| Black Agenda Report

Editors, The Black Agenda Review
POEM: The Beirut Jokebook, June Jordan, 1982
25 Jun 2025
“What did the Arab lady say to the Israeli tank?”
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
The Tactical Failure of Israel/U.S. Attacks on Iran Is Leading Both to a Strategic Disaster “When U.S. and Western imperialists had to pretend that they were the ontologically civilized, humane, reasonable and innocent, it imposed some civilizing constr
25 Jun 2025
The U.S. and Israel’s unchecked aggression has plunged the world into a lawless state of imperial violence—yet their latest attacks on Iran have only exposed the limits of colonial power. As Western…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Oliver Baker’s Book, “No More Peace”
25 Jun 2025
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Oliver Baker. Baker is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies…
21st Century Wire Global Affairs
HARVARD REPORT: The Hidden Numbers Behind Gaza’s Real Death Toll
25 Jun 2025
A recent report prepared by Garb Yaakov, a Professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, and published on The President & Fellows of Harvard College Dataverse website, has…
Tamanisha John
Resisting Dependency: U.S. Hegemony, China’s Rise, and the Geopolitical Stakes in the Caribbean
25 Jun 2025
The Caribbean has become an emerging battleground in the U.S.-China rivalry, as regional states strategically navigate between the demands of superpowers and their own development needs. This great…
Progressive International
"Their aim is silence — ours is truth"
25 Jun 2025
Statement from the Sovereign Media collective, a new coalition of anti-imperialist media organizations, on the Israeli regime's assault on journalists from Palestine to Iran.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist , Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD , Layla Brown, PhD
Ajamu Baraka Speaks on Israel, Iran, and Zionism
25 Jun 2025
Ajamu Baraka joins LSR to discuss BAP's June 13, 2025, statement, "The Middle East is On Fire Because Israeli and U.S. Imperialism Lit the Match". What is the current situation in the region? How…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Tell Congress, No War on Iran!
18 Jun 2025
If Trump asks congress for approval to wage a war on Iran, he will probably get it.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Iran And Beyond: Total War Is Still On The Horizon, Glen Ford, 2007
18 Jun 2025
“So they go forward with the old plan, the only one they've got. Attack Iran.”
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Only Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East are zionism, U.S./Western Imperialism and Israel’s Nukes
18 Jun 2025
The Middle East’s only real weapons of mass destruction are Zionism, U.S. imperialism, and Israel’s nuclear arsenal—a toxic trifecta fueling endless war.