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Prashad: The Libyan Miscalculation
Znet Article, April, 12 2011
Vijay Prashad
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NATO miscalculates and thrice fires on the Benghazi rebels. The NATO commanders blame this on a confused frontline. It is hard to distinguish, they say, between the Libyan rebels from the Libyan regulars. Libya is effectively partitioned between t...
Prashad: Intervening in Libya
Znet Article, March, 25 2011
Vijay Prashad
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On March 19, 2011, the United Nations Security Council voted for Resolution 1973 to establish a “no-fly” zone over Libya.
Prashad: Decoding the Libyan Labyrinth
Video, March, 01 2011
Vijay Prashad
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Vijay Prashad discusses the latest developments in Libya in the context of the pro-democracy movements in the North African/ Arabian world.
Prashad: 'If power is not seized, counter-revolution will rise': Vijay Prashad on the Arab revolt
Znet Article, February, 02 2011
Vijay Prashad
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The Arab revolt that we now witness is something akin to a "1968" for the Arab World.
Prashad: Obama Administration: Well Begun Isn't Always Half Done
Video, August, 25 2010
Vijay Prashad
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It's going to be almost two years that Barack Obama was sworn in as President of the United States. During his presidential campaign he promised change. But may be the person who runs the best campaign does not necessarily turn out to be the best ...
Prashad: BP, Obama and the Gulf
Znet Article, July, 06 2010
Vijay Prashad
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The oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico. It began to flow out of a hole that resulted from an explosion on April 20 on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform. Once an oil seam has been tapped, it is hard to stop the flow, so the oil flo...
Prashad: Global Bonapartism
Znet Article, June, 22 2010
Vijay Prashad
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When the Finance Ministers of the Advanced States set up the G7 in 1974-75, their tongues quivered with the taste of centuries of power. The Soviet Union had begun its plummet into obsolescence.
Prashad: A Marxist and a Gentleman
Znet Article, January, 19 2010
Vijay Prashad
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Jyoti Basu (1914-2010) slipped into the night. He was a lifelong Marxist and Communist, and was the Chief Minister of Bengal from 1977 to 2000. Basu's service to Communism and to Bengal was equivalent: he wavered from neither.
Prashad: The Bombings, a Year Later
Znet Article, November, 26 2009
Vijay Prashad
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Kashmir hangs over Mumbai, whose Gateway to India accepted the assailants who struck a year ago today. It haunts it.
Prashad: The Story of Raul Prebisch, Implacable Foe for First World Power
Znet Article, November, 07 2009
Vijay Prashad
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Raul Prebisch was not born in Buenos Aires. His father was a German immigrant who married into a declasse branch of a prominent Argentine family. Advantages did not come to him by the accident of birth. He had to make his own career, pushing again...
Prashad: Beyond Sun and Dung
Znet Article, October, 05 2009
Vijay Prashad
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Rajendra Pachauri heads TERI, The Energy and Resources Institute, based in New Delhi. An engineer of the railways in his early career, Pachauri went to the United States to earn a PhD in industrial engineering and another in economics, after whic...
Prashad: The Bush-Cheney Years
Video, July, 05 2009
Vijay Prashad
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On January 3, 2009 Historians Against the War met at the Sheraton in New York City during the annual convention of the American Historical Association for a panel discussion on "The Bush-Cheney Administration."
Prashad: Obama's Afghan Plan
Znet Article, April, 26 2009
Vijay Prashad
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President Barack Obama inherited two seemingly intractable wars, in Iraq and in Afghanistan, alongside a financial crisis that continues to escalate. Obama positioned himself against the unpopular Iraq war, but he did not place himself in the anti...
Prashad: An African-American in Gaza
Znet Article, January, 18 2009
Vijay Prashad
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Israeli contempt for the United Nations begins in the 1940s and continues to this day...
Prashad: India's Reckless Road To Washington Through Tel Aviv
Commentary, December, 27 2008
Vijay Prashad
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On Thursday, November 27, in the middle of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, Imran Babar, one of the terrorists, called India TV from Nariman House. He used a cellphone that belonged to Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, the co-director of the Chabad-Lubavitch ...
Prashad: Obama's Indian
Znet Article, November, 12 2008
Vijay Prashad
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Barack Obama has appointed John Podesta to run his transition. During the lean years of the Bush administration, Podesta, native of Chicago, ran a shadow cabinet for the Democrats. Since 2003, the home of this government-in-exile has been the Cent...
Prashad: The Collapse
Znet Article, October, 25 2008
Vijay Prashad
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The deepening financial crisis in the U.S. forces the neoconservatives to reverse their policies.
Prashad: Cartoon Che
Commentary, September, 29 2008
Vijay Prashad
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Che was fated to the mythic. Even his birthday attached him to a long tradition of popular struggle: he was born on Bastille Day, the commemoration of the opening of the French Revolution. [Some doubt that this was his actual birthday; his parents...
Prashad: An Invisible Army
Commentary, September, 18 2008
Vijay Prashad
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Hidden in the bowels of the University of Iowa library are the papers of Lement Harris (1904-2002). Harris came from money (his father co-founded Texaco) and he took his degree from Harvard. When he graduated in 1926 he decided to avoid the career...
Prashad: The Indian Left And The Indo-US Nuclear Deal
Znet Article, September, 06 2008
Vijay Prashad
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In the 2004 general election, the Indian electorate denied the intransigent right-wing power over the State. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance lost out to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance, although the l...
