Black Agenda Report 14 February 2018

14 February 2018 — Black Agenda Report

Bandit Baltimore Cops and the Black Misleadership Class 

by Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
If any city is in dire need of Black community control of police, it’s Baltimore — but first you’ve got to fight the Black Misleadership Class.

Freedom Rider: U.S. Escalates Syrian War 

by Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Having failed in its war of regime change in Syria, the U.S. seizes the nation’s oil fields and slaughters Syrian soldiers, confident that the U.S. public doesn’t give a damn.

The Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with Jon Jeter 

by Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
A left, independent journalist concludes that corporate journalism “is neither honest nor useful and tends to be injurious more often than not.”

If the Democrats Were Decent 

by Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
The Democrats have plenty of Trump/GOP policies to run against, but they actively or passively acquiesce in most Republican crimes.

Killings Continue Amid Mayoral Silence in the “Most Radical City on the Planet” 

by Adofo Minka 
Why has Jackson’s radical mayor removed residency requirements for city cops and firemen? And why is he silent amid continued

Movie and the Limits of Our Imagination 

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Comics and sci fi brought to us by capitalist corporate media pretty much fail to imagine what a better world, or even the struggle to get there might look lik

Sugar Hill Play-date v. Oz-low Piece Process

by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner
35 lb question mark, 3 ft exclamation point, doesn’t cringe at loud sounds or pee his bed behind nightmares.

Week of February 12, 2018

by Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford.
Click the link above to hear the entire one hour show, or any of the following four for the individual segments
Wall Street’s Caribbean Crime Spree U Penn’s Dr. Deborah Thomas on Peter Hudson’s Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean, “… a beautiful, innovative, angry and impeccably researched text,”
No Major U.S. Opposition to War It’s bad enough that the Trump administration’s recently released Nuclear Posture Review makes the use of nuclear weapons more likely, says Greg Mello, of the Los Alamos Study Group
U.S. Attack on Syrian Troops Illegitimate The U.S. has no basis for claiming “legitimate self-defense” to justify its recent killing of about 100 Syrian soldiers, according to Dr. Francis Boyle
Black Lives Matter in the Public Schools Teachers in public schools around the country held a “Black Lives Matter Week of Action,” last week, demanding an end to “zero tolerance” student disciplinary policies, the hiring of more Black teachers…

The War on Dissent 

CJ Hopkins
The ruling class is sending us a message,“You’re either with us or against us.”

Black Liberation Means Rejection of National Security (State) Citizenship 

Aziz Rana
“Oppressed communities have to articulate their own independent foreign policy grounded above all in the interests of other marginalized groups.”
Marshall Auerback
“Local governments offer subsidies, miss out on tax revenue, starve their citizens of vital social services, and fatten the profits of these modern-day robber barons…”

Extreme Poverty in the US Is a Political Choice of the Powerful 

Kenneth Surin
“Americans can expect to live shorter and sicker lives, compared to people living in any other wealthy democracies.”

Making Visible the Lives and Deaths of People in Custody 

Illinois Deaths in Custody Project
“Poor people should not be confined in a death machine.”

Criminalizing “Panther Love” and the New Wave COINTELPRO Tactics in Texas Prisons 

Keith “Comrade Malik” Washington
“I represent a new generation of freedom fighters who have learned from the mistakes of our fallen ancestors.”


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