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Author Parenti, Michael, 1933-

Title Contrary notions : the Michael Parenti reader.

Publication Info. San Francisco : City Lights Books, [2007]
©2007

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Location Call No. Status
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  973.92 PARENTI    DUE 02-13-18 Billed
Description xi, 403 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Media moments -- Liberal media yet to be found -- Methods of media manipulation -- Objectivity and the dominant paradigm -- Repression in academia -- The stolen presidential elections -- How the free market killed New Orleans -- Conservative judicial activism -- Why the corporate rich oppose environmentalism -- Autos and atoms -- What is to be done? -- Racist rule, then and now -- Custom against women -- Are heterosexuals worthy of marriage? -- That's Italian? Another ethnic stereotype -- La famiglia : an ethno-class experience -- Bread story : the blessings of private enterprise -- My strange values -- Technology and money : the myth of neutrality -- False consciousness -- Left, right, and the "extreme moderates" -- State vs. government -- Democracy vs. capitalism -- Socialism today? -- Capital and labor, an old story -- Wealth, addiction, and poverty -- Monopoly culture and social legitimacy -- The flight from class -- Imperialism for beginners -- The free market paradise liberates communist Europe -- The rational destruction of Yugoslavia -- To kill Iraq -- Good things happening in Venezuela -- A word about terrorists -- Dominant history -- Fascism, the real story -- The Cold War is an old war -- The people as "rabble" and "mob".
Subject United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020
United States -- Politics and government.
World politics -- 1989-
Social history -- 1970-
Capitalism.
ISBN 9780872864825
0872864820
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