0-87286-318-2
(cloth)
0-87286-317-4 (paper)
City Lights Books, 1996 |
Dirty
Truths
is an eye-opening and entertaining collection of essays that investigate
media and culture, consipiracy and state power, ideology and political
consciousness. Parenti ranges over crucial issues of the day: free speech,
the rise of neofascism, the coming ecological apocalypse, the relationship
between wealth and poverty, the “terrorism” hype, the continuing mystifications
about the Kennedy assassination, and the deceptions and injustices of
U.S. corporate global domination.
Moving
from the political to the personal, Parenti shows the links between
seemingly disparate social and political forces. Dirty Truths
also contains three poems and moving accounts of his own ethnic family
life and the political intolerance he encountered in academia.
This book
is a rich buffet, an enlightening and provocative feast for the mind
and heart.
Contents
- Politics
and Issues
Hidden
Holocaust, USA
Creating the Poor
Fascism in a Pinstriped Suit
Rollback
Making
the World Safe for Hypocrisy
The
Terrorism Hype
Free
Speech--At a Price
Term Limits: Trick or Treat?
Media
and Culture
The “Liberal Media” Myth
Fabricating
a “Cultural Democracy”
Giving
Labor the Business
The
Invisible Bloodbaths
Yeltsin’s
Coup and the Media’s Alchemy
Now
for the Weather
Some
Call it Censorship
Conspiracy:
Phobia and Reality
The
JFK Assasination I: Defending the Gangster State
The
JFK Assasination II: Conspiracy Phobia on the Left
The
Wonderful Life and Strange Death of Walther Reuther (co-author Peggy
Noton)
Political
Theory and Consciousness
False
Consciousness
Dividends
Are Not Royalties
Political
Science Fiction
- Miscellany
and Memorabilia
Struggles
in Academe: A Personal Account
La
Famiglia: An Ethno-Class Experience
The
Blessings of Private Enterprise
Speak
Truth to Power, My Love [poem]
Young
People are Different [poem]
To
My Son As I Contemplate My Death [poem]
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