Black Agenda Report
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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
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Black Agenda Report 20 June 2019: Are Black Students Standing UI For Free Tuition? Sanders Assault on Authority Will Not Be Tolerated; Gullible Americans, Iran & Endless War
20 June 2019 — Black Agenda Report The Ruling Class Will Not Tolerate the Sanders-Led Assault on Austerity – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor The whole point of the austerity project is to disempower workers and concentrate wealth at the top. The rulers will kill to keep that dream alive. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 13 June 2019: How Democrats Strangled Black Politics; Central Park 5 & the Limits of Suffering; Torture is Public Policy in US Prisons
13 June 2019 — Black Agenda Report How the Democratic Party Strangled Black Politics by Glen Ford Nothing changes on the electoral scene, and little at the grassroots level, unless the structure of capitalist hegemony over political discourse in the U.S. — the corporate duopoly — is broken. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 6 June 2019: BLM Founder Wants To Shrink Black Lives; How To Protest Trump; Liz Warren Wants Green Bombs, Not Green New Deal
6 June 2019 — Black Agenda Report Black Lives Matter Founder Launches Huge Project to Shrink Black Lives – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Alicia Garza and her crew conducted what they claim is the biggest survey of Black political opinion ever — but failed to ask a single question about foreign policy. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 31 May 2019: Why The Poor Can’t Be Trusted To Form Their Own Party; Black Caucus Endorses Israeli Position on Syria; No Chemical Attacks in Syria
31 May 2019 — Black Agenda Report We Can’t Have A Party of Our Own Because Poor People Can’t Be Trusted? – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Poor people shouldn’t try to build their own party in the U.S. We just can’t afford It, and can’t be trusted. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 25 May 2019: The Battle For Ballot Acess; Malcolm, Russigate & the FBI; Abortion Rights and the Power of Protest
25 May 2019 — Black Agenda Report The Battle For Ballot Access is a Century Old. It’s Time to Break it Open – Bruce A.Dixon A century ago, Republicans and Democrats passed ballot access restrictions to prevent socialists from getting on the ballot in the US. It’s time to organize to break those barriers. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 17 May 2019: US Eclipsed in Every Sphere But War; US Wages War Against the Planet; It’s the Military Budget, Stupid
17 May 2019 — Black Agenda Report The U.S. Has Been Eclipsed in Every Sphere But War – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor US rulers promised that technology would bring the return of the millions of jobs that were outsourced to low-wage countries, but America has lost the hi-tech race and excels only in… Continue reading
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Blackgenda Report 9 May 2019: Black Mothers Are Dying; Facebook and the Farrakhan Distraction ; Assange Is Not a Journalist (If Journalists
9 May 2019 — Black Agenda Report Black Mothers Dying in US – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Only a social and economic transformation can lift Black America to a First World state of well-being. Black health requires Black Power. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 2 May 2019: Biden’s Polling Balloon is Black Voters; “Color” Revolution USA; Solidarity With Venezulela
2 May 2019 — Black Agenda Report Black Voters Are Biden’s Polling Balloon. We Need to Bust It. – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Joe Biden enters the Democratic presidential race as front runner. Half his voters are black, a clear hangover from the Obama era. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 26 April 2019: ADOS Opposes Free Tuition, Debt Forgiveness; Dems Want to Stop Sanders; Pompeo’s Truth About Lies
26 April 2019 — Black Agenda Report Why ADOS “Reparationists” Oppose Free Tuition and Student Debt Forgiveness – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor The latest foolishness from the ADOS “reparationists” exposes the real purpose of their shtick, to substitute reparations chatter for productive class analysis and organizing Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 18 April 2019: Is Apartheid Israel “Reparations” for Jews?; Terri Sewell, Worst of the Black Caucus; “The Resistance” Silent on Assange…
18 April 2019 — Black Agenda Report Is the Apartheid Colonial Settler State of Israel “Reparations” For Jews? ADOS Thinks So. – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor When ADOS leaders & followers make the ridiculous claim that the apartheid state of Israel is “reparations” for Jews they betray their own right wing and capitalist… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 11 April 2019: A Reckoning For Al Sharpton, Scoundrels and Reparations, Another African Convicted in a Racist Court
11 April 2019 — Black Agenda Report A Reckoning for Al Sharpton and the Black Misleadership Class – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor With support for “socialism” rising, the political fate of Al Sharpton and the rest of the Democratic party’s Black corporate minions is in doubt — and they know it. Continue reading
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Mass Manufacturers of Slander and Lies By Glen Ford
Chastened by the long-awaited Mueller report — or at least what we’ve learned about the two-year probe into “Russiagate” from Attorney General William Barr — the U.S. corporate media have been forced to partially abandon their ludicrous claim of “collusion” between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Or maybe the hysteria-makers were finally exhausted by their marathon of… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 4 April 2019: Manufactured Slander & Lies; Greens’ Howie Hawkins is 2020’s Peace Candidate; Remembering April 4
4 April 2019 — Black Agenda Report Mass Manufacturers of Slander and Lies – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor The U.S. has nothing to offer Africa but guns, drones and an extended half-life for the neocolonial order. Continue reading
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Russiagate implodes, pleasing Trump but leaving the left in the cold By Glen Ford
The “Deep State” escalated a dispute within the U.S. corporate electoral duopoly into a geopolitical crisis, an “attack on America”. Robert Mueller has finally put a plug in the noxious fart that has oozed for almost three years from the conjoined bowels of the Democratic Party and the national security state—but the stain remains, and… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for Thursday March 28 2019: RussiaGate Implodes; Julian Assange & Robert Miller; What the Rich Will Do
28 March 2019 — Black Agenda Report Russiagate Implodes, Pleasing Trump But Leaving the Left in the Cold – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor The “Deep State” escalated a dispute within the U.S. corporate electoral duopoly into a geopolitical crisis, an “attack on America” Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 20 March 2019: Reparations Means Global Social Transformation; The Permanence of White Supremacy; How the US Creates Sh*thole Countries
20 March 2019 — Black Agenda Report Reparations Means Global Social Transformation – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Reparations is not a token gesture of concern, apology or even solidarity; it seeks justice and redress of wrongs through the transformation of a people’s condition. Continue reading