TALK: Archie Singham and the Non-Aligned Movement — by Vijay Prashad
A recording of a live video introduction by renowned historian, editor, and journalist, Vijay Prashad, who talked about Archie Singham’s work and the Non-Aligned Movement. The screening that followed showed two programmes that Paper Tiger Television made with Singham, an esteemed professor of political science and committed intellectual closely associated with national liberation movements. The screened works were Archie Singham Reads Foreign Policy: A Look at the Old Boys’ Network (1982) and Archie Singham Reads the U.S. Press: How the U.N. is Trivialized (1986).
Read more…BIOGRAPHY
Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian and journalist. Prashad is the author of forty books, including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. His books The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power (2022) and On Cuba (2024) were written in collaboration with Noam Chomsky.
Prashad is Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and Correspondent for Globetrotter. He is an editor at LeftWord Books (New Delhi), at Inkani Books (Johannesburg), and at La Trocha (Chile). He has appeared in two films – Shadow World (2016) and Two Meetings (2017).
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