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Author Parenti, Michael, 1933-

Title Contrary notions : the Michael Parenti reader.

Imprint San Francisco : City Lights Books, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  302.23 P215c 2007    ---  Available
Description xi, 403 p. ; 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-
United States -- Politics and government.
Journalism -- Political aspects.
World politics -- 1989-
Social history -- 1970-
Capitalism.
ISBN 9780872864825
0872864820

 
    
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