Articles by Michael Parenti

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The Sarin Mysteries: Syria, Sarin, and Casus Belli
Michael Parenti – Information Clearing House, 7 Oct 2013

The “Syrian freedom fighters” include men who are not even Syrian. According to the Wall Street Journal, the ISIS, an Iraqi al Qaeda outfit operating in Syria, “has become a magnet for foreign jihadists” who view the war in Syria rather as a historic battleground for a larger Sunni holy war. According to Islamic prophecy they espouse, they must establish an Islamic state in Syria as a step to achieving a global one.”

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Mystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World
Michael Parenti – Information Clearing House, 12 Mar 2012

Isn’t it time that liberal critics stop thinking that the people who own so much of the world—and want to own it all—are “incompetent” or “misguided” or “failing to see the unintended consequences of their policies”? You are not being very smart when you think your enemies are not as smart as you. They know where their interests lie, and so should we.

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Class Warfare Indeed
Michael Parenti – Toward Freedom, 10 Oct 2011

And who knows, once we learn to talk about the realities of class power, we are on our way to talking critically about capitalism, another verboten word in the public realm. And once we start a critical discourse about capitalism, we will be vastly better prepared to act against it and defend our own democratic and communal interests.

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Dirty Truths
Michael Parenti – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jul 2011

The history of the United States has been one of territorial and economic expansionism, with the benefits going mostly to the U.S. business class in the form of growing investments and markets, access to rich natural resources and cheap labor, and the accumulation of enormous profits. The American people have had to pay the costs of empire, supporting a huge military establishment with their taxes, while suffering the loss of jobs, the neglect of domestic services, and the loss of tens of thousands of American lives in overseas military ventures.

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Protecting the Perpetrators – Pedophiles and Popes: Doing the Vatican Shuffle
Michael Parenti – Common Dreams, 17 May 2010

The church seems determined to learn nothing from its transgressions, preoccupied as it is with avoiding lawsuits and bad publicity. Really Not All that Serious. First, pedophilia is not that serious if it involves only a few isolated and passing incidents. Second, an even more creepy way of downplaying the problem: child molestation is not all that damaging or that important. At worst, it is regrettable and unfortunate; it might greatly upset the child, but it certainly is not significant enough to cause unnecessary scandal and ruin the career of an otherwise splendid padre…. The damage done to sexual victims continues to go unnoticed: the ensuing years of depression, drug addiction, alcoholism, panic attacks, sexual dysfunction, and even mental breakdown and suicide-all these terrible aftereffects of child rape seem to leave popes and bishops more or less unruffled.

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WHAT DO EMPIRES DO?
Prof. Michael Parenti – Common Dreams, 14 Feb 2010

When I wrote my book Against Empire in 1995, as might be expected, some of my U.S. compatriots thought it was wrong of me to call the United States an empire. It was widely believed that U.S. rulers did not pursue empire; they intervened abroad only out of self-defense or for humanitarian rescue operations or […]

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CAPITALISM’S SELF-INFLICTED APOCALYPSE
Michael Parenti, 11 Feb 2009

After the overthrow of communist governments in Eastern Europe, capitalism was paraded as the indomitable system that brings prosperity and democracy, the system that would prevail unto the end of history. The present economic crisis, however, has convinced even some prominent free-marketeers that something is gravely amiss. Truth be told, capitalism has yet to come […]

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AFGHANISTAN: ANOTHER UNTOLD STORY
Michael Parenti, 6 Dec 2008

Barack Obama is on record as advocating a military escalation in Afghanistan. Before sinking any deeper into that quagmire, we might do well to learn something about recent Afghan history and the role played by the United States. Less than a month after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the […]

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