Christian Parenti

Christian Parenti, a Nation contributing editor and visiting scholar at the CUNY Graduate Center, is the author of The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq (New Press), and is at work on a book about climate change and war.

Currently

  • Can China Catch a Cool Breeze?

    April 15, 2009

    The planet's future depends largely on the fate of China's nascent wind sector.

  • Three Mile Island, the NRC and Obama

    March 27, 2009

    Thirty years after the Three Mile Island partial meltdown, the real nuclear power threat is the relicensing of old plants.

  • Limits and Horizons

    March 11, 2009

    The best we can hope for is robust left Keynesianism--capitalism with a green and social democratic face.

2008

  • Letters

    September 9, 2008 Subscribe

  • Class Struggle in the New China

    July 30, 2008

    Across China there is a rising rural and urban class struggle as the economy moves from Maoist socialism to a strange type of quasi-Maoist capitalism.

  • Letters

    May 21, 2008 Subscribe

  • What Nuclear Renaissance?

    April 24, 2008

    Despite a slick PR campaign hyping its promise, the nuclear industry isn't going anywhere. It's too costly and won't save us from global warming.

  • A New Diplomacy for Pakistan

    January 4, 2008

    As American policy-makers and pundits seek a Plan B for Pakistan, it's time to recognize the desperate need for a new diplomacy for the Muslim world.

2007

  • The Fight to Save Congo's Forests

    October 4, 2007

    A history of colonial neglect and endemic corruption has unleashed a lawless logging binge in the heart of Congo's massive woodlands.

  • Christian Parenti: Congo Diary

    October 3, 2007

    The Nation's international correspondent journeys deep into the heart of the Congo Basin woodlands to see how a massive logging boom is decimating the world's second-largest tropical forest.

  • Big Is Beautiful

    April 19, 2007

    Green utilities are growing, but they need to grow faster.

  • Who Will Get the Oil?

    March 1, 2007 Subscribe

    War and corruption have decimated Iraq's oil supply, and Western companies are angling for a cut of what's left.

  • Empire Fall

    February 27, 2007

    A biography of Bernard Fall examines the life of the man who laid the foundations for contemporary war reporting.

2006

  • ISG: Defeat With Honor

    December 18, 2006

    Pundits on the left just don't get it when they call the Iraq Study Group report "Stay the Course Lite." It's an admission of the Bush Administration's total failure.

  • Taliban Rising

    October 12, 2006

    If the corruption of Karzai's government is Afghanistan's new cancer, then the Taliban are increasingly seen as chemotherapy: an unpleasant but necessary remedy.

  • Taliban Rising

    October 12, 2006

    If the corruption of Karzai's government is Afghanistan's new cancer, then the Taliban are increasingly seen as chemotherapy: an unpleasant but necessary remedy.

  • Chaos and Fear Stalk Afghanistan on 9/11 Anniversary

    September 11, 2006

    As Taliban fighters clash with thinly spread NATO forces across Afghanistan and "suicide cell" claims lives daily in Kabul, hope is fading that the country can avoid descending into chaos.

  • Letter From Bolivia: Morales Moves

    June 1, 2006

    Evo Morales and his Movement Toward Socialism party face two formidable foes: a far left discontented with neoliberalism and a combative rancher-based right wing.

  • Colombia's Deep Divide

    May 25, 2006

    Colombia's subtly demagogic President Uribe gained the advantage in the upcoming election by leveraging the strength of anti-left paramilitaries, drug trafficking and a culture of violence.

  • When GI Joe Says No

    April 23, 2006

    How can the peace movement draw more Iraq War veterans into its ranks? It can begin by understanding the socioeconomic realities of the all-volunteer military.

  • In the Path of a Storm, Vets Protest a War

    March 19, 2006

    Veterans of Iraq and Vietnam marched from Mobile to New Orleans to mark the third anniversary of the Iraq War, and to call attention to the Bush Administratrion's culture of incompentence, inhumanity and greed that has devastated Iraq and America's Gulf Coast.

  • Afghanistan: The Other War

    March 9, 2006

    Despite Bush's feel-good rhetoric, the United States has done little to help Afghanistan, leaving the impression of abandonment. Meanwhile, European troops work hard to build bridges to the locals.

  • Fury Over Foreigners

    February 7, 2006

    Western cartoons deemed insulting to Islam are only part of what is fueling mob frenzy in Afghanistan. Growing rage against the presence of foreign troops and frustration with ineffectual aid programs are feeding the flames.

2005

  • The War With No Name

    November 21, 2005

    For twenty-five years, Kurdish guerrillas have battled the forces of the Turkish state. For a while, things began to settle down, but the US occupation of Iraq changed all that.

  • The Question of Kurdistan

    October 26, 2005

    The Kurds have almost no natural resources and suffer from a culture of corruption. But their call for autonomy is a serious threat to the building of a united Iraq.

  • New Orleans: Raze or Rebuild?

    September 12, 2005

    Despite persistent calls from the right to raze the ruined city, gritty storm survivors from New Orleans to Gulfport and Houston begin to put their lives together again.

  • The Big Easy Dies Hard

    September 8, 2005

    At first glance New Orleans looks like a cross between a giant conceptual art installation or the set of a cold war disaster movie.

  • Bolivia's Battle of Wills

    June 16, 2005

    Despite elections now expected this summer, Bolivia remains locked in a political stalemate.

  • Tear Gas in the Andes

    May 26, 2005

    Unwilling to suffer through another generation of brutal poverty, the indigenous people of Bolivia have taken to the streets in La Paz.

  • Hugo Chávez and Petro Populism

    March 24, 2005

    What Venezuela's revolution is made of.

  • Afghan Poppies Bloom

    January 6, 2005 Subscribe

    The war-ravaged, opium-dependent country lives in fear of a new drug war.

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