Vijay Prashad
Vijay Prashad is the Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and Chief Editor of LeftWord Books. He is a Writing Fellow and Chief Correspondent at Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute. He writes regularly for The Hindu, Frontline, Newsclick, and BirGün.
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Views Tuesday, November 12, 2019 After Morales Ousted in Coup, the Lithium Question Looms Large in Bolivia Bolivia’s President Evo Morales was overthrown in a military coup on November 10. He is now in Mexico. Before he left office, Morales had been involved in a long project to bring economic and social democracy to his long-exploited country. It is important to recall that Bolivia has suffered a... Read more |
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Views Thursday, November 07, 2019 How U.S. Sanctions on Iran Are Killing Innocent People In late October, Human Rights Watch released a short report with a sharp title—“Maximum Pressure: US Economic Sanctions Harm Iranians’ Right to Health.” In November 2018, a year ago, the U.S. renewed its unilateral sanctions against Iran, and included “secondary sanctions” on non-U.S. entities... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, October 15, 2019 The IMF Convenes in Washington, Deaf to the Suffering It Causes Across the Planet Each year, the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) gathers at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. This year, the IMF will meet under the leadership of a new chief, Kristalina Georgieva, who crossed the street from the World Bank to take over this post from Christine Lagarde. Lagarde, as... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 07, 2019 What to Expect from Turkey’s Coming Invasion of Syria U.S. President Donald Trump told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday, October 6, that the United States troops inside Syria would not defend the Syrian Democratic Forces, which have built an enclave inside Syria along a section of the Turkish border. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, October 01, 2019 Iran’s Capacity to Strike Back Should Even Make a Politically Desperate Trump Think Twice On CBS’s “60 Minutes,” the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the architect of his kingdom’s brutal war on Yemen, suggested that a war against Iran would be a bad idea. It could, he said, lead to a “total collapse of the global economy.” The region that includes Saudi Arabia and Iran contains... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 17, 2019 Only the Coalition of the Foolish Wants a War With Iran There’s no point in dredging up that old slogan, No Blood for Oil. It had no impact the last time. Don’t bomb Iraq, we said in 2002 and 2003, to no avail. George W. Bush and his friends had it in mind to destroy that country, which they did. Donald Trump fired John Bolton. It seemed as if it would... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 27, 2019 The G7 Countries Look Feeble—Iran and Brazil Could Shore Them Up The G7 meetings seem—as each of them passes—to be a waste of time. The 45th G7 meeting was held in France, in the quaint seaside town of Biarritz. Nothing of significance was discussed with seriousness at this meeting. U.S. President Donald Trump ducked the conversation about the trade wars by... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 20, 2019 Why the World Is Watching the Fate of an Iranian Tanker in the Mediterranean At 11:30 p.m. on August 18, the Iranian tanker Adrian Darya 1 left the shores of Gibraltar at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea. This ship had been detained 46 days ago by British Royal Marines and Gibraltar’s officials. The British claimed that the ship—then named Grace 1—was taking its cargo of... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 14, 2019 Why Kashmir Is Suddenly a Potential Global Point of Conflict On August 5, India’s Home Minister Amit Shah introduced the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Bill in the Indian Parliament. The bill divides the Indian State into two parts: the Union Territory of Ladakh and the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The Legislative Assembly in the state has been... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 23, 2019 The U.S.-Iran Standoff Can Only End When the U.S. Accepts Iran’s Right to Have a Nuclear Energy Program At a Non-Aligned Movement meeting in Caracas, Venezuela, Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif accused the United States of America of “economic terrorism.” Unilateral U.S. sanctions have clobbered Iran, which—like most countries on earth—is reliant on the financial system that remains dominated by... Read more |