with Michael Parenti
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Jan. 9, 2012
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brightpathvideo on Jan 8, 2012
http://lapena.org presents social critic and noted author Michael Parenti speaking about Democracy and the Pathology of Wealth. Parenti will be discussing developments in the U.S. political scene, the occupy movement and the struggle against corporate capitalism.
Michael Parenti is an internationally known award-winning author and lecturer. He is one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. His highly informative and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad.
Parenti’s writings cover a wide range of subjects: U.S. politics, culture, ideology, political economy, global imperialism, fascism, communism, democratic socialism, free-market orthodoxies, religion, ancient and modern history, news and entertainment media, environmentalism, sexism, racism, ethnicity, and his own early life.
For more information visit his website http://michaelparenti.org
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Michael Parenti’s most recent books are The Culture Struggle (2006), Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader (2007), God and His Demons (2010), Democracy for the Few (9th ed. 2011), and The Face of Imperialism (2011). For further information about his work, visit his website: www.michaelparenti.org.
see
In Depth with Chris Hedges: The World as It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress
Ralph Nader: It’s Time for the People to Get Steamed!
Gar Alperovitz’s “America Beyond Capitalism” with Ralph Nader, Ted Howard and John Cavanagh
Half of U.S. poor by Fred Goldstein
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Hmnn…How can a definition (which is all that “wealth” amounts to) be pathological? Human nature’s reaction to wealth on the other hand, can be exactly that, seems to me. But blame that on the people, not the wealth…
Did you watch the video, jack?
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In Naomi Klein’s excellent film follow-up to Shock Doctrine she runs down the whole horrible Milton Friedman experiments & their epic failure. It’s an ideology that depends on the plutarchic bell curve based on vast pillage of resources & lives, and now of capital itself.
Weird, just don’t get the allure/addiction of prospering beyond all reason, and especially at the expense of everyone & everything else. (But then I don’t get most things people seem to thrill to, like Nascar, war, video games, Vegas…).