Imperialism

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Ultimate Betrayal of Alex Saab and the Fate of Nicolás Maduro and the Venezuelan People
16 Sep 2026
The United States got its hands on Alex Saab a second time in order to use him in its case against Nicolás Maduro. The U.S. succeeded in getting a guilty plea from Saab, but the current Venezuelan…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Black Radicalism and the Return of the “Subversive Negro”
16 Sep 2026
NSPM-7 and the State Department's international campaign against "far-left political terrorism" represent new and more dangerous forms of domestic repression in the 21st century, while reconstructing…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
COMMENTARY: The Shrinking American Empire, Glen Ford, 2009
16 Sep 2026
“The Iraq invasion greatly accelerated the process of U.S. imperialism’s decline.”
Gary Wilson
Germany’s war drive feeds the far right in Saxony-Anhalt
16 Sep 2026
The AfD's landslide in Saxony-Anhalt reflects real working-class anger at the war and the arms buildup, but the party redirects that anger toward migrants and leaves the capitalist system that caused…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: The Midwest and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Jim Jacobs, 1972
09 Sep 2026
“To seize control of the political economy of the Midwest is to seize control over the political economy of imperialist America.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
In the same boat?
09 Sep 2026
"In the same boat?" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Dhoruba bin-Wahad
Guardian Foray: All That's Not Real Is Camouflage
09 Sep 2026
An Open Letter from the American "Left" allegedly on behalf of unnamed persons said to be Iranian political prisoners has provided cover for U.S. imperial aggression against Iran by refusing to…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
9/11 and the Great American Decline
09 Sep 2026
The Bush administration had long planned a global war for U.S. hegemony, and the attacks of September 11 provided the perfect pretext to put those plans into motion.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
A People(s)-Centered Human Rights Critique of “An Open Letter to Iran’s Political Prisoners”
26 Aug 2026
A People(s)-Centered Human Rights framework rejects the liberal abstraction that makes a false symmetry between Iranian authoritarianism and U.S. imperialism, which obscures the fact that one is a…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
U.S. Liberal Media Literacy Guide: The World Bank and the IMF
26 Aug 2026
The IMF and World Bank are not subjects the corporate media cover in any real sense. Instead, their role is treated as unquestionably immutable and beneficial.