The New Dark Age

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

Kamala Harris is now a historical footnote who is heading for the dustbin of history. Yet this harsh truth is avoided by many Black people, who cast aspersions and scorn when they should see the election result as an opportunity to forge a new political reality, instead of clinging to a party that has lost legitimacy with many of its voters.

Ajamu Baraka, BAR Editor and Columnist

The International Criminal Court finally indicted Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, but this action is merely performative. If arrest warrants do not include war criminals like Joe Biden and other U.S. officials, they are ultimately empty attempts to maintain a semblance of legitimacy.

ESSAY: The Prospects for Fascism, Manning Marable, 1981

Editors, The Black Agenda Review

Manning Marable reminds us that US fascism is institutional and normalized. The parallels of his 1981 essay with the present are obvious – US fascism remains ascendant.

Washington Post Attacks Eritrean Americans for Organizing in their Own Defense

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor

The Washington Post’s latest anti-Eritrea propaganda demonizes Eritrean immigrants defending themselves in the West.

COP29 Summit Marked by Acrimonious Debate Over Emissions and Finance

Abayomi Azikiwe, Black Agenda Report Contributor

Annual climate gathering reflects divisions between the industrialized states and the Global South.

The End of American Thanksgivings: A Cause for Universal Rejoicing

Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor

Glen Ford wrote many powerful essays, but his unflinching analysis of the history of the holiday we call Thanksgiving endures 20 years after he wrote it.

The Peoples Summit vs G20

Clau O’Brien Moscoso, Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

The People’s Summit vs G20 and the International People’s Tribunal recently took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to counter the G20 Summit that occurred in the same city. Black Agenda Report Contributor, Claudia O’Brien Moscoso reporting from Rio, joined Margaret Kimberley for a discussion about the summit within the context of the increased imperialist focus on South America.

A Grisly Kansas City Killing Shines a Light on Settler Colonialism’s ‘Boomerang Effect’

Jon Jeter

The settler colony known as the United States inflicts violence upon Black people as a function of its existence. But the murder of a mother and her infant daughter by Missouri police officers is illustrative of how the violence usually directed at Black people inevitably impacts others as well.

Lawton’s Second Parasite: The Empire’s First Cobalt Refinery

Kodjovi Kpachavi

The domestic expression of imperialism has once again been made clear with the installation of a new cobalt refinery in an Oklahoma town. Through the extraction of raw materials from the global south using exploited labor, a U.S. corporation continues the practice of contaminating the
environment to reap profits at the expense of Africans and other working class people domestically.

The Zionist Effort to Defund Climate and Environmental Justice

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright

Nonprofit organizations of all orientations are under attack, with threats of withholding funding, for their association with Palestine solidarity activities. Climate justice organizations have not been spared in this wave of Zionist repression.

Harry Haywood, Black People, and the 2024 U.S. Election

Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD

Harry Haywood’s work is a guiding light to help Black people analyze our position in the U.S. and rethink how we might engage in electoral politics. Are we building power toward revolution or are we adding fuel to this destructive empire?

Report: The Anti-Imperialist Upsurge in the Sahel and the Historic Conference in Niamey

Black Alliance for Peace US Out of Africa Network

The Black Alliance for Peace and U.S. Out of Africa Network provided this report following their participation in the “Conference in Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel”.

Crisis & Cover-up at Red Onion Super-Max

Phil Wilayto

Red Onion Prison in Virginia has the same history of racism, brutal violence, and inhumane conditions that characterize the entire mass incarceration system. But recently men held there in solitary
confinement have set themselves on fire to escape punishment, even if only for a few days. These intolerable conditions have been covered up, but the struggle to bring them to public attention continues.

The IMF and the World Bank Must be Abolished to Save the Planet

Keston K Perry

The IMF and the World Bank give the appearance of aiding Global South nations with economic relief for climate disasters, but in reality, they are burdening them with more debt.

AOC Votes to Back Israel Lobby’s Bogus “Anti-Semitism” Definition

Tamara Nassar, Ali Abunimah

New York’s “progressive” congresswoman panders to the Israel lobby by supporting a definition of antisemitism that will stifle free speech.