Latest Vijay Prashad Quotes from Interviews

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• There's a right-wing shift in Israeli society, very hard right shift.

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  Wings, Israeli, Right Wing

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• It's important to reflect about what's happening inside Israel.

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  Israel, Important, Happenings

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• I don't recall an American president basically coming out and criticizing the Israeli public.

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  President, Coming Out, Criticize

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• It's Israelis who are ready to abandon the hard work of peace.

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  Hard Work, Abandon, Ready

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• 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.

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  Islamic, Turkeys, Pakistan

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• 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.

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  Islamic, Phones, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• The United States is facing serious pushback from Turkey, which is not comfortable with the view that the Islamic State is a terrorist organization.

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  Islamic, Views, Turkeys

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• The Islamic State is able to raise finances through taxation, through theft of banks, and certainly through oil sales from the Omar oilfields in eastern Syria. So right now the question of funding isn't of the essence.

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  Islamic, Essence, Oil

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• 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 West and say, well, look, what you have is a terrorist group that's fighting against us. So in this context, I think, to talk about moderate opposition being created to put pressure on Damascus is rather illusionary.

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  Fighting, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• I think a far more important strategic way to deal with the Islamic State would be to bring some of these regional partners and explain to them that Turkey's own contradictory foreign policy has to end. I mean, if United States is serious, it has leverage over Turkey. And apparently it has not been able to move Turkey sufficiently.

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  Moving, Islamic, Mean

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• All evidence suggests that Turkey has allowed ISIS fighters, when they've been injured, to return into Turkey and to get treated in Turkey's hospitals.

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  Isis, Turkeys, Return

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• There are people who are saying that they voted twice for Mr. Obama and they are now feeling a great sense of regret, not only over Guantanamo, etc., but now perhaps the entry into a new war in West Asia.

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  Regret, War, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• 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 territorial ambitions.

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  Country, Ambition, Exercise

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• It's plain that the American right wing, the Republicans and some sections of the Democratic Party, don't really care about international norms. They believe in the executive authority of the president. They don't even believe the United Nations or international law should play any role vis-à-vis American policymaking.

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  Party, Believe, Law

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• From 1991 till the present, Iraq sovereignty has been trampled by the United States.

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  Iraq, United States, Sovereignty

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• The question of international norms or international resolutions, you know, coming from Mr. Obama is not really about whether there are international norms or resolutions to uphold.

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  Resolution, Norm, International

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• There's no UN resolution that allows the United States to carry out operations in Syria. You'll remember that in Libya in 2011 there was a great hoopla made about the importance of getting a UN resolution. Here there was no attempt to get any resolution. They simply bombed in Syria.

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  United States, Remember, Resolution

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Mr. Obama at the UN said that the large nations should not trample small ones in pursuit of what he called "territorial ambition". These are curious statements coming from the American president at this time.

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  Ambition, President, Curious

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• When anarchists are having a debate, they're having a debate about tactics, 'Should you do this?', 'Should you do that?' The question isn't 'Should you do this?', 'Should you do that?', the primary question is how do you build confidence among the masses of people who experience hierarchies, who experience exploitation, who experience oppression.

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  People, Tactics, Hierarchy

  "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

• You cannot have politics without building mass-movements.

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  Movement, Building, Mass

  "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

• We would like to participate in manifestations, in Occupies and things like that. We would like to be involved in a march. But we don't actually see the very hard work that goes to build confidence towards those events. And we don't have a shared discussion.

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  Hard Work, Events, March

  "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

• To build a mass movement, nonviolence is indispensable.

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  Movement, Mass, Indispensable

  "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

• There's a different use for different strategies.

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  Different, Use, Strategy

  "'Exiles From the Future': An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

• When you are threatened, when your life is threatened, you have to fight back.

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  Fighting, Life Is, Threatened

  "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

• 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 it's by acting', in other words, the movements must go among the people and produce small struggles, bigger struggles, to give people greater and greater confidence.

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  Struggle, People, Giving

  "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.