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Vijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Chair of South Asian History and Director of International Studies at Trinity College, Hartford, CT His most recent book, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World, won the Muzaffar Ahmad Book Prize for 2009. The Swedish and French editions are just out. He can be reached at: vijay.prashad@trincoll.edu
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Saturday, October 8, 2022
The Most Dangerous Situation That Humanity Has Ever Faced Since 1947, the Doomsday Clock has measured the likelihood of a human-made catastrophe, namely to warn the world against the possibility of a nuclear holocaust.
Saturday, October 8, 2022The Most Dangerous Situation That Humanity Has Ever Faced Since 1947, the Doomsday Clock has measured the likelihood of a human-made catastrophe, namely to warn the world against the possibility of a nuclear holocaust.
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Friday, July 29, 2022
The World Does Not Want a Global NATO Most of the world's population rejects NATO's policies and global aspirations and does not wish to divide the international community into outdated Cold War blocs.
Friday, July 29, 2022The World Does Not Want a Global NATO Most of the world's population rejects NATO's policies and global aspirations and does not wish to divide the international community into outdated Cold War blocs.
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Monday, June 20, 2022
The Lethality of the Global Monroe Doctrine From its attacks on Global South countries to its willingness to go to war with a great power such as Russia the U.S. is increasingly employing military force to compensate for its economic decline
Monday, June 20, 2022The Lethality of the Global Monroe Doctrine From its attacks on Global South countries to its willingness to go to war with a great power such as Russia the U.S. is increasingly employing military force to compensate for its economic decline
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Friday, May 27, 2022
And Then There Was No More Empire All of a Sudden The sun is setting on imperialism as we emerge slowly and delicately into a world that seeks meaningful equality rather than subordination.
Friday, May 27, 2022And Then There Was No More Empire All of a Sudden The sun is setting on imperialism as we emerge slowly and delicately into a world that seeks meaningful equality rather than subordination.
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Friday, August 13, 2021
A Viable -- and Perhaps the Only -- Path to Lasting Peace in Afghanistan E As each day goes by, the Taliban's forces edge closer to controlling all of Afghanistan. The violence has been severe; the pain inflicted on civilians by the intensity of the fighting has been terrible.
Friday, August 13, 2021A Viable -- and Perhaps the Only -- Path to Lasting Peace in Afghanistan E As each day goes by, the Taliban's forces edge closer to controlling all of Afghanistan. The violence has been severe; the pain inflicted on civilians by the intensity of the fighting has been terrible.
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Sunday, April 11, 2021
Zambia Is The Tip Of The Tail Of The Global Dog The Socialist Party pledges to reverse Zambia's slide into privatisation and de-industrialisation, social processes that have damaged social life in the country and created a sense of despondency among the masses.
Sunday, April 11, 2021Zambia Is The Tip Of The Tail Of The Global Dog The Socialist Party pledges to reverse Zambia's slide into privatisation and de-industrialisation, social processes that have damaged social life in the country and created a sense of despondency among the masses.
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Tuesday, February 2, 2021
We Should All Be Outraged It is time to impanel a citizens' tribunal to investigate the utter failure of the governments of Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, Narendra Modi, and others to break the chain of the infection of COVID-19.
Tuesday, February 2, 2021We Should All Be Outraged It is time to impanel a citizens' tribunal to investigate the utter failure of the governments of Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, Narendra Modi, and others to break the chain of the infection of COVID-19.
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Thursday, January 28, 2021
Why We Can't Give Up on the Idea of a World Free From Nuclear Weapons On January 22, 2021, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) became international law for the 122 states who signed the agreement in July 2017. This is a treaty to ban nuclear weapons.
Thursday, January 28, 2021Why We Can't Give Up on the Idea of a World Free From Nuclear Weapons On January 22, 2021, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) became international law for the 122 states who signed the agreement in July 2017. This is a treaty to ban nuclear weapons.
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Friday, December 18, 2020
Donald Trump's Final Act: Snuffing Out the Promise of Democracy in the Middle East Great hopes have been set aside in the mid-East. Old cynicisms have returned, the cynicisms of arms deals and of energy deals, the cynicism of brutality.
Friday, December 18, 2020Donald Trump's Final Act: Snuffing Out the Promise of Democracy in the Middle East Great hopes have been set aside in the mid-East. Old cynicisms have returned, the cynicisms of arms deals and of energy deals, the cynicism of brutality.
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Saturday, November 28, 2020
Is Imperialism Obsolete in Latin America? In September 2018, Venezuelan president Nicola's Maduro visited China, where he met with China's President Xi Jinping and signed a series of important agreements on trade and culture. Toward the end of his stay, Maduro said that the two countries had built "a relationship of mutual benefit, of shared gain."
Saturday, November 28, 2020Is Imperialism Obsolete in Latin America? In September 2018, Venezuelan president Nicola's Maduro visited China, where he met with China's President Xi Jinping and signed a series of important agreements on trade and culture. Toward the end of his stay, Maduro said that the two countries had built "a relationship of mutual benefit, of shared gain."
