Over the last two or so decades, there's been an increase in thinking among the Left, liberals, intellectuals in the direction of so-called spontaneity. In other words that uprisings happen spontaneously, people are frustrated, angry, then they spontaneously rise up.… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
Turkey is using the Islamic State in the same way as Pakistan used the Taliban in Afghanistan. You know, that's perhaps Turkey's strategy. — 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… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
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… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
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
