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Sarah B.
Gaza to Donbass: How Israel and Ukraine Built a Fascist, Transnational War Machine
10 Sep 2025
From Bandera to Ben-Gurion, a new axis of ethno-supremacy is rising, fueled by U.S. backing. Same guns. Same flags. Same ideology. Gaza and Donbass are not separate wars. They are one machine.
Jacqueline Luqman
The Military Occupation of Washington, DC: Then and Now
10 Sep 2025
The current military occupation of DC is not an anomaly but an escalation of a long war on Black communities. The current occupation is merely a more visible form of this ongoing political subjugation.
Jill Clark-Gollub
Why the SanctionsKill Campaign Supports BDS
10 Sep 2025
The SanctionsKill campaign exposes how US economic warfare kills civilians across the Global South. Meanwhile, the Palestinian-led BDS movement represents a legitimate tool of grassroots resistance against Israeli apartheid.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tracie Canada’s Book, “Tackling the Everyday”
10 Sep 2025
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Tracie Canada. Canada is the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Her book is Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Extended Remarks from UNAC Webinar: Troops Out of Our Cities! ICE Out of Our Communities! September 7, 2025
10 Sep 2025
The Trump administration’s declaration of war on American cities is a logical escalation of the white supremacist project. This is not a policy shift but a clearer revelation of the settler state's inherent violence against Black and Brown communities.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
POEM: The King Alfred Plan, Gil Scott-Heron, 1972
10 Sep 2025
“...white paranoia is here to stay/The white boy's scheming night and day/What you think about the King Alfred Plan?”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Department of War: What’s new is so old
10 Sep 2025
"Department of War: What’s new is so old" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Mohamad Elmasry
Israel's attack on Qatar should be a wake-up call for the Arab world
10 Sep 2025
The strike on Doha shows that Arab regimes' silence and passivity in the face of Israeli violence will only invite further aggression.
Tamanisha John
The Historical and Contemporary Role of Neocolonial Caribbean Governments in Supporting US Militarism and Imperialism in the Region
10 Sep 2025
Turning the Caribbean Sea into a US bombing range requires local collaborators. Neocolonial governments have volunteered to play this role, betraying their people's right to peace and sovereignty.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Super Predators, Born Criminals, and the Black Misleadership Class
10 Sep 2025
The treachery of the Black misleadership class knows no bounds. While Trump’s latest racist dog whistle about “born criminals” is condemned, double-talking scoundrels may pretend to be horrified while giving legitimacy and assistance to the racist police state.