Vijay Prashad
Vijay Prashad is the Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research (thetricontinental.org) and Chief Editor of LeftWord Books (leftword.com). He writes regularly for The Hindu, Frontline, Newsclick, Alternet and BirGün.
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Views Tuesday, April 03, 2018 The Failures Of Western Reporting in Gaza If you are a Western journalist and you have to report from Gaza, the best thing to do is to treat the Palestinians as a threat. Their bodies are weapons, their existence is dangerous. If a Palestinian is killed by an Israeli soldier, the most appropriate thing to do is to call it a “clash.”... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 24, 2016 Ankara’s Climbdown on Assad Sharp changes in the war on Syria have impacted the policy of the Turkish government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Initially Mr. Erdogan believed that the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would fall precipitously. It did not. Rather than overthrow Mr. Assad, the war has placed... Read more |
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Views Sunday, November 15, 2015 We Are in Pitiless Times A week of horrible carnage – bomb blasts in Beirut and Baghdad and then the cold-blooded shootings in Paris. Each of these acts of terror left dead bodies and wounded lives. There is nothing good that comes of them – only the pain of the victim and then more pain as powerful people take refuge in... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 22, 2015 Crushing Dreams Will Not Stop the Rush from Africa Two sides of Africa plunge migrants into deep despair. Thousands from the continent's central belt head to Libya, load themselves on boats bound for Europe, and never reach their destination. Meanwhile, the Islamic State group abducts Ethiopian migrants and murders them. The militants of the IS do... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, March 04, 2015 The Nuclear Club: India Welcomed, Iran Shunned The language is white hot. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tells the US Congress to reject any deal with Iran. The red line for him has been crossed a long time ago – namely, when Iran began to enrich uranium. What Netanyahu wants is to end Iran’s nuclear program. What ambiguity lies... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 11, 2015 Barbarians Are Made, Not Born Genuine terrorists require little amplification of their acts. These acts are designed to create a certain emotional response. A beheading here, a burning there – ghastly repetitions of old acts, as old as The Rack or the Judas Chair. It takes little imagination to picture the pain. The terrorist... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 08, 2015 Double Standards in the World Order Palestine approaches the United Nations Security Council asking to set a deadline to end the Israeli occupation. It is rebuffed by the United States. Palestine approaches the International Criminal Court (ICC), seeking membership in this world body. The United States threatens to cut its funding to... Read more |
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Views Thursday, November 13, 2014 On America's Less Bad Choices in Syria Frontlines blur in Syria, with guns pointed in many directions. US missiles muddy the landscape further. Initially, the United States had pledged to bomb the established positions of the Islamic State (IS, formerly known as ISIS): an empty building in Raqqa and convoys of US material stolen from... Read more |
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News Tuesday, August 12, 2014 Why US Airstrikes Won't Defeat ISIS (VIDEO) In this interview with the Real News Network, Scholar, journalist, and activist Vijay Prashad discusses the folly of the U.S. bid to bomb ISIS and arm its foes for "humanitarian" purposes. "I do hope that in future, people in the United States [who] get so excited about military intervention will... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 30, 2014 Scarlett Johansson is Right – the Face of SodaStream Doesn't Fit With Oxfam Global charities seek global ambassadors to help them raise the profile of their work. Simply doing their best to stem the tide of suffering is not enough to gain potential donors' attention. Read more |