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Talking with parapolitical author and activist Michael Parenti, on how he got started, the US civil rights movement, the Vietnam war, becoming radicalized, Saddam Hussein as Washington’s poster boy/”worse than Hitler,” WMD and fear management foreign policy, Occupy Wall Street and the lair of the beast, recognition of the divide, 1% of 1%, the shrinking middle class, US as third-world country, collapsing infrastructure and expanding military, US medical care, an America of their own, Mother’s Theresa’s double standard, Ronald Reagan’s private environmentalism, capitalism at its most successful, profit pathology, the Fortune 500, the Walton family, accumulation mania and pathological lineages, the psychology of wealth, Parenti’s working class background, studying at Yale, Jasun and growing up inside a closet aristocracy, socialist capitalism, secret Fabian history, how class trumps ideology, Burgess and Maclean, identifying operatives within the left movement, creating bogus leftist movements in the UK, the Pedophile Information Exchange (P.I.E.), False Memory Syndrome, Believe the Children, UK pedocracy revelations post-Jimmy Savile, yesterday’s conspiracy theory, incest in the home, Michael Jackson and abuse-by-celebrity, how objectification and exploitation occurs in a stratified society, Woody Allen and the option of disbelief, the Kakistocracy/rule of the worst, creating rulers via sexual trauma, the effects of sexual abuse, Richard Dawkins on being abused, God and His Demons and the emergence of theocracy, Dawkin’s plagiarism, the problems of “conspiracy theory” in political discourse, chem trails, UFO secrecy, creating preposterous events.
Songs: “El Mariachi” and “Monkey Said” by The Freak Fandango Orchestra; “Gypsy Cab” and “Last Addiction,” by Pete Lund; “Hope Is a Thing with Feathers,” by Trailer Bride.
One of my all-time heroes. One can get a riveting and educational experience spending a day or two listening to him. I listen to him over again often just to get some air back from being smothered in the insanity of this world.
I spent a whole afternoon or two listening to Parenti talks after you linked to a video of his over on the forums. Really great that you got to talk to him on the podcast. I wish you had more time with him as a good bit of the running time is just getting over the initial awkwardness.
I am surprised he mentioned chemtrails at the end. That might just be me; I am not super-familiar with his work beyond a few hours of youtube binging.
I would’ve guessed that Mr. Parenti would have had more to say regarding group infiltration & controlled opposition (around 36 minute mark). He mentions some experience with double-agents/agent provocateurs and says that they were easy to spot, but seems to gloss over the possibility of entire groups/movements being fakes & fronts.
Loved it when he said (around 7:35 min. mark), “They’re very intelligent….No, it’s not that they don’t know what they’re doing; it’s that *you* don’t know what they’re doing.”