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Friday, September 4, 2020
The U.S. is determined to make Julian Assange pay for exposing the cruelty of its war September 7, 2020, Julian Assange will leave his cell in Belmarsh Prison in London and attend a hearing that will determine his fate. After the Swedish authorities decided not to pursue Assange, he should have been released by the UK government. But he was not.
Friday, September 4, 2020The U.S. is determined to make Julian Assange pay for exposing the cruelty of its war September 7, 2020, Julian Assange will leave his cell in Belmarsh Prison in London and attend a hearing that will determine his fate. After the Swedish authorities decided not to pursue Assange, he should have been released by the UK government. But he was not.
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Monday, August 17, 2020
Beirut Explosion: It Is Late, but It Is Early Morning If We Insist Nothing happens in Beirut and Lebanon that is transparent; plots of all kinds unravel against the ordinary hopes of the population.
Monday, August 17, 2020Beirut Explosion: It Is Late, but It Is Early Morning If We Insist Nothing happens in Beirut and Lebanon that is transparent; plots of all kinds unravel against the ordinary hopes of the population.
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Thursday, August 6, 2020
How Trump Managed to Lead the World with the Worst Response to the COVID Pandemic The incompetence of the Trump administration -- coming on top of a destroyed public health system and a failed private sector testing establishment has condemned millions of people in the U.S. to catch the disease and pass it on.
Thursday, August 6, 2020How Trump Managed to Lead the World with the Worst Response to the COVID Pandemic The incompetence of the Trump administration -- coming on top of a destroyed public health system and a failed private sector testing establishment has condemned millions of people in the U.S. to catch the disease and pass it on.
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Monday, July 6, 2020
Venezuela's Borderlands Have Been Assaulted by COVID-19 Venezuela's rate of infection remains low, despite the U.S. unilateral sanctions that have denied the country the right to import drugs and tests for the population.
Monday, July 6, 2020Venezuela's Borderlands Have Been Assaulted by COVID-19 Venezuela's rate of infection remains low, despite the U.S. unilateral sanctions that have denied the country the right to import drugs and tests for the population.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Who Deserves a Nobel Prize During a Pandemic? China, having gained important experience in its own fight against the virus and the disease, has now sent experts and medical teams to countries across the world from Iran to Burkina Faso to Venezuela.
Tuesday, June 16, 2020Who Deserves a Nobel Prize During a Pandemic? China, having gained important experience in its own fight against the virus and the disease, has now sent experts and medical teams to countries across the world from Iran to Burkina Faso to Venezuela.
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Saturday, June 13, 2020
Tear Down the Racist Statues, End Racist Debt and Pay for Reparations The statues are coming down. The most recent avalanche began in the United States after the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police and the uprising it occasioned. Cancel the debt and provide reparations to the formerly colonized for the centuries of theft and brutality.
Saturday, June 13, 2020Tear Down the Racist Statues, End Racist Debt and Pay for Reparations The statues are coming down. The most recent avalanche began in the United States after the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police and the uprising it occasioned. Cancel the debt and provide reparations to the formerly colonized for the centuries of theft and brutality.
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Friday, June 5, 2020
The murder of George Floyd is normal in an abnormal society Vijay Prashad writes on how the recent murder of George Floyd in the US is sadly unsurprising in a country that upholds capitalist exploitation through white supremacy
Friday, June 5, 2020The murder of George Floyd is normal in an abnormal society Vijay Prashad writes on how the recent murder of George Floyd in the US is sadly unsurprising in a country that upholds capitalist exploitation through white supremacy
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Friday, May 29, 2020
Why Iran's Fuel Tankers for Venezuela Are Sending Shudders Through Washington The more Trump threatens China, and the more he builds up U.S. military assets along the Chinese coastline, the greater the chance that China will react toward Taiwan being provoked -- in other words -- into a conflict that the world just does not need.
Friday, May 29, 2020Why Iran's Fuel Tankers for Venezuela Are Sending Shudders Through Washington The more Trump threatens China, and the more he builds up U.S. military assets along the Chinese coastline, the greater the chance that China will react toward Taiwan being provoked -- in other words -- into a conflict that the world just does not need.
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Thursday, May 14, 2020
The U.S. Military is Hell-Bent on Trying to Overpower China The real focus is China. In January 2019, Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan told U.S. military officials that the problem is "China, China, China." As far as Trump is concerned, China and -- to a lesser extent -- Russia are to be contained by the United States with armed force.
Thursday, May 14, 2020The U.S. Military is Hell-Bent on Trying to Overpower China The real focus is China. In January 2019, Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan told U.S. military officials that the problem is "China, China, China." As far as Trump is concerned, China and -- to a lesser extent -- Russia are to be contained by the United States with armed force.
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Friday, April 24, 2020
How the Chinese Authorities and the World Health Organization Handled the Coronavirus On March 11, a month before Trump's announcement to "halt funding" for WHO, the WHO had declared a global pandemic as a result of its deep concern of both the alarming levels of spread and severity, and the alarming levels of inaction.
Friday, April 24, 2020How the Chinese Authorities and the World Health Organization Handled the Coronavirus On March 11, a month before Trump's announcement to "halt funding" for WHO, the WHO had declared a global pandemic as a result of its deep concern of both the alarming levels of spread and severity, and the alarming levels of inaction.
