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Black Alliance For Peace
The Black Alliance For Peace Denounces Biden Regime’s New Sanctions on Cuba and Stands with the Cuban People
13 Jul 2022
Black Alliance for Peace condemns U.S. sanctions on Cuba and supports self-determination and sovereignty for that nation.
Tanupriya Singh
One Year After a Brutal Crackdown, the Struggle for Democracy Remains Alive in Swaziland
13 Jul 2022
June 29 was observed as a day of commemoration in Swaziland to honor the dozens of people killed by the forces of King Mswati III during the unprecedented anti-monarchist uprising of 2021
Vijay Prashad, Manolo De Los Santos
How Cuba Is Eradicating Child Mortality and Banishing the Diseases of the Poor
13 Jul 2022
To move from 59 infant deaths out of every 1,000 live births to no infant deaths in the matter of a few decades is an extraordinary feat.
The Mapping Project
Prison in Plain Sight: Visualizing the Economic Veins That Fuel Our Carceral Reality
13 Jul 2022
The prison system links corporate interests, the military industrial complex, and policing into a web of oppression impacting more than 2 million people in this country. The Mapping Project reports on incarceration in Massachusetts.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum “Sports and Black Struggle”: Interview with Courtney M. Cox
13 Jul 2022
This week, we interview Courtney Cox. Dr. Courtney M. Cox is an assistant professor in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. Her research examines issues related to identity, technology, and labor within sport. Her current book project, Double Crossover…
Roberto Sirvent
BAR Book Forum: Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni’s Book, “Epistemic Freedom in Africa”
13 Jul 2022
This week’s featured author is Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni. Dr. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Vice-Dean: Research, Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. His book is Epistemic…
Djibo Sobukwe
NATO and Africa
13 Jul 2022
Djibo Sobukwe participated in a Canadian Foreign Policy Institute panel, "NATO and Global Empire" on June 30, 2022. These are his remarks on NATO and Africa.
Black Alliance for Peace
An Open Letter to His Excellency, Mr. Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), President of Mexico, on the Renewal of the UN Occupation of Haiti
13 Jul 2022
The United Nations occupation of Haiti under MINUSTAH and BINUH brought instability, violence and even cholera to that nation. Signatories of an open letter to Mexico's president Lopez Obrador remind him that his support for regional self-determination means little if he spearheads renewal of the…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Drunken Count Ghouliani took the fifth the 6th—low Barr last days of Pompeo… (For Amiri)
13 Jul 2022
Drunken Count Ghouliani took the fifth the 6th—low Barr last days of Pompeo… (For Amiri) I. …’40s demand—30 years ago! Big Apple’s 1st Black Mayor proposed civilian agency investigate police mis conduct. Who brandished fully-loaded big lies? Who spread 90-proof five alarm fires? Who bussed bullies…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
U.S.-led Imperialism is the World’s Leading Purveyor of Chaos
13 Jul 2022
The western capitalist axis of domination is responsible for most of the world's crises. The crisis of legitimacy extends from the UK to Japan, and U.S. imperialism is involved in every new catastrophe.