Michael Parenti: Waiting for Yesterday: Pages from a Street Kid’s Life

Michael Parenti

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with Michael Parenti
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org
June 17, 2013

Jane Bouey
www.coopradio.org/
June 10, 2013

Interview with award-winning progressive political analyst and author Michael Parenti about his new memoir, “Waiting for Yesterday: Pages from a Street Kid’s Life.” Interviewed June 10 by Jane Bouey.

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Michael Parenti: Make-Believe Media

with Michael Parenti
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org
May 1, 2013

Media your number One provider...

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SmellsLikePodcast on Apr 30, 2013

Dr. Michael Parenti is an internationally-renowned lecturer and author, most recently of ‘The Face of Imperialism’. In this interview, he discusses the use of entertainment media as propaganda, and the relationship between government agencies and the production of such content. Later on in the talk, Dr. Parenti also provides his take on the media’s coverage of the Obama Administration’s escalating use of drones, and the recent death of Margaret Thatcher. A great listen as always so enjoy, spread the word, and peace! Continue reading

Requiem for a Dominatrix, by Michael Parenti

Annette Funicello

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by Michael Parenti
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org
April 13, 2013

On April 8, 2013, the western world lost a grand dame, an iconic figure, a woman admired by millions while dismissed by others as just another lady in a bouffant hairdo. She came from a modest social background yet she made her way to the top, a woman who could perform winningly in what is arguably the most competitive arena of life. I am, of course, speaking of Annette Funicello, singer and Hollywood actress.

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Michael Parenti: The Empire Feeds Off The Republic (no longer available)

with Michael Parenti
Writer, Dandelion Salad
March 16, 2013

Capitalism is Crisis

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Radio Akasha
Blog Talk Radio
February 25, 2013

Brian Stetten and Ruthan Amarteifio, still hopeful.
Somehow, somewhere, we’ll make a democracy!!

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Eating Horses in Paris by Michael Parenti

How do you like your horse?

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by Michael Parenti
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Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org
February 28, 2013

In 1951, only five years after World War II ended, I managed to make my way to Paris where I landed a job as a courier diplomatique (messenger boy) for the United Nations Sixth General Assembly. Despite the years of war and deprivation, Paris still was a special place with its history, its cafes, galleries, bridges, ornate edifices, and narrow winding cobblestone streets, some seemingly as old as the city itself.

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Michael Parenti: Making the World Safe for the Fortune 500, interviewed by Cindy Sheehan

by Cindy Sheehan
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Dandelion Salad
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog
February 3, 2013

War is Money (Encourage people to consider how our socio-economic-cultural system incentivizes and rewards aggressions and other harmful behaviors/activities.)

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with Michael Parenti
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org
February 3, 2013

This week’s Soapbox features Michael Parenti.

Michael 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.

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A Terrible Normality by Michael Parenti

by Michael Parenti
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Dandelion Salad
Jan. 25, 2013

Genocide Phnom Penh

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Through much of history the abnormal has been the norm. This is a paradox to which we should attend. Aberrations, so plentiful as to form a terrible normality of their own, descend upon us with frightful consistency.

The number of massacres in history, for instance, are almost more than we can record. There was the New World holocaust, consisting of the extermination of indigenous Native American peoples throughout the western hemisphere, extending over four centuries or more, continuing into recent times in the Amazon region.

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Michael Parenti on Media, Class, Politics, Drones, Occupy

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Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org
Jan. 17, 2013

We Are The Many, Occupy Oakland Move In Day (27 of 31)

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David Pakman Show·Jan 16, 2013

Michael Parenti, noted political scholar and author of The Face of Imperialism joins David to discuss the changing role of media in the political landscape, the lenses of the two party system, race, culture, and class, on media reporting, and more. Continue reading

Michael Parenti: They Start Out By Demonizing Their Leader

with Michael Parenti
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Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org
December 8, 2012

“The Empire feeds off the republic.” — Michael Parenti

Occupy Wall Street - 11/3/11 - 006

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by Radio Free Kansas
December 8, 2012

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.

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Michael Parenti on The State of Human Rights in the U.S.A. (clip from Long Distance Revolutionary)

2012 02 04 - 10005 - Washington DC - Occupy DC

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with Michael Parenti
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org
October 31, 2012

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Michael Parenti: The Destruction and Colonization of Yugoslavia

An animated series of maps showing the breakup...

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with Michael Parenti
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org
October 30, 2012

Oct 21, 2012 by

Destruction and Colonization of Yugoslavia event, 09-15-2012 Parenti’s introductory comments.

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Michael Parenti: The 1% Pathology and the Myth of Capitalism

replaced video May 17, 2013

with Michael Parenti
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org
October 24, 2012

It's Capitalism.

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“A man who steals a goose from the commons is punished, while a man who steals the commons itself is rewarded.” -unknown-

Michael Parenti has authored many books such as:

God and His Demons; The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome; The Face of Imperialism; Dirty Truths; Blackshirts & REDS; Super Patriotism.

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Michael Parenti, Savvina Chowdhury, Sarah Regan: State of the Struggle

Occupy Wall Street S15

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with Michael Parenti
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org
October 24, 2012

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Michael Parenti, Savvina Chowdhury, Sarah Regan panel: “State of the Struggle” – at the Peoples’ Movement Assembly in Olympia WA, Oct. 20, 2012. Continue reading

The Nobel Peace Prize for War by Michael Parenti

Barack Obama - Second Term Flare-Ups

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by Michael Parenti
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org
October 18, 2012

Those who own the wealth of nations take care to downplay the immensity of their holdings while emphasizing the supposedly benign features of the socio-economic order over which they preside. With its regiments of lawmakers and opinion-makers, the ruling hierarchs produce a never-ending cavalcade of symbols, images, and narratives to disguise and legitimate the system of exploitative social relations existing between the 1% and the 99%.

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