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Vijay Prashad
This is the Voice of the People
20 Jul 2018
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul: Mark Twain.
Leslie Xavier
World Cup: Lukaku, Mbappe and the Colonial Ghosts Within Belgium and France
03 Jul 2018
Kylian Mbappe and Romelu Lukaku, two of FIFA World Cup’s most exciting forwards are also a reminder of the horrors of European colonialism in their countries of origin.
Vijay Prashad
The Detritus of Regime Change in Libya
01 Nov 2015
Comment: The doctrine of liberal interventionism has destroyed post-Gaddafi Libya, just as it destroyed post-Saddam Iraq, writes Vijay Prashad. Four years ago, as NATO prepared to bomb Libya, I asked…
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Mali Falls Apart.
22 Jan 2013
The French military cannot seem to stay away from Africa. Two years ago, French helicopter gunships entered the standoff in Ivory Coast and French aircraft pummelled the Libyan army.
Vijay Prashad
Habits of French colonialism.
22 Jan 2013
“In other days France was the name of a country. We should take care that in 1961 it does not become the name of a nervous disease.” -- Jean Paul Sartre, preface to Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the…
Courtesy: Moon of Alabama
Repeating The Libya Mistake in Mali
30 Oct 2012
Military intervention in foreign countries always leads to unintended consequences.
Yassine Temlali. Courtesy: Al Akhbar English
Algeria: The Dilemma of Timbuktu's Salafi 'Emirate'
25 Jul 2012
Algeria is coming under significant foreign pressure as it is pushed toward military intervention in North Mali in an attempt to eliminate religious movements seeking to turn the area into an Islamic…
Nick Turse Courtesy: TomDispatch.com
Obama’s Scramble for Africa Secret Wars, Secret Bases, and the Pentagon’s “New Spice Route” in Africa
13 Jul 2012
They call it the New Spice Route, an homage to the medieval trade network that connected Europe, Africa, and Asia, even if today’s “spice road” has nothing to do with cinnamon, cloves, or silks. …
Thomas Serres Courtesy: Jadaliyya
The Malian Crisis Seen from Algeria
23 Apr 2012
The military blitz by rebels in Northern Mali is far from inconsequential for its Algerian neighbor.
Vijay Prashad
The Left and the People: Extending Hamid Dabashi's Critique
10 Mar 2012
“The overall anti-imperialist sentiment remains strong among the Syrian population and the attempts by parts of the Left to smear the entire uprising as a stand-in for imperialism belies a Manichean…