Black Agenda Report
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Black Agenda Report 23 October 2019: Nobody Gets Liberated Until the Defeat of the Plutocrats / Freedom Rider: The Return of Hillary Clinton…
23 October 2019 — Black Agenda Report Contrary to erroneous info displayed on Eventbrite, there are still seats available for BAR’s 13th Anniversary Celebration , Saturday, Oct 26, at the People’s Forum in New York City. JUST SHOW UP AT THE DOOR AT 6pm, AND YOU’LL BE WELCOMED Every year presents new challenges to those struggling… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 16 October 2019
16 October 2019 — Black Agenda Report Haiti and the Convenience of Imperial Amnesia Jemima Pierre The ongoing protests in Haiti are ultimately directed against the “Core Group” – US imperialism and its junior partners, who have teamed up to gang-bang the wounded and bleeding Black republic. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 30, 2019
30 September 2019 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 30, 2019 Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford In the corporate-organized Race to the Bottom, withdrawal of health care is a weapon to discipline workers and their families, as is the whole “austerity” regime. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 25 September 2019: The Austerity Race to the Bottom / Freedom Rider: Black Misleaders’ Phony Outrage / Imperial Mindset: The Real Enemy / BAR 13th Anniversary, Tribute to Bruce Dixon / 2016 Ballot Questions / Poetry: Save the Children
26 September 2019 — Black Agenda Report Drop the Term “Austerity” – It’s the Race to the Bottom Glen Ford, BAR executive editor In the corporate-organized Race to the Bottom, withdrawal of health care is a weapon to discipline workers and their families, as is the whole “austerity” regime. Continue reading
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The Pentagon Adds Its Madness to “Fake News” Hysteria
23 September 2019 — Black Agenda Report Glen Ford, BAR executive editor The evil geniuses at DARPA claim to be building a defense against fake news – a sure sign that the Pentagon is actually creating fake news. Continue reading
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Left Forum 2019: Black Liberation Strategies in the Empire of Exceptionalism
The Black Agenda Report team discusses “late stage” capitalism, the shrinking U.S. empire, and the dangers of a desperate ruling class on the wane. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 18 September 2019: Believe Nothing the US Government and Media Say / Freedom Rider: The Electability Canard / Late Stage U.S. Capitalism Fosters Death / Biden and the Black Vote
18 September 2019 — Black Agenda Report Believe Absolutely Nothing the US Government and Media Say About…Anything Glen Ford, BAR executive editor In any alliance with corporate oppression and militarism, Black America squanders reservoirs of respect among the Earth’s peoples. We betray ourselves and become Black Gringos. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 5 September 2019: Trump Bombs New Silk Road with Tariffs / Kamala Harris vs Sanders / Foreign Aid for Rwanda, Suffering for Rwandans and Congolese / How Race Made the Opioid Crisis
5 September 2019 — Black Agenda Report Trump Bombs New Silk Road with Tariffs Glen Ford, BAR executive editor The real target of Trump’s trade war is not, primarily, the Chinese, but the U.S.-based corporations that spent the last generation outsourcing manufacturing capacity (jobs) to China. Kamala Harris is the Face of the Democratic Party’s… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 29 August 2019: Warren Woos Corporate Dems / Jay-Z and Epstein: “Class” Mates / Black Alliance for Peace Confronts Militarist Pols / slick Willie Rides Again!
