Lila Rajiva

Lila Rajiva is a journalist and author residing in Baltimore, Maryland. She was born in India and has a Master's degree from Johns Hopkins University. She has taught media studies at the University of Maryland.

Lila Rajiva's work can be found on web and print publications, including Himal South Asian, India West, The Hindu, [http://www.outlookindia.com/archivecontents.asp Outlook India] , Forbes, The Washington Post, "CounterPunch", "Dissident Voice", "Doublestandards.org", "Lewrockwell.com", The Daily Reckoning and "MRZine". She is also the author of "The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib and the American Media" (2005), published by [http://www.monthlyreview.org/ Monthly Review Press] , and the co-author of "Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets" with Bill Bonner, published by Wiley. The first book examines the place of Iraqi prisoner torture in U.S. culture and politics; the second book details mob delusions and explains why they continually arise. A selection of her articles are listed below.

External links

* [http://www.mindbodypolitic.com/ Lila Rajiva's blog]
* [http://schema-root.org/people/career/journalists/lila_rajiva/ Schema-root.org archive]

Further reading

*"A Tale of Two Globes" and "Playing the Global Trade Game", (Endervidualism) (republished as "Do-Gooding Do-Do" and "Developmentally Disabled"
*"Satan and Sex Manias - Moral Panics and the Mob Mind" (Dissidentvoice.org)
*"Portrait of the CIA as an Artist", (Countercurrents)
*"Words of War", (Countercurrents)
* "Ruminations on Thomas Friedman - Parts I-IV", (Dissidentvoice.org)
* "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
*" Minding the Crowd" (about mob psychology)(Peace and Earth Justice)
* "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, 2007)
* "Saving Private Enterprise: Ron Paul, Petraeus and Two Kinds of Patriotism" (Lew Rockwell, September 18, 2007)
* " 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
* "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", December 5, 2006, (Counterpunch.org)(the first piece to charge European governments with concealing their complicity in US renditions)
* "The Failure of Liberal Journalism on Abu Ghraib", (Monthly Review magazine)
* "Cartoon-Krieg: Politics as War by Other Means", (Monthly Review magazine)
* "The Pentagon's 'NATO Option"', (Commondreams.org)
* "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)
* "Synthetic Science"] , (Alternet.org)
* "The Globalized Village", (Alternet.org)
* "Cleaning House"] , (Alternet.org)