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Europe Sleepwalks Through Its Own Dilemmas
Soldiers of NATO’s multinational enhanced Forward Presence Battlegroup training with the 1st Estonian Infantry Brigade during Estonia’s...
Michael Laxer
Mar 25, 20246 min read
Starvation Is a War Crime: Note From the Israeli Genocide Against the Palestinians
Image via Al Jazeera screenshot By Vijay Prashad Speaking in Rome, Italy, the head of the United Nations World Food Program Cindy McCain...
Michael Laxer
Mar 12, 20245 min read
The Remarkable Decline in the Global North’s Leadership
Image via news video screenshot By Vijay Prashad A group of young people in Paris are enjoying a drink in a café on an unseasonably warm...
Michael Laxer
Mar 4, 20245 min read
There Is No Place for the Palestinians of Gaza to Go
Scene of apocalyptic destruction in Gaza -- image via the Palestinian People's Party By Vijay Prashad On February 9, 2024, Israel’s prime...
Michael Laxer
Feb 13, 20245 min read
The International Court of Justice Censures Israel for Its Genocidal War
By Vijay Prashad On January 26, 2024, the judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) released their 29-page order that found...
Michael Laxer
Jan 30, 20246 min read
The Entry of a New German Left Party Shakes up the Country
Sahra Wagenknecht at the founding press conference of the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht, BSW -- image via video screenshot By Vijay Prashad...
Michael Laxer
Jan 24, 20245 min read
Israel’s War on Palestine and the Global Upsurge Against It
Over 100,000 march in solidarity with Palestine in London, UK, December 9, 2023 -- Image via X By Vijay Prashad Hundreds of millions of...
Michael Laxer
Jan 12, 20245 min read
2023: The year in review on The Left Chapter
Palestinian flags fly at a Solidarity with Gaza march in Toronto, Canada on October 21 -- from our post: "End the Siege of Gaza Now!":...
Michael Laxer
Jan 1, 20248 min read
Normalization With Israel Has Been Ended by Its Brutal War on Gaza
President Donald J. Trump, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
Michael Laxer
Dec 22, 20235 min read
The Suffocation of Democracy in India
By Vijay Prashad On December 18 and 19, 141 members of the two houses of India’s Parliament were suspended, as of December 19, by the...
Michael Laxer
Dec 20, 20235 min read
The No-State Solution Becomes More and More Real as Israel’s Permanent Nakba Continues
Image via X By Vijay Prashad In 1948, the Syrian historian Constantin Zurayk used the Arabic word Nakba (Catastrophe) to refer to the...
Michael Laxer
Dec 13, 20236 min read
ExxonMobil Wants to Start a War in South America
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro votes in a referendum on the Essequibo region. Photo: Nicolas Maduro/X By Vijay Prashad On December...
Michael Laxer
Dec 7, 20235 min read
Are There Any Paranoids in the Stadium Tonight? Two Nights in Santiago With Roger Waters
Image via Vijay Prashad on X By Vijay Prashad No one does a stadium show like Roger Waters. The music, of course, is resplendent, but so...
Michael Laxer
Nov 28, 20236 min read
How the War on Gaza Has Stalled the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC)
Image from September 9 meeting By Vijay Prashad On September 9, 2023, during the G20 meeting in New Delhi, the governments of seven...
Michael Laxer
Nov 9, 20235 min read
Israel Wants Either an Apartheid State or an Ethnic Cleansing Process
Both are crimes under international law. Aftermath of an Israeli attack on Gaza, October 29 By Vijay Prashad On October 30, 2023, Israeli...
Michael Laxer
Oct 31, 20235 min read
The Suffocating Occupation of Palestine Is Now a Series of War Crimes
By Vijay Prashad On October 24, it became clear to the United Nations (UN) that the sustained bombardment of Gaza—which had already...
Michael Laxer
Oct 27, 20236 min read
The Everyday Violence of Life in Occupied Palestine
By Vijay Prashad Driving along the Jordan River Valley in the Occupied Palestine Territory (OPT) of the West Bank is a stunning...
Michael Laxer
Oct 24, 20235 min read
The Savagery of the War Against the Palestinian People
More of Gaza in ruins, October 10 -- Image via Twitter By Vijay Prashad Who knows how many Palestinian civilians will be killed by the...
Michael Laxer
Oct 10, 20236 min read
Is This the End of French Neo-Colonialism in Africa?
By Zoe Alexandra and Vijay Prashad In Bamako, Mali, on September 16, the governments of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger created the...
Michael Laxer
Sep 20, 20235 min read
‘Chile Needs a Communist Party,’ an interview with General Secretary Lautaro Carmona
Carmona reflects on the political situation in Chile amid increased right-wing attacks, the death of the CP’s president, and the 50th...
Michael Laxer
Sep 8, 20235 min read
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