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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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Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Will the U.S. Start a War Against Iran? It is unlikely that the United States will find any significant allies among the Iranians. A war against Iran at this time would be a war against a stretch of the world that has seen too many wars in recent times, that would like to open the door to peace. Trump -- with Bolton and Pence -- seek to provoke a war. These are dangerous men with a dangerous agenda.
Tuesday, May 7, 2019Will the U.S. Start a War Against Iran? It is unlikely that the United States will find any significant allies among the Iranians. A war against Iran at this time would be a war against a stretch of the world that has seen too many wars in recent times, that would like to open the door to peace. Trump -- with Bolton and Pence -- seek to provoke a war. These are dangerous men with a dangerous agenda.
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Saturday, March 4, 2017
Trump's Game of Thrones Facts are intolerable to Trump. He likes spin and perception. Adulation is what he requires. In a testy exchange with CNN's Jim Acosta, Trump said: "I would be your biggest fan in the world if you treated me right."
Saturday, March 4, 2017Trump's Game of Thrones Facts are intolerable to Trump. He likes spin and perception. Adulation is what he requires. In a testy exchange with CNN's Jim Acosta, Trump said: "I would be your biggest fan in the world if you treated me right."
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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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Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Trump and His Tariffs rump has now announced a tariff policy on aluminium and steel, which he hopes will redouble efforts by the manufacturing sector to kick-start a languid economy. Trump framed his tariff policy around the framework of national security rather than economics. Other powers, mainly China, he said, were "assaulting our country."
Tuesday, April 3, 2018Trump and His Tariffs rump has now announced a tariff policy on aluminium and steel, which he hopes will redouble efforts by the manufacturing sector to kick-start a languid economy. Trump framed his tariff policy around the framework of national security rather than economics. Other powers, mainly China, he said, were "assaulting our country."
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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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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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Thursday, February 28, 2019
Notes From the Streets of Venezuela -- The People Are Resilient in the Face of Foreign Intervention The word "Chavista" has a resonance. It refers to those women and men who are loyal to Chavez and to the Bolivarian Revolution. It is not uncommon to see t-shirts with Chavez on them, his image ubiquitous on the walls. These are not people who have become rich or become powerful. They are part of a movement to chip away at hundreds of years of inequality.
Thursday, February 28, 2019Notes From the Streets of Venezuela -- The People Are Resilient in the Face of Foreign Intervention The word "Chavista" has a resonance. It refers to those women and men who are loyal to Chavez and to the Bolivarian Revolution. It is not uncommon to see t-shirts with Chavez on them, his image ubiquitous on the walls. These are not people who have become rich or become powerful. They are part of a movement to chip away at hundreds of years of inequality.
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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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Monday, October 2, 2017
Going After the Dreamers "Amnesty is non-negotiable," Trump's former adviser Steve Bannon told Charlie Rose. This is the firm attitude of Trump's base. They want arrests and deportations, they want a wall, they want to see more and more punishments meted out to migrants. Their vehemence will drive Trump's obstinacy. This is what makes the fate of the Dreamers so perilous.
Monday, October 2, 2017Going After the Dreamers "Amnesty is non-negotiable," Trump's former adviser Steve Bannon told Charlie Rose. This is the firm attitude of Trump's base. They want arrests and deportations, they want a wall, they want to see more and more punishments meted out to migrants. Their vehemence will drive Trump's obstinacy. This is what makes the fate of the Dreamers so perilous.
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Thursday, November 17, 2016
Trump Should Name Bernie Sanders Commerce Secretary Imagine if Trump -- isolated from the Republican establishment -- truly thinks he can deliver on infrastructure and jobs. Imagine that he meant it when he referred to Bernie Sanders repeatedly in the debates with Hillary Clinton. Imagine that he picks up the phone in his tower and calls Bernie Sanders, who would have led the Committee on the Budget if the Democrats had won the Senate.
