Dirty Truths: Reflections on Politics, Media, Ideology, Conspiracy, Ethnic Life and Class PowerCultural Writing. Essays. This collection of essays is both eye-opening and entertaining. Investigating media and culture, conspiracy and state power, and ideology and political consciousness, Parenti focuses on a variety of issues including free speech, the rise of neofascism, the relationship between wealth and poverty, the "terrorism" hype, the continuing mystification about the Kennedy assassination, and the deceptions and injustices of global domination. He shows the links between seemingly disparate social and political forces. The book also includes three of his poems and moving accounts of his own family life and the political intolerance he encountered in academia. Michael Parenti is one of the country's most astute and engaging political analysts and has taught in a number of universities. He is living now in Berkeley, California. |
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