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Christian ParentiFellowAward-winning journalist and author Christian Parenti is a new investigative fellow at The Nation Institute. A contributing editor at The Nation, he has reported extensively from the Middle East, Latin America and Africa and his articles have appeared in Playboy, Mother Jones, The London Review of Books, Salon and The International Herald Tribune, among others. He has also worked on several documentaries including Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi. Parenti is the author of 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. He is currently working on a new book that explores how climate change will lead to increased social and political violence in years and decades ahead. Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence will be published by Nation Books in June 2010. Parenti has worked as a visiting fellow at CUNY's Center for Place, Culture and Politics and a Soros Senior Justice Fellow. He earned a PhD in sociology at the London School of Economics. He lives in Brooklyn.
Recent articles and appearances: Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi Can China Catch A Cool Breeze? The Drug Coast What Nuclear Renaissance? Chocolate's bittersweet economy Cocoa Industry Accused of Greed, Neglect for Labor Practices in Ivory Coast Our Battles Joined Congo's crisis, Congo's history The Fight to Save Congo's Forests Christian Parenti on Afghanistan Empire Fall Taliban Rising Afghanistan: The Other War The Rough Guide to Baghdad |
The Great American StickupHow Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street
"One of the best reporters of our time."—Joan Didion In The Great American Stickup, celebrated journalist Robert Scheer uncovers the hidden story behind one of the greatest financial crimes of our time: the Wall Street financial crash of 2008 and the consequent global recession. Scheer goes back to Washington, D.C., a veritable crime scene, beginning in the 1980s, where the captains of the finance industry, their lobbyists and allies among leading politicians destroyed an American regulatory system that had been functioning effectively since the era of the New Deal. Check out Scheer's book tour! MoreMarfa Dialogues/Diálogos en Marfa: Politics and Culture of the Borderundef 0 | Marfa, Texas See acclaimed Nation Books authors Charles Bowden and Mark Danner speak at Marfa Dialogues: Politics and Culture of the Border, three days of art, film, music, and literature. Presented by Ballroom Marfa and The Washington Spectator, in collaboration with The Big Bend Sentinel, Marfa Public Radio and Marfa Book Company.
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