Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, has also written several books, most recently, Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations. He appears on the Friday, Oct. 9 edition of Democracy Now! to discuss with host Amy Goodman the breaking news that the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the U.N. World Food Programme. “I couldn’t be happier… This hunger pandemic is paralyzing perhaps 2.7 billion people,” says Prashad. “What could only make me happier, Amy, is if, next year, the Cuban doctors win the Nobel Peace Prize…”
Watch the interview, below, or at Democracy Now!
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