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Carly Brook , Orinoco Tribune
Activists Mobilize Across the US to Demand ‘Hands Off Venezuela,’ Venezuela Thanks for Protest Outside White House
19 Nov 2025
While the White House plots further intervention, nationwide mobilizations are sending a powerful message of solidarity to Venezuela.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Somalia: Farmaajo Returns
19 Nov 2025
Farmaajo, a hugely popular Somali politician who has never been favored by the US, is widely expected to seek the presidency in Somalia’s 2026 election.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright , Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
COPing Out In Brazil: How The United Nations Reduces its Legitimacy More Than Global Emissions
19 Nov 2025
Despite being held in Brazil, a nation with the largest Black population outside of the African continent, COP30 has continued a thirty-year pattern of sidelining the specific climate threats to Afro-Descendant communities, while also failing to address the links between militarism, ecocide, and…
Roger D. Harris
Venezuela Under Siege: A Hundred Deaths at Sea – Hundreds of Thousands by Sanctions
26 Nov 2025
Washington is targeting the Venezuelan people in an escalating regime-change offensive, combining open military violence with an economic siege that has already claimed thousands of lives.
El Jones
Disturbing the Peace
26 Nov 2025
El Jones presents the poem "Disturbing the Peace," written for the protest at the Halifax International Security Forum, November 22, 2025.
Hanna Eid
Pan-Americanism and Internationalism
26 Nov 2025
The official rationale for a new U.S. military operation against Venezuela is narcotics, but the true objective remains regime change. This escalating conflict demands a robust anti-imperialist response and new efforts at international solidarity between U.S. workers and those in Venezuela and…
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The End of American Thanksgivings: A Cause for Universal Rejoicing
26 Nov 2025
Glen Ford wrote many powerful essays, but his unflinching analysis of the history of the holiday we call Thanksgiving remains relevant over 20 years after it was published.
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
On The Left Side of History: Political Prisoner Imam Jamil Al Amin
26 Nov 2025
Imam Jamil Al-Amin was a revolutionary targeted by the state from the 1960s until he was unjustly convicted of murder in 2002. He died on November 23, 2025, an elder political prisoner who had been denied medical care. We republish a 2012 Black Agenda Report article about his legacy.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Blues for belligerent blonde Lil Eva Braun
26 Nov 2025
"Blues for belligerent blonde Lil Eva Braun" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Black Alliance For Peace
Imam Jamil Al-Amin, Presente!
26 Nov 2025
From the front lines of the Black Power movement to a Georgia prison cell, the life of Imam Jamil Al-Amin represents a continuous thread of resistance and the state's relentless retaliation against it.