The New Dark Age

29 March 2017 — Black Agenda Report

No Tokens with Trump, No time for Fear: These are Revolutionary Times

By Danny Haiphong

by Danny Haiphong The corporate media would have you believe that stark differences divide the duopoly parties. The opposite is true. Democrats and establishment Republicans “have united on questions of war, austerity, and state-sponsored surveillance.” If anything, the major parties have solidified their “bipartisan consensus on privatization of education, healthcare, and the public sector” – as demanded by their corporate masters in this time of systemic… Read more »

US Has Interfered in More Elections Than Any Other Nation

By The Real News Network

BAR executive editor Glen Ford on The Real News Network There is no proof that Russia had anything to do with the Wikileaks revelations about the Democratic National Committee’s sabotage of Bernie Sanders’ campaign. However, even if the Kremlin did interfere in the 2016 U.S. elections, the actions don’t match the scale of America’s interference in elections across the world, according to Glen Ford. US Has Interfered in More Elections Than Any Other Nation BAR executive editor Glen… Read more »

Brother Harvey Matthews: “I’m Fighting for My Ancestors.” The Bethesda African Cemetery: Part I

By Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo

by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo More than half a century ago, developers paved over a Black cemetery in Bethesda, Maryland. Now the county claims the ancestral bones may no longer be there. Some accounts from the Fifties “describe construction crews carving a ditch in the hillside and pushing countless remains into it.” Said a Black protest leader: “When the people in the Planning Office tell us that the cemetery doesn’t exist I know they are lying. I… Read more »

Top Israelis Have Warned of Apartheid, So Why the Outrage at a UN Report?

By Anonymous

by Medhi Hasan In the United States, it is all but forbidden – a “slander,” a “smear,” a “despicable” and “blatant lie,” and a “new form of anti-Semitism” — to call Israel an apartheid state. Yet, numerous Israeli leaders have used the A-word to describe what the Zionist project has become. “Are they Israel bashers, too?” In the Occupied Territories and Israel “proper,” there is only one state… Read more »

The AFRICOM Snake Slithers into the Lake Chad Basin

Mark P. Fancher

by Mark P. Fancher Ever since NATO’s 2011 regime change in Libya, the U.S. military command, AFRICOM, has had free rein in most of the continent. Boko Haram “terrorism” provides an excuse to intervene, but AFRICOM’s real aim is to secure U.S. control of African economic resources. “It took only the suggestion of potential oil reserves to inspire a U.S. military plan for the success of the oil exploration efforts of the Nigerian government” in the Lake Chad… Read more »

Don’t Give the Black Misleaders Your Vote (They’ll Just Cash It In)

By Glen Ford

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Democratic Party acts like it owns Black America. It certainly owns most of the Black political (Misleaderhip) class, who “have used their local, state and national offices to facilitate the mass Black incarceration regime at every stage of its deployment.” These servants of the police state and war need to be challenged by candidates that reflect the left-leaning politics of Black America. The Black Is Back Coalition is seeking candidates… Read more »

“Sanctuary Cities” and Black Community Control of the Police

By Glen Ford

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “Donald Trump’s war against immigrants is a fascist-inspired offensive that is inseparable from his plans to forcefully pacify Black America.” We don’t need Trump sending in the feds to lock up immigrants or to police the Black community. “The democratic solution to police oppression lies in the exercise of self-determination through Black community control of the police.” “Sanctuary Cities” and Black… Read more »

Freedom Rider: Is Trump the DNC Hacker?

By Margaret Kimberley

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley If the Democrats are intent on living at the Vast Conspiracy Hotel, they ought to widen their list of suspects in the leaking of embarrassing Democratic documents. Roger Stone and Nigel Farage — men much closer to Donald Trump’s brand of politics than Vladimir Putin — have had curious contacts with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Stone is “the champion Republican Party dirty trickster,” while Farange, the British… Read more »

The Joseph Kony “Threat” was Always Fake News

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford

Fake news stories roar in like a storm, but often evaporate with time. Seven years ago, President Obama and other fake news vendors depicted Joseph Kony as the devil incarnate, a dire threat to western interests and the people of central Africa. But it was all a ruse to smooth U.S. military intervention on African soil. Obama “The Faker” played Kony for a demon and the public for a fool. The Joseph Kony “… Read more »

Israel’s African Darling: Paul Kagame: An Interview with Robin Philpot

By Ann Garrison

by Ann Garrison Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame, who recently addressed AIPAC, in Washington DC, is Israel’s favorite African, a man the Zionists permit to use the term “genocide.” Both nations claim their wounds give them a special status in the world. “Rwanda and Uganda could be called mad dog states — they’re highly militarized, and they serve as sheriffs for the U.S. at the same time as they pursue their own interests.” Israel’s African… Read more