International

Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
05 Dec 2018
Readers engaged and challenged ideas about Nancy Pelosi and Bernie Sanders this week. In particular the question of Bernie Sanders’ impact on the two party system provoked a lot of thought.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jason Borge’s “Tropical Riffs“ and John Gennari’s “Flavor and Soul”
05 Dec 2018
Our authors explore how jazz once proved the “border-hopping mobility” of African American culture, and arenas of conflict and collaboration between Blacks and Italian-Americans.
Don Fitz
Cuba's First Military Doctors (Part 2)
05 Dec 2018
Cuban doctors and soldiers served secretly in revolutionary Africa in the 1960s, pursuing Che’s strategy of “Two, Three, Many Vietnams.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
NATO’s Largesse: “Nuclear Sharing”
28 Nov 2018
The new Cold War is escalating, fueled by Washington’s bid to isolate or strangle Russia.
Robert Fantina
How the US Creates ‘Sh*thole’ Countries
27 Nov 2018
A new collection of essays, edited by former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, clearly shows that it is the U.S. that is largely responsible for the poverty and suffering in these very nations.
Don Fitz
Cuba's First Military Doctors (Part 1)
27 Nov 2018
Revolutionary Cuba decided in the Sixties “that the best defense for the island would be an international offense” -- in Africa.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Russiagate is “The Big Lie”
27 Nov 2018
With the CIA on point, U.S. militarists are implementing Joseph Goebbel’s formula to reignite the Cold War.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia on the Twilight of Empire
26 Nov 2018
The US became the world’s sole superpower “without a mask,” said the nation’s best known political prisoner.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Obama Militarily Occupied Africa
26 Nov 2018
“In the 8 years that Barack Obama was president, “AFRICOM went from 3 military bases to 84 bases” on the continent, said Paul Pumphrey, co-founder of Friends of Congo, speaking at
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Malcolm X Would Say Russiagate is a Fool’s Game
22 Nov 2018
The Democrats and their media have fashioned a trap for Blacks and browns: accept endless foreign wars and domestic austerity in return for the representation of dark faces in high pl