Wednesday, 29 April 2026 — Black Agenda Report

Truth, Lies and an Assassination Attempt
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The impetus to question official narratives is quite logical, given the U.S. history of promoting war propaganda and other lies.

ESSAY: José Martí Today, Jesús Colón, 1961
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
“Fidel Castro, the heir of José Martí is certainly throwing all colonial concepts and attitudes in history’s ash can.”

US Seeks to Turn Eritrea Into “a Bulwark Against Iranian Influence”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
As the militarization of the Red Sea escalates, the US tries to enlist Eritrea in exchange for sanctions relief.

Documents of Disaster and Conferences of Calamity: Rhetorical Questions, Questions of Rhetoric and the Transition from Fossil Fuels
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels produced a People’s Declaration. There have been many such statements over the years, yet the climate crisis continues unabated.

Political Snobbery Delays Black Liberation
Mark P. Fancher
The conditions are ripe for growing Black political consciousness, but revolutionary movements must broaden their reach to all sectors and classes of the people.

Move the Games: No World Cup for Genocide, Ecocide, or State Thuggery
Black Alliance For Peace
A celebration of the most popular sport in the world can’t be held in a country that commits genocide, ecocide, and daily state violence. The World Cup must not be held in the U.S.

Exporting Apartheid: Israel’s Role in Haiti’s Water Crisis
Joshua Reaves Charmelus
Behind the Dominican Republic’s assault on Haitian water sovereignty stands an Israeli Occupation apparatus – arming border forces, training police, and designing a thirty-year plan to control their island’s water supply.

Cuba Beyond the One-Party Myth
A. J. Horn
Rethinking Cuba’s political system as a model of participatory democracy.

The Dollar Makes the World Pay for U.S. Wars — But the System is Cracking
Gary Wilson
Dollar hegemony has allowed the United States wage war without economic consequence for decades. But cracks in this system are now appearing.

“Their Chaos is Our Peace”: Fighting Zionist Repression in Texas and Beyond
Yarden Azoulay Katz
Zionists continue their attacks on universities, exerting pressure to silence and terminate professors who express views in support of Palestinian liberation.

Growing Calls to End Unilateral Coercive Measures
Jill Clark-Gollub
The United States has made economic coercive measures, sanctions, its primary foreign policy tool, committing war by other means with a comparable death toll.

Negotiations or Annihilation: Can the Resistance Be Talked Away?
Zeinab Al Saffar
Israel’s diplomacy with Lebanon is a fiction. The goal is complete capitulation and annihilation of the resistance, at the cost of thousands of lives.
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