Mr. Obama needs to make a phone call to Ankara and have a serious conversation about why the current government in Turkey isn't going to seal its border, why it doesn't take a stronger position against the Islamic State. — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
Organizing is always a relationship between the person who arrives and says 'Let's meet together' and the person who comes to the meeting. — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
We would like to participate in manifestations, in Occupies and things like that. We would like to be involved in a march. But we… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
Mr. Assad is not going to be able to feel like there is a moderate opposition that actually threatens him. Currently, the Assad government looks out at the landscape, sees the rise of ISIS, sees that much of the rebel force has become largely Islamist, and then turns to the West and says, well, you know, they look toward the… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share
We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world of oneself. ...Racism attempts to occlude our cosmopolitanism (of the songs in and out of our bones), and it often appropriates our mild forms of xenophobia into its own virulent project. Difference among peoples is… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share
The Islamic State is able to raise finances through taxation, through theft of banks, and certainly through oil sales from the Omar oilfields in… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
Where there is a living memory of struggle, they have a living memory of the rebellion. Where there's no struggle afterward the rebellion is… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
It is convenient for Hillary Clinton and Tony Blair to say the rise of the Islamic State has nothing to do with the Iraq… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
You see, one strand...of anarchism believed that you needed to use essentially homeopathic doses of terror by assassinating people, et cetera, the so-called 'propaganda of the deed', and that this propaganda of the deed would rouse people up, give them confidence to rise up. Another section believed 'No, it was not by seeing something happen that people get confidence, but… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share
However you define territorial ambitions, it need not be a country that's right next to the U.S. for it to exercise its extraterritorial or… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
Interestingly, what the bourgeois women's groups in India wanted to do in the nationalist period is to have the peasant women essentially follow them...… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
