Author Profile
Christian Parenti
Christian Parenti is an American investigative journalist and author. His books include: Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (2000), a survey of the rise of the prison industrial complex from the Nixon through Reagan eras and into the present; The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror (2003), a study of surveillance and control in modern society; and The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq (2004), an account of the U.S. occupation in Iraq. Parenti has also reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Venezuela, and Bolivia.
Most Recent Articles
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Features
In Search of Lumumba
Congo's landscape of forgetting more »
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Features
Winning the War of Ideas
If the triumph of the New Right could be blamed on one person, that villain might be Austrian more »
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The Progress of Disaster
Letter from Baghdad more »
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Culture
The World Was Not Enough
The role of intellectuals and ideas in the project of empire has once again come to the fore. more »
