Articles
This is a selection of articles that are featured on Mr Parenti's website. The main articles page is here. Click on the title to read the article.
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Audio
There's
a decent amount of audio and video on the web and I'll put the links in
the sidebar on the left. These are the audio clips that I'm hosting on
my website just to share the burden of bandwidth. CDs are available on
his website here.
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Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth
I'm
certainly not going to defend the Chinese occupation of Tibet with all
of its horrible consequences, but I do have a problem with the way the
Tibet issue has been presented in Britian and America. Tibet was
and to some extent still is a feudal society and not the
lentil-munching place of serenity and peace that is often portrayed.
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The Hidden Ideology of the Mass Media
The
myth of the liberial media. Worse in America than here in the UK but
only just. Political journalists find it hard to stray too far from
what they are told by politicians due to all kinds of constraints on
time and the fear that they will be excluded from access to future
stories. Just look at the Greg Dyke at the BBC. And where are our
alternatives without an expensive satellite system?
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The Rational Destruction of Yugoslavia
Again,
I'm not an apologist for war crimes but there was a lack of balanced
information about the Balkan conflict that tended to paint the Serbs as
pure evil, when war crimes were committed by all sides. The west were
determined to bring down Yugoslavia and supported terrorist thugs like
the KLA to do it, creating ethnic tensions that would eventually lead
to bloodshed. The conflict hardened Russia's position on its own
domestic and foreign policy and Chechnya paid the price. A sorry mess
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The U.S. War on Yugoslavia
A
critical examination of the Balkan conflict waged by the US and the
UK amongst others. I've got a real problem with the continuing
depiction of this conflict as a 'good war' in Britain. It wasn't. It
created all kinds of problems that we are still dealing with today and
convinced Tony Blair that international law could be ignored with
impunity. It was a war crime on top of war crimes that were being
commited largely due to NATO interference in the internal politics of
Yugoslavia.
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The Demonization of Slobodan Milosevic
On
the same theme as the article above. Milosevic was depicted as a
monster by the western media but they never actually convicted him of
war crimes in the Hague. Yet again, I'm not an apologist for Milosevic
but if we judge our leaders and politicians by the amount of innocent
blood on their hands then step forward Reagan, Bush I, Bush II,
Blair et al.
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The National Security State at Home and Abroad
A look at the way the US pursues it's aims at home and abroad through violence using institutions like the CIA. |
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