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Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
HANDS OFF NATO? Not Palestine? Who got the memo?
09 Apr 2025
The Democrats’ HANDS OFF rallies included “HANDS OFF NATO” and excluded “HANDS OFF PALESTINE,” but not all rally goers got the memo.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Cory Booker, Confused Liberals, Obama's Reappearance, and the Dangers of a Fake Movement
09 Apr 2025
Any “movement” that leads protest back to the Democratic Party is, by definition, dangerous. Criticism of Donald Trump cannot be a defining feature of change.
Orinoco Tribune
Ecuador’s Ex-Diplomat: Far-Right Can Do Anything to Sway Election (Interview)
09 Apr 2025
As Ecuador heads into a pivotal runoff election, left-wing candidate Luisa González emerges as the favorite—but the shadow of foreign interference and political violence looms large. In an exclusive interview, diplomat and human rights advocate Fidel Narváez warns that while the Citizen Revolution…
Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti
Remembering Mario Joseph, BAI Managing Attorney
09 Apr 2025
The world has lost a champion of justice with the passing of Mario Joseph, a Haitian human rights lawyer who spent nearly three decades fighting for victims of state violence, cholera negligence, and political repression. His legacy lives on through the countless activists, lawyers, and advocates…
Palestine Chronicle Staff
Sole Survivor of ‘Paramedics Massacre’ in Rafah Exposes Israeli War Crime
09 Apr 2025
Monther Abed, the sole survivor of the Israeli attack on paramedics in Rafah, reveals the details of the crime in which 15 humanitarian workers were killed.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist , Claudia O'Brien Moscoso , Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
A Snapshot of the Global War Against African People: Reflections From Ecuador
16 Apr 2025
Defying Ecuador’s attempt to bar international monitors, election observers documented how Daniel Noboa’s contested victory, secured amid militarized polling stations and state violence, escalates the assault on Afro-Ecuadorian communities.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Racism and the American University, Addison Gayle, Jr., 1971
16 Apr 2025
The appraisal of American universities as liberal institutions remains one of the purest examples of the elasticity of the English language.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Western Nations Join the United States in Repressing Dissent
16 Apr 2025
Trump is not unique in the collective west. As the crisis of capitalism deepens, "democratic" states intensify repression and criminalize dissent.
Oliver Robinson
Trump Terror, Complicit Local Leadership, and the Assault Against Southeast D.C.
09 Apr 2025
Donald Trump’s new “Safe and Beautiful” task force is little more than a thinly veiled assault on Black working-class communities in Southeast D.C., accelerating policing, displacement, and white vigilante violence. This moment exposes a brutal collaboration between federal and city officials to…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
NATO Was Founded to Crush Communist, Socialist, and Anti-colonial Movements Worldwide
16 Apr 2025
NATO was never a good idea gone wrong. It was founded to crush communist, socialist, and anti-colonial movements in Europe and around the world.