United Nations

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Western Arms Supplies to Ukraine Prevent Peaceful Solutions
22 May 2024
Margaret Kimberley, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report, was invited to brief the United Nations Security Council on May 20, 2024, as a civil society representative. The subject of the meeting…
Ramzy Baroud
When Namibia Stands Up to Germany: Why the Global South is Rising for Palestine
24 Apr 2024
The Palestinian fight against colonialism is recognized by nations in the global south as one that mirrors their own. Solidarity and cooperation among the colonized must continue to grow on the…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The US Did Not Fail to Intervene in Rwanda
17 Apr 2024
The U.S. kept the U.N. Security Council from sending in troops to stop the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.
Alfred de Zayas , John Perry
UN Human Rights Council Again Supports US Regime Change Plans for Nicaragua
10 Apr 2024
The United States uses its power within the United Nations and the concept of human rights to cover its plans for regime change.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The People's Ceasefire
27 Mar 2024
The United States relented and abstained from voting on a UN Security Council resolution requiring Israel to abide by a two-week ceasefire. Popular pressure forced this small step. Organized…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
United Nations Negroz
28 Feb 2024
"United Nations Negroz" is the latest poem from our Poet-in-Residence, Raymond Nat Turner.
Ramzy Baroud
The Injured Gaza Boy and His Drawing: Do Palestinians Have the Right to Self-Defense?
21 Feb 2024
It is interesting how the colonizers and the colonized continue to build relations and solidarity around the same old principles. The Global South is, again, rising in solidarity with the…
Ludo De Witte
Myth-Busting: Dag Hammarskjöld, Katanga, and the coup against the Lumumba government
14 Feb 2024
UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, was one of the architects of the Congo crisis that led to the removal and murder of the country’s first leader, Patrice Lumumba. It's time to reveal the…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
When Genocide Is No Longer Genocide
13 Dec 2023
Some of Israel's defenders want to do away with the concept of genocide in hopes of washing away its war crimes. Any redefinition would allow the U.S. to disappear the many genocides it has committed…
Communist Party of Kenya
Kenyan Police in Haiti- A Betrayal of Principles and a Dance with Imperialism
15 Nov 2023
The Kenyan government now demands that the United Nations pay for the deployment of a police force to Haiti. But Black face imperialism is the problem, not negotiations over money.