As it stands, Michael Parenti's power-levels could only be contained by the dark magic of audio engineering.
Can you hear me in the back alright? [insert random sound related riff here]
crowd goes wild
Also the fact that there are no Parenti emojis is a big reason why the fascists are winning
Just watched the 1986 one on anti-Sovietism. The man is a stallion.
Parenti can be contained by anyone disagreeing with him. Watching him "Debate" about the Iraq war was truly the cringiest shit, as he let his opponennt just straight up lie for 20 minutes at a time while challenging none of it.
Downvote all you want, I'm not going to let parenti acquiescing that maybe Saddam really was making a nuke go.
I mean, on one hand it’s the lynch pin of their whole justification for the war, on the other so what if he was?
Is the Hitchens debate? Maybe I missed it, but I do remember Parenti calling Hitchens on a lot of his bullshit. I'll have to go and rewatch it.
Do that, and remember that literally all Hitchens evidence for the nukes is fake, and not only fake but proven fake at the time the debate took place. And Parenti challenges none of it, because he wants to talk military industrial complex
Parenti is a board member of the "International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic" and Milosevic wrote the preface to Parenti's book "To Kill a Nation" Yugoslav version. Yeah, you should definitely listen to this crank.
Milošević resigned from the Yugoslav presidency amid demonstrations after the disputed presidential election of 24 September 2000, and was arrested by Yugoslav federal authorities on 31 March 2001 on suspicion of corruption, abuse of power, and embezzlement.[3][4] The initial investigation into Milošević faltered for lack of evidence, prompting Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić to extradite him to the ICTY to stand trial for war crimes instead.[
Following his arrest, the United States pressured the Yugoslav government to extradite Milošević to the ICTY or lose financial aid from the IMF and World Bank.
In February 2007, the International Court of Justice cleared Serbia under Milošević's rule of direct responsibility for occurrences of crime committed during the Bosnian War.
:thinkin-lenin: :thinkin-lenin: :thinkin-lenin:
13500 people in total died after 1.5 years of war and NATO intervention.
Unless you count roughly half the mosques in Kosovo being "damaged" (the wiki article doesnt define what this even means) as genocide then I really dont see how you can make a convincing argument this man was an unambiguously bad war criminal hell belt on genociding anyone who wasnt a serb.
Not even touching the Yugoslav Wars here, but Milosevic was a textbook American regime change operation. Otpor! was basically a front for the NED, the state department was making pamphlets for them and shit. The anti-imperialist position is to defend Milosevic.
Yeah, that's one aspect of Parenti I don't jive with. I have a friend who is Bosnian and as far away from a chud as can be, and I have a hard time believing that these people are lying or overstating the atrocities that took place in the name of religious nationalism.