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About Ann Garrison

Ann Garrison is an independent journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014, she received the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize for her reporting on conflict in the African Great Lakes region. She can be reached at ann [at] kpfa.org.
  • Langley/Burkina Faso

    The U.S./EU/NATO’s Regime change playbook for Burkina Faso and Captain Ibrahim Traoré

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on April 30, 2025 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The U.S. increases pressure on Burkina Faso through military propaganda, as Africans rise to protect the developing project.

  • NATO

    NATO was founded to crush communist, socialist, and anti-colonial movements worldwide

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on April 16, 2025 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    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.

  • Chris Smalls addressed the HANDS OFF crowd in Los Angeles. The Palestinian flags and keffiyehs were there throughout the rally.

    HANDS OFF NATO? Not Palestine? Who got the memo?

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on April 9, 2025 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The Democrats’ HANDS OFF rallies included “HANDS OFF NATO” and excluded “HANDS OFF PALESTINE,” but not all rally goers got the memo.

  • Billionaire-backed Global Citizen

    Billionaire-backed Global Citizen whitewashes Kagame’s invasion of DRC

    Originally published: The Grayzone on March 5, 2025 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    John Legend’s concert in Rwanda signaled global elite support for Paul Kagame amid his bloody invasion of the DRC. The event was organized by Global Citizen, a pseudo-activist NGO backed by corporations hungry for Africa’s resource wealth.

  • Sam Churchill

    U.S. shooting itself in the foot with info warfare in Africa

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on September 25, 2024 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    U.S. efforts to control information in Africa will ultimately backfire, says African journalist, author, and filmmaker David Hundeyin.

  • Arun Kundnani details the histories of liberal and radical anti-racism and argues that anti-racism ultimately means anti-capitalism.

    “What Is Anti-Racism? And Why It Means Anti-Capitalism,” A book review

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on March 6, 2024 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Arun Kundnani details the histories of liberal and radical anti-racism and argues that anti-racism ultimately means anti-capitalism.

  • (Photo Courtesy of Siddharth Kara)

    “Cobalt Red, How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives”

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on January 24, 2024 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Siddarth Kara’s book exposes the exploitation behind the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

  • Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Rwandan president Paul Kagame

    If the U.S. told Rwanda and Uganda to get out of Congo, the War would end

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 4, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The European Union has sanctioned five members of different armed groups operating in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), including the spokesman for the M23 militia. It did not, however, sanction Rwanda, Uganda or the Rwandan and Ugandan presidents, despite decades of UN Group of Experts reports that the militias operating in the eastern DRC are largely Rwandan and Ugandan, though they typically claim to be Congolese.

  • Israel Declares Most of Humanity Illegitimate and Irrelevant

    Israel declares most of humanity illegitimate and irrelevant

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 1, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    After 120 members of the 193 members of the UN General Assembly called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, Israel demonstrated its increasing isolation by declaring the UN illegitimate and irrelevant.

  • The impending pro-war Democratic Party takeover of Pacifica Radio

    The impending pro-war Democratic Party takeover of Pacifica Radio

    Originally published: The Grayzone on July 1, 2023 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    The largest, most historically influential progressive non-profit radio network in America, Pacifica Radio, faces a takeover attempt by Democratic Party elements. Will Pacifica embrace the pro-war logic it was created to oppose?

  • Map depicting M23 areas of influence and operations in DRC as of February 6, 2023. - UN Group of Experts June 2023 report.

    Human suffering worsens in DRC, the heart of Africa

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on June 28, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    A million more Congolese people have been displaced to satisfy the resource hunger of the industrialized world.

  • U.S. forces host a range day with the Danab Brigade in Somalia, April 5, 2021

    U.S. troops in Somalia rise to 900, House votes not to withdraw

    Originally published: The Grayzone on May 3, 2023 by Jamal Abdulahi (more by The Grayzone)  |

    The presence of U.S. troops in Somalia helps the Islamist insurgency Al Shabaab recruit, exacerbating the very violence they claim to be fighting. But the House has voted down a resolution to withdraw.

  • President Joe Biden / President Xi Jinping

    Forever Wars vs. Armageddon

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on March 15, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The call for the U.S. to end military involvements is often made in order to advocate for new wars against more powerful countries. It appears that the only choices are forever wars or the end of the world.

  • In Africa as in the rest of the world, US machinations undermine its goals and bring other nations together as they seek to protect themselves from a desperate empire.

    U.S. shoots itself in the foot in Africa

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on March 8, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The U.S. can’t seem to understand that the rest of the world, including Africa, doesn’t like to be pushed around. African nations’ refusal to reinforce US foreign policy in the UN General Assembly is a case in point.

  • Rally for Ethiopian sovereignty, Meskel Square, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 10.22.2022. File photo.

    Ethiopia nears victory in Its Civil War, U.S. scrambles to control the outcome

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on October 26, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The Ethiopian and Eritrean armies now seem close to winning a two-year war with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF,) a U.S.-backed clique that ruled Ethiopia brutally for 27 years, from 1991 to 2018.

  • Congresswoman Karen Bass is running for mayor of Los Angeles. She's also Vice Chair of the NED, the CIA's soft power arm.

    Congresswoman Karen Bass and the will to intervene

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on July 20, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Congresswoman Karen Bass is running for mayor of Los Angeles. She’s also Vice Chair of the NED, the CIA’s soft power arm. She epitomizes everythng that is wrong with the Black political class.

  • United Nations World Food Programme trucks in Ethiopia.

    U.S. threatens Ethiopia and Eritrea with Illegal “Legal Designation of Genocide”

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 25, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The U.S. is falsely accusing Ethiopia and Eritrea of hindering food aid and committing genocides in the ongoing war in Tigray. The charges are false and the US has no right to make such a claim on its own. Ann Garrison continues reporting from the region. 

  • Elias Amare enjoyed a long friendship with Glen Ford, who was Eritrea's only media ally for many years.

    U.S. escalates threats to Ethiopian and Eritrean sovereignty

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on September 1, 2021 by Interviewing Elias Amare (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The U.S. and its Western European allies have been trying to pass some kind of resolution censuring Ethiopia that will lead towards military intervention, but so far, they have not succeeded. Why? Because China and Russia have been blocking it. They say that this is Ethiopia’s internal affair, and we shouldn’t engage in any undue interference. Everyone is saying the same thing they have been saying all along.

  • Norman Finkelstein: Truth and Justice Are the Ultimate Test, Not International NGOs

    Norman Finkelstein: Truth and justice are the ultimate test, not international NGOs

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on June 2, 2021 by Norman Finkelstein (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Even Human Rights Watch says Israel is committing crimes against humanity in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and in Gaza, and the idea of a Jewish state in the context of Palestine is not legitimate.

  • US Moves against Ethiopia and Eritrea: Atrocities Alleged, Sanctions Imposed

    U.S. moves against Ethiopia and Eritrea: Atrocities alleged, sanctions imposed

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 27, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Historian Jeff Pearce, @jeffpropulsion, responding to the atrocity reports of Alula Solomon, @Alula_Solomon, CEO, Tigrai Media House

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