Lila Rajiva is a freelance journalist and Baltimore, Maryland resident. She was born in India and emigrated to the US. She holds two Master's degrees, one of them in politics, from Johns Hopkins University. She has taught at the University of Marylandand was a contributing editorfor Bill Bonner's column at The Daily Reckoningin 2006-07.
Ms. Rajiva has written over one hundred articles that can be found in print magazines, such as The Hindu, Forbes, The Washington Post, Himal South Asia, India West, as well as on web publications, such as CounterPunch, DissidentVoice, Doublestandards. CounterPunch is a biweekly Newsletter published in the United States that covers politics in a manner its editors describe as "muckraking with a radical org, LewRockwell.com, and Monthly Review Magazine. LewRockwellcom (LRC is a widely read 501(c(4 Anarcho-capitalist and Paleolibertarian web magazine operated by Burton Blumert (publisher
A selection of her political and financial articles can be found at her blog and at
Schema-root.org
DissidentVoice.org 2004-07
DissidentVoice.org 2007
LewRockwell.com
Endervidualism
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Author:
- The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib and the American Media, Monthly Review Press, 2005.
The book examines the place of Iraqi prisoner torture in U. S. culture and politics. It was the first study of the media's role in the scandal and the first book to draw attention to the torture of Iraqi women. It connects the policy of torture to the financialization of the economy.
Co-author:
- Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets with Bill Bonner,Wiley, 2007. Bill Bonner may refer to Bill Bonner (author, author of books and articles on economic and financial subjects Bill Bonner (politician
The book details mob delusions and explains why they continually arise. It continues her analysis of propaganda in politics and the markets, especially the financialization of the economy in the US and abroad.
Contributing Author:
- Third World: Opposing Viewpoints, David Haugen, Greenhaven Press, 2006, "The Globalized Village". Argues that the language of the free market conceals the reality of managed trade.
- One of the Guys: Women as Aggressors and Torturers, edtd. Barbara Ehrenreich, Seal Press, 2007, "The Military Made Me Do It: Psychic Injuries and Double Standards at Abu Ghraib". Argues that female soldiers who tortured should be held to the same standard as male soldiers.
Selected Articles:
- Finance
Hanky-Panky at the Counting House, DissidentVoice. org
Golden Goose Down: Was the IMF Involved in Gold Price Manipulations?, DissidentVoice. org
Why It's Time to Sell Goldman, Money Week, June 30, 2006
Malcolm Gladwell and Lay Away Thinking, Pacific Free Press, April 2, 2007. Predicts the onset of serious financial problems and points out the dangers of Enron's accounting practices.
The "Good Debt" Trap that No One Talks About, Baltimore Chronicle, March 2006. Personal finance column.
- Economics
A Tale of Two Globes and Playing the Global Trade Game (republished as Do-Gooding Do-Do and Developmentally Disabled), Endervidualism, February 20071
Ruminations on Thomas Friedman - Parts I-IV DissidentVoice. org
The Globalized Village, Alternet. org
Cleaning House, Alternet. org
Hedge I Win, Fails You Lose, The Daily Reckoning, September 22, 2006
The Unbearable Lightness of the Buck, The Daily Reckoning, July 20, 2007
Irrational People, Forbes. com, October 2007
Is Bailing Out Reckless Investors Wise? The Washington Post, October 2007
- Group-Think
Satan and Sex Manias - Moral Panics and the Mob Mind, DissidentVoice. org, January 2007
Minding the Crowd, Peace and Earth Justice, 2007. Analyzes group-think in politics and the markets.
Ron Paul and the Empire of Experts, Lew Rockwell, 2007
Saving Private Enterprise: Ron Paul, Petraeus and Two Kinds of Patriotism, Lew Rockwell, September 18, 2007
- Propaganda
Portrait of the CIA as an Artist, Countercurrents
Words of War, Countercurrents
The Failure of Liberal Journalism on Abu Ghraib, Monthly Review Magazine
- Torture
Iraqi Women and Torture, Parts I-IV], July 2004, DissidentVoice. org. The first pieces to examine and explain the role of the torture of women in Iraq.
The Torture Photos Congress Didn’t Want Us to See, February 6, 2006, DissidentVoice. org
The Torture-Go-Round: The CIA's Rendition Flights to Secret Prisons, Counterpunch. org, December 5,, 2006. The first piece to charge European governments with concealing their complicity in US renditions)
- The Police State
V-Tech Whitewash, Lew Rockwell, May 15, 2007
T' is for Trillion: Mike Chertoff will Make a Wreck of the Border, Lew Rockwell, May 23, 2000
The Pentagon's 'NATO Option, Commondreams. org
She blogs on politics and the markets from an individualist perspective at www. mindbodypolitic. com
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