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Fragmentation, Force and Fascism: The Architecture of Repressive the National Security State

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, January 21, 2026 The state is not drifting toward repression; it is building it with serious intent. ICE raids, militarized police, and mass surveillance are the tools of a system designed to manage and silence people in crisis. What we are witnessing in the United States today is not a series of[…]

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Venezuela, Even More Than Palestine, Is the Linchpin of a Consistent Radical Left in the Era of Global Neofascism Led by the U.S.

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report,  January 7, 2026 Solidarity with Palestine tests morality, but solidarity with Venezuela tests politics. The recent U.S. intervention demands a radical left moving from moral outrage to a material confrontation with its own state. Palestine is the moral heart of global anti-colonial politics. It exposes the brutality of settler colonialism in its[…]

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Lifting the Veil of International Human Rights Day

Lifting the Veil of International Human Rights Day: How Gaza Exposed the Oxymoron of Western Values and Human Rights by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, December 11, 2025 The genocide in Gaza has torn off the West’s human rights mask. This naked colonial violence demands a new path where rights are won through people’s struggle, not granted by[…]

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United Nations Security Council Resolution on Gaza is a Surrender to U.S. Led Global Fascism

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, November 26, 2025 By approving a U.S. “peace plan” that legitimizes genocide and ends the right to resist, the United Nations Security Council has not just failed Palestine—it has actively consolidated a new era of global fascism. A Day That Will Live in Infamy A few days into the massive revenge attack[…]

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A Tale of Two Ceasefires: Gaza and DRC

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, October 22, 2025 The US has negotiated ceasefires in Gaza and the DRC’s eastern Kivu Provinces, but the killing, displacement, and devastation in both continue.  Vice President JD Vance is in Israel, reportedly to see if he can salvage the ceasefire that began on October 10. Hamas has given Israel all 20[…]

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As Trump Sets Military Against Civilians, Service Members Have Duty to Disobey

by Marjorie Cohn, published on Socialist Action, June 11, 2025 The Marines are trained in combat, not crowd control. People are likely to get hurt. National Guard soldiers are posted near an entrance to the Federal Building in Los Angeles during a demonstration in response to a series of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids throughout the country, on June 10,[…]

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U.S. Attack on Iran Reaffirms the Need for a More Effective Global Anti-Imperialist Movement

Statement by U.S. Peace Council, June 22, 2025 The U.S. Peace Council strongly condemns the outrageous, criminal and illegal attack on the sovereign state of Iran by the United States administration of Donald P. Trump. This flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter and the Nuremberg condemnation of wars of choice, should serve as a graphic demonstration that U.S. imperialism[…]

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From Gaza to Kashmir: India’s Attack on Pakistan is Straight Out of the Israeli Playbook

by Maah Noor A., published on Mondoweiss, May 7, 2025 As bombs rain down on Gaza and the world looks away, another settler colonial project is taking notes. From New Delhi to Tel Aviv, the ideological affinity between Israeli Zionism and India’s Hindutva movement has never been more pronounced as India strikes Pakistan. And with Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza[…]

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How Bob Parry Covered Odessa Fire That Sparked a War

by Bob Parry, published on Consortium News, May 4, 2025 This weekend marks the 11th anniversary of 48 ethnic Russians burnt alive by far-right thugs in Odessa, a massacre that spurred independence declarations in Donbass, leading to civil war in Ukraine and Russia’s eventual intervention. On May 2, 2014, Neo-Nazi gangs massacred 48 people who had rejected the U.S.-backed overthrow[…]

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U.S. and Israeli Gangsterism Has Caused a Hobbesian International State of Nature

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, April 23, 2025 Gaza has exposed the West’s ‘human rights’ as a colonial farce. Now, the world is experiencing a descent into imperial barbarism, and only collective resistance can build a future beyond fascism. “The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.” (Thomas Hobbes)  Eighteen months of[…]

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