Watch on 123Movies. “US Interventionism, the Third World, and the USSR", also dubbed the "Yellow Lecture", is a famous lecture by Statesian political scientist Michael Parenti discussing U.S. imperialism and the Cold War. The lecture was given in the Glenn Miller Ballroom at the University of Colorado Boulder on 15 April 1986. Parenti's lecture was sponsored by Sender Garlin's Social Issues Forum as well as Colorado State University.