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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Canada in the Caribbean, Caribbean International Service Bureau, 1971
01 Mar 2023
A 1971 statement shines a bright white light on the long history of Canadian imperialism in the Caribbean.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
East Palestine, Ohio and the Oligarchy
01 Mar 2023
A freight train derailment brought environmental catastrophe to a small Ohio town. While the circumstances are somewhat unique, events followed a predictable pattern in a country run by and for the ruling class.
Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein
NATO’s Growing Military Presence in Latin America and the Caribbean
08 Mar 2023
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is not the regional defensive organization that it claims to be. As far as NATO is concerned, the entire world is in its sphere of influence, and the Americas are no exception to its hegemonic nature.
Scott Ritter
Reimagining Arms Control After Ukraine
08 Mar 2023
Having used arms control to gain unilateral advantage over Russia, the cost to the U.S. and NATO in getting Moscow back to the negotiating table will be high.
Vijay Prashad
Those Who Die for Life – like Hugo Chávez – Cannot Be Called Dead
08 Mar 2023
The tenth anniversary of the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez reminds us of his commitment to serve the people of his country, and to fighting for sovereignty for his nation and all the nations of that region. His revolutionary legacy lives on.
Jill Clark-Gollub
Reconciliation Does Not Mean Forgetting in Nicaragua
08 Mar 2023
It is important to understand the truth about the 222 people recently released to the US who were convicted of treason in Nicaragua for savage acts of violence against their people.
Maureen Clare Murphy
Why the Huwwara Pogrom was Inevitable
08 Mar 2023
The attack by Israeli settlers on the town of Hawwara was no aberration. It was just one example of the violence inherent in an apartheid state.
Travis Ross
How the U.S. and Canada are Wooing Latin America and the Caribbean to Front for their Plan to Invade Haiti
08 Mar 2023
The U.S. and Canada are using Caribbean and Latin nations to act as fronts, willing dupes, in their plans for the next occupation of Haiti. Travis Ross explains in the second of a three-part report.
Clau O'Brien Moscoso
Travels Through El Perú Profundo
08 Mar 2023
The people of Peru continue to protest the coup which ousted President Pedro Castillo Terrones. Clau O'Brien Moscoso reports from Peru.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Biko Mandela Gray’s Book, “Black Life Matter”
08 Mar 2023
This week’s featured author is Biko Mandela Gray. Gray is Assistant Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. His book is Black Life Matter: Blackness, Religion, and the Subject.