Thursday, November 17, 2016Trump Should Name Bernie Sanders Commerce Secretary Imagine if Trump -- isolated from the Republican establishment -- truly thinks he can deliver on infrastructure and jobs. Imagine that he meant it when he referred to Bernie Sanders repeatedly in the debates with Hillary Clinton. Imagine that he picks up the phone in his tower and calls Bernie Sanders, who would have led the Committee on the Budget if the Democrats had won the Senate.
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Thursday, September 28, 2017
Kurds Have Overwhelmingly Voted for Independence, but Having Their Own Country Is a Long Way Off There is no question that the Kurdish people have unfulfilled desires for their national dreams and their cultural realities. This particular referendum -- important as it was for the Iraqi Kurds -- will not come close to providing a solution to the problem. It has, however, provided a short-term solution to the problems of the government of Barzani.
Thursday, September 28, 2017Kurds Have Overwhelmingly Voted for Independence, but Having Their Own Country Is a Long Way Off There is no question that the Kurdish people have unfulfilled desires for their national dreams and their cultural realities. This particular referendum -- important as it was for the Iraqi Kurds -- will not come close to providing a solution to the problem. It has, however, provided a short-term solution to the problems of the government of Barzani.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Imagine a World Without War, Where Migrants Are Welcomed, Where Women Are Not Targets It was shocking what ISIS did to the Yazidi community -- the capture of women who were then forced to be sex slaves, the rape of thousands. It is what catapulted Nadia Murad to the headlines, her bravery moving her from being a survivor of horrific violence to being a brave spokesperson for justice and against war.
Tuesday, December 11, 2018Imagine a World Without War, Where Migrants Are Welcomed, Where Women Are Not Targets It was shocking what ISIS did to the Yazidi community -- the capture of women who were then forced to be sex slaves, the rape of thousands. It is what catapulted Nadia Murad to the headlines, her bravery moving her from being a survivor of horrific violence to being a brave spokesperson for justice and against war.
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Tuesday, July 24, 2018
America's Reporter: the Hersh Method Over his long career, Hersh has worked for major U.S. publications such as The New York Times and for smaller outlets such as the Dispatch News Service. He did not care where he wrote as long as he could report with freedom and write with his usual bluntness. It was not prestige that Hersh was after, but the story.
Tuesday, July 24, 2018America's Reporter: the Hersh Method Over his long career, Hersh has worked for major U.S. publications such as The New York Times and for smaller outlets such as the Dispatch News Service. He did not care where he wrote as long as he could report with freedom and write with his usual bluntness. It was not prestige that Hersh was after, but the story.
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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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Tuesday, June 12, 2018
The War of Hunger That Afflicts the World's Poor A stunning 40 percent of all food is lost or wasted. There is more than enough food produced on the planet for all the billions of its inhabitants. Yet, those who have no, or little, money cannot afford to feed themselves. Those without property are fated to starve. The food that cannot be bought is thrown away. War, Climate Change, Money -- these are the engines of hunger.
Tuesday, June 12, 2018The War of Hunger That Afflicts the World's Poor A stunning 40 percent of all food is lost or wasted. There is more than enough food produced on the planet for all the billions of its inhabitants. Yet, those who have no, or little, money cannot afford to feed themselves. Those without property are fated to starve. The food that cannot be bought is thrown away. War, Climate Change, Money -- these are the engines of hunger.
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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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Thursday, December 6, 2018
You can smell teargas in the streets as oil industry squabbles At the G20, the United States and China dialed down the temperature over trade but did not settle the long-term grievances each side has against the other. At the OPEC+ meeting, Russia and Saudi Arabia agreed to cut production and raise the price of oil despite pressure from the US and others to keep oil prices low. At neither meeting did the major powers find solutions to their problems.
Thursday, December 6, 2018You can smell teargas in the streets as oil industry squabbles At the G20, the United States and China dialed down the temperature over trade but did not settle the long-term grievances each side has against the other. At the OPEC+ meeting, Russia and Saudi Arabia agreed to cut production and raise the price of oil despite pressure from the US and others to keep oil prices low. At neither meeting did the major powers find solutions to their problems.
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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."
