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Commentary Prashad: Money Flies Across Borders

Commentary, May, 09 2005 Vijay Prashad
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New Britain Avenue in Hartford is one of those familiar American streets that bristle with urban alienation: from the fast food franchises to the fast oil change franchises, from the liquor stores to the gas stations.

Commentary Prashad: Abducted by the EHM [Economic Hit Men]!

Commentary, March, 28 2005 Vijay Prashad
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The idea of the "conspiracy theory" is a red herring. Power is loath to reveal details of the various nefarious policies and projects conducted in its interest. In 1997, the Moynihan Commission studied the realm of US governmental secrecy, and con...

Commentary Prashad: Churning of the Ocean: The Tsunami and the Third World

Commentary, January, 26 2005 Vijay Prashad
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The January 17, 2005 issue of the European edition of Time and of the International edition of Newsweek had the same photograph. It showed a burly US naval officer from the USS Abraham Lincoln holding a badly injured child in the Indonesian port c...

Commentary Prashad: Books for Kids

Commentary, November, 21 2004 Vijay Prashad
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Pretty Good Books for Kids.

Znet Article Prashad: The Election Of Homophobia And Misogyny

Znet Article, November, 03 2004 Vijay Prashad
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Four years ago, Bush's Brain Karl Rove swore that he would not rest until the four million Evangelicals who did not vote then would turn out yesterday. And they did. They came in droves. They told those who...

Commentary Prashad: Another Documentary for Peace.

Commentary, September, 26 2004 Vijay Prashad
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Stuck in a hotel room I turn on the television. It is a reflex habit, born not from an addiction to the idiot box but out of curiosity.

Commentary Prashad: Abu Ghraib Jobs

Commentary, August, 31 2004 Vijay Prashad
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The terror attacks in Spain changed a government; the kidnappings in Iraq have changed the shape of the coalition. The Philippines saved one of its nationals by pulling out its fifty-one person force. Thirty two countries remain under the strong a...

Commentary Prashad: The War on Our School-Children

Commentary, July, 24 2004 Vijay Prashad
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In 2002, Maxine Wright, then Age 9, circulated a petition in her fourth grade class at Thatcher Montessori School in Milton, Massachusetts. She had written a letter to Senator Ted Kennedy condemning the impending war on Iraq, and she wanted her fe...

Znet Article Prashad: Farenheit 9/11

Znet Article, July, 19 2004 Vijay Prashad
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Robert Jensen's review of F9/11 irritated me. It seems to have missed the wood from the trees. There is the phenomenon of F9/11 which deserves comment -- those who see the movie are not only seeing what Moore has edited for us, but many have been ...

Commentary Prashad: Extraordinarily Pissed-Off Voters

Commentary, July, 10 2004 Vijay Prashad
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The quadrennial season is upon us: Elections USA. On the left, we have already begun to rehearse an argument that we had in 2000: should we unite behind the corporate-warfare Democratic Leadership Council's Party, can we wrest that party away from...

Commentary Prashad: The America He Knows

Commentary, May, 07 2004 Vijay Prashad
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Bush went on al-Arabiya television on May 5th to tell the Arab public, "What took place in [Abu Gharaib] prison does not represent the America I know." What is the America that he knows? "The America I know is a compassionate country that believes...

Commentary Prashad: Fear and the Foreign Student

Commentary, March, 13 2004 Vijay Prashad
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Over the past five decades, our American civilization has spent more on the military and on incarceration than on health care and education. Our shoddy commitment to education has meant that our undergraduates, for example, get their education fro...

Commentary Prashad: Halliburton's Ancient Scandals

Commentary, February, 17 2004 Vijay Prashad
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In the world of corporate scandals, the story breaks, there is a frenzy of reportage, a culprit in the lower levels of upper management is thrown to the SEC and then, slowly, the story dies. It is helpful, of course, if the company changes its nam...

Commentary Prashad: Politics at the Venue: the WSF in Mumbai

Commentary, January, 11 2004 Vijay Prashad
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The World Social Forum opened in India at least a year ago. That's when the debates within the Left about the nature of the WSF started. Marxists, liberals, and others began to argue about the utility of the WSF, its role within India, the problem...

Znet Article Prashad: Mr. Kurtz! The Horror! The Horror!

Znet Article, November, 15 2003 Vijay Prashad
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In mid-October, my email in-box began to receive forwards from Michael Bednar, a graduate student in the department of history at the University of Texas, Austin. The subject line suggested that it was an email joke: "Congress moves to regula...

Commentary Prashad: The Canard Of BushCo Multilateralism.

Commentary, November, 11 2003 Vijay Prashad
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The UN finally caved. The vote took place in the Security Council on October 16: 15-Love in favor of the US resolution no. 1511. Russian President Putin took less than an hour to convince France's Jacques Chirac and Germany's Gerhard Schršder to j...

Commentary Prashad: Always the Sepoy

Commentary, October, 14 2003 Vijay Prashad
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In mid-September, India Abroad splashed its front page with this headline: "I would love to have Indian troops in Iraq, Bush tells India Abroad." The context for veteran political affairs correspondent Aziz Haniffa's story is a fund-raiser that ra...

Commentary Prashad: Namaste Sharon

Commentary, September, 10 2003 Vijay Prashad
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Israel's Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, will be in India for the second anniversary of the September 11 attack on the United States. He will arrive on September 9 in New Delhi, travel to Bangalore and Mumbai, and then go to a Sixteenth Century syna...

Znet Article Prashad: Interviewing Vijay Prashad

Znet Article, September, 04 2003 Vijay Prashad
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(1) Can you tell Znet, please, what your new book, Title? What is it trying to communicate? The book is called Keeping Up with the Dow Joneses: Debt, Prison, Workfare, and it is published by South End Press. A few years ago, Ravi Ahuja of a Ma...

Commentary Prashad: Affirmative Action and the F16

Commentary, August, 13 2003 Vijay Prashad
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Over the years, stuck in debates over affirmative action, inevitably someone asks a version of the following question: "Why should white men face discrimination now because of past wrongs of slavery and Jim Crow?"

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