Christian Parenti

Christian Parenti is an author and journalist, a contributing editor at The Nation, and he covers war, energy and the environment and has reported extensively from the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. His most recently published book is The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq (2004). His two previous books are The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror, (2003) and Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis, (1999). He received a PhD in Sociology from the London School of Economics in 2000. He has been a Soros Senior Justice Fellow, a Ford Foundation Area Studies Fellow, and is a Visiting Scholar at the CUNY Graduate Center.