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Roger D. Harris
“No More American Thanksgivings” and Other Essays Book Review: Glen Ford, 2022, The Black Agenda, OR Books
23 Nov 2022
Glen Ford's posthumously published book, The Black Agenda, is a testament to the enduring power of his work.
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The End of American Thanksgivings: A Cause for Universal Rejoicing
23 Nov 2022
Glen Ford wrote many powerful essays, but his unflinching analysis of the history of the holiday we call Thanksgiving endures nearly 20 years after he wrote it.
Mark P. Fancher
African and Indigenous Peoples: An Alliance for Defense, Survival and Revolution
23 Nov 2022
The day known as Thanksgiving is an opportunity to remember how the settler colonial state began its genocide against both indigenous people and enslaved Africans.
Hermela Aregawi
Ethiopia Peace Deal: U.S. Proxy War By Other Means?
23 Nov 2022
The people of Ethiopia are understandably relieved that a peace agreement now exists between their government and the TPLF. But aspects of the agreement may allow the U.S. to continue the conflict with the help of their TPLF proxies.
Tamanisha John
Haiti in the Caribbean: A Political Economy Perspective on the Urgent Crisis of Imperialism
23 Nov 2022
If Haiti is "the poorest country in the hemisphere" it is because imperialist policies continue to impoverish and destabilize that nation.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Cristina M. Visperas’s Book, “Skin Theory”
23 Nov 2022
This week’s featured author is Cristina Mejia Visperas. Visperas is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Southern California. Her book is Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Music in Montreal: Our song, “The Internationale!”
23 Nov 2022
Music in Montreal: Our song, “The Internationale!”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The US Is Determined to Drive a Wedge between Ethiopia and Eritrea
23 Nov 2022
The US seems willing to accept Ethiopia’s defeat of its former puppet, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), if it can just drive a wedge between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Xi Jinping, Justin Trudeau and White Supremacist Ideology
23 Nov 2022
Western arrogance and anger about the economic prowess of a non-white nation resulted in Xi Jinping's very public dressing down of Justin Trudeau.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EXCERPT: Pentagonism, A Substitute for Imperialism, Juan Bosch, 1967
23 Nov 2022
A book by Dominican politician and historian Juan Bosch explains the connections between U.S. foreign policy, permanent war, and the defense industries.