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Commentary Prashad: India's Reckless Road To Washington Through Tel Aviv

Commentary, December, 27 2008 Vijay Prashad
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On Thursday, November 27, in the middle of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, Imran Babar, one of the terrorists, called India TV from Nariman House. He used a cellphone that belonged to Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, the co-director of the Chabad-Lubavitch ...

Commentary Prashad: Cartoon Che

Commentary, September, 29 2008 Vijay Prashad
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Che was fated to the mythic. Even his birthday attached him to a long tradition of popular struggle: he was born on Bastille Day, the commemoration of the opening of the French Revolution. [Some doubt that this was his actual birthday; his parents...

Commentary Prashad: An Invisible Army

Commentary, September, 18 2008 Vijay Prashad
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Hidden in the bowels of the University of Iowa library are the papers of Lement Harris (1904-2002). Harris came from money (his father co-founded Texaco) and he took his degree from Harvard. When he graduated in 1926 he decided to avoid the career...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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 ...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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....

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary Prashad: Genocide from 30,000 feet

Commentary, August, 15 2007 Vijay Prashad
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Hamid Karzai is finally angry. The U. S. government and its NATO front have been unable to consolidate control across Afghanistan, and into the tribal borderlands between Afghanistan and Pakistan. In lieu of effective on the ground strength, the N...

Commentary Prashad: Amitava Kumar's Excellent Adventure

Commentary, July, 03 2007 Vijay Prashad
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Every once in a while I make it a point to stop by for a visit at Amitava Kumar's virtual home (http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/). There's always something witty, something wonderful: an introduction to a new book, or a new photographer, or somet...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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).

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.

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...

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