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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.

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...

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...

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...

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?"

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

Commentary, May, 12 2003 Vijay Prashad
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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
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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...

Commentary Prashad: By the Rivers of Babylon.

Commentary, March, 16 2003 Vijay Prashad
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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
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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 ...

Commentary Prashad: The Tragic Enigma: Racism in Contemporary America

Commentary, December, 22 2002 Vijay Prashad
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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
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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...

Commentary Prashad: Accounts of the Fifth Afghan War

Commentary, November, 01 2002 Vijay Prashad
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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 ...

Commentary Prashad: Suburban Whites and Pogroms in India

Commentary, August, 20 2002 Vijay Prashad
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...

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

Commentary, February, 22 2002 Vijay Prashad
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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...

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...

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...

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