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“We Will Blow You Out of Existence”, Trump’s Caribbean Spectacle
Image via X By Carlos Ron On 23 September 2025, US President Donald Trump delivered a dramatic address, explicitly threatening those...

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Oct 36 min read


Syria After al-Assad
A Syrian Arab Army checkpoint abandoned during the offensive, December 2024 -- public domain image By Vijay Prashad On 8 December 2024,...

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Sep 16 min read


Necropolitics and the Language of Death: How Military Talk Turns Recruits Into Killers
From boot camp battle cries to euphemisms on the battlefield, the U.S. military relies on “kill talk”—a robust linguistic infrastructure...

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Aug 2812 min read


A Black Hole in Collective Memory: China and WW II
A scene from the 2015 Victory celebrations in Beijing for the 70th anniversary -- http://www.president.go.kr/ , KOGL Type 1, via...

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Aug 274 min read


An Orphaned Europe and Its Eternal Dream of Living Under an Empire
Carriage with Queen Maxima and King Willem Alexander of the Netherlands during Prinsjesdag in 2018 -- Peter van der Sluijs, CC BY-SA 4.0,...

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Aug 253 min read


The Accursed Fate of Palestinians in Israeli Prisons
Walid Khaled Abdullah Ahmad, murdered in March in Megiddo Prison By Vijay Prashad It was astonishing to read about the death of Ahmad...

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Aug 145 min read


Hiroshima Lives On – in Gaza
Rafah in January, 2025 -- Ashraf Amra, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska This year marks another solemn...

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Aug 95 min read


Unbearable Perfection: The Crack That Gave Birth to the 20th Century in the West
The Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna -- C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT, via Wikimedia Commons By Jorge Coulon From the orderly center...

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Aug 92 min read


The Global Economic Benefit from the Genocide of Palestinians
IDF merkava tank in Gaza, July 2025 -- IDF Spokesperson's Unit via Wikimedia Commons By Ubai al-Aboudi and Vijay Prashad On 16 June 2025,...

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Aug 110 min read


Israel and the Drug War in Syria
Syrian Ministry of Defense HQ in the aftermath of an Israeli bombing, July, 2025 -- public domain image By Vijay Prashad Tensions...

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Jul 256 min read


What Is Happening in Myanmar?
Image via X By Kay Young Since the 2021 coup, Myanmar’s civil war has escalated into its most violent phase in decades, the scale of the...

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Jul 223 min read


The US Makes Most Compelling Case for Nuclear Proliferation
By Vijay Prashad and Dae-Han Song The atomic bomb has been humanity’s most dangerous creation; that the United States government used the...

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Jul 95 min read


The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s Hallucinations
Leaders photo at the NATO Summit, June 25 -- public domain image By Vijay Prashad By the end of the annual meeting of the North Atlantic...

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Jun 305 min read


The United States Strikes on Iran Will Increase Nuclear Weapons Proliferation
From the Pentagon briefing after the US attack -- U.S. Secretary of Defense, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad On 21...

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Jun 244 min read


Iran Resists
Palestinian and Iranian flags at a huge rally in Tehran, June 20 -- Avash Media, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Ali Abutalebi 19...

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Jun 213 min read


South Korea’s President Lee Shouldn’t Attend NATO: Amidst Crises, Peace is Pragmatic
President Lee leaves for Canada, June 16 2025 -- Ministry of culture, sports and Tourism Official Photographer : Lee jeong woo, Republic...

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Jun 174 min read


The Illegal Attack on Iran
In the aftermath of the attack in Tehran -- Student News Agency, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad Israel’s consistent...

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Jun 135 min read


New Spider-Man Sequence: One Second Closer to Doomsday?
89 seconds to midnight announcement, January 28, 2025 -- image via video screenshot By Biljana Vankovska In 2022, I was invited to...

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Jun 44 min read


It’s Time to Consign NATO to the Dustbin of History
By Biljana Vankovska As NATO’s next summit looms – against the backdrop of an escalating proxy war in Ukraine and a genocidal horror in...

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Jun 34 min read


The Guns Are Again Ablaze in Libya
Abdul Ghani al-Kikli prior to his killing -- image via screenshot on X By Vijay Prashad On 12 May 2025, Abdul Ghani al-Kikli, known to...

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Jun 36 min read
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