Zcom_simple

Back Search Results - New Search

Commentary Prashad: The Phantasm Of Empire: (With A British Accent)

Commentary, May, 12 2003 Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page

The ruling ideas of a time, wrote the great German sage, are the ideas of the ruling class. So it is with our time. The American ruling class indulges itself in the phantasm of Empire, in an American Raj that stretches across the globe, whose jewe...

Commentary Prashad: After The Ba'ath

Commentary, April, 16 2003 Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page

The Afghanistan stage of the war on Iraq seems to be over. We are now in the Jenin stage. The demos last weekend quite rightly moved the demand from no-war to no occupation. Perhaps it is important to say more than No Occupation, perhaps we need t...

Znet Article Prashad: By the Waters of Babylon

Znet Article, March, 16 2003 Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page

As a teenager I befriended a boy whose family had moved from Mumbai (India) to Canada. He told me an extraordinary story that has until now marked my sense of resources and the Gulf. His father, he said, once hired a series of ships that tugged an...

Commentary Prashad: By the Rivers of Babylon.

Commentary, March, 16 2003 Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page

As a teenager I befriended a boy whose family had moved from Mumbai (India) to Canada. He told me an extraordinary story that has until now marked my sense of resources and the Gulf. His father, he said, once hired a series of ships that tugged an...

Commentary Prashad: The Road To Riyadh

Commentary, January, 29 2003 Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page

One of the claims made for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein (leadership change, if not regime change) is that a democratic Iraq beholden to the Bush administration will enable the champions of democracy to lean on the authoritarian Saudi regime in ...

Znet Article Prashad: Kashmir and Jihad International

Znet Article, December, 31 2002 Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page

On the night of 19 December 2002, a group of men entered the home of Mohammed Sadiq in Hast village, Rajouri district, in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. They killed his twenty-year old daughter Nosen Kousar. They then went down the road to...

Commentary Prashad: The Tragic Enigma: Racism in Contemporary America

Commentary, December, 22 2002 Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page

Call it a tragic enigma. In the Tunisian scholar Albert Memmi's words, "No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still, racism persists, real and tenacious."

Commentary Prashad: On the Tenth Anniversary of Ayodhya: at least one small victory.

Commentary, December, 12 2002 Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page

Ten years ago, on 6 December 1992, a fascist spectacle enveloped northern India and the Indian Diaspora. In the small town of Ayodhya, a well-organized band of Hindutva activists demolished the 16th Century mosque erected by Mir Baqi. News came so...

Znet Article Prashad: Scenarios For Iraq After Saddam

Znet Article, November, 01 2002 Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page

From the White House, reports leak out about plans for an Iraq after the Ba'th. Three of the main scenario do not allow for the development of democracy in Iraq. Each of them is built on a racist assumption: that the Iraqis either need a military ...

Commentary Prashad: Accounts of the Fifth Afghan War

Commentary, November, 01 2002 Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page

On the 3rd of October, 2001, I wrote a ZNET commentary called "Forward into the Past: US War Aims." This was four days before the bombardment began. Already the war aims of the administration seemed to escalate as each day went by. First we heard ...

Znet Article Prashad: ZNet Interviews Vijay Prashad about

Znet Article, October, 18 2002 Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page

1) What is Fat Cats and Running Dogs about? By now we have all read enormous amounts about the shenanigans of Enron, the excesses of the CEO class and the waste that is capitalism. But this rendition of the story fails to address at least two ele...

Commentary Prashad: Suburban Whites and Pogroms in India

Commentary, August, 20 2002 Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page

Every few years I teach a class called "Hippies." The main theme of the course is to follow the white, suburban middle-class in its homage to Asia - from the 1967 Summer of Love debut of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his Transcendental Mediation to th...

Commentary Prashad: The Foresight of NPR

Commentary, August, 16 2002 Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page

Reading is back, even as Oprah cancels her book club. The main networks now offer their own book clubs as part of their morning shows.

Commentary Prashad: Suburban Whites and Pogroms in India

Commentary, July, 20 2002 Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page

Every few years I teach a class called "Hippies." The main theme of the course is to follow the white, suburban middle-class in its homage to Asia - from the 1967 Summer of Love debut of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his Transcendental Mediation to th...

Commentary Prashad: The Troika of Imperialism, Petro-Sheikhs and Dissident Jihadis: On Tariq Ali.

Commentary, June, 01 2002 Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page

Michael Berube, an English professor at Penn State University, has become quite a fixture in the Chronicle of Higher Education. In a recent article ("Ali vs. Hitchens: Battle on the Left," 3 May), Berube tells us that he studies conflicts within t...

Commentary Prashad: Gujarat Cannot and Must Not Become the Future Face of India

Commentary, May, 05 2002 Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page

First, in February 2002, came news of the Hindu Right's renewed campaign to build a temple at the site of the destroyed 16th century mosque in Ayodhya, in northern India. In 1992, the leaders of the Hindu Right's political party, the BJP, joined w...

Znet Article Prashad: Gujarat Cannot and Must Not Become the Future of India

Znet Article, May, 03 2002 Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page

First, in February 2002, came news of the Hindu Right's renewed campaign to build a temple at the site of the destroyed 16th century mosque in Ayodhya, in northern India. In 1992, the leaders of the Hindu Right's political party, the BJP, joined w...

Commentary Prashad: Sharonism and the "Special Relationship."

Commentary, April, 25 2002 Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page

An email message comes to me from Karachi, Pakistan. The message reads, in part, as follows: "Chomsky says that US support of Israel is not because of the 'Jewish Lobby' and he gives reasons for that; for one it would be too simplistic to think th...

Znet Article Prashad: Memories of Barbarity: Sharonism and September

Znet Article, April, 10 2002 Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page

The Israeli Defense Force continues its inhuman assault on the Palestinian population of the Occupied Territories, sometimes euphemistically called the Palestinian Authority. The Oslo Accords that produced this sham of freedom did not change the f...

Commentary Prashad: The Right to the Planet: The Violation of Civil Liberties after 9/11

Commentary, February, 22 2002 Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page

In 1948, in San Francisco, the world community forged the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document that was slated to set the horizon of rights for the people of the planet. But it was not to be, mainly because of the hesitancy of the cap...

Loading_border