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Michael Parenti
CIVIL LIBERTIES IN THE
21st CENTURY
In his November 2009 lecture
at the
University of Hartford Dr. Michael Parenti answers intriguing questions
about democracy. Is US democracy a result of capitalism as some claim -
or does it exist - such as it is - in spite of the current economic
system. AND did the founding fathers even envision a democratic system
- and why were so many of them opposed to democracy.
Parenti is one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts.
This is part one of his one hour lecture. He was introduced by the
President of the University of Hartford, Walter Harrison. After
receiving his Ph.D. in political science from Yale Parenti has
taught at colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad.
Parenti grew up in a conservative, catholic, working class Italian
community in New York city. He is a prolific author and an engaging
speaker. He serves on the board of judges for Project Censored and is
the author of 22 books, among them: Democracy for the Few,
Superpatriotism, History as Mystery, and - most recently - God and His
Demons.
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Michael Parenti
GOD AND HIS DEMONS
This is Dr. Michael
Parenti's first talk on
his most recent book: God
and His Demons. The 2010 book covers the many evils committed in the
name of godly virtue throughout history, and the threat posed by
fundamentalists and theocratic reactionaries.
Parenti is one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts.
He is a prolific author and an engaging speaker. Parenti grew up in a
conservative, catholic, working class Italian community in New York
city. After receiving his Ph.D. in political science from Yale he has
taught at colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad.
He risked and ended his academic career when he openly opposed the war
on Vietnam. He serves on the board of judges for Project Censored and
is the author
of 22 books, among them: Democracy for the Few, Contrary Notions,
Superpatriotism, History as Mystery, and Dirty Truths.
Recorded at the Unitarian Universalists Hall in Berkeley, CA, on April
27, 2010.
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Michael Parenti
DIVERSITY
AND ORTHODOXY IN THE NEWS MEDIA
This
August
28, 2008 analysis of the media is Parenti's most up-to-date
contribution. He gave the keynote speech for the Modern Media
Censorship lectures by Project Censored. Each year Project Censored gives
awards
for the most censored news stories of the year. Parenti lists important
criteria by which to judge media bias, ranging from ownership to
labeling, false objectivity and sensationalism, omission, outright lies
and the denial of causality with the famous theory of "stuff happens".
Michael
Parenti has written and lectured on the mainstream media for
decades. His key book on the topic is "Inventing Reality - The politics
of the News Media."
With roots in a working class Italian district of New York and a Ph.D.
in political science from Yale Michael Parenti has become an
internationally known writer and lecturer. He is the author of twenty
books.
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Michael Parenti
CAPITALISM'S APOCALYPSE
Why the rich can't save anybody - not even
themselves
Parenti predicted the financial
crisis and said that giant corporate
capitalism - by it's very nature - is an apocalyptic system. When
unregulated the built in elements of ever increased growth may well
bring the whole system down. And he described the growing national debt
not as a tragic mistake but as a means to shift ever more money from
the tax payers to the financial institutions in the form of interest
payments. This speech is an analysis of the many structural flaws of a
capitalist system that puts it on a permanent collision course with
democracy.
Recorded on August 23, 2008 at the closing reception for Maria
Gilardin's art show.
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Michael Parenti
CONTRARY NOTIONS
City
Light books in San Francisco's North Beach was filled to capacity
for the book party of Michael Parenti's most recent work: Contrary
Notions. This is a rich selection from the writings of a life time on
history, empire, wealth, class power, ideology and much more. Parenti
goes where few political analysts dare to go and - with acerbic wit
- makes transparent how he arrives at his conclusions. This
excerpt of his 45 minute talk addresses taboo subjects such as the
murder of the town of New Orleans and 9/11.
This is a highly
professional recording by Brightpath Video of Parenti
in an intimate book store
setting on January 22, 2008.
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Michael Parenti
STOP THE SPRAY
Parenti weighs in on the Apple Moth
eradication
What do Homeland Security and FEMA have to do with the California
Department of Food and
Agriculture's plans to spray the San Francisco Bay Area with
pesticides? Is this more dangerous to us and our rights than to the
light brown apple moth? Parenti says that 50 other states have plans
for similar eradication programs - so this is NOT
a local issue.
Includes a 6 minute
documentary of the Golden Gate Bridge march against spraying of the Bay
Area.
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Michael Parenti
RACE, GENDER and CLASS STRUGGLE
Discussion
of racism is usually a discussion about personal attitudes – not of the
larger system of power that sustains and feeds institutional and
systemic racism and sexism. Racism and sexism have historically served
a number of real functions: they have created a surplus workforce and
they
have divided those who find themselves at the bottom of the social
power
structure.
