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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.
The M23 rebels, backed by Rwanda, have expanded their attacks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Did compulsory voting give evangelicals the opportunity to trash progressive reforms?
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…
It provides profit to billionaires but exhausts the land and its people
The articles in the two publications followed the sudden closure of ‘New Frame’ after its donor withdrew his funding
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
Dr Fred M’membe, president of the Socialist Party in Zambia, says such a facility will be established ‘over our dead bodies’
The current government is adhering to an old policy of appeasement of Western interests
The AU lacked a security apparatus of its own and Nato and the West were only too happy to step into the breach
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
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…
The US is more concerned with inflicting pain on the Russians than helping the Ukrainians, according to a Kyiv-based journalist
There are wars in Africa and Asia and some are rarely commented on in the media, so why is Ukraine different?
French troops have now begun to leave Mali, but they are not returning to France. They will be sent to neighbouring Niger
The perilous situation in the country is not the result only of Taliban activities. It is the result of the sanctions imposed on Afghanistan.
Israel is scaling up its information war ahead of a UNHRC session at the end of February that will table a report into last year’s bombing of Gaza
Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara is about the presence of resources, especially phosphates that make up 72% of the world’s reserves. Phosphate is used in fertiliser, a key…
A new constitution is being written after a series of student protests rocked Chilean politics. Now, an upcoming presidential election could shift the country towards economic…
Why did Rwanda intervene in Mozambique in July to defend, essentially, two energy companies?
An insurgency against poverty that has opportunistically taken on the mantle of the Islamic State faces the wrath of African armies. Meanwhile, another tragedy — the criminal…
