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…
Writing About a Joy That Invades Jenin
government is fiercely far-right, although from the standpoint of the Palestinians there is steady continuity in Zionist state policy, whether the government is led by the far-right or by less…
It Was the Workers Who Brought Us Democracy, and It Will Be the Workers Who Establish a Deeper Democracy Yet
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Democracy has a dream-like character. It sweeps into the world, carried forward by an immense desire by humans to overcome the…
When the People Have Nothing More to Eat, They Will Eat the Rich
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research On 8 January, large crowds of people dressed in colours of the Brazilian flag descended on the country’s capital, Brasília. They…
The Winds of the New Cold War Are Howling in the Arctic Circle
With members of the Arctic Council refusing to work with Russia since the start of the Ukraine War, the future of the Arctic and its indigenous inhabitants (who are most…
The Hope of a Pan-African-Owned and Controlled Electric Car Project Is Buried for Generations to Come
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research The United States government held the US-Africa Leaders Summit in mid-December, prompted in large part by its fears about Chinese and…
The Perils of Pious Neoliberalism in the Austerity State
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research The International Labour Organisation’s Global Wage Report 2022–23 tracks the horrendous collapse of real wages for billions of people around the…
The Road to De-Dollarisation Will Run Through Saudi Arabia
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research On 9 December, China’s President Xi Jinping met with the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia…
Nothing Good Will Come From the New Cold War With Australia as a Frontline State
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research On 15 November 2022, during the G20 summit in Bali (Indonesia), Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told journalists that his country…
Mali’s Break With France Is a Symptom of Cracks in the Transatlantic Alliance
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research On 21 November 2022, Mali’s interim prime minister, Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga, issued a statement on social media announcing the government’s decision…