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Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Independent, Sovereign Eritrea Stays the Course
28 May 2025
Eritrea remains true to the revolutionary ideals forged during its 30-year War of Independence.
Aby L. Sène
Drones, Elephants and Imperialist Interests in Africa
04 Jun 2025
Conservation in Africa has long been a smokescreen for imperial power. Veiled behind the cause of environmentalism and stopping poachers, western governments, intelligence agencies, and billionaire-funded NGOs expand their reach by deploying drones, private armies, and surveillance tech.
Abdirahman M. Ahmed
Using Lessons from the Horn of Africa to Protect the Alliance of Sahelian States
04 Jun 2025
The Horn of Africa was filled with hope in 2018, when Somali President Mohammed Abdullahi Mohammed, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed signed an agreement promising regional cooperation on trade, culture, and security, but that hope has been dashed by renewed…
Black Alliance for Peace US Out of Africa Network
AFRICOM Watch Bulletin #56
04 Jun 2025
The Congo remains ground zero for Africa’s resource wars, where Rwanda and Uganda act as looters for the West. While international scrutiny has largely focused on Rwanda’s aggression, Uganda’s role in the systematic looting of Congolese resources has evaded comparable condemnation.
Alina Selyukh
Skulls Once Subject to Racist Study in Germany are Laid to Rest in New Orleans
04 Jun 2025
Looted African skulls come home after a century in German labs, exposing colonialism's history of dehumanizing "race science."
The Cradle News Desk
US Greenlights Syrian Plan to Integrate Foreign Extremists Into New Army
04 Jun 2025
After 2011, tens of thousands of foreign extremists flooded into Syria with the backing of western intelligence agencies to help topple the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad.
Palestine Chronicle Staff
Another Massacre at Rafah Aid Center as Gaza Death Toll Mounts
04 Jun 2025
Gaza health officials report mass casualties as Israeli forces shell humanitarian aid distribution points.
John Perry , Roger D. Harris
US Reinstates Funding to Propaganda Outlet: NED Weaponizes “Democracy” in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba
04 Jun 2025
After a brief pause, Washington's regime-change efforts against Latin American countries via the National Endowment for Democracy has returned.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Rising Temperatures and the Rising Need for a Black Radical Lens in the Climate Change Discourse.
04 Jun 2025
Liberal climate movements keep bargaining with capitalism, but the Black Radical Tradition knows survival requires its destruction. Environmentalism must adopt principles of abolition and anti-capitalism.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
MEMOIR: The Making of a Rebel, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, 1980
04 Jun 2025
“We cannot write in foreign languages unspoken and unknown by peasants and workers in our communities and pretend that we are writing for…those peasants and workers.”