Michael Parenti

[laura888]

Just heard Michael Parenti's electrifying speech on Pacifica radio's Peace Watch. The title was something like "Super-Patriots."

Given in 1988, its extremely relevant now.

Does anyone know where I can get a transcript?

it's the first time I heard him. I immediately went out and bought 2 of his books.

[davekriss]

1. Highly Recommend

An old classic, Power and the Powerless.

[RichM]

2. I'm a Parenti expert (in all due modesty) - let me tell you stuff.

He has a web site at: http://www.michaelparenti.org/

Excerpts from some of his 16 books can be found at:
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Authors/Authors_page.html (He's the 5th author from the top in that list.)

Best books (there are 15 or 16 in all; I've read every one of them).

Against Empire (& The Sword and the Dollar) - both on US imperialism
Inventing Reality - news media analysis
Make-Believe Media - entertainment media analysis - "The hidden politics of the entertainment media. "
America Besieged - review of domestic political issues, including a "What is to be Done" section
Blackshirts and Reds (& The Anticommunist Impulse) - both on the irrational but central role played by anticommunism in shaping US political culture
Democracy for the Few - a demonstration of how class privilege is served & protected in the basic formal structure of the US political system
Dirty Truths, & History as Mystery -- assorted essays generally illustrating how the dominant ideology penetrates all aspects of culture

IMO, you have to read a group of these books to get the overall idea. His analysis is in a sense really ONE overarching idea - class power - that the different books apply to different areas of society's functioning.

He's on a nationwide antiwar tour now, with Howard Zinn, Norman Solomon, Medea Benjamin, et al. Info on the tour:

http://antiwarnetwork.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=41

Maybe Pacifica itself has a tape or transcript of the '88 talk? KPFA certainly has an email address: I think their web page is, predictably, www.kpfa.org.

[laura888]

3. beautiful!

You're the greatest!

[leftchick]

4. I saaw him recently on C-Span.....

Very impressive man....will go buy his most recent book this weekend....