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Berkeley: Normon Solomon & Michael Parenti Oct 8. Free
Lecture: "Speaking Truth to Empire" decries U.S. involvement in Iraq
October 8, 7 p.m., 145 Dwinelle Hall
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The Campus Anti-War Network and Muslim Students' Association have organized a nationwide speaking tour of activists and writers to protest what they see as the continued occupation of Iraq.
October 8, 7 p.m., 145 Dwinelle Hall
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The Campus Anti-War Network and Muslim Students' Association have organized a nationwide speaking tour of activists and writers to protest what they see as the continued occupation of Iraq.
Lecture: "Speaking Truth to Empire" decries U.S. involvement in Iraq
October 8, 7 p.m., 145 Dwinelle Hall
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The Campus Anti-War Network and Muslim Students' Association have organized a nationwide speaking tour of activists and writers to protest what they see as the continued occupation of Iraq.
The two speakers for the Berkeley lecture stop are Michael Parenti and Norman Solomon. Parenti is a leading radical writer on U.S. imperialism and interventionism, fascism, democracy and the media. Among his books are "The Terrorism Trap," "Democracy for the Few," and "History as Mystery." Norman Solomon is a nationally syndicated columnist on media and politics; he has written op-ed articles for nearly all the top U.S. newspapers. He is the executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a consortium of public-policy experts that analyzes media releases from think tanks, and the coauthor of "Wizards of Media Oz: Behind the Curtain of Mainstream News" and "Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media."
At the same time, there is a lecture by Normon Finkelstein at the law school.
October 8, 7 p.m., 145 Dwinelle Hall
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The Campus Anti-War Network and Muslim Students' Association have organized a nationwide speaking tour of activists and writers to protest what they see as the continued occupation of Iraq.
The two speakers for the Berkeley lecture stop are Michael Parenti and Norman Solomon. Parenti is a leading radical writer on U.S. imperialism and interventionism, fascism, democracy and the media. Among his books are "The Terrorism Trap," "Democracy for the Few," and "History as Mystery." Norman Solomon is a nationally syndicated columnist on media and politics; he has written op-ed articles for nearly all the top U.S. newspapers. He is the executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a consortium of public-policy experts that analyzes media releases from think tanks, and the coauthor of "Wizards of Media Oz: Behind the Curtain of Mainstream News" and "Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media."
At the same time, there is a lecture by Normon Finkelstein at the law school.
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Who knows! Maybe you could go and do that. Last time I saw Parenti on the UC campus, spartacist league members came and starting denouncing them as not-sufficiently communist, in a loud voice, and people started to bicker.
This was pretty good. Michael Parenti went through a long list of countries that the US has intervened in and helped cause millions of deaths, in Central America, Asia, Africa, South America, Europe, even if it was the CIA in some situations and not the regular US army.
He hit a few I wasn't even aware of. I was talking with a friend earlier about how we hadn't been aware of intervention and murders in Greece until we saw the movie Z, and perhaps most americans aren't aware. But I hadn't heard about intervention in Western Sahara, Jamaica, Fiji Islands, and was pretty vague about Mozambique CIA war. Our assistance in the 27 yr war in Angola was rarely commented upon in newspapers. From coverage in the newspapers, most americans would tend to get the impression that Cuba is the only caribbean country with real political oppression, and Haiti is a 'basketcase', due to their own lack of economic skill and ingenuity, so those refugees get sent back, even though the US has a centuries long pattern of kicking the english and french out and demanding control of their gov't and economy
He hit a few I wasn't even aware of. I was talking with a friend earlier about how we hadn't been aware of intervention and murders in Greece until we saw the movie Z, and perhaps most americans aren't aware. But I hadn't heard about intervention in Western Sahara, Jamaica, Fiji Islands, and was pretty vague about Mozambique CIA war. Our assistance in the 27 yr war in Angola was rarely commented upon in newspapers. From coverage in the newspapers, most americans would tend to get the impression that Cuba is the only caribbean country with real political oppression, and Haiti is a 'basketcase', due to their own lack of economic skill and ingenuity, so those refugees get sent back, even though the US has a centuries long pattern of kicking the english and french out and demanding control of their gov't and economy
Sorry Leni, I too was at the panel. Parenti isn't anti-war, he said at the talk he supported the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. Maybe their poison gas was organic.
He also let the audience know that Milosevic was a democratically elected leader. But hey so were Hitler and Bush and other racists like George Wallace.
One time I heard Parenti on Dennis Bernstein's KPFA show. He was with a Serbian nationalist who was saying all kinds of racist remarks about Albanians (similar to illegal Mexicans being in the U.S. neither Parenti or Bernstein said shit.
He also let the audience know that Milosevic was a democratically elected leader. But hey so were Hitler and Bush and other racists like George Wallace.
One time I heard Parenti on Dennis Bernstein's KPFA show. He was with a Serbian nationalist who was saying all kinds of racist remarks about Albanians (similar to illegal Mexicans being in the U.S. neither Parenti or Bernstein said shit.
Man, Michael Parenti is the lamest. He is a typical "old left" dinosaur with all his praise of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Bloc. Have a look at "Blackshirts and Reds" to see what I'm talking about. Talk about making a bad name for the left. His son's work is much better.
Yeah - he once flipped out on the radio when someone brought up his support for the Soviet side in Afghanistan, and at this talk, he said that capitalist starvation and imperialism have dwarfed what china and the USSR have done.
But I like his speaking ability on history. You don't fall asleep.
But I like his speaking ability on history. You don't fall asleep.
His historical "analysis" is wack as well. I'll take an actual historian any day. M. Parenti is--at his best--a polemicist and is usually just a simple-minded hack. Christian is cool though.
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