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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Chinese President Xi Jinping is concerned that US President Trump might defenestrate into his pants.

Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is Benjamin Davis, the @fao.org Director of the Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division. He has been asked to retire because he protested the starvation policy of Apartheid Israel against the Palestinian people in Gaza.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A little poem I wrote for Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra about being on their show on BreakThrough News - luciddialectics.substack.com/p/doppelganger

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Doppelgänger

A poem.

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KB @bkeithb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@vijayprashad.bsky.social : "Behind the language of a property deal lies a serious attempt to revive an old imperial principle: that Washington may decide the political and economic future of the entire Western Hemisphere... breakthroughnews.org/2026/09/22/g...

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Greenland is not for sale: Trump’s Donroe Doctrine and US imperialism - BT News

Trump’s Greenland demand belongs to a wider hemispheric policy. Trump’s supporters rechristened its latest version the "Donroe Doctrine."

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A war criminal, Netanyahu, is allowed to travel to New York and soil the chamber, but the Palestinians were denied a visa. See my 20 minute conversation with BreakThrough News, Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra - www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTnN...

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What Is the UN Actually Good For? | w/ Vijay Prashad

YouTube video by BreakThrough News

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Coming up tomorrow, my latest poem….

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KB @bkeithb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Stephanie Weatherbee Brito & @vijayprashad.bsky.social : "Nicolás Maduro remains innocent unless and until admissible evidence proves otherwise beyond a reasonable doubt. Sovereignty is not an ornament, an indictment is not a verdict... @btnewsroom.bsky.social breakthroughnews.org/2026/09/13/n...

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Nicolás Maduro is not guilty - BT News

The implications of this case extend far beyond Venezuela. The entire process against Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores threatens to establish the US court system as one with global and unlimited jurisd...

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

BRICS, India & the Global South: Can a New World Order Emerge? Talking to Left Lens on the BRIC+ summit in Delhi, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ija8...

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BRICS, India & the Global South: Can a New World Order Emerge? - Vijay Prashad

YouTube video by CPIM Speak

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somosmass99.bsky.social @somosmass99.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

El presidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro es inocente. Esta es una afirmación de derecho y de hecho, ya que Maduro no ha sido condenado por ningún delito | Un #artículo de Stephanie Weatherbee Brito y Vijay Prashad | @vijayprashad.bsky.social |

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Nicolás Maduro es inocente

SOMOSMASS99 Stephanie Weatherbee Brito y Vijay Prashad* / SomosMass99 Lunes 14 de septiembre de 2026 El presidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro es inocente. Esta es una afirmación de derecho y d...

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Before my class on the necessity of socialism at the Escola Nacional Paulo Freire in São Paulo....the joy of being alive. Antes da minha aula sobre a necessidade do socialismo na Escola Nacional Paulo Freire, em São Paulo... a alegria de estar vivo.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My dear Aijaz, winking from the void with this interview on postmodernism in the library at Escola Nacional Paulo Freire's library.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Haven't seen Arundhati in a while, but here she was on the cover of Quatro cinco um. Made me happy to see an old friend in São Paulo.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

'The hat makes the man', Max Ernst, 1920. (Max Ernst was a surrealist communist painter).

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Walking down Paulista on Sunday, ran into Lenito Silva who handed me the hammer and sickle. Irresistible to be photographed with Lenito, mumbles of revolution from the worker ant.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

When Lula was in prison in Curitiba, he read the Portuguese edition of Red Star Over the Third World (Estrela vermelha sobre o terceiro mundo) from Editora e Livraria Expressão Popular (expressaopopular.com.br/livraria/978...). That's his hand with the books, with Red Star at the top.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

<Yankee Hindutva> Returning to a concept I had developed in the 1990s in my Peoples Democracy column, now on my substack. luciddialectics.substack.com/p/yankee-hin...

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Yankee Hindutva Returns to New York

My People’s Democracy article

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Goodbye Brasilia. Next stop São Paulo. Adeus, Brasília. Próxima parada: São Paulo.

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jordy 🍞🌹 @whobenefits.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If you find yourself defending Steinem / her work for the CIA, I double dare you to pick up @vijayprashad.bsky.social’s Washington Bullets, A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations. Full disclosure tho, it’ll probably change your mind & it’ll *definitely* help you see the world more clearly.

