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Vijay Prashad

Vijay Prashad

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Vijay Prashad is the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is the editor of Letters to Palestine (2014) and his most recent book is (with Noam Chomsky), On Cuba (2024).

 

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The paranoid backlash to US campus protests is a reminder that direct action works, writes Vijay Prashad. And this time the students won't be deterred.

17 May, 2024

Comment: The rise in violent rhetoric, the scapegoating of minorities and the quashing of dissent all points in one direction, writes Vijay Prashad.

24 February, 2016

Comment: The only beneficiaries of nearly a year of bombing have been al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group, writes Vijay Prashad.

10 February, 2016

Comment: People with a public history of fighting injustice will no longer be silenced by distorted, false and distracting claims of anti-Semitism, writes Vijay Prashad.

05 February, 2016

Comment: The New Silk Road will bypass the Suez Canal, and could change the nature of geopolitics in the region, notes Vijay Prashad.

28 January, 2016

Comment: Democracy is about more than elections; a culture of dissent must be embraced, writes Vijay Prashad.

20 January, 2016

As a new bombing plunges Turkey into further instability, Vijay Prashad argues unaccountable Turkish massacres against Kurds, assassinations of activists and misguided foreign policies are at root of the crisis.

13 January, 2016

Comment: This website has been banned in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt. Vijay Prashad asks: What are they scared of?

08 January, 2016

Comment: Labelling fruit and vegetables produced in illegal Israeli settlements is a preposterous - and necessary - first measure, writes Vijay Prashad.

31 December, 2015

Over the course of the past few weeks, Israeli political leaders have given carte blanche to their military to kill anyone they see as a threat.

27 December, 2015