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 Wednesday, March 13, 2019 The Rightful Owners of a Key Island Military Base for the U.S. Would Like It Back, and the UN Agrees Give Chagos back to the Chagossians! That’s a slogan I first heard in 2000. It was a demonstration in London, outside a courthouse, a small group of people with handmade signs appealing to the British legal system to return their islands to them. Few people paid them any attention. The courts sided... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 05, 2019 Will the U.S. End Up Putting Sanctions on Every Country That Doesn’t Bend to Its Will? The phrase is used over and over again by the government of the United States. “Strongest sanctions in history”—now against Iran, then against Venezuela. U.S. government officials revel in the timbre of exaggeration, their phrases shaking countries and overturning civilizations. It is hard to keep... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, February 26, 2019 Notes From the Streets of Venezuela—The People Are Resilient in the Face of Foreign Intervention Mariela Machado is in her late 50s. She is a leader in the housing complex in Caracas, Venezuela, known as Kaikachi in the neighborhood of La Vega. “What will happen if this government falls?” I ask her. “If the government falls, we will be evicted,” she says. “We—the Black, the poor, the working... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, February 19, 2019 How the U.S. Is Strangling Haiti as It Attempts Regime Change in Venezuela Last year, in October, Haitians followed two Twitter hashtags that went viral—#PetrocaribeChallenge and #KotKobPetwoKaribea. If you are not Haitian and do not follow Haitian politics carefully, you can be forgiven for not noticing this development. The complaint on Twitter—and soon on the streets—... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, February 12, 2019 Why Does the United States of America Want to Overthrow the Government of Venezuela? Since 1998, the United States of America has tried to overthrow the government of Venezuela. What threatened the government of the United States since then was the Bolivarian dynamic set in motion by the election of Hugo Chávez as president of Venezuela that year. Chávez won the elections with a... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, February 05, 2019 Disaster Capitalism in Brazil: Mining Greed Produces a Horrific Death Toll On January 25, 2019, a dam burst in the town of Brumadinho, north of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The dam was built by the iron-ore company Vale to store residue after the iron ore had been extracted. Once the dam began to crumble, it did not take long for its 13 million cubic meters of iron waste to... Read more |
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Views Friday, February 01, 2019 The U.S. 12-Step Method to Conduct Regime Change On September 15, 1970, U.S. President Richard Nixon and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger authorized the U.S. government to do everything possible to undermine the incoming government of the socialist president of Chile, Salvador Allende. Nixon and Kissinger, according to the notes kept by... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 22, 2019 Reality Is Starting to Creep Into the Billionaire Oasis of Davos At this time of year, about 2,000 private jets fly into Zurich airport and to various smaller Swiss airports (including the Dübendorf military airbase). Hundreds of helicopter flights move from Zurich to Davos, where the hotel rooms go for as high as US$10,000 a night during the World Economic... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 17, 2019 America Has Its Gunsights on Venezuela Last Thursday—on January 10—Nicolas Maduro was sworn in for his second term as president of Venezuela. “I tell the people,” Maduro said, “this presidential sash is yours. The power of this sash is yours. It does not belong to the oligarchy or to imperialism. It belongs to the sovereign people of... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 08, 2019 Here’s What a Real Strike Looks Like: 150 Million Say No to Despotism in India Indian cities never go silent. Sound is a constant feature—the horns of cars, the chirping of birds, the cries of hawkers, the steady hum of a motorcycle engine. On Tuesday, India is on strike. It is likely that about 150 million workers will stay away from their workplaces. Trade unions of the... Read more |