Niger is Far From a Typical Coup
Rather than send troops in response to the coup, France and the U.S. seem to favor a “Rwanda” type solution applied in Mozambique earlier this year, writes Vijay Prashad. Only…
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…
If Everybody’s Going to Join NATO, Then Why Have the United Nations?
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) held its annual summit on 11–12 July in Vilnius, Lithuania. The communiqué released after the…
The World Needs a New Development Theory That Does Not Trap the Poor in Poverty
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research In June, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network published its Sustainable Development Report 2023, which tracks the progress of the…
The Rice Bowl of the Chinese People Is Held Firmly in Their Hands
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research At the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), member states decided to replace the…
Israel Cannot Rebut Apartheid
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research On 24 June 2023, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) Herzl Halevi, Chief of Shin Bet (Intelligence) Ronen…
The Emergence of a New Non-Alignment
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. A new mood of defiance in the Global South…
Can the Global South Build a New World Information Communication Order?
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research It is remarkable how the media in a select few countries is able to set the record on matters around the…
You Are Reading This Thanks to Semiconductors
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research On 7 October 2022, the United States government implemented export controls in an effort to hinder the development of China’s semiconductor…
Women Hold Up 76.2% of the Sky
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research There is no need to delve too deeply into statistical data when the findings are obvious. For instance, when women and…
China’s Historical Destiny Is to Stand With the Third World
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research On 20 March 2023, China’s President Xi Jinping and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin spent over four hours in private conversation. According…
You Strike the Women, You Strike the Rock, You Will Be Crushed
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research What constitutes a crisis worthy of global attention? When a regional bank in the United States falls victim to the inversion…
The True Test of a Civilization Is the Absence of Anxiety About Health
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research A few years ago, a minor medical problem took me to the Hospital Alemán-Nicaragüense in Nicaragua’s capital, Managua. While I was…
Chomsky and Prashad: Cuba Is Not a State Sponsor of Terrorism
The inclusion of Cuba on the US State Sponsors of Terrorism list has further restricted its ability to purchase essential goods for its population.
The US Wants To Make Taiwan the Ukraine of the East
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research On 2 February 2023, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines met with US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin at Malacañang Palace…