Michael Parenti
Michael Parenti
Michael John Parentiis an American political scientist, political economist, historian, and cultural critic who writes on scholarly and popular subjects. He has taught at American and international universities and has been a guest lecturer before campus and community audiences...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCritic
CountryUnited States of America
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peg ifs leashes
You don't know you're wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day
mass-destruction leader drug
With each newly minted crisis, US leaders roll out the same time-tested scenario. They start demonizing a foreign leader ... charging them with being communistic or otherwise dictatorial, dangerously aggressive, power hungry, genocidal, given to terrorism or drug trafficking, ready to deny us access to vital resources, harboring weapons of mass destruction, or just inexplicably "anti-American" and "anti-West." Lacking any information to the contrary, the frightened public ... are swept along.
lilies weasels democrat
Democrats—lily-livered, weasel-assed collaborators.
recovery dedication political
Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.
revolution buttons action
Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.
executive-power peculiar danger
The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.
jury mechanism grand-jury
One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.
heartless police world
Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with its protection must develop its capacity for autocratic control. Thus, the "Free World" increasingly resembles a dreary string of heartless police states.