A picture taken outdoors of a grayish book with perhaps one of the best cover designs I’ve ever witnessed. The book is called Washington Bullets, A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations. “Washington Bullets” is in all caps, written in a white, wide font. From the left side, three thin red lines stretch across the cover, leading to three white bullets that create the letter E. It is minimal, yet striking.
The book is written by Vijay Prashad.
There are two quotes on the book.
Top quote: "Like his hero Eduardo Galeano,
Vijay Prashad makes the telling of the truth lovable: not an easy trick to pull off, he does it effortlessly."
- Roger Waters, Pink Floyd
Bottom quote: "This book brings to mind the infinite instances in which Washington Bullets have shattered hope."
- Evo Morales Ayma, former President of Bolivia

In the background, it’s hella sunny, hotter than hell and the sun reflects off of a tasteful, (not tacky!) glass solar light that’s shaped like a mushroom. Rudbeckia can be spotted in the background with green leaves and bright yellow flowers.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The United States is paralysed in the Gulf Arab region, while Iran - battered by US attacks - nonetheless has rungs on its escalation ladder. Here, for my weekly conversation with Zulfiqar Ali on Transition Protocol, www.youtube.com/watch?v=81xs...

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Why Nuclear Ambiguity Is Tying America's Hands Nuclear Bluff Is Working,US Gulf Bases Are Paralyzed

YouTube video by Transition Protocol

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A caminho de São Paulo para este e outros seminários.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Custom (a poem for those who died during a wedding in the US strike in Kuhestak, Sirik, Hormozgan, Iran on 1 September 2026): www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/04/t...

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Growth rates are important, but even more important is the question of what is produced, how it is produced, who controls process of production & how benefits are distributed. The goal of development should not be growth per se but the flourishing of human life. thetricontinental.org/newsletteris...

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Why the Global South Needs an Industrial Policy: The Thirty-Sixth Newsletter (2026)

While capitalism confines the Global South to raw extraction and cheap exports, democratic planning can break dependence, claim technological control, and turn resources into collective economic power...

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A poem called The Custom, on the customs of weddings & the customs of the US military to strike weddings in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and now Iran. In English by me, with a Spanish translation by Jorge Coulon Larrañaga of Inti Illimani. See it tomorrow at counterpunch.org.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hồ Chí Minh never died. He remains with us, a force to emulate.

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somosmass99.bsky.social @somosmass99.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Si Brasil permite que las empresas extranjeras sean dueñas de los yacimientos, exporten concentrados mixtos y mantengan las patentes, entonces nada fundamental habrá cambiado desde la época colonial | #Escribe Vijay Prashad | @vijayprashad.bsky.social |

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Brasil no debe renunciar a sus minerales críticos

SOMOSMASS99 Vijay Prashad* / SomosMass99 Lunes 31 de agosto de 2026 En Minaçu, en la parte norte del estado brasileño de Goiás, el paisaje lleva las cicatrices de una antigua fiebre minera. D...

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Lake America. Why stop there? America (formerly known as The Earth).

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Reading Borges in Brasilia and thinking of the collapse of a certain kind of fantasy about Western Civilisation.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I just adore this picture of our comrades Celia Sánchez and Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra, resting, reading, thinking, writing, debating......making a revolution.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Our friend and comrade Nicolas Maduro posts a picture for his grandchildren from his New York dungeon and says that he is fine and strong. #FreeMaduro #FreeCillia #VivaChavez

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This speech by Athena Rayburn, executive director of the Association of International Development Agencies (formerly of Norwegian Refugee Council), is vital: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ywo.... And here is the reaction within the United Nations system, also very important: press.un.org/en/2026/sc16...

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Aid chief says US-backed Board of Peace is ‘failing’ Gaza

YouTube video by Middle East Eye

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Western liberalism died? When was it ever born?

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The great Palestinian painter Sliman Mansour (1947-2026), who saw it all and painted it beautifully.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Would Iran go the way of Libya or North Korea when it comes to nuclear weapons policy? It appears taht Iran is being driven towards the nuclear threshold. My Globetrotter column this week, breakthroughnews.org/2026/08/24/i...

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Iran is being driven towards the nuclear threshold - BT News

Taking a step toward nuclear would constitute an entirely new stage in the history of West Asia. But it would be the consequence of an existential war, not evidence that Iran had always secretly inten...

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Si estás en Santiago, bienvenido.

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Grey Sky Photography @greyskyphotography.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Some of you have shared your stacks, thought I'd follow suit, standing on shoulders of giant-killers. My reads for the next year. Saving Pynchon for last! @vijayprashad.bsky.social @melissagiragrant.com @gilduran.com @jonathanmahler.bsky.social @risenc.bsky.social @josephpatrickkelly.bsky.social

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Ryan Hillier @ryanhillier.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Very much looking forward to reading this. Prabir's book 'Knowledge As Commons' is a must-read text for these times.

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Nika Dubrovsky @nikadubrovsky.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A Russian-Israeli historian who wrote books critical of Israeli policy remains in Shabak custody, with no information about him since his detention. This is exactly how fear works as a tool of state control — when people simply vanish with no way to learn their fate, and it starts to feel normal.

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