Oct. 7 will mark the second anniversary of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. At least 66,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza during this time – 30 out of every 1,000 people.
Vijay Prashad: Genocide Marks Two Years
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Vijay Prashad: An Intellectual Is Nothing Without Confronting Oppression
Berta Cáceres, a Honduran leader in the struggle for indigenous and environmental rights, was killed in 2016 – a price too often paid by those who fight for human dignity and social justice.
Vijay Prashad: Can Mexico’s Dignity Be Restored?
With the promise of the Mexican revolution and the sweeping reforms of cardenismo long erased by decades of neoliberalism can sovereignty be restored to the country?
Vijay Prashad: The United Nations Turns 80
The U.N. is bogged down by structural limitations and political divisions that render it powerless to act decisively – nowhere more clearly than in the Gaza genocide.
Vijay Prashad: Liberals Paved the Way to the Far Right
The passivity — and complicity — of Global North liberals and social democrats has paved the way for the global rise of the far-right of a special type.
Vijay Prashad: Against Resurgent Militarism
Tens of millions in China and the U.S.S.R. gave their lives to defeat fascism during World War II. As imperialist militarisation rises again, No Cold War reiterates a call for peace.
Vijay Prashad: Locking Up & Torturing the Resistance
The Israelis bomb hungry people in Gaza and torture Palestinians for the same reason — to crush resistance to the occupation.
Vijay Prashad: The Neocolonial Trap
Burkina Faso has been trapped in neocolonial underdevelopment for nearly all of its post-independence history – can the new government of Ibrahim Traoré follow in Thomas Sankara’s footsteps and change course?
Vijay Prashad: To Those Who Died So Young
The early deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Franz Fanon and other African revolutionary leaders underline the brutality of imperialism. If a radical appears to lead a people to sovereignty, the radical cannot be allowed to survive.
Vijay Prashad: Wars Without Bullets
Economic sanctions lead to half a million civilian deaths a year, according to a study in The Lancet. Those imposed unilaterally and illegally by the EU and U.S. are the most lethal.