Articles by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research

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NATO: The Most Dangerous Organisation on Earth
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

10 Jun 2025 – The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is the only real military bloc in the world – one whose mandate and ambitions stretch far beyond the North Atlantic and, in fact, constitute the greatest threat to world peace.

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NATO, USA, WWIII: World’s Peoples Want Peace and Progress, Not War and Waste
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jun 2025

On 24 and 25 June, members of NATO will strut around the streets of The Hague for their annual summit. As NATO’s secretary general urges member nations to ‘shift to a wartime mindset’, now more than ever it is clear that this aggressive alliance poses a threat to peace on a global scale.

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How the International Monetary Fund Underdevelops Africa
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

22 May 2025 – Once plundered of both its wealth and people by colonial powers, Africa now faces IMF-imposed austerity, obscene debt, and forced underdevelopment.

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The Global North Has Nine Times More Voting Power at the IMF Than the Global South
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Mar 2025

6 Mar 2025 – In the deeply undemocratic International Monetary Fund, where a country’s voting power is tied not to its population size but to the size of its economy, the US effectively holds a veto over any major changes and moulds policies according to its whims.

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How to Understand the Change of Government in Syria
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

19 Dec 2024 – The fall of Damascus and rise of HTS signal a dangerous shift in Syria, deepening regional instability, and isolation for Palestine. From Israel to Africa’s Sahel region, what comes next?

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The United States Raises a Middle Finger to the International Criminal Court
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Dec 2024

28 Nov 2024 – As the ICC finally issues arrest warrants for Israeli leaders Netanyahu and Gallant, the US confirms it has no regard for international law or a genuine rules-based order.

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Swimming in Mud in the Fifth Circle of Hell
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Dec 2024

14 Nov 2024 – Instead of solving the problems of the majority, the ‘far right of a special type’ – a right that is intimately tied to liberalism – cultivates a politics of anger.

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A World Without Context: How to Do a Conjunctural Analysis
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Oct 2024

17 Oct 2024 – Unlike mainstream media, which all too often distorts the truth and lies by omission – as we see with reporting on Palestine, where the death toll has reached 114,000 – conjunctural analyses help us understand the deeper forces at play.

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Three New Kinds of Refugees in a World of Migrants
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Sep 2024

5 Sep 2024 – No migrant wants to leave their home and be treated as a second-class citizen by countries that forced their migration in the first place.

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Ten Theses on the Far Right of a Special Type
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

15 Aug 2024 – Fascism is an insufficient term, as it denies the intimacy between liberal and far right forces. We present ten theses to understand this ‘intimate embrace’ and the rise of this far right of a special type.

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Their Rules-Based International Order Is the Rule of the Mafia
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2024

6 Jun 2024 – In defiance of the International Court of Justice, Israel continues to bomb Gaza. Like the United States, Israel refuses to abide by international law, exposing the hypocrisy of the ‘rules-based international order’.

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Three Evils: Occupation, Apartheid, Genocide
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

My Heart Makes My Head Swim – A short primer on why these three terms are accurate and at the heart of the situation in Gaza, despite the baseless claim that using them is tantamount to antisemitism.

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Africa to France: ‘Get Out!’
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 May 2024

9 May 2024 – After decades of brewing anti-imperialist sentiment in the Sahel, events in the region are now unfolding at a rapid pace. France has long sought to undermine African sovereignty since the national liberation struggles of the twentieth century. But Africa would not tolerate French dominion then, nor will it now.

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Violating Diplomatic Missions
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2024

11 Apr 2024 – The Premises of the Diplomatic Missions Shall Be Inviolable – From Israel’s bombing of Iran’s embassy in Damascus to Ecuador’s raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito, leaders feel emboldened by the impunity granted by the Global North to disregard diplomatic norms and respect.

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How Israel Weaponizes Water
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Apr 2024

4 Apr 2024 – Thousands Have Lived without Love, but Not One without Water – Israel is using water as a weapon in its war of aggression against Palestinians by denying access and destroying infrastructure.

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Conquest, War, Famine and Death Hit You Straight in the Heart
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

14 Mar 2024 – In the face of looming famine, Biden’s promise to build a ‘temporary pier’ to allow aid into Gaza is hollow and  hypocritical, undermined by his country’s complicity in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians.

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The United Nations’ New Agenda for Peace
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Aug 2023

3 Aug 2023 – The UN report–apart from identifying the conflict between the unipolar and multipolar worlds, and showing concern over the metastasizing weapons industry–throws moral scaffolding over hard realities it can’t directly confront.

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If Everybody’s Going to Join NATO, Then Why Have the United Nations?
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jul 2023

20 Jul 2023 – Since the year 2000, NATO used its military might to destroy several states, such as Afghanistan (2001) and Libya (2011), shattering societies with its aggressive alliance, and end the status of Yugoslavia (1999) as a unified state. It is difficult, given this record, to sustain that NATO is a ‘defensive alliance’.

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Emergence of a New Non-Alignment
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jun 2023

15 Jun 2023 – A new mood of defiance in the Global South has generated bewilderment in the capitals of the Triad (USA, EU, Japan), where officials are struggling to answer why governments in the Global South have not accepted the Western view of the conflict in Ukraine in its efforts to ‘weaken Russia’.

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The Vassalage at Heart of the G7
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

1 Jun 2023 – Resurrecting the Concept of the Triad – Following the end of the Second World War, the United States built an international system that was premised on the subordination and integration of Japan and Europe.

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Can the Global South Build a New World Information and Communication Order?
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

It is remarkable how the media in a few countries are able to set the record on matters around the world. The European and North American countries enjoy a near-global monopoly over information; their media houses vested with a credibility and authority inherited from colonial times plus their command of the neocolonialist structure of our times.

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You Are Reading This Thanks to Semiconductors
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

27 Apr 2023 – On 7 Oct 2022, the US government implemented export controls to hinder the development of China’s semiconductor industry. ‘The whole point is to kneecap China’s AI and HPC efforts’. The next day, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said:

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What Follows US Hegemony
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Mar 2023

Rebirth of the Dream of Global Peace and Mutual Respect – The USA remains a powerful country, but it has not come to terms with the immense changes taking place in the world order.

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Eight Contradictions of the Imperialist ‘Rules-Based Order’
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Mar 2023

9 Mar 2023 – This is a qualitatively new phase of world history with significant global changes since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, which can be seen in a new phase of imperialism. We hope to stimulate debate and discussion in our broader Battle of Ideas against toxic social philosophies that seek to suffocate rational thought about our world.

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