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Israel’s Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, will be in India for the second anniversary of the September 11 attack on the United States.…
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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The ruling ideas of a time, wrote the great German sage, are the ideas of the ruling class. So it is with…
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By Vijay Prashad As a teenager I befriended a boy whose family had moved from Mumbai (India) to Canada. He told…
As a teenager I befriended a boy whose family had moved from Mumbai (India) to Canada. He told me an extraordinary story…
One of the claims made for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein (leadership change, if not regime change) is that a democratic Iraq…
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