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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.
  • Diana Johnstone

    German Greens crusade for U.S./NATO wars

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 6, 2021 by Diana Johnstone (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news to the American Greens, but if they haven’t been following the evolution of Greens in Europe, especially Germany, they are in for an unpleasant surprise. The Greens are now practically the most warlike party in Europe.

  • Max Blumenthal: Breach of Capitol Security Was Like a Military Operation

    Max Blumenthal: Breach of Capitol security was like a military operation

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on January 13, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The Grayzone founder notes that “such a disproportionate percentage” of the Capitol building attackers were former military, former law enforcement, or current law enforcement that began rappelling up the sides of the Capitol with ropes.”

  • Susan Rice, Scourge of Africa, May Become Secretary of State

    Susan Rice, scourge of Africa, may become Secretary of State

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 11, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Rice has been intimately involved in covering up the deaths of more than six million Congolese, and has cultivated close relations with every U.S.-backed tyrant on the continent.

  • Biden’s Philly Headquarters Rents a Fence to Stop the Poor People’s Army

    Biden’s Philly headquarters rents a fence to stop the Poor People’s Army

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on August 19, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Cheri Honkala tells Ann Garrison that the Biden campaign headquarters threw up a rent-a-fence when they heard the Poor People’s Army was coming.

  • Trump Biden

    Impeachment watch

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on October 9, 2019 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    In their crusade to get Trump and distract from their own corruption, the Democrats have moved on from Russiagate to an impeachment inquiry over “Ukrainegate.”

  • NATO’s Largesse- “Nuclear Sharing”

    NATO’s Largesse: “nuclear sharing”

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 28, 2018 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The new Cold War is escalating, fueled by Washington’s bid to isolate or strangle Russia.

  • US Intel Will Bring Assange to the US in Chains

    U.S. intel will bring Assange to the U.S. in Chains

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 14, 2018 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Julian Assange, a hero in the struggle against imperial wars and the lies that states tell to justify them, is in mortal danger.

  • Et tu, RT? Amplifying Western Disinformation on Rwanda

    Et tu, RT? Amplifying Western disinformation on Rwanda

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 7, 2018 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The Great Lie about the Rwandan bloodbath opened the door to a far larger genocide in Congo and justified U.S. military interventions all over the planet. During a recent campaign event, Florida Senator Bill Nelson said, “That story of Rwanda is very instructive to us because when a place gets so tribal that the two […]

  • We Love the CIA!—Or How the Left Lost its Mind

    We love the CIA!—or how the left lost its mind

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on September 5, 2018 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    “The Resistance” is steering so much of the left into a hard-right turn — including even Pacifica’s KPFA Radio-Berkeley.

  • Locked and Loaded: War with North Korea Cannot be Contained but Must Be Prevented

    War with North Korea cannot be contained but must be prevented

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on August 16, 2017 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Peace is possible on the Korean Peninsula. If the planet is to survive, there is no other choice.

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