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Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Why We Must Defend Julian Assange
14 Dec 2021
Julian Assange is one of the political prisoners that the US claims not to have. The UK is again the good vassal, keeping him locked up until the Biden administration finds an opportune time to ship him off to a kangaroo court. Everyone who believes in press freedom and who opposes imperialism…
T.J. Coles
Using and Abusing Djibouti: How the US Transformed a Tiny African state Into a Hub of Imperial Aggression
04 Jan 2022
From Djibouti, the US trains proxies and bombs strategically-important countries in the name of democracy and counterterrorism. To justify the country’s militarization, Washington hypes fears over China’s regional ambitions. This article was originally published in The Grayzone.
José Manuel Blanco Diaz
Attack Against Haiti’s De Facto Prime Minister on Independence Day (+Core Group)
04 Jan 2022
The Core Group chose Ariel Henry as the de-factor president of Haiti, in defiance of the people's wishes. But a conflict among factions makes his position insecure and resulted in a recent assassination attempt. This article was originally published in Orinoco Tribune.
W.T. Whitney
Cuba Defeats Covid-19 with Learning, Science, and Unity
04 Jan 2022
Despite U.S. sanctions, Cuba has succeeded in treating covid and has developed five different vaccines that are widely accepted by its population. This article was originally published in Counterpunch. Education is central to Cuba’s brand of socialism. The revolutionary government’s dedication to…
Mark P. Fancher
The Deadly, Destructive Costs of Ethiopia’s Illusory Independence
05 Jan 2022
The mythology of Ethiopian independence is an impediment to understanding the current situation. Ethiopia did not escape European intervention, and that history impacts the present day. As the world prayed for peace during the Christmas season, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front proposed a…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan’s “The Poetics of Difference”
05 Jan 2022
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Mecca Jamilah Sullivan. Sullivan is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University. Her book is The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora.…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Copaganda
05 Jan 2022
Copaganda I. You can call it Reverse Miranda— Or—you can call it Copaganda: highly effective $campaign, permanent budget drain Preying on poor Peoples’ pain—Protecting 1% reign... We are the world’s finest fiction writers Supremely skilled with Dr. Goebbels gift for gas- lighting—for disseminating…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Don't Look Up Reflects the Cynicism of Capitalist Decay, for Better and for Worse
05 Jan 2022
The controversial film offers insight into the crisis of the system but misses the mark in key areas.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
The Black Agenda Review of Books
05 Jan 2022
An overview of recent Black books that can help us get through the year ahead.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Ukraine: What Does it Have to Do with Black Folks?
05 Jan 2022
“…it is imperative that everyone, in particular Black and working-class people, understand that not having an awareness of the interconnections of the “grind” (the struggle to survive in the U.S.) and U.S. white supremacist, imperialist policies, and not being prepared to commit to altering those…