Vijay Prashad
@vijayprashad
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Director of @tri_continental; Ed, @LeftwordBooks & @inkanibooks; Chief Reporter at Globetrotter. Ed, Wenhua Zongheng: A Journal of Contemporary Chinese Thought.
Santiago, Chile
Joined May 2010
OUT NOW: Leg Glance, no. 11, my cricket column. It is a defence of the test form. Read it here: https://t.co/4ZQztmh4cS Is there a cricket publication out there that would hire me to cover the next test series in the West Indies - perhaps the Sri Lanka two tests (June-July 2026)
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Russia's President is heading to India. Vijay Prashad suggests a trilateral summit with China, India, and Russia could be on the horizon, one that could shape Asia's next 50 years. With China's new five-year plan coming, where does the Global South fit? Tune in! #RussiaIndiaChina
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Planning to go to do some reporting with the Belgian journalist Raf Custers in the southern Pacific. We might visit the Great Plastic Island.
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The far right in Latin America is angry. Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics 📲 An article by Vijay Prashad on our website.⬇ https://t.co/7LSBqneqTO
peoplesdispatch.org
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics
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Communism Defeated Fascism Eighty Years Ago & Will Defeat it Again National liberation fronts in China, Korea, Indonesia & Indochina led the charge against Japanese militarism. These histories have been erased by the West’s atomic bombs & popular culture. https://t.co/SbFsb6ZfY8
thetricontinental.org
Amidst a web of lies and half-truths touting the heroism of the West in World War II (what we call the World Anti-Fascist War), the enormous truth is that it was the Soviet Red Army and the Chinese...
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Let's be clear: the US govt *does not* care about the people of Venezuela. It cares about US hegemony and the interests of the US capitalist class. That is what this is about.
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Fix health insurance. Not regime change in Venezuela.
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🇵🇸 The world stands with Palestine! From Santiago to Berlin, from Buenos Aires to Dublin, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets on November 29, the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, demanding an end to the continuous Israeli aggression
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While Trump pocketed $350 billion from South Korea and APEC leaders recycled corporate mantras, hundreds gathered in Gyeongju to declare that neither tariff extortion nor neoliberal nostalgia would go unchallenged. https://t.co/sxtrO4fWOb
thetricontinental.org
– By Dae-Han Song Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental Asia. The Doomsday Clock advances 10 seconds closer to midnight. Global temperatures rise beyond 1.5°C. Forests burn....
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Across the long arc of Zionist ethnic cleaning, land grabbing, and forced migration, Palestinians have continued to use cultural production as a tool of resistance. https://t.co/oRh4ejrSDw
#Palestine
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Across the long arc of Zionist ethnic cleaning, land grabbing, and forced migration, Palestinians have continued to use cultural production as a tool of resistance.
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🇻🇪 In 2009, a journalist asked if Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez was "paranoid" about the United States and the threat it poses to peace. "Here in Venezuela, we have oil for more than 100 years. The United States is running out of oil. The most important reason why the United
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Not a single plane flying over Venezuela, a country of 30m people with world's largest oil reserves Its airspace has been closed by the US President sitting in White House 2,000 miles away International law is a chimera. World is run like the mafia and Washington is the Don
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/1🚨MAJOR VICTORY — AFL has obtained judgment on behalf of a female student who was told by Fairfax County Public Schools that she must share a restroom with a boy — and that SHE should leave if she felt uncomfortable. The school board has now conceded.
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We started with cricket and then went into world affairs, particularly about the state of the world media. Enjoyed spending 50 minutes with my friend Roger McKenzie (international editor of Morning Star) on his new podcast, Red Star Talks (in association with Manifesto Press
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🇻🇪 MADURO: "85% of the billions of dollars annually from international drug trafficking is in the U.S. banking system. The real cartel is up north."
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Venezuela’s🇻🇪 President Nicolas Maduro: ‘How could I be a dictator if I wasn’t trained at the School of the Americas, at Harvard? I was not trained at Langley, West Point…I was trained in the high schools of Caracas, in the neighbourhoods of El Valle, 23 de Enero, Catia,
US🇺🇸 hypocrisy knows no bounds: After announcing that he would be pardoning the narco-dictator of Honduras🇭🇳, Juan Orlando-Hernandez, who conspired with Sinaloa Cartel Leader El Chapo to smuggle cocaine into the US… Trump announces that Venezuela’s🇻🇪 airspace is now closed,
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O uso de drogas nas guerras Da Grécia Antiga ao Vietnã, as drogas sempre foram armas invisíveis nos campos de batalha: https://t.co/Ge3aZbk4m5
revistaopera.operamundi.uol.com.br
Da Grécia Antiga ao Vietnã, as drogas sempre foram armas invisíveis nos campos de batalha
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The world stands against the bullying by the United States government.
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Why isn’t the US Congressional authorization exerting its powers now? War Powers Act?
We have known from the start that these strikes are unauthorized and illegal, and risk starting another war. Ordering strikes against survivors, if accurate, is a separate and serious offense. This must be investigated.
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