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Isabelle Papillon
Haiti PM Garry Conille is Reporting to the Metropolis
10 Jul 2024
The unelected Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille recently traveled to the U.S. to make his rounds, giving reports to various political leaders and members of the Biden administration.
Rasha Khatib , Martin McKee , Salim Yusuf
Counting the Dead in Gaza: Difficult but Essential
10 Jul 2024
The data for the death count in Gaza collected by the Gaza Health Ministry has been extremely difficult to gather due to the onslaught by Israel. It is also difficult to calculate the scale of indirect deaths that will inevitably come from this genocide. Researchers are now trying to provide…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
For African/Black Working Class and Colonized Peoples, Midterm Elections in the U.S. Offer No Relief from War, Repression and Capitalist Misery
10 Jul 2024
The 50-year-old neo-liberal agenda explains why political choices in this country provide little change that benefits the masses of people. The recent midterm election results will not bring about an improvement in the lives of the Black working class.
John Parker
Demanding Violent Obedience, Illegal Sale of Palestinian Land Embraced by Biden, Governors, Mayors and City Councilmembers
10 Jul 2024
As Israel's genocidal campaign against Palestinians continues, so does the theft of Palestinian land. Real estate events that sell off illegal settlements acquired through settler violence in the West Bank happen in the U.S. with the aid and permission from local elected leaders.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Million Worker March 20th Anniversary: Project 2025— Keep Death ‘Alive?’
10 Jul 2024
Million Worker March 20th Anniversary: Project 2025— Keep Death ‘Alive?’ is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Rwanda's Stillborn Middle-Income Economy
10 Jul 2024
Rwanda’s economic miracle is a lie.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Project 2025 Continues the Historic Racist, Fascist Project
10 Jul 2024
Project 2025 is just the latest in a series of conservative think pieces which outlines how republicans should wield presidential power. The outrage surrounding it ignores democrats’ collusion with republican policies when they are in office and is a cynical effort to scare especially Black voters…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
TESTIMONY: Opposition to Military Assistance Act of 1949, W. E. B. Du Bois, 1949
10 Jul 2024
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the founding of NATO, we reprint W.E.B. Du Bois’ 1949 powerful testimony against the US militarization of Europe and the world.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump and Political Violence Waged by the U.S.
17 Jul 2024
The words “political violence” are the latest hackneyed and dishonest phrase emanating from the political class. The assassination attempt on Donald Trump was a minor affair compared to the treatment that the U.S. state doles out around the world and even to its own people.
Abayomi Azikiwe, Black Agenda Report Contributor
Democratic Party Turmoil, African Americans and the Attempted Assassination of Trump
17 Jul 2024
Biden orders an “independent review” of the incident as the colossal security failure takes center stage.