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Znet Article Parenti: A Terrible Normality

Znet Article, January, 26 2013 Michael Parenti
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It is not enough to denounce atrocities and wars, we also must understand who propagates them and who benefits. We have to ask why violence and deception are constant ingredients

Znet Article Parenti: The Nobel Peace Prize for War

Znet Article, October, 18 2012 Michael Parenti
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The Nobel Peace Prize often has nothing to do with peace and too much to do with war

Znet Article Parenti: Reflections on Politics and Academia: An Interview with Michael Parenti

Znet Article, July, 14 2012 Michael Parenti
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Interview on a variety of topics

Znet Article Parenti: Free Market Health Care: True Stories

Znet Article, March, 03 2012 Michael Parenti
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Tales of the heartless medical industry

Znet Article Parenti: Must We Adore Vaclav Havel?

Znet Article, December, 20 2011 Michael Parenti
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Excerpt from Michael Parenti's Blackshirts and Reds (1997)

Znet Article Parenti: Occupy America

Znet Article, November, 10 2011 Michael Parenti
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By saying nothing or next to nothing about dissenting events, movements, candidates, or incidents, the media consign them to oblivion

Znet Article Parenti: The Face of Imperialism

Znet Article, November, 04 2011 Michael Parenti
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The problem of inequality and privilege, is rooted in a U.S.-dominated global system of free untrammelled markets and structural adjustment

Znet Article Parenti: Class Warfare Indeed

Znet Article, October, 03 2011 Michael Parenti
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The moneyed class in this country has been doing class warfare on our heads and on those who came before us for more than two centuries

Znet Article Parenti: Making the World Safe for Hypocrisy

Znet Article, July, 04 2011 Michael Parenti
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The American people have had to pay the costs of empire

Znet Article Parenti: Death and Profits: The Utility Protection Racket

Znet Article, November, 05 2010 Michael Parenti
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Pacific Gas & Electric is a multibillion dollar, privately owned, publicly regulated utility whose main function is to make enormous profits for its shareholders at great cost to ratepayers.

Znet Article Parenti: The Honduras Coup: Is Obama Innocent?

Znet Article, July, 06 2009 Michael Parenti
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Is President Obama innocent of the events occurring in Honduras, specifically the coup launched by the Honduran military resulting in the abduction and forced deportation of democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya? Obama has denounced the c...

Znet Article Parenti: Economic Crisis the Inevitable Result of “Capitalism’s Self-Inflicted Apocalypse”

Znet Article, March, 13 2009 Michael Parenti
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The problem we’re facing is one which has to do with equity and fairness, that when the foundation gets consumed, the apex gets bloated, it’s going to collapse.

Znet Article Parenti: Dubious Design

Znet Article, May, 03 2008 Michael Parenti
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What is called "creationism" is the belief that in six days the Judeo-Christian god created the universe and all the earthly species including humans in finished form much as they exist today. For centuries this view prevailed throughout the weste...

Znet Article Parenti: Bad Boys, Nasty Boys: Out of the GOP’s Closet

Znet Article, February, 26 2008 Michael Parenti
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Republican party politicos espouse an unflagging devotion to old-fashioned morality and family values, inveighing heavily against gay marriage, abortion, homosexuality, adultery, feminism, crime, stem-cell research, secularism, and liberalism—all ...

Znet Article Parenti: Bad Boys, Nasty Boys: Out of the GOP’s Closet

Znet Article, February, 12 2008 Michael Parenti
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Republican party politicos espouse an unflagging devotion to old-fashioned morality and family values, inveighing heavily against gay marriage, abortion, homosexuality, adultery, feminism, crime, stem-cell research, secularism, and liberalism—all ...

Znet Article Parenti: Mother Teresa, John Paul II, and the Fast-Track Saints

Znet Article, October, 25 2007 Michael Parenti
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During his 26-year papacy, John Paul II elevated 483 individuals to sainthood, more saints than all previous popes combined, it is reported. One personage he beatified but did not live long enough to canonize was Mother Teresa, the Roman Ca...

Znet Article Parenti: Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader

Znet Article, October, 09 2007 Michael Parenti
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Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader

Znet Article Parenti: Gender Savagery in Guatemala

Znet Article, July, 09 2007 Michael Parenti
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On the outskirts of Guatemala City the body of an 18-year-old woman of indigenous ethnicity was recently discovered by her frantic parents who had been searching long and hard. Forensic evidence sho...

Znet Article Parenti: Globalization And Democracy:

Znet Article, May, 27 2007 Michael Parenti
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The goal of the transnational corporation is to become truly transnational, poised above the sovereign power of any particu­lar nation, while being served by the sovereign powers ...

Znet Article Parenti: Mystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty In The World

Znet Article, April, 26 2007 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...

Znet Article Parenti: The Stolen Election of 2004

Znet Article, March, 04 2007 Michael Parenti
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The 2004 presidential contest between Democratic challenger Senator John Kerry and the Republican incumbent, President Bush Jr., amounted to another stolen election. This has been well documented by such investigators as Rep. John C...

Znet Article Parenti: Mystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World

Znet Article, February, 18 2007 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? Th...

Znet Article Parenti: Interviewing Michael Parenti about The Culture Struggle

Znet Article, February, 19 2006 Michael Parenti
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1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, THE CULTURE STRUGGLE is about? What is it trying to communicate? Parenti: "Culture" refers to the entire panorama of conventional beliefs and practices within any society. But it has long occurred...

Znet Article Parenti: Are Heterosexuals Worthy of Marriage?

Znet Article, September, 14 2004 Michael Parenti
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Over the past year, a furious opposition to gay marriage has been voiced by many who claim to know how God feels about this issue. President Bush even went so far as to propose an amendment to the Constitution to make same-sex marriage a federal...

Znet Article Parenti: Empires, Old and New

Znet Article, February, 19 2004 Michael Parenti
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Michael Parenti received a PhD in Political Science at Yale University. He is one of the nation's leading progressive thinkers, an uncompromising advocate for political, economic, and social justice. He has written seventeen books, including: Demo...

Znet Article Parenti: Exposing The Terrorism Trap

Znet Article, July, 20 2002 Michael Parenti
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Michael Parenti received a PhD in Political Science at Yale University. He is one of the nation's leading progressive thinkers, an uncompromising advocate for political and social justice. He has written sixteen books, including Democracy for the ...

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