Michael Parenti Political Archive

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.

“A prolific author, a charismatic speaker, and a regular guest on radio and television talk shows, Parenti communicates his message in an accessible, provocative, and historically informed style that is unrivaled among fellow progressive activists and thinkers.”
— Aurora Online, January 2004

“Michael Parenti is a towering prophetic voice in American life. We need him now more than ever.” — Cornel West

“Parenti offers a valuable rebuttal to the drumbeat . . . from the right.” — New York Times Book Review

“A penetrating and persuasive writer with an astonishing array of documentation to implement his attacks.” — The Catholic Journalist

“Here at home and throughout the world people are fighting back against the forces of wealth, privilege, and militarism — some because they have no choice, others because they would choose no other course but the one that leads to peace and justice.”
— Michael Parenti

Recent Work
	Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader Here is a rich buffet of his deep but lucid writings on real history, political life, empire, wealth, class power, technology, culture, ideology, media, environment, gender, and ethnicity -- along with a few choice selections drawn from his own life experiences and political awakening. August 2007 (Available Now)

	Democracy For The Few, 8th Ed. DEMOCRACY FOR THE FEW is a penetrating interpretation of the American political system. It focuses both on the formal institutions of government as well as the broad configurations of power, wealth, and class: how the political system is used and controlled, for whose benefit and at whose cost. A comprehensive and powerful opus for student and layperson alike. 2007

	The Assassination of Julius Caesar A People’s History of Ancient Rome June 2003 Chosen “Book of the Year” 2004 (nonfiction) by Online Review of Books.
What's in the Archive:
	NEW North Korea: "Sanity" at the Brink posted June 2009

	NEW Afghanistan, Another Untold Story posted February 2009

	NEW Capitalism's Self-inflicted Apocalypse posted January 2009

	The JFK Assassination: Defending the Gangster State This article originally published in 1996, now available online in the ARTICLES section.

Tapes and CD’s of Dr. Parenti’s recent and past talks are now available in
Recorded Talks.

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