At the time, 50 years ago on Monday, the coup was seen as not just an attack on the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende, writes Vijay Prashad. It was an attack on the Third World.
CHILE 50 YRS: Had There Been No Coup in 1973
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The UN’s Vague ‘New Agenda for Peace’
Vijay Prashad says that the report — apart from identifying the conflict between the unipolar and multipolar worlds, and showing concern over the metastasizing weapons industry — throws moral scaffolding over hard realities it can’t directly confront.
Low-Income World in Multi-Trillion Debt Squeeze
Rising interest rates and slowing global growth risk tipping a large number of countries into crisis, Baher Kamal reports.
COVID-19: The ‘Free Market’ Wolves of the Pandemic
Vijay Prashad espouses confidence in rejecting the neoliberal capitalist framework, which arose against plenty of warnings over several decades and now exposes workers to the wolves of the “free market” during the pandemic.