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Nizar K. Visram
Israel Got the Middle Finger at the World Cup
04 Jan 2023
The U.S. brokered Abraham Accords normalized relations between Israel and some Persian Gul Arab regimes. But Israel discovered at the recent World Cup that the Arab masses are still in solidarity with Palestine.
Gus Griffin
The Hopeful Legacy of Roberto Clemente
04 Jan 2023
Roberto Clemente was one of the all-time great baseball players and one of the best in a long line of Afro-Latinos. He also acted in solidarity with people around the world, which ironically led to his untimely death.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor , Sarah Abdelaziz
Abolitionist Teaching: An Interview with Sarah Abdelaziz
04 Jan 2023
"Abolition" is the word of the moment. But what does it mean? How should it be taught? Robert Sirvent and Sarah Abdelaziz discuss.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Interview with Adam Bledsoe
04 Jan 2023
This week’s featured scholar is Adam Bledsoe. Bledsoe is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota. His article “Neither Ground on Which to Stand, nor Self to Defend: The Structural Denial (and Radical Histories) of Black Self-Defense.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Scouting
04 Jan 2023
Scouting day dreaming, dreaming, anticipating a Hollywood Bowl where some master painter splashed stars all over night’s navy blue canvas… Wow! Were we in awe? So insignificant in the grand scheme of the painting; its sovereign clarity— its status; its ultimate one-upmanship?
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
In 2022 the U.S.-Led Unipolar Order Was More Unstable Than Ever
04 Jan 2023
Every U.S. action intended to increase its power actually results in it being diminished. Multipolarity is here to stay.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
DECLARATION: The Commander in Chief, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, to the People of Hayti, Gonaives, January 1, 1804
04 Jan 2023
A round-up of The Black Agenda Review’s posts from 2022 – and a reprint of Haiti’s January 1, 1804 declaration of independence.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
White Lives Matter More in Ukraine
04 Jan 2023
The open white supremacy and fascism exhibited in Ukraine are conveniently swept under the rug. Nazis are bad, unless they serve the interests of the U.S. state. The accuracy of this commentary’s title is borne out by statements made and actions taken by the Ukrainians themselves. In…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
If You Wouldn’t Ask Hannibal Lecter to Stop Mass Atrocities, Don’t Ask “The International Community”
04 Jan 2023
The hope that the U.S. will intervene anywhere in the world for humanitarian reasons is misguided in the extreme. Claims of concern are always a ruse hiding ulterior motives. Imperialist actions are antithetical to human needs.
Ricardo Vaz
The Inglorious End of Juan Guaidó
11 Jan 2023
Juan Guaido's "interim presidency" of Venezuela has come to an end, as opposition parties chose to end the U.S. backed arrangement. They hope to unify behind one candidate in next year's election and gain control of millions of dollars in assets that Washington steals from the Venezuelan…