TUC Radio Presents Michael Parenti: Lies, War, And Empire

In this 2007 talk for Antioch College in Seattle Parenti raises the intriguing question of how we arrive at a valid analysis of our social reality – given that so many lies are told to confuse us. In Part one of this talk Parenti speaks about lies, dissent, and how we arrive at the truth of our situation and still retain our sanity. In the second half of his talk Parenti raises the question whether the Iraq war was not a failure but a success for some parts of the empire – and why. Michael Parenti is one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. He is a prolific author and an engaging speaker. After receiving his Ph.D. in political science from Yale he has taught at colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad. He serves on the board of judges for Project Censored and is the author of twenty books. The most recent are: Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader; the eighth edition of his classic: Democracy for the Few; Superpariotism; and The Assassination of Julius Caesar.