Vijay Prashad

Vijay is an Indian historian and journalist. He is the author of forty books, including Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations (Monthly Review Press, 2021), Red Star Over the Third World (Pluto Press, 2019), The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World (The New Press, 2022), The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (Verso Books, 2013), and The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power, written with Noam Chomsky (The New Press, 2022). Vijay is the executive director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, the chief correspondent for Globetrotter, and the chief editor of LeftWord Books (New Delhi). He also appeared in the films Shadow World (2016) and Two Meetings (2017).