Imperialism

Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EULOGY: Bloody Neo-Colonialism…, Amiri Baraka, 1983
25 Oct 2023
In this eulogy for dub poet Michael “Mikey” Smith, Amiri Baraka asserts the need for Black and Third World mass organization against the ravages of neo-colonialism, imperialism, racism, and…
Dr.Wilmer J. Leon, III
You Can’t Project Power When the World Knows You Are Weak
16 Aug 2023
Every empire falls and the fantasy of American exceptionalism doesn't exempt the U.S. from inevitable decline. Yet the failing hegemon behaves as though it still controls events, and…
Amanda Yee
USAID: The Humanitarian Face of Colonial Exploitation
22 Feb 2023
The USAID may appear to give a helping hand all over the world, but there are always very dangerous strings attached.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
If You Wouldn’t Ask Hannibal Lecter to Stop Mass Atrocities, Don’t Ask “The International Community”
04 Jan 2023
The hope that the U.S. will intervene anywhere in the world for humanitarian reasons is misguided in the extreme. Claims of concern are always a ruse hiding ulterior motives. Imperialist…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Ghost Stories of Capitalism: Racism is REAL, and It’s a Class Struggle
14 Dec 2022
From culture wars to identity politics, it's easy to get sucked into toxic rhetoric and forget the reality of racism staring the US in the face.
Dee Knight
Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy
14 Dec 2022
A new book, Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy, analyses unilateral coercive measures, sanctions, which are war by other means waged by the U.S. against millions of people around the…
No Cold War
Briefing: NATO Claims Africa as Its ‘Southern Neighbourhood’
09 Nov 2022
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization claims the African continent as its "neighborhood." NATO is certainly not the defensive organization that it claims to be. Expanding imperialism is always its…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
DOCUMENT: Prologue: The Global Fragility Act, April 2022
26 Oct 2022
The US is ushering a new foreign policy doctrine through “The Global Fragility Act.” We need to not only understand these new forms of imperial practice, but to also see the cunning use of language…
Erica Caines
Hashtag Activism and US Imperialism
19 Oct 2022
The social media hashtag is often where serious politics goes to die. It can be a tool of empire used to fool well-meaning but uninformed people.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
US Decision-makers Cannot Handle End of White Supremacy: Former Vice Presidential Candidate
31 Aug 2022
Dangerous and irrational U.S. foreign policy decisions are driven by fear of the end of white world supremacy and the determination to follow the principles of full spectrum dominance. Ajamu Baraka…