Ann Garrison

Berkeley

Freelance Journalist and Contributing Writer at Freelance

Journalist: Contributing Editor/Black Agenda Report, Grayzone contributor: https://t.co/mbhYvj9y1l, Pacifica Radio reporter/host

Articles

Black Agenda Report

4 days ago | blackagendareport.com | Margaret Kimberley |Ann Garrison

The U.S has been involved in every aspect of Ukraine’s military activity against Russia. The recent drone and sabotage were likely committed with U.S. help. It is possible that president Trump was aware, but if past history is a guide, he may also have been circumvented by forces in his own administration. “Who is in charge in Washington? Is it the white house or the pentagon? . . .
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4 days ago | blackagendareport.com | Jon Jeter |Ann Garrison |Abayomi Azikiwe

Despite shared language, culture, and religion, Somalis still struggle to become a cohesive nation. Somalia is a nation of six million with territory roughly the size of Alaska and just larger than the UK. Its highly geostrategic coastline is the longest in Africa, sitting at the intersection of the European, African, and Asian worlds.
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4 days ago | blackagendareport.com | Ann Garrison |Abayomi Azikiwe

Conservation in Africa has long been a smokescreen for imperial power. Veiled behind the cause of environmentalism and stopping poachers, western governments, intelligence agencies, and billionaire-funded NGOs expand their reach by deploying drones, private armies, and surveillance tech. The bombastic and unfounded claims of “white genocide” by Donald Trump overshadowed other important discussion points raised during his meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in May 2025.
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4 days ago | blackagendareport.com | Ann Garrison |Aby L. Sène |Kai Cash

The Horn of Africa was filled with hope in 2018, when Somali President Mohammed Abdullahi Mohammed, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed signed an agreement promising regional cooperation on trade, culture, and security, but that hope has been dashed by renewed conflict.
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4 days ago | blackagendareport.com | Aby L. Sène |Ann Garrison

The Congo remains ground zero for Africa’s resource wars, where Rwanda and Uganda act as looters for the West. Until Africans unite against this plunder, the nation will continue to be seen as a hub of resources up for grabs, rather than a sovereign nation. Originally published in Black Alliance for Peace.
Independent, Sovereign Eritrea Stays the Course

5 days ago | transcend.org | Ann Garrison

Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service Eritrea remains true to the revolutionary ideals forged during its 30-year War of Independence. 28 May 2025 – On May 24th, Eritrea celebrated its 34th Independence Day. From September 1, 1961, to May 24, 1991, the Eritrean people waged a 30-year war to free themselves from the Ethiopian empire, first under the control of Emperor Haile Selassie and then under the Derg regime’s Mengistu Haile Mariam.
Independent, Sovereign Eritrea Stays the Course

1 week ago | dehai.org | Ann Garrison

Eritrea remains true to the revolutionary ideals forged during its 30-year War of Independence. On May 24th, Eritrea celebrated its 34th Independence Day. From September 1, 1961, to May 24, 1991, the Eritrean people waged a 30-year war to free themselves from the Ethiopian empire, first under the control of Emperor Haile Selassieand then under the Dergregime’s Mengistu Haile Mariam. Eritrea was the first of five African nations now refusing to collaborate with AFRICOM, the US Africa Command.
Independent, Sovereign Eritrea Stays the Course | Black Agenda Report

1 week ago | blackagendareport.com | Ann Garrison

Eritrea remains true to the revolutionary ideals forged during its 30-year War of Independence. On May 24th, Eritrea celebrated its 34th Independence Day. From September 1, 1961, to May 24, 1991, the Eritrean people waged a 30-year war to free themselves from the Ethiopian empire, first under the control of Emperor Haile Selassie and then under the Derg regime’s Mengistu Haile Mariam. Eritrea was the first of five African nations now refusing to collaborate with AFRICOM, the US Africa Command.
Kagame Is No Traoré

1 week ago | laprogressive.com | Ann Garrison |Rob Maurer

A recurring social media trope casts Rwandan President Paul Kagame as a defiant African hero, like Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré, resisting the West’s dictates, but nothing could be further from the truth. Rwandan President Paul Kagame, center, with Michael Milken, Bill Gates, Tony Blair and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa after the "Investing in African Prosperity" panel at the 2013 Milken Institute Global Conference.
Africa Propaganda Watch: Kagame Is Not Traoré

1 week ago | transcend.org | Ann Garrison

Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service A recurring social media trope casts Rwandan President Paul Kagame as a defiant African hero, like Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré, resisting the West’s dictates, but nothing could be further from the truth.