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Parenti: Free-Market Medicine—A Personal Account
Commentary, January, 28 2012
Michael Parenti
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The U.S. medical system costs many times more than what is spent in socialized systems, but it delivers much less in the way of quality care and cure
Parenti: Profit Pathology and Disposable Planet
Commentary, February, 27 2011
Michael Parenti
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The free marketeers have a deep all-abiding faith in laissez-faire for it is a faith that serves them well.
Parenti: The Mafia and Me
Commentary, January, 21 2011
Michael Parenti
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Like many others of Italian-American heritage, I experienced some discomfort when in 1951 Senator Estes Kefauver, a Democrat from Tennessee, launched his highly publicized investigation into the organized rackets, uncovering scores of thugs with I...
Parenti: Money Is Still the Name of the Game
Commentary, December, 10 2010
Michael Parenti
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For years certain pundits and political scientists have insisted that money is not all that important in winning elections. Large sums expended on campaigns glean only an extra percentage point or two in votes, we are told, and often the candidate...
Parenti: Pedophiles and Popes: Doing the Vatican Shuffle
Commentary, May, 11 2010
Michael Parenti
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When Pope John Paul II was still living in Poland as Cardinal Karol Wojty?a, he claimed that the security police would accuse priests of sexual abuse just to hassle and discredit them.
Parenti: What Do Empires Do?
Commentary, February, 14 2010
Michael Parenti
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When I wrote my book Against Empire in 1995, as might be expected, some of my U.S. compatriots thought it was wrong of me to call the United States an empire. It was widely believed that U.S. rulers did not pursue empire; they intervened abroad on...
Parenti: Italian American Identity: To Be or Not To Be
Commentary, August, 28 2009
Michael Parenti
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In the 1950s and early 1960s, it was the accepted view among many social scientists that, as ethnic assimilation advanced, ethnic group identities would fade away. But in fact, ethnicity continued to impact significantly upon political life. Why ...
Parenti: North Korea: "Sanity" at the Brink
Commentary, June, 24 2009
Michael Parenti
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Nations that chart a self-defining course, seeking to use their land, labor, natural resources, and markets as they see fit, free from the smothering embrace of the US corporate global order, frequently become a target of defamation. Their leader...
Parenti: Capitalism's Self-inflicted Apocalypse
Commentary, January, 19 2009
Michael Parenti
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After the overthrow of communist governments in Eastern Europe, capitalism was paraded as the indomitable system that brings prosperity and democracy, the system that would prevail unto the end of history.
Parenti: Afghanistan, Another Untold Story
Commentary, November, 28 2008
Michael Parenti
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Barack Obama is on record as advocating a military escalation in Afghanistan. Before sinking any deeper into that quagmire, we might do well to learn something about recent Afghani history and the role played by the United States.
Parenti: Mystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World
Commentary, September, 28 2006
Michael Parenti
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There is a "mystery" we must explain: How is it that as corporate investments and foreign aid and international loans to poor countries have increased dramatically throughout the world over the last half century, so has poverty? The number of peop...
Parenti: The Stolen Election of 2004
Commentary, July, 03 2006
Michael Parenti
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The 2004 presidential contest between Democratic challenger Senator John
Parenti: Still Soft on (Corporate) Crime
Commentary, June, 09 2006
Michael Parenti
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A half century ago, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black reminded us in Griffin v. Illinois (1956) that there "can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has." The corporate executive with a team of hi...
Parenti: The Hidden Politics of Deficit Spending
Commentary, May, 11 2006
Michael Parenti
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When government expends more than it collects in revenues, this is known as deficit spending. To meet its yearly deficits, it borrows from wealthy individuals and financial institutions in the United States and abroad.
Parenti: Custom Against Women
Commentary, March, 02 2006
Michael Parenti
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(The following is a revised excerpt from Parenti's newest book, THE CULTURE STRUGGLE)
Parenti: Government by Giveaway
Commentary, December, 31 2005
Michael Parenti
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In December 2005, the reactionaries who are running the government and ruining the country decided to cut about $42 billion from the human services budget over the next few years. Most of the cuts will come out of the hides of the very poorest amo...
Parenti: Right-Wing Judicial Activism
Commentary, October, 13 2005
Michael Parenti
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Appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee as nominee for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts assured the senators that he would not be one of those noisome activist judges who inject their personal values into court decisions.
Parenti: How the Free Market Killed New Orleans
Commentary, September, 03 2005
Michael Parenti
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The free market played a crucial role in the destruction of New Orleans and the death of thousands of its residents. Armed with advanced warning that a momentous (force 5) hurricane was going to hit that city and surrounding areas, what did offici...
