International

Medea Benjamin and Leonardo Flores
The Trump Administration’s Parting Outrage Against Cuba
13 Jan 2021
Cuba’s placement on the state sponsors of terror list is meant to be a thorn in any plan by the Biden administration for rapprochement.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 11, 2021
11 Jan 2021
Cops Colluded with Trump Mob at Capitol
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Feminism Informed by “Sensuous Knowledge”
11 Jan 2021
Because of historical exclusion, “Black women’s social and political desires have always had to be shaped outside of the dogmatic and the normative – inside of the liminal, the fugitive and the ima
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Will COVID-19 Contact Tracing Expand State Surveillance?
06 Jan 2021
The US remains wholly incapable of tracing Covid-19 contagion, but if it tried, we might wind up with “the worst of both worlds” – a horror of coercion and confusion that still failed to stop the e
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Capitalism on a Ventilator: A New Book Analyzes the Impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. and China
06 Jan 2021
While China contained Covid-19 and preserved its economy, the U.S. spins lies while hundreds of thousands of its people die for lack of even a semblance of a national health system.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Think…
06 Jan 2021
Think of peoples having the most tanks, the most drones, the most missiles, bombs, aircraft carriers, guns, ammo and night vision goggles
BAR Comments Editor Jahan Choudhry
Letters from Our Readers
06 Jan 2021
This week the Black Misleadership Class, sexual violence and colonialism, and the crisis of US imperialism were on your minds.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Khary Polk’s “Contagions of Empire”
06 Jan 2021
Black and brown volunteers were considered both “essential” and “dispensable” in past disease-ridden US conflicts, just as they are in today’s Covid crisis.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Luke de Noronha’s “Deporting Black Britons”
06 Jan 2021
Immigrants that moved to Britain as children were deported to Jamaica as “foreign criminals.”
John Ross and Vijay Prashad
China and US relations in Latin America
06 Jan 2021
China will find itself engaged in an international struggle between its “win-win” approach to international policy and the US’s attempted “anti-China” policy.