1. Michael John Parenti was born on September 30,1933 and is an American political scientist, academic historian and cultural critic who writes on scholarly and popular subjects.
22 Facts About Michael Parenti
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Michael Parenti has taught at universities as well as run for political office.
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Michael Parenti has been denounced by Bosniak organizations and historians for his denial of the Bosnian Genocide.
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Michael Parenti was raised by an Italian-American working-class family in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City.
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Michael Parenti is the father of Christian Parenti, an academic, author and journalist.
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Michael Parenti was charged with aggravated battery, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest.
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Michael Parenti learned from sympathetic associates at the colleges he applied to that he was being rejected for his leftist views and political activism.
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Michael Parenti discusses the broader question of political orthodoxy in US higher education in "The Empire in Academia" chapter of his 1995 book, Against Empire.
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Michael Parenti served for 12 years as a judge for Project Censored.
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Michael Parenti is on the advisory boards of Independent Progressive Politics Network and Education Without Borders as well as the advisory editorial boards of New Political Science and Nature, Society and Thought.
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In 2003, Michael Parenti became Chairman of the US National Section of the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic.
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Michael Parenti has been condemned by multiple organizations for his denial of the Bosnian genocide.
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Michael Parenti had minimized the amount of Muslims murdered in the Srebrenica massacre.
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In 2013, the Institute for Research Genocide, Canada, representing several Bosnian groups, criticized Lone Star College's decision to have Michael Parenti appear at a speaking engagement, again citing his genocide denial.
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The first notable book in Michael Parenti's writing career was Democracy for the Few.
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Unfortunately, Mr Michael Parenti is so simplistic and doctrinaire in accounting for this bias that he makes his book easy to dismiss.
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Michael Parenti continued his exploration of mass media in Make-Believe Media: The Politics of Entertainment.
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Michael Parenti explores what he calls "Conspiracy Phobia on the Left".
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Michael Parenti summarizes his approach in the Preface to Blackshirts and Reds:.
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Michael Parenti later argues that the Soviet Union's "well-publicized deficiencies and injustices" were exacerbated by the Russian Civil War, the Nazi-led multinational invasion, and by non-military modes of capitalist intervention against the Eastern Bloc.
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Apart from video recordings of his public speaking engagements, Michael Parenti has appeared in the 1992 documentary The Panama Deception, and in the 2004 Liberty Bound and 2013 Fall and Winter documentaries as an author and social commentator.
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In July 2003, Michael Parenti was invited on the C-SPAN Booknotes program to discuss his latest work, The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome.