Wednesday, 4 June 2025 — Black Agenda Report
Ukraine Terrorism and the Question of U.S. Involvement
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The U.S has been involved in every aspect of Ukraine’s military activity against Russia. The recent drone attacks and sabotage were likely committed with U.S. help. Of course, it is possible that president Trump was aware, but if past history is a guide, he may also have been circumvented by forces in his own administration.
MEMOIR: The Making of a Rebel, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, 1980
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
“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.”
The Struggle for a Somali Nation
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Despite shared language, culture, and religion, Somalis still struggle to become a cohesive nation.
Pizza Goeth Before a Fall? Changes in Americans’ Eating Habits Foretell a Deep Recession
Jon Jeter
Wages can’t keep up with prices, debt is crushing workers, and racial capitalism keeps us divided over shrinking slices. This isn’t just inflation—it’s collapse.
Rising Temperatures and the Rising Need for a Black Radical Lens in the Climate Change Discourse
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
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.
Drones, Elephants and Imperialist Interests in Africa
Aby L. Sène
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.
Using Lessons from the Horn of Africa to Protect the Alliance of Sahelian States
Abdirahman M. Ahmed
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 conflict.
AFRICOM Watch Bulletin #56
Black Alliance for Peace US Out of Africa Network
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.
Skulls Once Subject to Racist Study in Germany are Laid to Rest in New Orleans
Alina Selyukh
Looted African skulls come home after a century in German labs, exposing colonialism’s history of dehumanizing “race science.”
US Greenlights Syrian Plan to Integrate Foreign Extremists Into New Army
The Cradle News Desk
The story of Ward Al-Sheikh Khalil is a horrifying reminder of the human cost of Israel’s war on Gaza. As thousands of Palestinian children face death, the world must confront the devastating toll of Israel’s unchecked violence and occupation.
Another Massacre at Rafah Aid Center as Gaza Death Toll Mounts
Palestine Chronicle Staff
Gaza health officials report mass casualties as Israeli forces shell humanitarian aid distribution points.
US Reinstates Funding to Propaganda Outlet: NED Weaponizes “Democracy” in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba
John Perry, Roger D. Harris
After a brief pause, Washington’s regime-change efforts against Latin American countries via the National Endowment for Democracy has returned.
The New Dark Age 
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