As a two-day BRICS summit gets underway in South Africa, Democracy Now! speaks with author and analyst Vijay Prashad about whether the bloc…
Vijay Prashad
Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor, and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter. He is an 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 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. Tings Chak is the art director and a researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and lead author of the study “Serve the People: The Eradication of Extreme Poverty in China.” She is also a member of Dongsheng, an international collective of researchers interested in Chinese politics and society.
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On June 3, 2023, naval vessels from the United States and Canada conducted a joint military exercise in the South China Sea.…
On March 16, 2023, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced—during his visit to Niger—that the United States government will provide US$150 million…
(Image: Federation of South African Women inaugural conference, 1954) What constitutes a crisis worthy of global attention? When a regional bank in…
