Frontline is a media club that uniquely combines eating, drinking and thinkingLondon's Frontline Club is a networking den, ideas forum and boozey refuge for anybody and everybody involved in foreign news production. The seeds of the club were sown during the 1992 Gulf war, when a small group of journalists took the initiative by reporting events independently of mainstream news outlets.
That belief in the importance of journalistic independence to the functioning of democratic society is the founding principle of the Frontline Club, which has gone on to launch branches in New York and Moscow.
Congo DiaryFirst come the roads, and big logging companies take a few hard woods; then come poachers, settlers and agro firms. Before you know it, deforestation picks up speed. Christian Parenti 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.
Taliban RisingNation reporter Christian Parenti takes us on a tour of the "Other War." He finds that the Taliban has not only regrouped, but is gaining a surprising amount of sympathy from ordinary Afghanis, who are frustrated with the US occupation. Originally posted on the Nation's YouTube channel.
Chocolate, coco, greed, and the Ivory Coast"Chocolate's Bittersweet Economy": The multi-million dollar international cocoa industry has been accused of greed and neglect for labour practices in the Ivory Coast.
A scathing new report by veteran journalist and author Christian Parenti says hardly any progress has been made in the cocoa industry's pledges to address child labor.
Shot on Valentine's Day, these two videos look into the luxury industry that has come to expect huge profits on this hyper-consumerized occasion.
Democracy Now! hosts a debate between Parenti and William Guyton, president of the World Cocoa Foundation.
In the run-up to elections on a bill of constitutional reforms, a peaceful protest descends into gunshots and chaos as pro- and anti-government students clash on campusImages shot on mobile phones by students on both sides of the conflict depict scenes of general pandemonium. The violence appears to have started when the anti-government student march arrived back on campus. According to testimonials, extreme elements of the march headed towards the univeristy's only pro-government faculty building where they attacked the students hiding inside by trying to set them on fire. In desperation, the students holed up inside called on pro-government armed militia groups for support, who arrived on motorcycles brandishing shotguns.
