Christian Parenti

Christian Parenti is Assistant Clinical Professor in New York University's Global Liberal Studies Program. He has published four books: "Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence," "The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq"; "The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror"; and "Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis". He has reported extensively from Afghanistan, Iraq, and various parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America; his articles have appeared in The Nation, Fortune, The London Review of Books, The New York Times and Common Dreams.