Author: Vijay Prashad

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Afghanistan tackles the Islamic State

October 13, 2021 Vijay Prashad
On October 8, a terrible blast struck the worshippers attending Friday noon prayers at the Gozar-e-Sayed Abad Mosque in the Khan Abad district of Bandar, the capital of Kunduz, one of Afghanistan’s largest cities in its northern […]
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En Afganistán, la población empobrecida vive rodeada de riquezas

October 2, 2021 Vijay Prashad
El 25 de septiembre de 2021, el ministro de Economía de Afganistán, Qari Din Mohammad Hanif, declaró que su Gobierno no quiere “ayuda y cooperación del mundo como el Gobierno anterior. El antiguo sistema fue […]
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Afghanistan’s impoverished people live amid enormous riches

September 30, 2021 Vijay Prashad
On September 25, 2021, Afghanistan’s Economy Minister Qari Din Mohammad Hanif said that his government does not want “help and cooperation from the world like the previous government. The old system was supported by the […]
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Clear away the hype: The U.S. and Australia signed a nuclear arms deal, simple as that

September 23, 2021 Vijay Prashad
On September 15, 2021, the heads of government of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States announced the formation of AUKUS, “a new enhanced trilateral security partnership” between these three countries. Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison […]
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Hay que decirlo sin sutilezas: Estados Unidos y Australia firmaron un acuerdo de armas nucleares, así de simple

September 23, 2021 Vijay Prashad
El 15 de septiembre de 2021, los jefes de Gobierno de Australia, Reino Unido y Estados Unidos anunciaron la formación de AUKUS, “una nueva asociación trilateral de seguridad reforzada” entre estos tres países. El primer ministro australiano, […]
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Rwanda’s military is the French proxy on African soil

September 9, 2021 Vijay Prashad
On July 9, 2021, the government of Rwanda said that it had deployed 1,000 troops to Mozambique to battle al-Shabaab fighters, who had seized the northern province of Cabo Delgado. A month later, on August […]
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Washington spent more than $2 trillion on a war that it knew could not be won

August 19, 2021 Vijay Prashad
On August 15, the Taliban arrived in Kabul. The Taliban’s leadership entered the presidential palace, which Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had vacated when he fled into exile abroad hours before. The country’s borders shut down and Kabul’s […]
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The COVID-19 catastrophe in India keeps growing

April 24, 2021 Vijay Prashad
For Ashish Yechury (1986-2021), journalist. It is difficult to overstate the grip of COVID-19 on India. WhatsApp bristles with messages about this or that friend and family member with the virus, while there are angry […]
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Why Ukraine’s borders are back at the center of geopolitics

April 9, 2021 Vijay Prashad
On March 11, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Twitter that his government has “approved the Strategy for Deoccupation & Reintegration of Crimea.” What he referred to is a new strategy driven by Ukraine’s […]
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Despite U.S. dirty tricks, Bolivia is finding a way to stay independent

March 31, 2021 Vijay Prashad
Sentiments in Bolivia for and against the coup d’etat of November 2019 are predictably along class lines. Those from more affluent sections felt that the socialist policies of the government of President Evo Morales (which […]