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 Wednesday, August 15, 2018 The Hour When Children Die—What Is Going On in Yemen? A busload of young boys was on a field trip. They were excited. Their summer session of school was over. This was to be the outing to celebrate the end of school. The boys jostle on the bus. It is noisy. One of them covers his ears. They are all laughing. One of their friends is taking a video (... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 09, 2018 The Knife in Iran’s Back: Trump Reinstates Sanctions, Opening the Door to Chaos in Asia and Europe On Tuesday night, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani went on television to talk about the reinstatement of sanctions by the United States against his country. He prepared the country for more privations as a result of the sanctions. Responding to Trump’s offer for a meeting, Rouhani said pointedly, “... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 02, 2018 Empire in Decline, Really? The American War Machine Continues to Grow Last week, on July 26, the United States House of Representatives passed the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, which will then go on to the U.S. Senate and finally to the U.S. president. It is worthwhile to note that 139 Democrats, including the entire Democratic Party leadership, voted for... Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 26, 2018 Chomsky, Prashad, Hedges and Other Leading Intellectuals: Denuclearize the Middle East The Middle East is in turmoil now, possibly again on the verge of a major war that could draw in the United States and Russia. President Donald Trump has pulled the United States out of the six-nation nuclear agreement with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA. Although a... Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 26, 2018 Trump Has Found a Way to Make Enemies of Breastfeeding Mothers In May, the government of Ecuador came to the World Health Organization (WHO) assembly with a resolution on breastfeeding. What worried the government of Ecuador, and many other governments of the Global South, is the behavior of large corporations—Nestlé in the lead. These corporations that sell... Read more |
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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 |