Vijay Prashad
Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor, and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter. He is the chief editor of LeftWord Books and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, and 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 books are Struggle Makes Us Human: Learning from Movements for Socialism and (with Noam Chomsky) The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power.
Vijay's recent articles
25 August 2024
Bangladesh on the spot
If the interim government formed after the departure of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina holds a fair election, the people will find out if political Islam is a dispensation they wish to vote for.
28 January 2024
Why I believe what I believe about the Chinese Revolution
Late last year, a colleague sent me a letter decrying some of my writings about China, notably the last newsletter of 2023. This newsletter is my response to him.
6 August 2023
If everybodys going to join NATO, then why have the United Nations?
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) held its annual summit on 1112 July in Vilnius, Lithuania. The communiqu released after the first days proceedings claimed that NATO is a defensive alliance, a statement that encapsulates why many struggle to grasp its true essence.
5 August 2023
Niger is the fourth country in the Sahel to experience an Anti-Western Coup
At 3 a.m. on July 26, 2023, the presidential guarddetained President Mohamed Bazoum in Niamey, the capital of Niger. Troops, led by Brigadier General Abdourahmane Tchiani closed the countrys borders and declared a curfew.
25 January 2023
Now is the time for nonalignment and peace
War is an ugly part of the human experience. Everything about it is hideous. War is most obviously the act of invasion and the brutality that goes along with its operations. No war is precise; every war hurts civilians. Each act of bombardment sends a neurological shudder through society.
14 December 2022
Australia: a frontline state in the new Cold War
On 15 November 2022, during the G20 summit in Bali (Indonesia), Australias Prime Minister Anthony Albanesetoldjournalists that his country seeks a stable relationship with China. This is because, as Albanese pointed out, China is Australias largest trading partner. They are worth more than Japan, the United States, and the Republic of Korea combined. Since 2009, China has also been Australias largest destination for exports as well as the largest single source of Australias imports.
20 January 2022
The US holds $10b of Afghanistan's assets, while its people shiver and starve
The economic and humanitarian crises are a result of the cutoff of $8 billion in aid and the freezing of $9.5 billion in foreign exchange by the US.
9 January 2021
You don't want to imagine an ocean without coral reefs, but you might have to
With a recent report titled Projections of Future Coral Bleaching Conditions, published by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) inNovember, Leticia Carvalhohead of the Marine and Freshwater Branch of UNEPsaidon December 21 that coral reefs are the canary in the coalmine for climates impact on oceans.
5 September 2020
The U.S. is Determined to Make Julian Assange Pay for Exposing the Cruelty of Its War on Iraq (CounterPunch Sep 2, 2020)
OnSeptember 7, 2020, Julian Assange will leave his cell in Belmarsh Prison in London and attend a hearing that will determine his fate. After a long period of isolation, he was finally able to meet his partnerStella Morisand see their two sonsGabriel (age three) and Max (age one)on August 25. After the visit, Morissaidthat he looked to be in a lot of pain.