International

Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
toe tag trio: coup combo
20 Mar 2019
A right wing hawk flies humanitarian aid in…Then sits, hen-like,’til it hatches Bombs… and packs of hungry dogs ripping rotting flesh from headless cadavers. As scents of
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
How the U.S. Creates ‘Sh*thole’ Countries: A Review
20 Mar 2019
Cynthia McKinney and her co-writers have produced an important literary tool for anti-imperial agitation and education.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
20 Mar 2019
Double standards in the criminal justice system, the relationship between feminism and sex work as well as between reparations and immigrants were on readers’ minds this week. The top re
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tamura Lomax’s “Jezebel Unhinged”
20 Mar 2019
The jezebel discourse is reproduced in and circulated between the Black Church and black popular culture, making each a site of antiblack and sexist stereotypic cultivation and pornotropic gazing.
Mekim-na-Save Projek
Martyred Marielle Franco speaks about her background & political perspective on May 15, 2017
20 Mar 2019
Brazilian feminist Marielle Franco da Silva, a Rio de Janeiro city council member, a lesbian and leading critic of the Temer and Bolsonaro regimes was assassinated along with her driver after deliv
J.M. Kirby
Facing Wrongful Detention and Threats, Afro-Colombian Women Call for Justice
20 Mar 2019
In Colombia, “all human rights defenders are considered criminals,” especially those who are Black or indigenous.
Robin Philpot
Truth, Freedom and Peace will Prevail in Rwanda
20 Mar 2019
Millions of Africans in three countries have died in the 25 years since Paul Kagame’s troops shot down a plane carrying two African presidents.
Angel Guerra Cabrera
Venezuela: Adiós Guaidó
20 Mar 2019
The self-proclaimed interim president committed political suicide when he called for U.S. military intervention in his own country.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Indefensible Israeli Apartheid State
18 Mar 2019
“We’re seeing a crumbling of Israel’s ability to defend and promote the apartheid state,” said political analyst Chris Hedges. Rep.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Who Were US Mercenaries Targeting in Haiti?
18 Mar 2019
Haitians have all kinds of theories on what seven heavily armed American mercenaries were up to when they were arrested outside the country’s Central Bank at the height of civil disturbances, last