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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
POEM: Poem for Walter Rodney, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, 1981
11 Jun 2025
“any where or world where there is love there is the sky and its blue free
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Christopher Black: Balancing the Unbalanced Scales of International Criminal Justice
11 Jun 2025
Christopher C. Black fought for justice in politically agendized international courts.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Edna Bonhomme’s Book, “A History of the World in Six Plagues”
11 Jun 2025
This week’s featured author is Edna Bonhomme. Bonhomme is a historian of science, culture writer, and journalist based in Berlin, Germany. Her book is A History of the World in Six Plagues: How…
Jill Clark-Gollub
Daniel Ortega is No Bukele
11 Jun 2025
Ortega and Bukele are polar opposites: one invests in dignity and democracy, the other in mass incarceration and imperial alliances.
Nora Barrows-Friedman
US and Israel Turn “Aid” Centers Into Slaughter Zones
11 Jun 2025
Nowhere is safe in Gaza. US-backed Israeli forces are turning aid centers into slaughter zones, targeting starving civilians as they desperately search for food and medicine.
Mnar Adley
“So They’ll Never Have Children”: American Nurse Says Israeli Soldiers Deliberately Shot Boys in the Penis
11 Jun 2025
Gaza’s hospitals have become killing fields, and medical workers witness Israeli forces executing unarmed civilians, including children.
Roger D. Harris
Ballots and Bias: How the Press Framed Venezuela’s Regional and Legislative Elections
11 Jun 2025
Roger D. Harris analyzes Western media's biased and dishonest coverage of Venezuela's May 25 election and the sweeping Chavismo victory.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Ukraine Terrorism and the Question of U.S. Involvement
04 Jun 2025
The U.S has been involved in every aspect of Ukraine’s military activity against Russia. The recent drone attacks and sabotage were likely committed with U.S. help. Of course, is possible that…
The Cradle News Desk
US Greenlights Syrian Plan to Integrate Foreign Extremists Into New Army
04 Jun 2025
After 2011, tens of thousands of foreign extremists flooded into Syria with the backing of western intelligence agencies to help topple the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad.
Palestine Chronicle Staff
Another Massacre at Rafah Aid Center as Gaza Death Toll Mounts
04 Jun 2025
Gaza health officials report mass casualties as Israeli forces shell humanitarian aid distribution points.