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Michael Laxer
3 days ago6 min read
The Possibility of a War Against Iran
Public domain image By Vijay Prashad In early January, most of the major military forces of Iran participated in a large military exercise...
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Michael Laxer
4 days ago5 min read
The Colonizer’s Mask Has Slipped to the Floor
French troops in Mali - Cover photo by France 3 Grand Est, CC-BY-3.0, accessed via Wikimedia Commons. By Vijay Prashad A decade ago, on a...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 36 min read
The Banana Road From South America to China
Representational image. By Vijay Prashad In November, Álvaro Noboa, the father of Ecuador’s president Daniel Noboa, had a heart attack....
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Michael Laxer
Dec 19, 20245 min read
The Genocide Grinds On
By Vijay Prashad It has become background noise. We know it is happening, but we can almost forget that it continues at a barbaric rate....
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Michael Laxer
Dec 12, 20245 min read
Sovereignty, Modernization, and Cooperation Championed at Global South Academic Forum in Shanghai
A screenshot from one of the panel discussions. By Shiran Illanperuma Panelists and attendees championed the cause of sovereignty,...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 11, 20247 min read
The Fall of the Assad Government in Syria
By Vijay Prashad As the rebel forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (Syria Liberation Committee) seized Damascus, Syria’s capital, on...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 6, 20246 min read
Time for Truthful Narratives on Immigration
The “migrant crisis” was manufactured and is the fault of both Trump and Biden. We need to understand that the U.S. needs immigrants more...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 27, 20246 min read
Why Do the Israelis Bomb Palestinian Homes in the Middle of the Night?
By Vijay Prashad At 10 p.m. on the night of October 28, 2024, the Israeli air force struck a five-story building in Beit Lahiya, in the...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 25, 20245 min read
Peru’s Choices Between a New Deep-Water Port and Used Metro Cars
Joe Biden participates in a bilateral meeting with president Dina Boluarte Zegarra of Peru, Friday, November 15, 2024, during the APEC...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 22, 20245 min read
Yemen Appears to Have the Upper Hand in Its Conflict With the United States
Yemini commandos prepare to land on the Galaxy Leader, November 2023 By Vijay Prashad On November 14, 2023, a month into Israel’s...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 21, 20243 min read
Canada Reinvents the Xenophobic Wheel
By Saurav Sarkar Bikram Singh is running out of time on his post-study work visa in Canada. Singh is one of about 70,000 migrants who...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 21, 20246 min read
Why Are Young Working-Class Men More ‘Conservative’?
It’s not just about women’s increasing power and independence—it’s about capitalism failing us all. By Sonali Kolhatkar It has been a...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 20, 20248 min read
The Corporate Vehicles Changing International Commerce
The unchecked rise of financial entities designed to conceal wealth and questionable activity has created a global, collaborative...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 15, 20245 min read
When Children Are Murdered, What Is There to Celebrate?
By Vijay Prashad After news broke that Han Kang—the South Korean author—had won the Nobel Prize for Literature, her father—the novelist...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 30, 20247 min read
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah: The Man Who Defeated Israel
By Vijay Prashad Israel assassinated Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (1960-2024) because he refused to stop the attacks on northern Israel until...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 30, 20248 min read
Growing Challenges for Dems in Arab and Muslim Voting Hotspots Across the U.S
While the Gaza War has brought attention to the political influence of Arab and Muslim Americans amid the election season, their growing...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 19, 20248 min read
The Status of Europe’s Autonomous Movements
While the EU plays a dominant role in managing autonomous and separatist movements in member states, non-EU countries have their own...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 4, 20248 min read
Trump’s Battle for U.S. Sports
Donald Trump’s targeting of established sports leagues and promotion of alternatives have partly reshaped the American sports landscape....
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Michael Laxer
May 13, 20245 min read
Weight Loss Drugs Go Hand-in-Hand With Junk Food Industry
Capitalism has built systems of inequality in food, health, and wealth and convinced us that the cause is individual failure, not...
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Michael Laxer
May 3, 20245 min read
Student Demands for Divestment Are Not New
There is a long history of students organizing for divestment from states and institutions complicit in criminal acts, apartheid, and...
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