Michael Parenti (born 1933) is an American political scientist, historian, and media critic. 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... See also: Political Science Notable political scientists Kenneth Arrow - Nobel Memorial Prize winning economist who published influential paper on his widely cited Arrows Impossibility Theorem Robert Axelrod Duncan Black - Responsible for unearthing the work of many early political scientists, including Charles Dodgson Jean-Charles de Borda - 18th century mathematician... A historian is an individual who studies history and who writes on history. ...

Background

Parenti received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University and has taught at several universities, colleges, and other institutions. He is the author of twenty books and many more articles. His works have been translated into at least seventeen languages.^{[citation needed]} Parenti lectures frequently throughout the United States and abroad. His book, The Assassination of Julius Caesar, was selected as Book of the Year (2004) by Online Review of Books. He is the father of author and The Nation magazine contributor Christian Parenti. Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      Political Science is the field concerning the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behaviour. ... “Yale” redirects here. ... The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A Peoples History of Ancient Rome, by author Michael Parenti, argues that Julius Caesar was assassinated because the wealthy, conservative elite wanted to block Caesars reforms. ... The Nation (ISSN 0027-8378) is a weekly [1] U.S. periodical devoted to politics and culture, self-described as the flagship of the left. [2] Founded on July 6, 1865 as an Abolitionist publication, it is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. ... Christian Parenti is an American investigative journalist who has written extensively about the United States prison industry. ...

Political writings

Parenti is known, particularly in his capacity as a prominent member and head of the United States chapter of the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic, as a defender of the Serb position in the Yugoslav wars. He derided what he termed the "tireless demonization of democratically-elected President Slobodan Milosevic".^[1] According to Parenti, these wars were caused by a deliberate US and Western policy aiming at dismembering Yugoslavia in order to impose liberal capitalism there. In this capacity he called for Slobodan's release and defended both Milosevic and Serbs against allegations of atrocities: Anthem Serbia() on the European continent() Capital (and largest city) Belgrade Official languages Serbian 1 Recognised regional languages Hungarian, Croatian, Slovak, Romanian, Rusyn 2 Albanian 3 Government Semi-presidential republic  -  President Boris Tadić  -  Prime Minister Vojislav KoÅ¡tunica Establishment  -  Formation 9th century   -  First unified state c. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... Liberalism is an ideology, philosophical view, and political tradition which holds that liberty is the primary political value. ...

The media-hyped story of how the Serbs allegedly killed 7,000 Muslims in Srebrenica is uncritically accepted by Sell, even though the most thorough investigations have uncovered not more than 2,000 bodies of undetermined nationality. The earlier massacres carried out by Muslims, their razing of some fifty Serbian villages around Srebrenica, as reported by two British correspondents and others, are ignored. The complete failure of Western forensic teams to locate the 250,000 or 100,000 or 50,000 or 10,000 bodies (the numbers kept changing) of Albanians supposedly murdered by the Serbs in Kosovo also goes unnoticed. ^[2]

Another essay is Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth which casts Tibet as an extremely corrupt feudal system sustained by slavery which has seen drastic improvements because of the invasion and subsequent policies of the Chinese government. ^[3]

Claims of Fraud in 2004 Presidential Election

Parenti is among those who have theorised that the 2004 presidential election was fraudulent. In an essay entitled The Stolen Election of 2004, he argued that modern voting technology allowed powerful corporations to manipulate the electoral results. "Given this situation" he concluded, "it is not likely that the GOP will lose control of Congress come November 2006. The two-party monopoly threatens to become an even worse one-party tyranny". The GOP did, in fact, lose control of Congress come November 2006. Following the 2004 U.S. presidential election, concerns were raised regarding various aspects of the voting process: whether voting had been made accessible to everyone entitled to vote, whether the votes cast had been correctly counted, and whether these irregularities decisively affected the reported outcome of the election. ... This article is about the modern United States Republican Party. ...

The Assassination of Julius Caesar

In Parenti's The Assassination of Julius Caesar, he gives an alternative account of ancient Rome from that of traditional historiography; he describes Caesar's murder not in the usual way, as an attempt at "restoring republican liberties by doing away with a despotic usurper", but rather as an effort of the Roman upper class to do away with "a popular leader who threatened their privileged interests" ^[4]. The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A Peoples History of Ancient Rome, by author Michael Parenti, argues that Julius Caesar was assassinated because the wealthy, conservative elite wanted to block Caesars reforms. ... Nickname: Motto: SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC Government  - Mayor Walter Veltroni Area  - City 1,285 km²  (580 sq mi)  - Urban 5...

Bibliography

• The Anti-Communist Impulse, Random House, 1970.
• Trends and Tragedies in American Foreign Policy, Little, Brown, 1971.
• Ethnic and Political Attitudes, Arno, 1975.
• Democracy for the Few, First Edition circa 1974, Eighth Edition 2007.
• Power and the Powerless, St. Martin's Press, 1978.
• Inventing Reality: the Politics of News Media. First edition 1986, Second Edition 1993.
• The Sword and the Dollar: Imperialism, Revolution and the Arms Race, St. Martin's, 1989.
• Make-Believe Media: the Politics of Entertainment, St. Martin's Press, 1992.
• Land of Idols: Political Mythology in America, St. Martin's, 1993.
• Against Empire, City Lights, 1995.
• Dirty Truths, City Lights Books, 1996. Includes some autobiographical essays.
• Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1997.
• America Besieged, City Lights, 1998.
• History as Mystery, City Lights, 1999.
• To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia, Verso, 2000.
• The Terrorism Trap: September 11 and Beyond, City Lights, 2002.
• The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome, The New Press, 2003.
• Superpatriotism, City Lights, 2004.
• The Culture Struggle, Seven Stories Press, 2006
• Contrary Notions, City Lights Books, 2007

References in popular culture

The band Choking Victim uses a number of samples from Michael Parenti's lectures in their album, "No Gods, No Managers". Choking Victim was an influential ska/punk/hardcore (what they call Crack Rocksteady, a slight satire on the Rocksteady style of music which Choking Victims style was often included by) band from New York City in the 1990s. ...

External links

• Michael Parenti Political Archive
• Talks by Michael Parenti - MP3 format.

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