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Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Standing with Julian Assange
26 Sep 2018
Pacifica radio stations are known as havens for leftwing thought and action, but the Berkeley station and the national Pacifica board have yet to come to the defense of Wikileak’s Julian Assange.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: World War Dangers in Syria
26 Sep 2018
Israel has bombed Syria at will, apparently with Russian permission, but that may change after the downing of a Russian plane.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
What Syria Continues to Teach Us
26 Sep 2018
Leftists should turn their attention to the New Guard Fascists -- the enemies of the people at the top of the class structure and the armed body, the state, that protects the class structure.
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Cuban President To Speak at NYC’s Riverside Church
24 Sep 2018
On September 26 the recently elected president of Cuba will address a community forum at New York City’s historic Riverside Church.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
US Losing Its Imperial Status
24 Sep 2018
“We are entering a new moment in history,” said Dubosian scholar Anthony Monteiro, which is in some ways a negation of the hegemonic dollar and the unipolar world, with the US as t
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Papa Bernie Got a (Not So) Brand New Foreign Policy Bag
20 Sep 2018
Bernie Sanders obscures the facts of US militarism, and urges Americans to fixate on axis of evil oligarch-ruled countries that does not include the home of the richest oligarchs of all: the United
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Two African Heroes Leave Prison in Rwanda
19 Sep 2018
Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame has released two of his best known political prisoners: Victoire Ingabire, a Hutu political activist, and Kizito Mihigo, a Tutsi gospel singer.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Martha Escobar’s “Captivity Beyond Prisons”
19 Sep 2018
Rather than benevolent protector, the state enables and often perpetuates violence against marginalized communities, criminalizing them.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
First They Came for Alex Jones, then RT and Syrian TV
12 Sep 2018
Russian and Syrian news services in the US have been censored, but you can still get streaming jihadist propaganda from al Qaeda-controlled Idlib Province.
Black Communities’ Process in Colombia
Afro-Colombians Credit UN Durban Declaration in Fight for Land Rights
12 Sep 2018
In principle, the government of Colombia recognized Black people’s right to collective ownership of land back in 1993, but these rights have not been fully achieved, in practice.