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Ramzy Baroud
Cost of the Ukraine War Felt in Africa, Global South
11 May 2022
US/NATO sanctions against Russia have resulted in food shortages and price increases throughout the Global South.
Kenny Stancil
Investigation Shows Hundreds of US Cops Being Trained by Far-Right Extremists
11 May 2022
Policing in the United States is inherently racist and right wing. But individual members of right wing groups are also training police officers across the country.
John Parker
To Honor Odessa Anti-Fascists, Stop Weapons to Ukraine!
11 May 2022
Statement by John Parker, Socialist Unity Party candidate for U.S. Senate in California on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket. Parker is on a fact-finding trip observing the U.S./NATO proxy war on Donbass and Russia.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Gao Yunxiang’s “Arise Africa! Roar China!”
11 May 2022
This week’s featured author is Gao Yunxiang. Gao Yunxiang is Professor of History at Ryerson University. Her book is Arise, Africa! Roar, China!: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Joe Biden and the Democrats Have Nothing to Offer Organized Labor, the ALU Included
11 May 2022
The Biden administration pays lip service to the trade union movement but has done nothing to break the Democratic Party’s long tradition of betraying workers. Joe Biden's photo op with Christian Smalls is just their latest performative act.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Bye, Big Sis
11 May 2022
Memories of the late Gael Davis, Los Angeles activist, organizer and actress.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Notes from Eritrea, Part II
11 May 2022
Contributing Editor Ann Garrison continues her reporting from the Horn of Africa.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Black Soldiers of Imperialism, George Padmore, 1931
11 May 2022
In 1931, George Padmore explained how African soldiers were mobilized for European wars.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Obama and Liberals Killed Abortion Rights
11 May 2022
The revelation that the Supreme Court is poised to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision has not motivated left-wing democrats to effectively mobilize on an issue they claim to care about. They are made powerless by their dependence on liberalism and loyalty to people like Barack Obama who…
Jeremy Kuzmarov
The Sun Never Sets: Why Is AFRICOM Expanding in Zambia?
17 May 2022
Why Is AFRICOM Expanding in Zambia? Because of Zambia’s Copper and to Thwart the Chinese.