The New Dark Age

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

The outrage surrounding President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter Biden is not just about clemency for the relatively minor charges he was facing. The younger Biden has lived a life of great privileges, all granted to him by his father, who is equally undeserving of his own success. Fortunately, the two mediocrities will soon fade away and the public will be spared from watching them fail upward.

Editors, The Black Agenda Review

“Non-violence is a very potent weapon when the opponent is civilised, but non-violence is no match or repellent for a sadist.”

Jon Jeter

Joe Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, is viewed as hypocritical to people of color, yet given their experiences is unsurprising.

Clau O’Brien Moscoso

The United States is continuing its economic battle against China in South America. However, its influence in the region is in decline as nations seek alternatives in order to forestall U.S. hegemony.

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor

In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured authors are Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson. Schenwar is the editor-in-chief of Truthout. Wilson is an artist, educator, writer, and organizer. She is the co-founder, cohost, and producer of Beyond Prisons, a podcast on incarceration and prison abolition. Their co-edited book is We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition. We interviewed Dr. Kim Wilson about the book.

Arnold August

While genocide is a clear cause of the democrats’ defeat, economic issues are usually mentioned. What lingers behind the significance of the “it’s the economy” narrative?

Hanna Eid

Tricontinentalism is the lens through which we should analyze the anti-imperialist movement, not only to understand the past but to build the movement against imperialist domination today.

The Tricontinental

In Africa, the leading forces of capitalism have ruthlessly wielded a neoliberal conception of corruption to undermine states’ sovereignty and open the continent to plunder at the hands of Western multinational corporations.

Aseel Saleh

The United States has escalated its proxy war in Syria with the help of jihadist allies and continues destabilizing the entire West Asia region.

Robert Inlakesh

Proposed legislation uses the politicized weaponization of governmental power to stymie free speech and actively stamp out pro-Palestinian voices.

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