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Terri Frick
Unhoused Why? It’s Always About the Land
18 Jun 2025
Homelessness isn’t policy failure—it’s policy. From 19th-century British 'clearings' to today’s police sweeps and Blackstone evictions, the playbook stays the same: displace the poor, privatize the land.
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.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
City Of Angels
18 Jun 2025
"City of Angels" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Jon Jeter
As the State’s Complexion Darkens, Minnesota’s Liberalism Wanes
18 Jun 2025
Minnesota’s progressive myth shatters as its racial gaps in income, education, and housing eclipse even Deep South states, and right wing whites turn to violence against their own people.
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.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Somaliland, US Ally in the New Cold War
18 Jun 2025
Somaliland aspires to be an “independent” US military enclave in the Horn of Africa.
Janvieve Williams Comrie
U.S. Settler State Violence Claims New Victims
18 Jun 2025
From ICE courtroom ambushes to sheriffs' execution threats, America's domestic repression now openly wields the tools it honed in overthrowing foreign governments.
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.
Nicholas Mwangi
Ghana’s Support for Morocco’s Autonomy Plan Undermines Western Sahara’s Push for Sovereignty
25 Jun 2025
Ghana endorsed Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara, abandoning its long-held support for Sahrawi sovereignty. Now Ghana is aligned with Morocco’s expanding economic and diplomatic maneuver across Africa.