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New York City-based punk rock band Choking Victim use a number of samples from Michael Parenti's lectures in their album No Gods, No Managers.
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He was also interviewed for two episodes of the Showtime series Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, speaking briefly about the Dalai Lama (Episode 305 – Holier Than Thou) and patriotism (Episode 508 – Mount Rushmore). Parenti was interviewed in Boris Malagurski's documentary film The Weight of Chains 2 (2014) about the former Yugoslavia. Appearances in media Īpart from several recordings of some of his public speeches, Parenti has also appeared in the 1992 documentary The Panama Deception, the 2004 Liberty Bound and 2013 Fall and Winter documentaries as an author and social commentator. He also is on the advisory boards of Independent Progressive Politics Network and Education Without Borders as well as the advisory editorial boards of New Political Science and Nature, Society and Thought. He served for 12 years as a judge for Project Censored. In 2007, he received a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from U.S. In 2003, the Caucus for a New Political Science gave him a Career Achievement Award. In the 1980s, he was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.
Parenti was once a friend of Bernie Sanders, but he later split with Sanders over Sanders's support for the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. House of Representatives in Vermont as the candidate of the democratic socialist Liberty Union Party he came in third place, with 7.1% of the vote. In recent years, he has addressed such subjects as "Empires: Past and Present," "US Interventionism: the Case of Iraq," "Race, Gender, and Class Power," "Ideology and History," "The Overthrow of Communism," and "Terrorism and Globalization." His book Blackshirts and Reds defended the Soviet Union and communist states of the 20th century from criticism, arguing that they were morally superior compared to capitalist states, that the problems of the Soviet Union were caused by the Russian Civil War and capitalist interference, and that " Left anti-Communist" and "pure socialist" critics have failed to offer any alternatives to the Soviet Union's "siege socialism". society,Įconomy, and political institutions and a college-level political science textbook published by Wadsworth Publishing. His book Democracy for the Few, now in its ninth edition, is a critical analysis of U.S. politics, culture, ideology, political economy, imperialism, fascism, communism, democratic socialism, free-market orthodoxies, conservative judicial activism, religion, ancient history, modern history, historiography, repression in academia, news and entertainment media, technology, environmentalism, sexism, racism, Venezuela, the wars in Iraq and Yugoslavia, ethnicity, and his own early life. Parenti's writings cover a wide range of subjects: U.S. Parenti lectures frequently throughout the United States and abroad. His works have been translated into at least 18 languages. He is the author of 20 books and over 300 articles. Eventually he devoted himself full-time to writing, public speaking, and political activism.
For many years Parenti taught political and social science at various institutions of higher learning.
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