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Vijay Prashad

@vijayprashad.bsky.social
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Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Editor at LeftWord Books (India) & Inkani Books (South Africa). Chief Correspondent of Globetrotter. Live in Santiago, Chile. Latest book: On Cuba, with Noam Chomsky.

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Fever: A poem. Hope you enjoy it. This is part of the Lucid Dialectics series. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaNo...
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Lucid Dialectics 2 (Fever: A Poem)
YouTube video by Vijay Prashad's Lucid Dialectics
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Paying homage to the fallen Red Army fighters who defended the Jiangxi Soviet (1931-1934).
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Dialectics in Paris. I’m with the students.
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Diário do Centro do Mundo @dcmonline.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“O Brasil é o maior prêmio para os EUA e Lula é a barreira”, diz o historiador Vijay Prashad ao DCM www.diariodocentrodomundo.com.br/o-brasil-e-o...
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"O Brasil é o maior prêmio para os EUA e Lula é a barreira", diz o historiador Vijay Prashad ao DCM
Uma das principais vozes contemporâneas do pensamento anti-imperialista e do Sul Global, Vijay falou ao DCM sobre o cenário político-eleitoral brasileiro a partir de uma perspectiva geopolítica. Ele v...
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heute jedoch nicht @heutejedochnicht.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
wir gehen rein
THE DARKER
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A PEOPLE'S HISTORY of the THIRD WORLD

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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Restarting my youtube channel. I'll read poetry, read bits of prose, do the occasional political commentary, and interview friends and others. Subscribe to it. It promises to be fun. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNW3...
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Lucid Dialectics 1
YouTube video by Vijay Prashad's Lucid Dialectics
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Wenzhou (Zhejiang Province)
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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In light of the brutal killing of Anna Yagi (age 39) in a hotel in Okinawa by a US soldier, I urge people to read Keiko Yonaha's essay for Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on the ugliness of the US-Japanese occupation of Okinawa, thetricontinental.org/asia/not-a-m...
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Not a Matter of Fate: Okinawa under US-Japanese Rule
One in three Okinawans died in the Battle of Okinawa; decades later US military bases fester like an open wound, bringing crime and pollution.
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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.
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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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somosmass99.bsky.social @somosmass99.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Detrás del lenguaje de un acuerdo por Groenlandia se esconde un intento imperial: que Washington decida el futuro del hemisferio occidental | La #opinión de Vijay Prashad | @vijayprashad.bsky.social |
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Groenlandia no está en venta: la “Doctrina Donroe” de Trump y el imperialismo estadounidense
SOMOSMASS99 Vijay Prashad* / SomosMass99 Jueves 24 de septiembre de 2026 La campaña de Donald Trump para poner a Groenlandia bajo el control de los Estados Unidos a menudo se ha descartado co...
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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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somosmass99.bsky.social @somosmass99.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
La continua expansión del BRICS refleja el deseo de los países en desarrollo de alcanzar una mayor autonomía estratégica y un sistema más democrático de gobernanza global | La #opinión de Vijay Prashad | @vijayprashad.bsky.social |
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Cumbre del BRICS+: entre promesas y contradicciones
SOMOSMASS99 Vijay Prashad* / SomosMass99 Viernes 18 de septiembre de 2026 La 18va Cumbre del BRICS, celebrada en Nueva Delhi del 12 al 13 de septiembre, tuvo lugar en medio de una intensifica...
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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
La confrontación no ofrece un futuro a ninguno de los dos países. La colaboración ofrece al mundo una oportunidad | #Escribe Vijay Prashad | @vijayprashad.bsky.social |
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Colaboración, no confrontación: la visita de Xi Jinping a los Estados Unidos
SOMOSMASS99 Vijay Prashad* Lunes 14 de septiembre de 2026 La próxima visita del presidente Xi Jinping a los Estados Unidos debe entenderse como algo más que un encuentro entre dos jefes de Es...
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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 · 13/09/2026
Stephanie Weatherbee Brito, the coordinator of the International Peoples' Assembly, and I write about how 'Nicolás Maduro is not guilty' - 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 · 13/09/2026
If China and India collaborate, BRICS can become a workshop for development. My interview for @globaltimesnews - www.globaltimes.cn/page/202609/...
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Cooperation between China, India a developmental necessity
If China and India collaborate, BRICS can become a workshop for development. If they remain divided, BRICS will continue to advance, but far below its potential.
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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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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The great Joe Sacco, whose The Once and Future Riot is only available in India for pre-order from LeftWord Books - leftword.com/product/the-...
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The Once and Future Riot
This title is for PREORDER. Copies will ship at the end of September 2026. Any title added to the cart along with this will also ship at the same time. ‘[Joe Sacco’s] comics have earned him…
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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
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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
Elfriede Jelinek on Palestine. A note of great feeling: luciddialectics.substack.com/p/elfriede-j...
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Elfriede Jelinek on Palestine
A note from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
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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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Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hoje
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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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KB @bkeithb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
@vijayprashad.bsky.social : "Sovereignty begins when the wealth beneath Brazilian soil is converted into knowledge, industry, and a dignified life for the people who live above it." Via @btnewsroom.bsky.social breakthroughnews.org/2026/08/30/b...
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Brazil must not surrender its critical minerals - BT News
Several foreign multinational companies have demonstrated their interest in extracting rare earth minerals from Brazil, which still does not have the technical capacity to process them.
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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 · 31/08/2026
No victory can be built on skulls. But Trump refuses any off ramp from his war on Iran. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqeT...
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VIJAY:Iran's Offer to Trump An EXIT, Not a WIN The Hormuz Deal Is Almost SIGNED.TRUMP IS CORNERED
YouTube video by Transition Protocol
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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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