29 August 2019 — Black Agenda Report Is Warren Talented Enough to Betray the People as Masterfully as Obama? Glen Ford, BAR executive editor Elizabeth Warren is seen as a counter Bernie Sanders, but she will melt (like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris) if she stops raising Democrats’ expectations to bust corporate power. Jeffery Epstein,… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 21 August 2019: Blacks Don’t Scapegoat Immigrants / Protest and Corporate Media / Where Bruce Dixon enters History / Rwanda’s Dissidents, Dead and DIsappearing
21 August 2019 — Black Agenda Report Blacks Don’t Blame Immigrants for the Boss’s Crimes Glen Ford, BAR executive editor Large proportions of African Americans registered strong opposition to building a wall on the southern border, keeping undocumented people in limbo, and mass deportations. Freedom Rider: Protest and the Corporate Media Margaret Kimberley, BAR editor… Continue reading
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Black Caucus in Thrall, or Fear, of Israel By Glen Ford
“The Israelis may have finally stepped on the third rail of congressional relations, with their joint decision with President Trump to ban Omar and Tlaib.” Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 14 August 2019: Why the Rich Want to Bury Bernie / Freedom Rider: No Racism, Just Russians / William The Redactor / U.S. Empire is in a State of Decay
14 August 2019 — Black Agenda Report Why the Rich Want to Bury Bernie, the Not-Really-Socialist Glen Ford, BAR executive editor Sanders is fighting capitalist austerity, not the system itself, but austerity is ruling class policy, so the Democrats must stop Sanders. Freedom Rider: No Racism, Just Russians Margaret Kimberley, BAR editor and senior columnist… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 5 August 2019: Newark, Other Cities Remember Michael Brown / Black Alliance for Peace Pushes Candidate Pledge / A Concentration Camp By Any Other Name… / African Immigrants Becoming Activists
6 August 2019 — Black Agenda Report Newark, Other Cities Remember Michael Brown Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford Communities across the nation will mark the August 9, 2014 police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, an outrage that spawned nationwide protests under the umbrella of the Black Lives Matter movement. “Just… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 31 July 2019: Reparations Rising / Trump and Baltimore / Black Misleadership Class / Legacy of Violence
31 July 2019 — Black Agenda Report Reparations Rising – With Permission from White Democrats Glen Ford, BAR executive editor Black people are not obligated to defend opportunists and servants of white capital in Baltimore just because they were called out by Trump. Freedom Rider: Trump and Baltimore Margaret Kimberley, BAR editor and senior columnist Anyone… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 29 July 2019: US Was Model for South African Apartheid / Book Supplants Howard Zinn / Mackler Running Against War
29 July 2019 — Black Agenda Report US Was Model for South African Apartheid Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford The US acted as midwife to South Africa’s apartheid system, said Dr. Gerald Horne, author of “US Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs. Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela.” Horne, a professor of History… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 23 July 2019: Reparations Demand: End Capitalism / Institutionalized Impunity for Killer Cops / Colonialism is What’s Wrong With Puerto Rico / Trump’s Message: US is White Man’s Country
23 July 2019 — Black Agenda Report Well, except for this one as it’s out early this week. Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 22, 2019 Reparations Demand: End Capitalism / Institutionalized Impunity for Killer Cops / Colonialism is What’s Wrong With Puerto Rico / Trump’s Message: US is White Man’s Country Reparations Demand: End… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 19 July 2019: Imperialism is White Supremacy; Trump-Pelosi Lovefest; Go Gang of Four; Myths of Exceptionalism
19 July 2019 — Black Agenda Report The “Squad” Will Need to Realize that You Can’t Defeat White Supremacy with White Supremacy Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist The “squad” condemns Trump for his white nationalism, not understanding that as a white supremacist settler-colonial state, white nationalism is “American” nationalism. Freedom Rider: The Trump and… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 12 July 2019: Sanders vs the Austerity Regime / Time for Russiagate to End / Bruce Dixon: A Giant Walks On
12 July 2019 — Black Agenda Report Sanders vs the Endless Austerity Regime Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Bruce Dixon was anti-empire, anti-capitalist, and a champion of working-class Black America and the people at large. Freedom Rider: Time for Russiagate to End Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist Russiagate is a scheme… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 3 July 2019: Presente, Bruce Dixon / US Prison Concentration Camps / Militarism and Class War / Austerity and Racial Oppression
3 July 2019 — Black Agenda Report Bruce Dixon, In His Own Words Memorial services for Black Agenda Report managing editor Bruce Dixon will be held Saturday, July 6, 5:30pm to 7:30pm, at Hanley Shelton Funeral Home, 473 Lawrence St. NE, Marietta, Georgia, 30060 (770.426.6333). Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 27 June 2019: Great Reparations Debate, Black Misleaders and Biden, Encircling Sanders
27 June 2019 — Black Agenda Report We are Already Late to the Great Black Reparations Debate Glen Ford, BAR executive editor Questions about the meaning and scope of reparations can only be answered collectively by Black people in what should be the most profound political discussion in our history on this continent. Continue reading