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An email message comes to me from Karachi, Pakistan. The message reads, in part, as follows: “Chomsky says that US support of…
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.
The Israeli Defense Force continues its inhuman assault on the Palestinian population of the Occupied Territories, sometimes euphemistically called the Palestinian Authority.…
In 1948, in San Francisco, the world community forged the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document that was slated to set…
Again, the US media has shown that it is just not up to the task of stal king the corruption of the…
On 4 February 2002, the New York Times ran an article on the humanity with which the ‘detainees’ are being treated at…
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The US State Department-Pentagon has a bad record on war aims. During the lead-up to the Gulf War, the Bush administration, Part…
state force. While brown faces now dominate everyday life in the center of the city, many of those faces are gaunt with…