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Commentary Prashad: The Parochial Coverage of Enron

Commentary, February, 17 2002 Vijay Prashad
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Again, the US media has shown that it is just not up to the task of stal king the corruption of the global economy. Enron collapses and now the media tells us that it is all about Raptors and the connivance of Arthur Andersen (or isn't it now A...

Znet Article Prashad: Camp X Ray And The Problem Of Torture

Znet Article, February, 12 2002 Vijay Prashad
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On 4 February 2002, the New York Times ran an article on the humanity with which the "detainees" are being treated at Camp X-Ray at the US base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. One detainee had a long-standing injury to his eyes from a cricket ball, and ...

Commentary Prashad: The Hawks Circle South Asia.

Commentary, January, 08 2002 Vijay Prashad
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The Fifth Afghan War, now slowly coming to a close, has changed the rules of international engagements. The Bush doctrine against terrorism stated that the US or any aggrieved party would retaliate for acts of terror not only against those who per...

Commentary Prashad: The Age Of Scorpio (vrishchika): Star Wars And Star Signs

Commentary, December, 30 2001 Vijay Prashad
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This is the dawning of the Age of Scorpio, or as our Sanskrit texts have it, the Age of Vrishchika.

Commentary Prashad: Afghan Aftermaths: the Feign of Inevitability

Commentary, November, 17 2001 Vijay Prashad
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Like ninepins the Afghan cities fell from a band of principled barbarians (the Taliban) to a band of unprincipled barbarians (the so-called Northern Alliance):

Commentary Prashad: Forward Into the Past: US War Aims

Commentary, October, 05 2001 Vijay Prashad
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The US State Department-Pentagon has a bad record on war aims. During the lead-up to the Gulf War, the Bush administration, Part 1, argued that the US was needed to liberate Kuwait.

Commentary Prashad: The Ruse of Israel: Durban Failures.

Commentary, September, 10 2001 Vijay Prashad
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At the intersection of Durban's Grey and Queen streets sits the largest mosque in the southern hemisphere, the Jama Masjid or Friday Mosque (completed in 1927). A cool, spring breeze filters into the courtyard where I'm spending some moments with ...

Commentary Prashad: Hindutva and Zionism: Comprador States of Pentagon, Inc.

Commentary, August, 08 2001 Vijay Prashad
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George W. Bush has a cat named India. In New Delhi, about thirty activists of the Hindu Right's political formation, the BJP, stood before the US Embassy outraged with this news. "We are not cats," said one man, "we are lions."

Commentary Prashad: Red Star over West Bengal

Commentary, June, 28 2001 Vijay Prashad
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A few years ago I traveled around rural West Bengal to study the gains made by the Left Front government, notably as a result of the experiments in the devolution of power. By then I knew the statistical advances almost by heart. West Bengal has t...

Commentary Prashad: Shooting Stars

Commentary, June, 15 2001 Vijay Prashad
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On 21 April 1988, Mikhail Gorbachev turned to Colin Powell, then an aide of the US National Security Advisor, and said "What are you going to do now that you've lost your best enemy?" Gorbachev's unilateral disarmament of Soviet nuclear forces in ...

Commentary Prashad: The State of Well-Being: Welfare Fights in CT

Commentary, May, 17 2001 Vijay Prashad
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I hate authority. Whenever I'm in front of someone with power, and if I feel alone, I get awkward and silly. No wonder I hate the Connecticut State House, all opulent and aristocratic, with the lobbyists gathered like sharks in the stairwell, and ...

Commentary Prashad: Hindutva For a Few Dollars a Day

Commentary, April, 25 2001 Vijay Prashad
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Bangru Laxman asks the intrepid tehelka.com journalists to bring him $30,000 to their next meeting. He has already taken Rs. 1 lakh. "You can give dollars," said the President of the BJP. "You talk to us directly. We normally turn to [National Sec...

Commentary Prashad: The Problem of the Twenty-First Century is the Problem of the ColorBlind

Commentary, March, 31 2001 Vijay Prashad
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A few years ago I had the fortune of spending a morning debating Dinesh D'Souza on the question of affirmative action. It was in Chicago at the South Asian Students' Association annual meeting. I was a bit apprehensive. I've debated people before,...

Commentary Prashad: Magical Realism in the Fabulous World of the Indian Economy

Commentary, March, 21 2001 Vijay Prashad
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Magical Realism is an Indian habitus discovered accidentally by Latin American fiction. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, may his recent illness be as painless as possible, wrote in a style that evokes for me the social relations of the Indian subcontinent....

Commentary Prashad: The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Earthquake in India

Commentary, February, 07 2001 Vijay Prashad
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Never underestimate the power of the Earth. Vast, deep, unstable. Tectonic plates in motion beneath miles of sod and stone. And above, flora and fauna bursting forth. Of that lot the humans walk on the Earth at our own rhythm, divided by classes a...

Commentary Prashad: The Great Indian Mail Strike of 2000

Commentary, January, 05 2001 Vijay Prashad
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For two weeks in December 2000, almost all of the 600,000 postal workers in India struck work, on behalf of 300,000 part-time workers. From Cyberabad to Silicon Galli computers tried in vain to send packages to each other, as the Sensex sang a dir...

Commentary Prashad: Beauty Queens and the Capitalist Beast

Commentary, December, 07 2000 Vijay Prashad
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All the men are computer programmers, all the women are beauty queens, and some of us are humorless. So it seems in the land of Silicon(e) India. Bill Gates says that Indians are the second smartest people on the planet, and the international cons...

Commentary Prashad: Betrayed Redemption in Chile

Commentary, November, 15 2000 Vijay Prashad
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On Friday, 10 November, the Santiago (Chile) Court of Appeals refused to grant parole to retired army General Torres Silva. A few hours later, Judge Sergio Munoz indicted a general on active duty, Hernan Ramirez for the same crime. Both these lead...

Commentary Prashad: Nobody Hid This Crime: The Police Open Fire in Naidu.Com

Commentary, October, 06 2000 Vijay Prashad
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This crime was committed under the shadow of the State Assembly in Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh, India). For three quarters of an hour the guns of the police tore through the thousands of people, hundreds fell, two never to rise again. The streets co...

Commentary Prashad: The Affirmative Action Election

Commentary, August, 30 2000 Vijay Prashad
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As we approach the calendar end of the Christian millennium, we, as progressives, are posed with an electoral choice that has begun to startle me. So much commentary seems to go by these days on what appears to be the only election worth anything,...

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