The New Dark Age

17 January 2019 — Black Agenda Report

House Democrats’ HR 1 – Faking the Funk on Voting Rights, Spreading Fear and Gunning For the Greens in 2020

– Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor

A Tale of Self-Serving Black Journalists and the Corporate Duopoly

– Glen Ford , BAR executive editor

Freedom Rider: Kamala Harris Destroyed Black Lives

– Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Harris has spent her career locking up Black and brown people. She should not be allowed to shake hands, kiss babies or walk into black churches without being taken to task.

Code Talking: UN Security Council on War and Peace in DR Congo

– Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Congolese President Kabila wants to shut out the apparent winner of last month’s elections in favor the of the second place finisher, who appears to have accepted the deal.

“No Matter What Sign You Are,”4th Supreme

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence

Mary was mysterious,
but the best dancer
Diana, the magnetic, cooing romancer—
But, here’s a secret I know:

Letters from Our Readers

Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
This week’s letters show us that the new political period will require a lot of thinking on the part of those that want to remake society for the better.

The Democratic Party Obsession with Capitalism and Militarism Will Grow Worse by 2020

Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The Democratic Party is a political trap designed to capture the most progressive constituency in the United States: Black America.

Black Agenda Radio, Week of January 14, 2019

– Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Click on the link above for the entire one hour show, or on any ofd the following three links for the individual segment thereof
Philly DA is Focus of Mumia Rally
Supporters of Mumia Abu Jamal rallied in Philadelphia, demanding that District Attorney Larry Krasner not thwart his appeal of a police murder conv
Blacks and Latinos Face Global South” Conditions in US
Black and Latino workers in the US are more favorable to unions because they “are most like workers in the Global South,” where workers are super-e
New Cold War Crazier Than the Old One
“The peril of this new Cold War is especially great,” said Russia expert Stephen Cohen, “because even when Trump does something se

Evoking Muckrakers: Hannah Giorgis’s Devastating Critique of Senator Kamala Harris

Teodrose Fikre
Kamala Harris’s memoir reads nothing like her actual record of locking up the poor and giving impunity to the rich.

BAR Book Forum: Harri Englund’s’ “Gogo Breeze”

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
In rural Zambia, an elder named Gogo Breeze investigates his listeners’ grievances and renders public service at a small privately-owned radio stations

BAR Book Forum: Kerry Chance’s “Living Politics in South Africa’s Urban Shacklands”

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
Repression of the poor in South Africa has resulted in the criminalization of the very forms of struggle that made the democratic transition possible.

Corporate and Banking Interests Profit from Desecration of Black Maryland Graveyard

Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
Truth rises from the graves of Black ancestors in a wealthy Maryland county.

John Bolton Says He Wants to Protect Africa from “Predatory” Chinese Behavior, But What About Washington’s?

Netfa Freeman
Chinese investment may come with strings attached, but Africa deserves an alternative to U.S.-led neoliberalism and militarization.

Another Look At Martin Luther King Jr.

Norman Richmond aka Jalali
Dr King was a radical, a democratic socialist who saw economic transformation and social justice as inseparable.

Trump’s Syria Exit Tweet Provokes Washington Panic

Jeff Mackler
Donald Trump’s nightly tweets have shown that US presidents really don’t make fundamental policy, which is the domain of the corporate ruling class

Uniting for a Green New Deal

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
A real Green New Deal requires pushing issues Democrats don’t want to discuss, such as nationalization of industries, more democracy, and cuts to the military budget.

How a NeoCon-Backed “Fact Checker” Plans to Wage War on Independent Media

Whitney Webb
As Newsguard’s project advances, it will soon become almost impossible to avoid this neocon-approved news site’s ranking systems on any technologies…