proposed oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, all the while an extensive tax cut had been implemented to overwhelmingly reward the nation's wealthy.
	www.frictionmagazine.com /imprint/books/terrorism_trap.asp (492 words)

	Mickey Z.: Cool Observer: Comments on Michael Parenti: "The Culture Struggle"
		Posted by Mudge on from Austin 03/22 at 09:38 AM On Monday March 20, Michael Parenti spoke on KQED’s Forum about his new book… the mp3 download and webpage for it at KQED are problematic.
		Michael - heartfelt expression is a peculiar thing and my questioning was only me getting to know you better.
		Michael Parenti whom Mr and Mrs Helga met in late March 2003 in Berkeley is one of my favourite writers - I like all of his books.
	www.pressaction.com /news/mickeyz/comments/2232 (1582 words)

	Releases :: Author and political activist Michael Parenti to speak at Moravian College
		Parenti takes a critical view of the policies of the United States.
		Parenti received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.
		Parenti appears regularly on radio and television programs.
	www.moravian.edu /news/releases/2003/111.htm (256 words)

	Michael Parenti, After communism
		By Michael Parenti, Covert Action Quarterly, no. 72, Spring 2002, pp.
		With the fall of socialism, we have global rollback, the creation of more wealth for the few and more poverty for the many, the creation of powerlessness by the powerful -- a cycle that cannot be effectively opposed by those who remain mired in the class collaborationist rhetoric of anticommunism.
		Michael Parentis most recent books are The Terrorism Trap (City Lights), To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia (Verso), History as Mystery (City Lights), and the 7th edition of Democracy for the Few (Wadsworth).
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/27c/046.html (2407 words)

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