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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 (at)AnnGarrison or ann(at)kpfa.org . She grew up around a radioactive toxic mess called the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, in a gorgeous place, Washington's Olympic Peninsula, by way of Western Oklahoma, another gorgeous place. She is a compulsive writer and sometimes some times signs as AnnieGetYourGang.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, September 20, 2019 Biden and the Black Vote
"Biden's popularity among Black voters is a hangover from the blind and unconditional support those same voters gave to the Obama administration."
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 26, 2019 "War With Russia?", Review of Stephen F. Cohen's New Book
Cohen is Russian studies professor emeritus at Princeton and NYU. His latest book, "War with Russia? From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate," is a series of essays published in The Nation and text elaborations of the radio broadcasts.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 3, 2018 March for Eight Billion Lives: An Interview with Riva Enteen
First, we must acknowledge that US wars and domestic gun violence are intertwined. Our military budget is obscene, and the majority of Democrats voted with Republicans to give both Trump and the Pentagon more money than they asked for this year.
SHARE Friday, March 9, 2018 Raining on Trump's Parade
Donald Trump has called for a military parade in Washington DC but a coalition of peace and justice groups hope to stop the parade before it happens, explains Margaret Flowers in this interview with Ann Garrison.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 25, 2017 Neocolonial Kleptocracy and Clinton Connections
Kagame is a modern day exemplar of French King Louis XIV's theory of government: "L'e'tat, c'est moi." His list of honorees showcases the skill sets that keep any neocolonial kleptocracy in business.