Author Archive: Vijay Prashad

This article was produced by Globetrotter. 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. 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.
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How Venezuela Has Held Back COVID-19 in Spite of the U.S. Sanctions Stranglehold on Its Economy

Released for Syndication: 10/29/2020

Not for one minute during this pandemic has the United States stopped trying to overthrow the government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. A seam...

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Argentina’s Veteran Ambassador Makes a Stand for the Sovereignty of Latin America

Released for Syndication: 10/21/2020

Alicia Castro does not shy away from her views. She came to diplomacy from the trade union movement, where she was a leader when...

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Medical Workers of Conviction: Speaking to Cuban Doctors Who Heal the World

Released for Syndication: 09/23/2020

In 2004, Dr. José Armando Arronte Villamarín was posted to head a Cuban medical brigade in Namibia. Cuban medical personnel first came to southwest...

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Multinationals and Oil Companies Are Imposing Their Greed on the People of Mozambique

Released for Syndication: 09/10/2020

Three years ago, on October 5, 2017, fighters with the Al Sunnah wa Jama’ah (ASWJ) entered the town of Mocímboa da Praia in northern...

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The U.S. Is Determined to Make Julian Assange Pay for Exposing the Cruelty of Its War on Iraq

Released for Syndication: 09/01/2020

On September 7, 2020, Julian Assange will leave his cell in Belmarsh Prison in London and attend a hearing that will determine his fate....

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Why Cuban Doctors Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize

Released for Syndication: 08/24/2020

Five years ago, I read the story of Dr. Félix Báez, a Cuban doctor who had worked in West Africa to stop the spread...

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Why a Growing Force in Brazil Is Charging That President Jair Bolsonaro Has Committed Crimes Against Humanity

Released for Syndication: 08/11/2020

Jhuliana Rodrigues works as a nurse technician at the Hospital São Vicente in Jundiaí, Brazil. “It is very difficult,” she says of her job...

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How Trump Managed to Lead the World With the Worst Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

Released for Syndication: 08/04/2020

Six months ago, on January 30, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced a public health emergency of...

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Time Is Not on Our Side in Libya

Released for Syndication: 07/21/2020

Ahmed, who lives in Tripoli, Libya, texts me that the city is quieter than before. The army of General Khalifa Haftar—who controls large parts...

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Laos Has Tackled COVID-19, But It Is Drowning in Debt to International Finance

Released for Syndication: 07/14/2020

On June 11, Laos (Lao People’s Democratic Republic)—a country of 7 million in Southeast Asia—said it had temporarily prevailed over COVID-19. Prime Minister Thongloun...

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