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| Dirty Truths; From Dirty Truths by Michael Parenti: | |
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| Topic Started: Oct 30 2009, 05:12 AM (69 Views) | |
| Yougenedebs | Oct 30 2009, 05:12 AM Post #1 |
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From Dirty Truths by Michael Parenti: To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people…. Ruling elites use both conspiratorial covert actions and overtly legitimating procedures at home and abroad. They finance everything from electoral campaigns and publishing houses to mobsters and death squads. They utilize every conceivable stratagem, including killing one of their own if they perceive him to be a barrier to their larger agenda of making the world safe for those who own it…. The "great continuities of corporate and class interest" (Cockburn's phrase) are not disembodied things that just happen of their own accord. Neither empires nor national security institutions come into existence in a fit of absent-mindedness. They are actualized not only by broad conditional causes but by the conscious efforts of live people. Evidence for this can be found in the very existence of a national security state whose conscious function is to recreate the conditions of politico-economic hegemony….. It is neither "Kennedy worship" nor "Camelot yearnings" that motivates our inquiry, but a desire to fight back against manipulative and malignant institutions so that we might begin to develop a system of accountable rule worthy of the name democracy. http://www.questionsquestions.net/documents2/conspiracyphobia.html Eladio del Valle Del Valle's name came up the day after JFK's assassination when Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade announced at a press conference that Oswald was a member of del Valle's anti-communist "Free Cuba Committee." Wade was quickly contradicted from the audience by Jack Ruby, who claimed that Oswald was a member of the leftish Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Del Valle, who was one of several people that New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison sought out in connection with the JFK assassination, was killed the same day that Dave Ferrie, another suspect met a suspicious death. When found in Miami, del Valle's body showed evidence of having been tortured, bludgeoned, and shot. http://www.questionsquestions.net/documents2/conspiracyphobia.html |
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| Yougenedebs | Oct 30 2009, 05:49 AM Post #2 |
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Also, some lectures by Parenti; hosted by TUC Radio: The speech on Conspiracy and Class Power given in 1993: http://www.tucradio.org/081015_ConspiracyONE.mp3 http://www.tucradio.org/081022_ConspiracyTWO.mp3 [copy and paste into your browser window] |
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| shure | Nov 2 2009, 02:27 AM Post #3 |
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I was doing an essay on the media a couple weeks ago and came across some of Parenti's talks, they were very good. This one was really good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jwliZ1YoCs Also if you search for Mickey Huff of Project Censored he also has some good interviews from the Global Research News Hour radio show. |
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| elephant room | Nov 2 2009, 07:43 AM Post #4 |
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i've never heard this guy ... he's great! Edited by elephant room, Nov 2 2009, 07:44 AM.
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