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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. The Free­dom: Shad­ows and Hal­lu­ci­na­tions in Occu­pied Iraq (2004), is an account of the US occu­pa­tion in Iraq.His most recent book is Trop­ic Of Chaos: Cli­mate Wars and the New Geog­ra­phy Of Vio­lence (2011), Par­en­ti has also report­ed from Afghanistan, Iraq, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ivory Coast and Chi­na. Dr Par­en­ti engages in a live­ly dis­cus­sion about the rise of Neo Lib­er­al­ism that replaced Key­ne­sian eco­nom­ics and the rela­tion­ship to the Prison Indus­tri­al Complex.