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Prashad: Clemente Interview, Vice Presidential Candidate of the Green Party

Commentary, September, 05 2008 Vijay Prashad
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Rosa Clemente, 35, is the vice presidential candidate for the Green Party of the United States. Clemente, who is Puerto Rican, was born in the South Bronx, New York, and educated at the University of Albany and at Cornell University. A vibrant com...

Prashad: Revolution on the Roof the World

Commentary, June, 14 2008 Vijay Prashad
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After a brief fourteen-minute speech on June 12, Nepal's last King of the 239 year Shah dynasty, Gyanendra, departed from the side entrance of the Narayanhiti Palace to live out his days in the former summer home of his ancestors. "I have done all...

Prashad: The Revelation of Bill Clinton

Commentary, May, 22 2008 Vijay Prashad
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When Bill Clinton ran for the White House in 1992, I was deeply annoyed. He represented so much that we, on the left, despised: the reaction within the ranks of the Democratic Party's elite that wanted to "save" the party from what it saw as the e...

Prashad: Obama in Teheran

Commentary, March, 23 2008 Vijay Prashad
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Barack Obama's suggestion that he would sit down and talk with the Iranian Prime Minister is perhaps the most sensible policy proposal in the stale foreign policy air of Washington, DC. Twice before Teheran has publicly reached out to the US, but ...

Prashad: Duck and Cover

Commentary, March, 19 2008 Vijay Prashad
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A fractured electorate cannot unite behind candidates. The Republicans have their candidate (Boom, Boom McCain). The Democrats are divided by age, gender and race. In the murky results and polls it is hard to fathom the outcome. What is clear is t...

Prashad: Skimmers of the Sea

Commentary, January, 30 2008 Vijay Prashad
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No more the black sails, the fierce cries, the blood lust. Now the pirates ride small motorboats, silent, armed especially with cell phones, GPS systems and automatic weapons. By stealth the boats come right up to the rudder of the cargo vessel, s...

Prashad: The Car Bomb's Brilliant Future

Commentary, December, 25 2007 Vijay Prashad
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The first car bomb exploded on Wall Street. It was set there by an Italian American anarchist, Mario Buda, in solidarity with Sacco and Vanzetti. Forty people died on that September 1920 day, and the assassin fled the country for his native Italy....

Prashad: Book Reviews - Dead Man in Paradise & The Art of Political

Zmag Article, December, 01 2007 Vijay Prashad
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Call it the curse of Columbus. The conquistadors came to what would be called the Americas in search of gold, god, and glory. Gold they found, eventually, and between the sword and the crucifix they brought God as well. It was harder to measure gl...

Prashad: Persian Contradictions

Commentary, November, 15 2007 Vijay Prashad
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I read the introduction of Iran's president by Columbia's president with embarrassment. "You exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator,"said Lee Bollinger...

Prashad: The Nuke Deal Is Dead

Znet Article, October, 25 2007 Vijay Prashad
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On October 12, 2007, the Congress Party threw in the towel. India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the leader of the United Progressive Alliance Sonia Gandhi told the press that they would step back from the US-India nuclear deal. "If the deal ...

Prashad: Madame Speaker Gets a Code Pink

Commentary, October, 24 2007 Vijay Prashad
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The Generals are jumping ship. Retired Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez, onetime head of the US army in Iraq, is the latest to put daylight between himself and the White House. The Bush team, he said in early October, is "incompetent and corrupt." Thei...