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Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies
Afghan Crisis Must End America’s Empire of War, Corruption and Poverty
01 Sep 2021
The U.S. departure from Afghanistan is an opportunity to end the corruption which made a 20-year long war a cash cow for the military industrial complex.
All-African People's Revolutionary Party
Out of Afghanistan Today, Out of Africa Tomorrow!
01 Sep 2021
The U.S. departure from Afghanistan is a victory against imperialism.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
U.S. Escalates Threats to Ethiopian and Eritrean Sovereignty
01 Sep 2021
U.S. Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman recently returned from a tour of Ethiopia, Djibouti, and the United Arab Emirates. On the following Monday, the U.S. State Department issued a statement that it had imposed sanctions on Eritrean Defense Forces Chief of Staff General Filipos…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
War is a Racist Enterprise
01 Sep 2021
Racism is an unspoken rationale for U.S. imperialist actions.
Netfa Freeman
Nicaragua at a Revolutionary Crossroads and in Imperialist Crosshairs
25 Aug 2021
U.S. attack on Nicaragua targets its Black community. There is a page in the playbook for U.S. imperialist regime change in Latin America that includes exploiting the identity politics of Blackness. A recent example was the unrest in Cuba a month ago that included a sophisticated attempt to paint…
International Delegation to Nicaragua, July 19, 2021
Statement of the International Delegation to Nicaragua
01 Sep 2021
An international delegation released this statement supporting the rights of the Nicaraguan people to live free of U.S. interference. Statement of the International Delegation to Nicaragua, July 18-25 2021
Curry Malott
How Amilcar Cabral Shaped Paulo Freire's Pedagogy
01 Sep 2021
Frantz Fanon’s influence on Paulo Freire’s thought is well known, but the Brazilian educator also drew considerably from Amílcar Cabral, the revolutionary intellectual from Guinea-Bissau. Amílcar L Cabral was born 12 September 1924 in Bafatá, Guinea-Bissau, one of Portugal’s African colonies. He…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Why the U.S. Still Suffers from Covid
01 Sep 2021
The Covid-19 crisis cannot be separated from the failed state. Donald Trump was the convenient scapegoat for the first year of the Covid-19 crisis. Austerity, low wage work, housing insecurity, and the profit driven health care system were problematic issues before anyone heard the word Covid-19 or…
Marwan Bishara
The African Union, Israel and the Futility of Appeasement
08 Sep 2021
The AU should be leading the fight against racism, not cozying up to racist regimes. For decades, African countries have supported the Palestinian liberation struggle against Israel, seeing in it parallels with their own anti-colonial movements. Likewise, the African Union has not hesitated to…
Pavan Kulkarni
First National Congress of Socialist Movement of Ghana Charts a New Course for the Region
08 Sep 2021
The First National Congress of the Socialist Movement of Ghana (SMG) – previously the Socialist Forum of Ghana (SFG) – was held from July 30 to August 1 in Winneba, a town in the country’s Central Region. One-hundred thirty delegates from across Ghana and 27 observers from fraternal organizations…