India’s government is going to war against its own people
The brutal assault on those protesting the discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Law takes place even as India is going through an unprecedented economic crisis
Why the Afghanistan Papers are an eerie reminder of Vietnam
Noam Chomsky’s 1973 book, The Backroom Boys, exposed the lies used by the US establishment to justify the war on Vietnam and pointed out that these were not aberrations. The latest documents on the Afghan war prove this point
Wealthy countries’ approach to climate change condemns hundreds of millions to suffer
A Green New Deal in the West is not going to be sufficient if this deal does not include trillions of dollars into the UN’s Green Climate Fund and the transfer of technology as a social practice and not for profit.
How to commit war crimes – and get away with it
If justice is to be sought, it is not at the level of someone like Edward Gallagher alone; it should be his superiors on the political side who need to answer questions about not just this or that war crime, but about the entire war and the crime of it all
After Evo, the lithium question Looms Large in Bolivia
The overthrow of the elected leader cannot be understood without a glance at the nation’s massive reserves of this crucial mineral.
Who’s behind the growing racism against African migrants?
It’s Europe’s greedy lending to Africa that is driving the migration wave which is fueling the European Union’s xenophobic politics
Have you heard of the CIA’s Iran Mission Center?
The rash belligerence against Iran is driven by, among others, a group of organizations, including the CIA’s Iran Mission Center which have one central mission – a war on Iran
Vijay Prashad: My friend is in a prison in Ecuador
Vijay Prashad writes about the plight of his friend Ola BIni who has been unjustly imprisoned in Ecuador since April 2019