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Vijay Prashad
Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor and journalist. He is the chief editor of LeftWord Books and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. He has written more than 20 books, including The Darker Nations and The Poorer Nations. His latest book is Washington Bullets, with an introduction by Evo Morales Ayma.
A war has raged in Great Lakes region for decades and we can no longer ignore
The M23 rebels, backed by Rwanda, have expanded their attacks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The bewildering vote in Chile that rejected a new constitution
Did compulsory voting give evangelicals the opportunity to trash progressive reforms?
The most important elections in the Americas is in Brazil
Former president Lula is in the lead in the polls ahead of the first round of elections on 2 October. These elections will be transformative for Brazil and will ramifications…
Chile’s lithium a poisoned chalice
It provides profit to billionaires but exhausts the land and its people
Three writers respond to Drew Forrest’s New Frame piece in the M&G and Rebecca Davis’s article in Daily Maverick
The articles in the two publications followed the sudden closure of ‘New Frame’ after its donor withdrew his funding
How Cuba is eradicating child mortality and diseases of the poor
To move from 59 infant deaths out of every 1000 live births in one of the poorest regions of the island to none in the matter of a few decades is an extraordinary feat
Is the US establishing a military base in Zambia?
Dr Fred M’membe, president of the Socialist Party in Zambia, says such a facility will be established ‘over our dead bodies’
Why Ghana allows US military base on its soil
The current government is adhering to an old policy of appeasement of Western interests
Nato uses West’s military muscle to force its way into Africa
The AU lacked a security apparatus of its own and Nato and the West were only too happy to step into the breach
OPINION | Now is the time for a new non-aligned movement and peace
As countries in the Global North push to escalate the war in Ukraine, the Global South has overwhelmingly pushed for a perspective of dialogue and peace
Western-led globalisation might end, but the new globalisation might have an Eastern face
Deglobalisation, which is a retreat from Western-designed globalisation, did not begin during the pandemic or during the Russian war on Ukraine. This process has its origins in…
Understanding the war in Ukraine
The US is more concerned with inflicting pain on the Russians than helping the Ukrainians, according to a Kyiv-based journalist
Ukraine: A conflict soaked in contradictions
There are wars in Africa and Asia and some are rarely commented on in the media, so why is Ukraine different?
France withdraws from Mali, but continues to devastate the Sahel
French troops have now begun to leave Mali, but they are not returning to France. They will be sent to neighbouring Niger
The terrible fate facing the Afghan people
The perilous situation in the country is not the result only of Taliban activities. It is the result of the sanctions imposed on Afghanistan.