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Prashad: Labour Needs A Fresh Leader
Znet Article, May, 13 2012
Vijay Prashad
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A new ILO report points out that the world has lost some fifty million jobs as a result of the financial crisis
Dahl: Free Salameh Kaileh
Znet Article, May, 01 2012
Omar s. Dahl
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On Tuesday April 24, the Palestinian-Syrian intellectual and activist Salameh Kaileh was arrested from his home “without explanation,”
Prashad: Red Ink Holds UN Trade Challenge At Bay
Znet Article, April, 26 2012
Vijay Prashad
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There is no talk of the role of speculators in the commodity markets
Prashad: Straining NATO on Short Syrian Leash
Znet Article, April, 05 2012
Vijay Prashad
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Suspicion around NATO's operations is now general among the BRICS states
Prashad: Ruthless Theatre
Znet Article, November, 03 2011
Vijay Prashad
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Ethnic cleansing, retributory massacres and other forms of bloodshed mark the birth of a “New Libya”
Prashad: Palestine's Norwegians
Znet Article, July, 28 2011
Vijay Prashad
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The action in Utøya was an act of political murder against people who had committed themselves to a convivial world
Prashad: The Libyan Miscalculation
Znet Article, April, 12 2011
Vijay Prashad
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NATO miscalculates and thrice fires on the Benghazi rebels. The NATO commanders blame this on a confused frontline. It is hard to distinguish, they say, between the Libyan rebels from the Libyan regulars. Libya is effectively partitioned between t...
Prashad: Intervening in Libya
Znet Article, March, 25 2011
Vijay Prashad
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On March 19, 2011, the United Nations Security Council voted for Resolution 1973 to establish a “no-fly” zone over Libya.
Prashad: 'If power is not seized, counter-revolution will rise': Vijay Prashad on the Arab revolt
Znet Article, February, 02 2011
Vijay Prashad
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The Arab revolt that we now witness is something akin to a "1968" for the Arab World.
Prashad: BP, Obama and the Gulf
Znet Article, July, 06 2010
Vijay Prashad
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The oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico. It began to flow out of a hole that resulted from an explosion on April 20 on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform. Once an oil seam has been tapped, it is hard to stop the flow, so the oil flo...
Prashad: Global Bonapartism
Znet Article, June, 22 2010
Vijay Prashad
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When the Finance Ministers of the Advanced States set up the G7 in 1974-75, their tongues quivered with the taste of centuries of power. The Soviet Union had begun its plummet into obsolescence.
Prashad: A Marxist and a Gentleman
Znet Article, January, 19 2010
Vijay Prashad
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Jyoti Basu (1914-2010) slipped into the night. He was a lifelong Marxist and Communist, and was the Chief Minister of Bengal from 1977 to 2000. Basu's service to Communism and to Bengal was equivalent: he wavered from neither.
Prashad: The Bombings, a Year Later
Znet Article, November, 26 2009
Vijay Prashad
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Kashmir hangs over Mumbai, whose Gateway to India accepted the assailants who struck a year ago today. It haunts it.
Prashad: The Story of Raul Prebisch, Implacable Foe for First World Power
Znet Article, November, 07 2009
Vijay Prashad
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Raul Prebisch was not born in Buenos Aires. His father was a German immigrant who married into a declasse branch of a prominent Argentine family. Advantages did not come to him by the accident of birth. He had to make his own career, pushing again...
Prashad: Beyond Sun and Dung
Znet Article, October, 05 2009
Vijay Prashad
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Rajendra Pachauri heads TERI, The Energy and Resources Institute, based in New Delhi. An engineer of the railways in his early career, Pachauri went to the United States to earn a PhD in industrial engineering and another in economics, after whic...
Prashad: Obama's Afghan Plan
Znet Article, April, 26 2009
Vijay Prashad
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President Barack Obama inherited two seemingly intractable wars, in Iraq and in Afghanistan, alongside a financial crisis that continues to escalate. Obama positioned himself against the unpopular Iraq war, but he did not place himself in the anti...
Prashad: An African-American in Gaza
Znet Article, January, 18 2009
Vijay Prashad
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Israeli contempt for the United Nations begins in the 1940s and continues to this day...
Prashad: Obama's Indian
Znet Article, November, 12 2008
Vijay Prashad
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Barack Obama has appointed John Podesta to run his transition. During the lean years of the Bush administration, Podesta, native of Chicago, ran a shadow cabinet for the Democrats. Since 2003, the home of this government-in-exile has been the Cent...
Prashad: The Collapse
Znet Article, October, 25 2008
Vijay Prashad
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The deepening financial crisis in the U.S. forces the neoconservatives to reverse their policies.
Prashad: The Indian Left And The Indo-US Nuclear Deal
Znet Article, September, 06 2008
Vijay Prashad
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In the 2004 general election, the Indian electorate denied the intransigent right-wing power over the State. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance lost out to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance, although the l...
Prashad: The Nuke Deal Is Dead
Znet Article, October, 25 2007
Vijay Prashad
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On October 12, 2007, the Congress Party threw in the towel. India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the leader of the United Progressive Alliance Sonia Gandhi told the press that they would step back from the US-India nuclear deal. "If the deal ...
Prashad: Destination Darfur
Znet Article, August, 13 2007
Vijay Prashad
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In February, George W. Bush announced the creation of ...
Prashad: Destination Darfur
Znet Article, August, 13 2007
Vijay Prashad
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In February, George W. Bush announced the creation of ...
Prashad: Letter to a Young American Hindu
Znet Article, May, 22 2007
Vijay Prashad
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Dear Friend, Like you, I was raised in a mixed family. My parents' families came to Bengal from Punjab, and from Burma. One side leans towards Hinduism; the other to Sikhism. The city, the metro, provided its own cultural mooring, and in secular ...
Prashad: On "The Darker Nations"
Znet Article, April, 21 2007
Vijay Prashad
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[The importance of Vijay Prashad's book, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World, lies in its ability to trace the trajectory of the "Third World Project" - its genesis, growth and crisis - amidst the cacophonous range of local p...
Prashad: Every Generation of North Americans Must Come to Terms with Latin America
Znet Article, December, 18 2006
Vijay Prashad
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Every Generation of North Americans Must Come to Terms with Latin America
Prashad: The Road Outta Baghdad
Znet Article, November, 29 2005
Vijay Prashad
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Two polls say it all: just about half the US population is in favor of a quick withdrawal from Iraq, and over seventy percent of Iraqi lawmakers want the US troops to leave immediately. If the US people and the Iraqi elected officials want the US ...
Prashad: The Rosa Parks Of The Anti-war Movement
Znet Article, August, 19 2005
Vijay Prashad
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The protest outside President Bush's ranch by Cindy Sheehan, whose soldier son was killed in action, has raised awareness of the continued devastation in Iraq. ON APRIL 4, 2004, a barrage of grenades and small arms fire from Iraqi insurgent gro...
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...
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 ...
