My friend Vijay Prashad stops by to discuss the war in Ukraine and the events that led to the conflict. We also chat about the history of imperialism and expansionism in American foreign policy. We talk about the identity crisis of Europe as it seems to forget it is part of the Eurasian landmass and its undying loyalty to the US is hindering its trade possibilities. We also compare America to China and find that America is guilty of a higher level of authoritarianism when it jails dissidents, quells freedom of speech and uses its military industrial complex to solidify power. We touch on the fact that America has ceased to produce anything for itself and now finds themselves sanctioning other countries which is only really hurting the western world. This is an important conversation with a brilliant and insightful human being!
Vijay Prashad Has written a new book with the incredible NOAM CHOMSKY called:
The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power
Two of our most celebrated intellectuals grapple with the uncertain aftermath of the American collapse in Afghanistan
“Through the structure of a deeply engaging conversation between two of our most important contemporary public intellectuals, we are urged to defy the inattention of the media to the disastrous damage inflicted in Afghanistan on life, land, and resources in the aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal and the connections to the equally avoidable and unnecessary wars on Iraq and Libya.”—from the foreword by Angela Y. Davis
Not since the last American troops left Vietnam have we faced such a sudden vacuum in our foreign policy—not only of authority, but also of explanations of what happened, and what the future holds.
Few analysts are better poised to address this moment than Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad, intellectuals and critics whose work spans generations and continents. Called “the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet” by the New York Times Book Review, Noam Chomsky is the guiding light of dissidents around the world. In The Withdrawal, Chomsky joins with noted scholar Vijay Prashad—who “helps to uncover the shining worlds hidden under official history and dominant media” (Eduardo Galeano)—to get at the roots of this unprecedented time of peril and change.
Chomsky and Prashad interrogate key inflection points in America’s downward spiral: from the disastrous Iraq War to the failed Libyan intervention to the descent into chaos in Afghanistan.
As the final moments of American power in Afghanistan fade from view, this crucial book argues that we must not take our eyes off the wreckage—and that we need, above all, an unsentimental view of the new world we must build together.
Vijay Prashad has written many other books including:
Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09WF84W52/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0
The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DFIE7Z8/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1
The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09QRNMXHZ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2
Struggle Makes Us Human: Learning from Movements for Socialism
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09M7ZVGTX/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i3
Washington’s New Cold War: A Socialists Perspective
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BHY1ZKQT/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i4
Red Star Over the Third World
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QM1Y87W/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i5
Karma Of Brown Folk
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GXS97KC/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i6
Vijay Prashad is Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Chief Editor of LeftWord Books, and Chief Correspondent for Globetrotter (Independent Media Institute).
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Prashad is the author of thirty books, including most recently Washington Bullets (LeftWord, Monthly Review), which has an introduction by Evo Morales Ayma. Roger Waters of Pink Floyd says of this book, “Like his hero Eduardo Galeano, Vijay Prashad makes the telling of the truth lovable; not an easy trick to pull off, he does it effortlessly.”
Prashad has written extensively about the removal of Evo Morales as President of Bolivia in 2019 and the 2020 Bolivian general election. He described Morales’s removal as a coup d’état and said the Organisation of American States had “legitimised” the coup with unsubstantiated conclusions in its preliminary report.
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