Are You Human Like Us?
A hunger for genocide and ethnic cleansing colours senior Israeli officials’ statements and has influenced their conduct in this war. Talk of civilian casualties is brushed off, and so are…
Craig Mokhiber on UN’s Failures in Palestine and Why He Quit
By Peoples Dispatch Senior UN Human Rights official Craig Mokhiber recently resigned over the organization’s failure to address the brutal genocide in Gaza and Israel’s apartheid policies against Palestinians. In…
When the Journalists are Gone, the Stories Will Disappear
Over 29 Palestinian journalists have been killed since October 7 in Israeli’s genocidal bombing of the Gaza strip.
What if There Had Been No Coup in Chile in 1973?
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Imagine this scenario. On 11 September 1973, the reactionary sections of the Chilean army, led by General Augusto Pinochet and given…
The BRICS Have Changed the Balance of Forces, but They Will Not By Themselves Change the World
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research In 2003, high officials from Brazil, India, and South Africa met in Mexico to discuss their mutual interests in the trade…
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…