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In February, George W. Bush announced the creation of a new unified combatant command for Africa. After several years of deliberation, the…
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.
In February, George W. Bush announced the creation of a new unified combatant command for Africa. After several years of deliberation, the…
Every once in a while I make it a point to stop by for a visit at Amitava Kumar’s virtual home (http://amitavakumar.blogsome.com/).…
Tom Hayden is a veteran of peace. A pioneer of the anti-war movement in the 1960s (including as one of the Chicago…
Dear Friend, Like you, I was raised in a mixed family. My parents’ families came to Bengal from Punjab, and from Burma.…
Not as much as straight-up racism. That’s made a comeback these days. This year, the number of incidents of “black face” and…
[The importance of Vijay Prashad’s book, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, lies in its ability to trace…
The Grand Old Party’s puppeteers sigh with relief. Their marionettes can be put back in the trunks, and repaired for a renewed…
You’d have to be living under a rock not to know that major developments in Latin America have created a tectonic shift…
A series of flaps on campus. Racist incidents abound: the most public is at Texas A & M, home to the new…