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Barack Obama’s First Drone Strike – OpEd

Barack Obama’s First Drone Strike – OpEd

For the past quarter century, ever since 2001, presidents of the United States inaugurate their terms not with bottles of

05.02.2025 3

Eurasia Review

Vijay Prashad

Barack Obama’s First Drone Strike

For the past quarter century, ever since 2001, presidents of the United States inaugurate their terms not with bottles of champagne but with drone and...

04.02.2025 10

CounterPunch

Vijay Prashad

The Possibility Of A War Against Iran – OpEd

In early January, most of the major military forces of Iran participated in a large military exercise called Payambar-e Azam (Great Prophet),

18.01.2025 5

Eurasia Review

Vijay Prashad

The Children of Gaza Are Freezing to Death

From early December 2024 to early January 2025, the body temperature of eight babies fell below any acceptable amount and they froze to death. This...

10.01.2025 10

CounterPunch

Vijay Prashad

The Banana Road From South America to China

In November, Álvaro Noboa, the father of Ecuador’s president Daniel Noboa, had a heart attack. He was hastily taken to a clinic in Guayaquil, his...

07.01.2025 7

CounterPunch

Vijay Prashad

The Fall Of The Assad Government In Syria – OpEd

As the rebel forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (Syria Liberation Committee) seized Damascus, Syria’s capital, on December 7, 2024, the president...

14.12.2024 7

Eurasia Review

Vijay Prashad

The Fall of the Assad Government in Syria

As the rebel forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (Syria Liberation Committee) seized Damascus, Syria’s capital, on December 7, 2024, the president...

13.12.2024 5

CounterPunch

Vijay Prashad

Peru’s Choice: a New Deep-Water Port and Used Metro Cars?

Between November 15 and 16, 2024, the government of Peru hosted the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. This 21-country gathering that...

28.11.2024 10

CounterPunch

Vijay Prashad

Are the Houthis Gaining the Upper Hand?

On November 14, 2023, a month into Israel’s genocidal attack on the Palestinians in Gaza, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, one of the leaders of Ansar Allah...

25.11.2024 9

CounterPunch

Vijay Prashad

The Choices That Australia Makes – OpEd

If you go to the bluff at Kings Park in Perth, Australia, you can overlook the Swan River and enjoy a remarkable view. Across the bay, there is a...

15.11.2024 1

Eurasia Review

Vijay Prashad

The Choices That Australia Makes

A few days before I arrived in Canberra, an aboriginal senator, Lidia Thorpe, interrupted the celebration of King Charles III to say, “You are not...

14.11.2024 3

CounterPunch

Vijay Prashad

When Children Are Murdered, What is There to Celebrate?

After news broke that Han Kang—the South Korean author—had won the Nobel Prize for Literature, her father—the novelist Han Seung-won—asked her...

17.10.2024 3

CounterPunch

Vijay Prashad

The World Says That Israel’s Unlawful Occupation of Palestine Must End

On September 18, 2024, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) passed a resolution that demanded that Israel immediately withdraw from the...

20.09.2024 30

CounterPunch

Vijay Prashad

Every Place In Gaza—Including Schools—Is A Target – OpEd

It is almost as if the Israeli army is trying to gather as many Palestinians as possible in one place and then kill them all. Ahmed Abed and his...

17.08.2024 1

Eurasia Review

Vijay Prashad

The Venezuelan People Stay With The Bolivarian Revolution – OpEd

On July 28, the 70th birthday of Hugo Chávez (1954-2013), Nicolás Maduro Moros won the Venezuelan presidential election, the fifth since the...

01.08.2024 2

Eurasia Review

Vijay Prashad