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Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Black Misleadership Class Attempts to Obfuscate their Carceral State Correlation with the Bogeyman of “white wokeness"
14 Dec 2021
At a time that we need more justice and access to democracy, the Black Misleadership Class is fighting for more prisons and tawdry police reforms under the guise of equity and Black liberation.
Filmon Zerai
How the Left Can Get Ethiopia Right: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly with #NoMore
14 Dec 2021
The best way for leftist anti-imperialists to support Ethiopia is to not take a hardline position on the internal politics of the country.
Richard Medhurst and Roberto Sirvent
U.S. Corporate Media Watch: An Interview with Richard Medhurst
14 Dec 2021
Richard and Roberto would like to dedicate this feature to Glen Ford, one of the fiercest critics of U.S. corporate media the country has ever known. May we all find creative and courageous ways to honor his memory by speaking out against Wall Street, white supremacy, and the U.S. war machine. In…
Roberto Sirvent
BAR Book Forum: William C. Anderson’s “The Nation on No Map”
14 Dec 2021
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is William C. Anderson. Anderson is a writer and activist from Birmingham, Alabama. His work has appeared in the Guardian, MTV, Truthout, British Journal of Photography, and Pitchfork,…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Extinction
14 Dec 2021
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Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Humanitarian Hawks Demand War on Ethiopia, National Guard Deploys to the Horn
14 Dec 2021
News of the deployment of National Guard troops to an unspecified location in the Horn of Africa is an indication that US interference in the region will continue.
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
On the Fundamental Differences Between Capitalist “Democracy” and Socialist Democracy
14 Dec 2021
The United States recent democracy summit would have been laughable if its implications were not so serious. True democracy is found far away and often in those countries which were stricken from Joe Biden's list.
Black Agenda Review
Essay: Lynch Law in America, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, 1900
14 Dec 2021
Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s “Lynch Law in America” remains a compelling account of white violence as both savage and systemic, and of the US as irredeemable.
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.