The New Dark Age

Venezuela, Memory, and the Long Arc of U.S. Imperialism

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

Memories of a sovereign Venezuela collide with the reality that it is now a U.S. vassal state.

Neoliberalism to Trumpism: The Re-Normalization of White Supremacy as State Ideology

​​​​​​​Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist

STATEMENT: Question of Western Sahara, Tinguiri Mansour Omar, 1979

Editors, The Black Agenda Review

“It is perfectly clear that the war of aggression waged by Morocco against the [Western] Saharan people is a purely colonial war.”

Trash Panda Politics Guides the Black Misleadership Class’s Electoral Dumpster Dive

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright

The Congressional Black Caucus electoral strategy has turned the 2026 midterm elections into a dumpster dive for corporate interests and Zionist approval.

U.S. Support of Israel is Absolutely an Issue of Affordability and Economic Populism…So Why Won’t the Democrats Discuss it as Such?

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright

The Democratic Party’s continued support for Israel’s genocide is not just a moral and political liability but also an economic one which impacts it’s voters, yet the party refuses to frame it as such.

hand ‘em another $350 billion to fight Communism?

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence

“hand ‘em another $350 billion to fight Communism?” is the latest from BAR’s Poet-in-Residence.

The Foolish, Futile Struggle to be Both African and American Will be Televised

Mark P. Fancher

Corporate media require American identity politics which contradict African authenticity.

The Spark in Tell: How a Village Resistance Disrupted Israel’s West Bank Strategy

Ramzy Baroud

Palestinians have the right to defend themselves under international law and they exercised it in the town of Tell on the West Bank.

House Votes to Lock Israel Into U.S. War Machine for Wider War

Gary Wilson

The House voted to permanently merge the U.S. and Israeli militaries. Israel has some control over the U.S. war machine, and Washington locks in a forward base in West Asia.

Anti-Haitianism: A Hemispheric Rejection of Black Humanity

Bertin M. Louis, Jr.

From the United States to the Dominican Republic to the Bahamas, the violence, collective scapegoating, and mass deportation of Haitians lay bare a particular kind of anti-Blackness. Anti-Haitianism not only denies the humanity of Haitians, but originates in tandem with the West’s fears of independent Black states, which were realized first in the Western Hemisphere after the Haitian Revolution.

Cuba Is Being Punished for Refusing Dependency

Sharon Kyle

Baba Akili and Thandiwe Abdullah returned from Havana with an eyewitness account of empty streets, failing hospitals and a people enduring the latest chapter of a long U.S. campaign against Caribbean self-determination.

U.S. Government terrorists weaponize subpoenas vs. the left

Sara Flounders

The House Ways and Means subpoenas against peace and justice organizations, paired with the State Department’s designation of Cuba as the center of global terrorism, represent a coordinated McCarthyite attack designed to criminalize dissent and silence the growing opposition to U.S. wars and imperialism.