2 July 2015 — Black Agenda Report
by BAR executive editor Glen FordThe two corporate parties have collaborated in knocking off countries targeted for invasion and regime change. They have both nurtured the jihadist international network that was created under presidents Carter and Reagan. And presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama are complicit in the capital crime of genocide in the Congo, where six million people have died since 1996. The presidential nominee of either party must be a ghoul, a fiend, or a banshee.
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
If “gay is the new Black,” then it would follow that gays would now be dedicating their collective lives to the struggle against mass Black incarceration, gentrification, austerity, war and capitalist predation. Don’t hold your breath. “Fighting these issues means taking on the ever present elephant in the room, the persistent belief in Manifest Destiny and the right of white Americans to control whatever and whomever they want.”
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Where was the worldwide revulsion at the racist terror attack in Charleston? “Obama sang ‘Amazing Grace’ and lulled into a stupefying silence black voices that should have demanded answers as to why the Charleston attack was not considered a terrorist attack, even though it fit the definition of domestic terrorism.” As a result, “the political space for international solidarity with the plight of African Americans was significantly reduced.”
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
“We act not just in defiance of our government, but in obedience to our conscience,” declared Rev. Lucius Walker, founder of IFCO, the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization and initiator of the group’s shipments of medical supplies to Cuba. This year’s Friendshipment Cuba Caravan is once again defying the U.S. embargo of the island that “has produced one of the healthiest and most educated communities across the globe.”
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner
No fries for Ferguson, no burgers
For Baltimore—have it your way…
by Paul Street
The U.S. mass incarceration regime measures Black lives by the value that can be derived from their imprisonment. “The ‘new Jim Crow’ is about disciplining a deindustrialized Black lumpen proletariat and turning it into a largely inert, deindustrialized profit-source whose ‘value added’ comes mainly from the mere fact of its captive existence.”
Key Failures of the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare an Obstacle to Universal Health Care
by our friends at This Is Hell Radio
Trudy Lieberman: “We are replacing a crisis of un-insurance with a crisis of under-insurance, and we’re going to find people with very high deductables and very high cost-sharing as the years go on, because we haven’t controlled the underlying cost of care.”
by Danny Haiphong
“Even if the second flag of white rule (the ‘American’ flag being the first) eventually comes down, the racist system that produced the Confederacy remains upright.” Symbolism is important, but only if the forces behind the symbols are understood. The real question is: Who rules? “The Black Lives Matter movement is charting a direction that inevitably leads to a struggle for power.”
by Thomas Ruffin, Jr.
The First Black U.S. President perpetuates the modern-day slavery of mass Black incarceration; “espouses, like Rush Limbaugh, an allegiance to ‘American exceptionalism;’” refuses to pardon U.S. political prisoners; makes war on Africa; and has spent two terms in office serving the interests of corporations. “If that be the case, then why elect a black man or black woman president?”
by Angola 3 News
The release of Albert Woodfox, the last of the Angola Three still in prison, has been delayed by the State of the Louisiana and a compliant federal court. Woodfax, the Black Panthers, and the whole nation needs “collective healing from a number of social traumas, such as lynchings, racist medical, educational and criminal justice practices, and all of the vestiges of slavery.”
by Dr. David Hoile
The International Criminal Court is “an inept, corrupt, political court that does not have Africa’s welfare at heart, only the furtherance of Western, and especially European, foreign policy and its own bureaucratic imperative.” Adding insult to injury, the ICC is incompetent. “The Court and the prosecutor have been making things up as they go along.”
by Thomas C. Mountain
The United Nations, under the imperial sway of the United States, continues its vicious sanctions against Eritrea, an African country on the Red Sea that seeks only to claim its place as an independent nation. President Obama wants to name Eritrea’s nemesis as head of USAID. “Gayle Smith helped launch the Ethiopian invasion of Eritrea which culminated in a May-June 2000 war that left almost 150,000 dead Africans.”
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