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Michael
Parenti received his Ph.D. in political science from
Yale University. He has taught at a number of colleges
and universities,
in the United States and abroad. Some of his writings have been
translated into Arabic, Azeri, Bangla, Chinese, Dutch, French,
German, Greek,
Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian,
Serbian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. |
“...
this tough, hilarious, right-on mix of scholar and street.”
KPFA-Pacifica,
1994
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Michael Parenti has won awards from
Project Censored, the Caucus for a New Political Science, the city
of Santa Cruz, New Jersey Peace Action, the Social Science Research
Council, the Society for Religion in Higher Education, and other
organizations.
In 2007 he was awarded a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from U.S. Representative Barbara Lee.
During his earlier teaching career he
received grants or fellowships from the Louis Rabinowitz Foundation,
the Ford Foundation, Brown University,
Yale University, State University of New York, and the University
of Illinois. For several years he was a Visiting Fellow at the
Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.
He now serves on the advisory boards of Independent Progressive
Politics Network, Education Without
Borders, and the Jasenovic Foundation; as well as the advisory
editorial boards of New Political Science and Nature,
Society and Thought. He also served for some 12 years as a judge for Project Censored.
He is the author of twenty-three books:
- The Face of Imperialism
- God and His Demons
- Democracy
for the Few
- Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader
- The
Culture Struggle
- Superpatriotism
- The Assassination
of Julius Caesar
- The Terrorism
Trap
- To Kill
a Nation
- History
as Mystery
- America
Besieged
- Blackshirts
and Reds
- Dirty Truths
- Against
Empire
- Inventing
Reality
- Land of
Idols
- Make-Believe
Media
- The
Sword and the Dollar
- Power and the Powerless
- Ethnic and Political Attitudes
- Trends and Tragedies in American Foreign
Policy
- The Anti-Communist Impulse
Some 320 articles of his have appeared
in scholarly journals, political periodicals and various magazines
and
newspapers.
He appears on radio and television
talk shows to discuss current issues and ideas from his published
works.
Dr. Parenti’s talks and commentaries are played on radio stations and
cable community access stations to enthusiastic audiences in the
United States,
Canada, and abroad.
He lectures on college campuses and
before a wide range of community audiences, peace groups, labor organizations,
scholarly conferences, and various other venues. His books are enjoyed
by both lay readers and scholars, and
have
been
used
extensively in college courses. Among the many topics he treats
are:
- Theocracy and Other Religious Sins
- Democracy and Economic Power
- Imperialism and U.S. Interventionism
- Empires, Past and Present
- Political Perceptions and Deceptions
- Ethnic-Class Experience
- Terrorism and Globalization
- Political Bias in the U.S. News Media
- Ideology and History
- Race, Gender, and Class
- The Overthrow of Communism
- Fascism: Past and Present
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