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- Saturday, Jan 28, 2012
Commentary 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 -
- Sunday, Feb 27, 2011
Commentary The free marketeers have a deep all-abiding faith in laissez-faire for it is a faith that serves them well. -
- Friday, Jan 21, 2011
Commentary 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... -
- Friday, Dec 10, 2010
Commentary 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... -
- Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Commentary 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. -
- Sunday, Apr 25, 2010
Commentary For more than half a century western political leaders and their corporate media have waged a disinformation war against socialist Cuba. Nor is there any sign that they are easing up. A recent example is the case of Orlando Zapata Tamayo, an inmat... -
- Sunday, Feb 14, 2010
Commentary 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... -
- Friday, Aug 28, 2009
Commentary 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 ... -
- Wednesday, Jun 24, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Monday, Jan 19, 2009
Commentary 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. -
- Friday, Nov 28, 2008
Commentary 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. -
- Thursday, Sep 28, 2006
Commentary 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... -
- Monday, Jul 03, 2006
Commentary The 2004 presidential contest between Democratic challenger Senator John -
- Friday, Jun 09, 2006
Commentary 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... -
- Thursday, May 11, 2006
Commentary 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. -
- Thursday, Mar 02, 2006
Commentary (The following is a revised excerpt from Parenti's newest book, THE CULTURE STRUGGLE) -
- Saturday, Dec 31, 2005
Commentary 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... -
- Thursday, Oct 13, 2005
Commentary 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. -
- Saturday, Sep 03, 2005
Commentary 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... - All Commentaries
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- Friday, Jan 13, 2012
Video Talk on developments in the U.S. political scene, the occupy movement and the struggle against corporate capitalism -
- Sunday, Nov 30, 2008
Video A shockingly great talk by Michael Parenti. - All Recent Video
Articles
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- Saturday, Jan 26, 2013
ZNet Article 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 -
- Thursday, Oct 18, 2012
ZNet Article The Nobel Peace Prize often has nothing to do with peace and too much to do with war -
- Saturday, Jul 14, 2012
ZNet Article Interview on a variety of topics -
- Saturday, Mar 03, 2012
ZNet Article Tales of the heartless medical industry -
- Tuesday, Dec 20, 2011
ZNet Article Excerpt from Michael Parenti's Blackshirts and Reds (1997) -
- Thursday, Nov 10, 2011
ZNet Article By saying nothing or next to nothing about dissenting events, movements, candidates, or incidents, the media consign them to oblivion -
- Friday, Nov 04, 2011
ZNet Article The problem of inequality and privilege, is rooted in a U.S.-dominated global system of free untrammelled markets and structural adjustment -
- Monday, Oct 03, 2011
ZNet Article 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 -
- Monday, Jul 04, 2011
ZNet Article The American people have had to pay the costs of empire -
- Sunday, Nov 28, 2010
ZMag Article Pacific Gas & Electric's state-capitalist consumer rip-off -
- Friday, Nov 05, 2010
ZNet Article 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. -
- Sunday, Jul 04, 2010
ZMag Article Protecting perpetrators and circling the wagons -
- Monday, Jul 06, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Friday, Mar 13, 2009
ZNet Article 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. -
- Saturday, May 03, 2008
ZNet Article 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... -
- Tuesday, Feb 26, 2008
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Tuesday, Feb 12, 2008
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Thursday, Oct 25, 2007
ZNet Article
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... -
- Tuesday, Oct 09, 2007
ZNet Article Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader -
- Monday, Jul 09, 2007
ZNet Article 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... - All Articles
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- Saturday, Jan 26, 2013
ZNet Article 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 -
- Thursday, Oct 18, 2012
ZNet Article The Nobel Peace Prize often has nothing to do with peace and too much to do with war -
- Saturday, Jul 14, 2012
ZNet Article Interview on a variety of topics -
- Saturday, Mar 03, 2012
ZNet Article Tales of the heartless medical industry -
- Tuesday, Dec 20, 2011
ZNet Article Excerpt from Michael Parenti's Blackshirts and Reds (1997) -
- Thursday, Nov 10, 2011
ZNet Article By saying nothing or next to nothing about dissenting events, movements, candidates, or incidents, the media consign them to oblivion -
- Friday, Nov 04, 2011
ZNet Article The problem of inequality and privilege, is rooted in a U.S.-dominated global system of free untrammelled markets and structural adjustment -
- Monday, Oct 03, 2011
ZNet Article 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 -
- Monday, Jul 04, 2011
ZNet Article The American people have had to pay the costs of empire -
- Monday, Jul 06, 2009
ZNet Article 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... - All Featured Parenti's Articles
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