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Commentary Prashad: Tom Hayden's War

Commentary, June, 04 2007 Vijay Prashad
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Tom Hayden is a veteran of peace. A pioneer of the anti-war movement in the 1960s (including as one of the Chicago 7), Hayden is now, after a hiatus in California politics in the 1990s, a central figure in the current anti-war movement. His range ...

Znet Article Prashad: Letter to a Young American Hindu

Znet Article, May, 22 2007 Vijay Prashad
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Dear Friend, Like you, I was raised in a mixed family. My parents' families came to Bengal from Punjab, and from Burma. One side leans towards Hinduism; the other to Sikhism. The city, the metro, provided its own cultural mooring, and in secular ...

Commentary Prashad: Multiculturalism Kills Me

Commentary, April, 26 2007 Vijay Prashad
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Not as much as straight-up racism. That's made a comeback these days. This year, the number of incidents of "black face" and other assorted throwbacks to Jim Crow racism is astounding. My own campus suffered this, as did Texas A&M (where the scand...

Znet Article Prashad: On "The Darker Nations"

Znet Article, April, 21 2007 Vijay Prashad
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[The importance of Vijay Prashad's book, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World, lies in its ability to trace the trajectory of the "Third World Project" - its genesis, growth and crisis - amidst the cacophonous range of local p...

Commentary Prashad: The Best Security is a New Foreign Policy

Commentary, January, 03 2007 Vijay Prashad
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The Grand Old Party's puppeteers sigh with relief. Their marionettes can be put back in the trunks, and repaired for a renewed assault on the political stage. They took the U. S. to war in Iraq, and fell into a trap. The word "quagmire" could not...

Znet Article Prashad: Every Generation of North Americans Must Come to Terms with Latin America

Znet Article, December, 18 2006 Vijay Prashad
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Every Generation of North Americans Must Come to Terms with Latin America

Commentary Prashad: Beirut

Commentary, November, 26 2006 Vijay Prashad
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A series of flaps on campus. Racist incidents abound: the most public is at Texas A & M, home to the new Defense Secretary. Students donned "blackface" and played plantation life. They might be influenced by the sunny depictions of the slave econo...

Commentary Prashad: Northampton's Book of Peace

Commentary, September, 18 2006 Vijay Prashad
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Children know right from wrong. In 1926, during the Passaic, New Jersey, textile workers' strike, children took to the streets. One child wrote, "We strikers' children are getting sick and tired of the way Chief Zober has been treating the striker...

Commentary Prashad: The Ring Around China

Commentary, September, 01 2006 Vijay Prashad
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For good reason, the international Left has been wary of the UN and the WTO. And yet, despite their many drawbacks, both the UN General Assembly and the WTO as institutions held the possibility for multilateralism. There are contradictory interest...

Commentary Prashad: Security

Commentary, June, 06 2006 Vijay Prashad
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In early May, the federal threat level was "elevated" (the color is yellow). According to the Department of Homeland Security this means, "All Americans, including those traveling in the transportation systems, should continue to be vigilant, take...

Commentary Prashad: The Lobby

Commentary, May, 04 2006 Vijay Prashad
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Talk about political correctness. You can't mention Israel's Little Power ambitions and its ingenious reach into the halls of the US establishment without getting whacked. All of us who have an opinion about the role of Israel in Washington, and o...

Commentary Prashad: The Ugly American

Commentary, March, 06 2006 Vijay Prashad
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The US State Department has descended into caricature. Ambassador David Wilkins had a meltdown in Canada in the lead-up to the elections. He warned the candidates, particularly Paul Martin of the Liberal Party, to tone down on the "anti-American r...

Znet Article Prashad: The Road Outta Baghdad

Znet Article, November, 29 2005 Vijay Prashad
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Two polls say it all: just about half the US population is in favor of a quick withdrawal from Iraq, and over seventy percent of Iraqi lawmakers want the US troops to leave immediately. If the US people and the Iraqi elected officials want the US ...

Zmag Article Prashad: Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History by Norman G. Finkelstein (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005, 343 pp.)

Zmag Article, November, 01 2005 Vijay Prashad
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In February 1967, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Claude Lanzmann (editor of Les Temps Moderne) arrived in Cairo. They had been invited by the editors of al-Ahram, who had been...

Commentary Prashad: Primacy

Commentary, October, 30 2005 Vijay Prashad
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Finally, from an unlikely direction, the US media has asked the question:

Commentary Prashad: Socialism is a Wise Old Shepard

Commentary, September, 23 2005 Vijay Prashad
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As I travel across the US, I meet young people who are in this or that progressive organization. They are busy doing the necessary everyday work of building our movement. Most of them work in the non-profit sector, doing some kind of single-issue ...

Commentary Prashad: Every Generation Does Not Get Its 1968

Commentary, August, 21 2005 Vijay Prashad
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I recently read Tariq Ali's spectacular telling of his political coming of age, Street Fighting Man: An Autobiography of the Sixties (Verso, 2005).

Znet Article Prashad: The Rosa Parks Of The Anti-war Movement

Znet Article, August, 19 2005 Vijay Prashad
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The protest outside President Bush's ranch by Cindy Sheehan, whose soldier son was killed in action, has raised awareness of the continued devastation in Iraq.  ON APRIL 4, 2004, a barrage of grenades and small arms fire from Iraqi insurgent gro...

Commentary Prashad: The Bastards Love America

Commentary, July, 13 2005 Vijay Prashad
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The Pew Global Attitudes Survey (June 23) is remarkable for one statistic. Seventy-one percent of the Indian population surveyed this year loves the United States, and fifty four percent have a high regard for Bush. Sixty-three percent of Indians ...

Commentary Prashad: The *Social* in Social Security

Commentary, May, 31 2005 Vijay Prashad
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I find it hard to follow the national "debate" on social security. There is something like a discussion ongoing, but it all seems to be about "solvency" of the system, with great disagreements on whether there really is a crisis.

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