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Znet Article Prashad: Destination Darfur

Znet Article, August, 13 2007 Vijay Prashad
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In February, George W. Bush announced the creation of ...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article Prashad: Mr. Kurtz! The Horror! The Horror!

Znet Article, November, 15 2003 Vijay Prashad
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In mid-October, my email in-box began to receive forwards from Michael Bednar, a graduate student in the department of history at the University of Texas, Austin. The subject line suggested that it was an email joke: "Congress moves to regula...

Znet Article Prashad: Interviewing Vijay Prashad

Znet Article, September, 04 2003 Vijay Prashad
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(1) Can you tell Znet, please, what your new book, Title? What is it trying to communicate? The book is called Keeping Up with the Dow Joneses: Debt, Prison, Workfare, and it is published by South End Press. A few years ago, Ravi Ahuja of a Ma...

Znet Article Prashad: By the Waters of Babylon

Znet Article, 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...

Znet Article Prashad: Kashmir and Jihad International

Znet Article, December, 31 2002 Vijay Prashad
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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...

Znet Article Prashad: Scenarios For Iraq After Saddam

Znet Article, November, 01 2002 Vijay Prashad
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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 ...

Znet Article Prashad: ZNet Interviews Vijay Prashad about

Znet Article, October, 18 2002 Vijay Prashad
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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...

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

Znet Article, May, 03 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...

Znet Article Prashad: Memories of Barbarity: Sharonism and September

Znet Article, April, 10 2002 Vijay Prashad
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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...

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 ...

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