The New Dark Age

Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner Meeting Reveals Ugly Truths About U.S. Politics

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

If the Democratic Party prevails in the midterm elections, Hakeem Jeffries will become the Speaker of the House of Representatives. But his decision to meet with Jared Kushner was a textbook case of how politics really operate and shows why a victory will once again bring disappointment to voters. Democratic Party leadership work on behalf of the ruling class and against the interests of the people.

A People(s)-Centered Human Rights Critique of “An Open Letter to Iran’s Political Prisoners”

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

A People(s)-Centered Human Rights framework rejects the liberal abstraction that makes a false symmetry between Iranian authoritarianism and U.S. imperialism, which obscures the fact that one is a sovereign state under siege and the other is the world’s most powerful empire waging war.

ESSAY: The CIA and Studies on Guerrilla Warfare, Robert Molteno, 1979

Editors, The Black Agenda Review

“In the period since 1969, one can detect the same old close ties between right-wing U.S. academics, think tanks, foundations, and the U.S. Government…”

The Manifestation of Surplus Populations: How Gary, Indiana is the Latest Exemplar of the Wrong Complexion for Protection

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright

White supremacy works through institutions, and FEMA’s formula for allocating disaster relief shows us how the state decides which neighborhoods are prioritized and which are left to suffer. Those in the surplus population are suffering.

U.S. Liberal Media Literacy Guide: The World Bank and the IMF

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor

The IMF and World Bank are not subjects the corporate media cover in any real sense. Instead, their role is treated as being unquestionably immutable and beneficial.

The Guardian Letter: The Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective Responds

Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective

The Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective (AISC) wrote this response to the open letter To Iran’s political prisoners, ‘trapped between two blades of a scissors’ which appeared in The Guardian.

AISC Red Paper #2: The Multiple Fronts of Iranian Anti-Imperialism

Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective

The Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective (AISC) offers an analysis of the Ramadan War and the multiple fronts of Iranian anti- imperialism. It uses anti-imperialist methodology, grounded in dialectical and historical materialism. This is part one (1) of two (2).

Declaration of a Zone of Peace

Black Alliance For Peace

From the blockade of Cuba to the kidnapping of Venezuela’s president, U.S. imperialism is recolonizing the Americas, and the only answer is a Zone of Peace built through popular struggle and anti-imperialist unity.

Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace, Even as Most of the U.S. Abandons the Death Penalty

Pamela Colloff

Early last year, Governor Ron DeSantis began signing death warrants at a faster rate than ever before. What followed was the most intense period of executions the state has carried out in more than eight decades.

Michigan 8 case is part of a broader pattern of repression

Omar Zahzah

Eight student activists in Michigan face decades in prison for advocating that their university divest from genocide. It is clear the goal of the indictment is to terrorize the Palestine solidarity movement into silence and to crush political dissent.