Rarely-told truths about Afghanistan (video)

Vijay Prashad, Mitch Jeserich (Letters & Politics); Pfc. Sandoval, S. Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly

Vijay Prashad: Resist the Hybrid Monster, Int'l Week of Anti-Imperialist Struggle (Tricontinental)

The Darker Nations

Guest: Vijay Prashad is director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, which describes itself as an international, movement-driven institution focused on stimulating intellectual debate that serves people’s aspirations.

He is also the author of such books as The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World and The Poorer Nations. His latest book is Washington Bullets.

Hybrid War posters (thetricontinental.org)

His latest article is on India's Frontline: "Afghanistan’s long struggle with reforms and conservativism."

• Amid Afghan crisis, US V.P. Kamala Harris visits Asia (TheHindu.com)

The Darker Nations

Afghanistan collapse sparks wave of alarm in Ukraine, North Asia (Atlantic Council)

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The Poorer Nations

A brilliant young writer tells a paradigm-shifting history of both a utopian concept and a global movement ― the idea of the "Third World."

The Darker Nations traces the intellectual origins and the political history of the 20th century attempt to knit together the world's impoverished countries in opposition to the United States and Soviet Union spheres of influence in the decades following WWII.

Spanning every continent of the global South, this fascinating narrative takes us from the birth of post-colonial nations after WWII to the downfall and corruption of nationalist regimes. More