In this talk Michael Parenti asks the important question: How were
racism and sexism used by employers, colonial powers, the CIA and even
by some on the Left to maintain the existing order. Recorded in Arcata,
CA, April 9, 2006
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Cindy
Sheehan
and
Michael
Parenti
DEMOCRACY AGAINST WEALTH
A Matter of Some History
Talk at the Immanuel
Presbyterian Church, Los Angles, CA, December 1, 2006
Recorded by Democracy University. (One hour 15 minutes)
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Michael
Parenti
THE US WAR ON YUGOSLAVIA
Why
U.S.
leaders
are
demonizing
and
destroying
yet
another
country.
(85 minutes)
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Michael Parenti
THE ASSASSINATION OF CAESAR
A Republic Against Caesar – Class Power & Conspiracy in Ancient Rome
(77 minutes)
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Michael
Parenti
REFLECTIONS ON THE OVERTHROW OF COMMUNISM
Internal
and
external
causes,
and
the
brutal
free
market.
(98 minutes)
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Michael
Parenti
THE HIDDEN IDEOLOGY OF THE MEDIA
Exposes the corporate domination &
conservative bias in the
news
(69 minutes)
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Michael
Parenti
THE PRETEXTS OF US INTERVENTIONISM
Recorded in Los Angeles,
CA, May 1995. Length 65 min
Produced by Brian Barry
(65 minutes)
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Michael
Parenti
THE STRUGGLE FOR HISTORY
Manipulating
the
Past
to
Control
the
Present
(86 Minutes)
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Michael
Parenti
EXECUTIVE POWER AND DEMOCRATIC NEEDS
The
national
security
gangster
state
in
the
Clinton
era.
Recorded
in
Sebastopol,
CA,
June
1993.
(84 minutes)
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Michael
Parenti
THE VICTIMIZATION OF WOMEN
Male
terrorism
&
the
political
economy
of
gender
oppression.
(98 minutes)
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Michael
Parenti
FASCISM: THE FALSE REVOLUTION
How
fascism,
past
and
present,
protects
the
wealthy
few
while
launching a
mass appeal
(62 minutes)
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Michael
Parenti
VOODOO ECONOMICS AND CLASS WARFARE
How government for
the rich produces oppressive taxes, a huge debt and economic recession.
Recorded in Long
Beach, CA, Feb. 1992
(68 minutes)
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Michael
Parenti
DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT VS. THE STATE
The
dangers
of
executive
power
and
state
conspiracy.
Recorded
in
Long
Beach,
CA,
September
1991.
(96 minutes)
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Michael
Parenti
RACISM & THE IDEOLOGY OF SLAVERY
How
racism develops from tribalism, slavery
and imperialism, and the functions it serves.
(86 minutes)
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Michael
Parenti
HUMAN NATURE & POLITICS
A critique of conservative concepts of
human nature.
(104 minutes)
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Michael
Parenti
RAMBO AND THE SWARTHY HORDES
Political images and
the entertainment media; including imperialist and
racist themes.
(61 minutes)
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Michael
Parenti
THE
SWORD
AND
THE
DOLLAR
The history of imperialism and the
forced
maldevelopment of
the Third World.
Recorded in Marin,
CA, September 1993
(71 minutes)
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Michael
Parenti
DEMOCRACY & US INTERVENTION
Marxist VS liberal
analysis of political life & the myth of
“national security.”
(47 minutes)
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Michael
Parenti
THEOCRACY VS. DEMOCRACY
The Political
Uses of Religion
Michael Parenti says that democracy can't
survive under religious rule
– whatever that religion may be. Parenti's warning in this archival
recording is as timely and urgently expressed as it was when this
speech was first given during
the second term of the Reagan administration. This talk is also very
funny.
( 48 minutes)
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Michael
Parenti
MONOPOLY CULTURE & ACADEMIC FREEDOM
The class basis of
our cultural, educational & legal institutions.
(72 minutes)
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Michael
Parenti
INVENTING REALITY: THE POLITICS OF THE MEDIA
Ideological
distortion in the news.
Recorded 1985 or later.
(104 minutes)
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Michael Parenti
LIES, WAR, AND EMPIRE
In this 2007 talk for
Antioch College in Seattle
Parenti raises the intriguing question of how we make a valid
analysis of our social reality – given that so many lies are told to
confuse us. In Part one of this talk Parenti speaks about lies,
dissent, and how we
arrive at the truth of our situation and still retain our sanity. In
the second half of his talk Parenti raises the question whether the
Iraq war was not a failure but a success for some parts of the empire –
and why.
Thanks to Mike McCormick for the film and audio recording of this
event. Mike is the host of "Mind over Matters" on KEXP radio, Seattle.
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