Black Agenda Report October 30, 2024

Wednesday, 30 October 2024 — Black Agenda Report

Trump Rally, Washington Post and Michelle Obama Generate Fake Outrage

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

Liberals love to indulge in performative virtue signaling rather than serious political conviction. Recent events proved that their highest priority is maintaining alliances with the Democratic Party, while dismissing any inconvenient truths that point out their hypocrisy.

SPEECH: Everybody is Quiet But the Nationalist Party, Pedro Albizu Campos, 1950

Editors, The Black Agenda Review

Hardly a “floating island of garbage,” Puerto Rico remains a colony, treated like trash by the US. Read this ledger of the cost and crimes of the US colonial project.

Jean Leonard Teganya Faces Torture in Rwanda

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor

Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s regime continues its lawfare against Rwandans in the Western diaspora.

BRICS Declaration Reinforces Call for Multipolarity

Abayomi Azikiwe, Black Agenda Report Contributor

Kazan summit rejects unilateralism advanced by the West.

The Life and Times of a “Russian Propagandist”

Jamarl Thomas

RT and Sputnik weren’t closed for getting it wrong. They were closed for getting it right.

Weaponizing Aid: How USAID and the Global Fragility Act Sustain U.S. Imperialism in Libya

Tunde Osazua

The Global Fragility Act is a mechanism through which the US gives itself the authority to utilize soft power in Africa through organizations like USAID. The act places a specific focus on Libya, which was destroyed by the U.S. and N.A.T.O. Using the management of aid infrastructure, USAID supports U.S. imperialist aims in maintaining instability and dominance in Africa and around the world.

Empire’s Overseers: The Two-Party Trap of Blackface Imperialism

Carlos Sirah

The U.S. political system is perpetuated through the facade of choice. The false belief that we have the power to decide who our political leaders will be and what policy the government will implement, is one cultivated to manufacture compliance and quell the revolutionary spirit of the masses.

Demanding More in the Struggle for Collective Liberation – A Conversation with Nicholas Richard Thompson, Part II

Austin Cole

As part of his research on grassroots economic projects toward Black Liberation, Austin Cole spoke with Nicholas Richard-Thompson about his community organizing, expanding definitions of economic development, and connecting the people to the public sector. In part II of this discussion, they reflect on what Black Liberation means on a local level and how organizing through a People(s)-Centered Human Rights framework can get us closer to achieving what we need and demand to achieve it.

We Condemn the Executions of Haitian Workers Within the Framework of the Official Racist and Xenophobic Policy

Socialist Movement of Workers of the Dominican Republic

Attacks by the fascist government and its supporters against Haitian people and those of Haitian Heritage in the Dominican Republic have become more and more brutal, resulting in the outright execution of Haitian workers. It is time for all progressive forces to stand against this right wing violence and repression.

‘Text Me You Haven’t Died’ – My Sister was the 166th Doctor to Be Murdered in Gaza

Ramzy Baroud

Since the beginning of this genocidal assault on Gaza, the Israeli entity has targeted Palestinian medical workers and hospitals to destroy the healthcare infrastructure and cause maximum damage on the strip. As the total number of medical workers murdered by the entity rises close to 1000, let us remember that they are more than numbers.

U.S. Military Makes First Confirmed OpenAI Purchase for War-Fighting Forces

Sam Biddle

The Pentagon explored the AI software for research, but the new deal is the first by a combatant command whose mission is one of killing.



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