Christian Parenti

Christian Parenti is an American investigative journalist and author.

Parentis articles are usually published in The Nation and he is also a regular on Doug Henwoods Radio Show, Behind The News, KPFA, Berkeley to listen, to discuss his work. He also writes for numerous other publications, including the London Review of Books, Mother Jones magazine and Condé Nast Traveler. He has been a professor at the SIT Graduate Institute today.

Parenti is the son of Michael Parenti, a living in Vermont artist, and Susan Parenti. He graduated from the Buxton School in Williamstown, the New School for Social Research in New York and the London School of Economics, where he would eventually his Ph.D. degree sociology received. He now lives in Brattleboro and New York City. In his latest work, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence ( 2011) Parenti examines the interrelationships of climate change with social and political unrest in the Middle climates in the world. Parenti also reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Venezuela, Bolivia, South Africa and China. " Tropic of Chaos " appears at the end of 2012 in a German edition by Laika -Verlag.

Selected works

  • Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (1999) ISBN 1-85984-303-4
  • The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror ( 2003) ISBN 0-465-05485-4
  • The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq ( 2004) ISBN 1-56584-948-5
  • Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence ( 2011)

Related Links

  • Parenti 's website
  • Article from The Nation
  • Index of articles by Christian Parenti
  • " Christian Parenti in Afghanistan: Saturday's Elections Were A ' farce ' " interview with Amy Goodman ( Democracy Now, October 12, 2004! )
  • " Christian Parenti: BP & Changing Energy Economies ' " Interview with Laura Flanders ( GRITtv, July 7, 2010)
  • "Back to the Motherland: Cuba in Africa" ​​( Monthly Review, June 2003)
  • Audio and Transcript of a speech by Christian Parenti from the Prison Industrial Complex
  • " Homeland Security, Surveillance, and the War in Iraq: An Interview with Christian Parenti, " by Lawrence Jones
  • Christian Parenti on Enduring "Zombie Nuke Plants" Nationwide - video report by Democracy Now!
  • Christian Parenti on Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change & the New Geography of Violence - video report by Democracy Now!
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