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1 week ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Clau O'Brien Moscoso |Margaret Kimberley |John Parker
NATO was never a good idea gone wrong. It was founded to crush communist, socialist, and anti-colonial movements in Europe and around the world. Medea Benjamin and David Swanson explain NATO’s supremely violent history in NATO: What You Need to Know. The organization was born on April 4, 1949, when foreign ministers from 12 nations came together in Washington, D.C. to sign the 1100-page North Atlantic Treaty.
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1 week ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Oscar Leon |Clau O'Brien Moscoso |Ann Garrison
Defying Ecuador’s attempt to bar international monitors, election observers documented how Daniel Noboa’s contested victory, secured amid militarized polling stations and state violence, escalates the assault on Afro-Ecuadorian communities.
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2 weeks ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Clau O'Brien Moscoso |Ann Garrison |Janvieve Williams Comrie
As Ecuador heads into a pivotal runoff election, left-wing candidate Luisa González emerges as the favorite—but the shadow of foreign interference and political violence looms large. In this interview, diplomat and human rights advocate Fidel Narváez warns that while the Citizen Revolution coalition is poised to reclaim power, the far right and external forces may yet attempt to derail democracy as they have before. Originally published in Orinoco Tribune.
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3 weeks ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Clau O'Brien Moscoso |Janvieve Williams Comrie |Austin Cole |Arnold August
Jamaica’s upcoming election has become a litmus test for Caribbean sovereignty as the U.S. and China compete for dominance. Washington’s threats to seize the Panama Canal and Marco Rubio’s heavy-handed diplomacy expose the island’s precarious position. Jamaica now faces a choice - resist becoming a pawn of the U.S. or surrender to its imperialist interests. Originally published in WiredJA.
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1 month ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Clau O'Brien Moscoso |Austin Cole |Arnold August |Jacqueline Luqman
The Black Radical Tradition is the rich legacy passed down by revolutionaries. It is an important tool today as we struggle to turn the Americas into a Zone of Peace. The Revolutionary Foundations of Our AmericasOn April 8, 1804, a few months after leading Ayiti (Haiti) to independence after a bloody 13- year revolutionary war against European enslavers and colonists, the new nation’s leader, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, articulated the most radical vision of freedom in history.
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2 months ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Clau O'Brien Moscoso |Janvieve Williams Comrie |Chevy Solís Acevedo |Zoe Alexandra
The deal for a prisoner exchange proposed by the El Salvadoran president presents a dangerous threat to incarcerated people in the U.S. The continued outsourcing of the U.S. penal system signals the empire's growing carceral activities and its attempt to remain a dominant force in the region.
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2 months ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Jake Johnston |Roberto Sirvent |Clau O'Brien Moscoso |Travis Ross
The threats by the Trump administration to detain migrants in Guantanamo Bay will not be the first time the United States has used the facility for migrant detention. Not too long ago, Haitian migrants were held in Guantanamo Bay and forced to live in inhumane conditions. Originally published in Liberation News. Trump’s plan to house 30,000 undocumented immigrants in Guantánamo BayOn Jan.
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2 months ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Clau O'Brien Moscoso |Arnold August |Travis Ross |Erica Caines
The United States is a colonial empire, repressing and exploiting colonized peoples domestically and internationally. Mass deportations are a function of ethnic cleansing and a continuation of U.S. settler colonial history. The Trump raids have begun. In many ways, nothing is new. Despite liberals’ best attempts at depicting Trump’s policy as qualitatively different, what we are witnessing is merely an intensification of the bipartisan U.S. deportation regime.
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2 months ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Arnold August |Clau O'Brien Moscoso |Janvieve Williams Comrie |Malcolm Harris
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Jessie Cox. Cox is Assistant Professor of Music at Harvard University. His book is Sounds of Black Switzerland: Blackness, Music, and Unthought Voices. Roberto Sirvent: How can your book help BAR readers understand the current political and social climate? Jessie Cox: The book proposes new ways of thinking about the interrelations between citizenship, migration, gender, and race.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
blackagendareport.com | Clau O'Brien Moscoso |Arnold August |Erica Caines |John Perry
Fanmi Lavalas has fallen far from its roots as a popular progressive movement to nothing more than a servant of imperialism. Originally published in The Canada-Haiti Information Project. When former Catholic liberation theologian priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide burst onto the world stage in the late 1980s and early 1990s it was as an opponent and victim of U.S. imperialism.
