Wednesday, 8 August 2025 — Black Agenda Report
Zionist Shakedown
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Israel is a genocidaire apartheid state silencing critics around the world through threats, intimidation, lawfare, and accusations of antisemitism to prevent facing justice through international law.
ESSAY: Attica Then and Now! Acklyn R. Lynch, 1971
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
“The men at Attica were prepared to die for the democratic principles not only enunciated in their Manifesto, but experienced in their revolt…”
Eritrea: We Won’t Kneel Down
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Eritrean Americans celebrated their 51st Eritrean Festival and their home country’s resolute independence from August 1 to 3, 2025.
Stagflation Returns, Shining a Spotlight on the Federal Reserve’s War on the Working Class
Jon Jeter
History exposes the Fed’s inflation fight for what it truly is: a decades-long class war waged against working people under the guise of monetary policy.
There is no starvation
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
“There is no starvation” is the latest from BAR’s Poet-in-Residence.
The Green Zone of Controlled Opposition (Or, How The U.S. Climate Network Became Agents of Climate Inaction)
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The U.S. climate movement claims to fight for change while systematically silencing radical action. This isn’t resistance. It’s controlled opposition dressed in green.
BAR Book Forum: Karen Antoinette Scott’s Book, SACKRED Birth
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Karen Antoinette Scott. Dr.
Scott is the Chief Black Feminist Physician Scientist, Founding CEO, and Owner of Birthing Cultural Rigor, LLC, with nearly 30 years of supporting women, girls, and gender expansive people across the sexual, reproductive and perinatal life course. Her book is SACKRED Birth: Mobilizing A New Quality Paradigm in Obstetric Care.
BAP Condemns the Zionist Brutalization and Detainment of Chris Smalls, Emblematic of the White Supremacy at the Core of Zionism
Black Alliance For Peace
The arrest and assault of Chris Smalls is about more than the repression of any effort to subvert the genocidal blockade on Gaza; it exposes Israel’s attempt to sever Black and Palestinian solidarity in the struggle against capitalism and empire.
Unilateral and Illegal Sanctions – Mainly by the United States – Kill Half a Million Civilians Per Year: The Thirty-First Newsletter (2025)
Vijay Prashad
A study in The Lancet estimates that unilateral sanctions have caused as many deaths as wars, with an estimated half a million deaths per year.
Were Canadian Elections Existential in the Context of US-Canada Tensions? (Part 2)
Pindiga Ambedkar, Arnold August
Interview with Arnold August, writer, political commentator, and analyst of the North American continent, on the political situation in Canada and its relationship to the US.
Saudi Arabia and France are Leading a ‘Political Genocide’
Khaled Barakat
The New York Declaration doesn’t merely betray Palestine. It weaponizes the language of statehood to formalize the suppression of a people’s right to exist without colonial rule.
Youth-led anti-corruption movement surges in The Gambia
Nicholas Mwangi
Gambians from all walks of life – led by the youth-driven GALA movement mobilized across the country on July 23 in an anti-corruption protest as momentum for change grows.
The Only Fair Negotiation Between Morocco and the Polisario: When, Not If, to End the Occupation
Isabel Lourenço
Morocco’s colonial project in Western Sahara has persisted not through legitimacy, but through the complicity of other nations and the United Nations’ inaction.
Angola: 22 killed during mass protests against fuel prices
Nicholas Mwangi
Angola, one of Africa’s top oil producers, is in turmoil after protests erupted over a sharp fuel price hike driven by IMF-backed subsidy cuts.
The New Dark Age 
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