Download or read book Dirty Truths written by Michael Parenti and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political essays and poems. In Young People Are Different, he writes: "Hostage in their homes, / kept alive by the telephone / fully animated only when taking flight / in rough formation. / They rebel / so better to submit / to their totalitarian peerage."