The New Dark Age

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

The Democratic Party is useful only to the oligarch class, who give them their marching orders. Doing anything that serves the people is never on their agenda. They will not address the ICE violations of law and human and civil rights, or any other needs Democratic Party voters want them to address.

EXCERPT: The Palmer Raids, Labor Research Association, 1948

Editors, The Black Agenda Review

“We forget easily in America. We have forgotten the story of the Palmer Raids.”

Trump Defends the Dollar in Venezuela and Democrats Are Glad

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor

The US invaded Venezuela and kidnapped Nicólas Maduro to defend the dominance of the US dollar. Venezuela had been selling oil to China in China’s currency, the yuan.

For an ICU VA Nurse

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence

“For an ICU VA Nurse” is the latest from BAR’s Poet-in-Residence.

Data Center Boom, Corporate Extraction, and the Obfuscation of the Land Question in the U.S.

Austin Cole

The grassroots resistance against data centers is about more than zoning and community benefit agreements. It is the latest front in America’s war against the people over land, sovereignty, and who controls the future.

Continuity of Social Control From Slave Patrols To Policing To ICE

Jacqueline Luqman

To understand the violence of contemporary immigration enforcement, one must trace its lineage directly to the antebellum slave patrols — a system founded on racial terror and complete state control.

Patagonia Forest Fires Reveal Imperialist Theft of Protected Lands

Aby L. Sène

The arson attacks that engulfed the protected forests of he Andean-Patagonia region serve as a reminder that Western conservation models, which dispossess Indigenous peoples of their lands, are another tool of imperialism. To protect those lands, we need Indigenous sovereignty over them from Latin America and the Caribbean to Africa.

Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Real, And It Obfuscates the Requisite Question of Self-Determination in the Heart of U.S. Empire

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright

When political energy is channeled into opposing an individual, that energy is diverted from the work of building the popular power needed to challenge the empire he represents.

Iran and the Strategy of Tension

Hanna Eid

The Cold War-era “strategy of tension” has evolved into a modern system of hybrid warfare targeting sovereign nations that challenge Western hegemony.

The Photos of a Five Year Old ICE Terror Doesn’t Want Us to See

Julia Wright

The arrest of a five-year-old captured public attention and ignited a prisoner revolt inside a U.S. ICE detention center. Powerful imagery is a useful tool for the people, but dangerous in the hands of oppressors.

‘If you sleep, settlers will burn your house’: fear in the West Bank

Al Jazeera Staff

The Palestinian village of Ras Ein al-Auja has held out against violent Israeli settlers – until now.

A vaccine trial is called ‘unethical’ and a ‘unique’ opportunity. What’s its fate?

Gabrielle Emanuel

A controversial hepatitis B vaccine study, funded by the U.S. but paused by Guinea-Bissau, has become a flashpoint in the political battle over vaccine safety and scientific integrity. In the January 21 issue of BAR, we reprinted an article which reported that the study would continue but that statement from the U.S. has been contradicted by news from Guinea-Bissau.

Wolves Crying Wolf (Canada, Denmark, etc)

Indrajit Samarajiva

Nothing demonstrates the hypocrisy of the “rules-based order” faster than seeing its enforcers shocked when the same rules of imperial force are directed at them.