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Vijay Prashad

Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute. He is the chief editor of LeftWord Books and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He has written more than twenty books, including The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World (The New Press, 2007), The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (Verso, 2013), The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution (University of California Press, 2016) and Red Star Over the Third World (LeftWord, 2017). He writes regularly for Frontline, the Hindu, Newsclick, AlterNet and BirGün.

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How Trump managed to lead the world with the worst response to COVID-19 pandemic

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Billions of children are being punished by the pandemic

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U.S. continues sanctions against Iran and Venezuela during coronavirus pandemic

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Elon Musk is South America’s neo-conquistador

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FILE - In this Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012 file photo, Libyan militias from towns throughout the country's west parade through Tripoli, Libya. At the heart of the Libyan capital, the open-air Fish Market was once where residents went to buy everything from meat and seafood to clothes and pets. Now it’s Tripoli’s biggest arms market, with tables displaying pistols and assault rifles. Ask a vendor, and he can pull out bigger machine guns to sell for thousands of dollars. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid Al Fergany, File) (AP)

Why the war in Libya will never end

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A supporters of Bolivian ex-President Evo Morales waves white flags during clashes with riot police following a protest in La Paz on November 13, 2019. - Bolivia's exiled ex-president Evo Morales said Wednesday he was ready to return to "pacify" his country amid weeks of unrest that led to his resignation. (Photo by JORGE BERNAL / AFP) (Photo by JORGE BERNAL/AFP via Getty Images) (Jorge Bernal/AFP via Getty Images)

What the right wing in Latin America means by democracy is violence

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Afghan security forces inspect the aftermath of Sunday's attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Why the Afghanistan papers are an eerie reminder of Vietnam

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The coup in Bolivia has everything to do with the screen you’re using to read this

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The IMF convenes in Washington, deaf to the suffering it causes across the planet

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Smoke billows in the town of Douma, the last opposition holdout in Syria's Eastern Ghouta. (Getty/Salon)

What to expect from Turkey’s coming invasion of Syria

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Iran’s capacity to strike back should even make a politically desperate Trump think twice

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World leaders gather at the UN in the face of war, climate catastrophe & global worker exploitation

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In this Aug. 9, 2016 photo, smoke rises after Saudi-led airstrikes hit a food factory in Sanaa, Yemen. In the air campaign by Saudi Arabia and its allies against Yemen’s Shiite rebels, rights experts say there has been a pattern by the Saudi-led coalition in depending on faulty intelligence, failing to distinguish between civilian and military targets and disregarding the likelihood of civilian casualties. Experts say some of the strikes likely amount to war crimes. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) (AP)

How can Sweden be a peace broker if it’s also selling the arms that make the war in Yemen possible?

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NEW YORK, NY - JULY 18: Mohammad Javad Zarif (R), the foreign minister of Iran, smiles as he arrives for a meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at United Nations headquarters, July 18, 2019 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

The G7 countries look feeble — Iran and Brazil could shore them up

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Why the world is watching the fate of an Iranian tanker

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India’s Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers patrol near the India-Pakistan international border fencing at Garkhal in Akhnoor, 35 kilometers (22 miles) west of Jammu, India, Tuesday, Aug.13,2019. (AP Photo/Channi Anand) (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Why Kashmir is suddenly a potential global point of conflict

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The US-Iran standoff can only end when the US accepts Iran’s right to have a nuclear energy program

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Chief executive officer of consumer devices division for Huawei Technologies Co. Richard Yu presents the new phone Huawei P10 Plus before the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez) (AP)

Why Trump caved to China and Huawei

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Burnt workers are the newest wave of climate casualty

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Have you heard of the CIA’s Iran mission center?

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U.S. Marines at Task Force Southwest military field in Shorab military camp of Helmand province, Afghanistan. (AP/Massoud Hossaini)

Peace is a word that the west has taken from the Afghans

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Donald Trump; Justin Trudeau (AFP/Getty Images/Mandel Ngan)

Canada’s “liberals” have a disturbing imperial streak

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, arrives with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi for a joint press conference in Beijing Monday, Dec. 5, 2016. (Greg Baker/Pool Photo via AP) (AP)

Does Iran’s economic fate depend on a lifeline from China?

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Fear the mustache: Why Bolton makes even Donald Trump nervous

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