Black Agenda Report
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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
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Black Agenda Report 14 March 2019: ADOS Shrinks Reparations Vision to Tribalism; Empire Comes Home Where it Belongs; Justice and Paul Manafort
14 March 2019 — Black Agenda Report ADOS Shrinks Reparations Politics to Fit the Narrow Horizon of Tribalism – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor ADOS views black American descendants of slaves as a tribe, deprecating solidarity, and ignoring empire and capitalism without whose elimination reparations are impossible anyway. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 7 March 2019: Reparations By Any Other Name, Black Stake in the Green New Deal, RussiaGate and Democratic Defeat
7 March 2019 — Black Agenda Report Reparations Now? Maybe In Order To Get The Job Done It’s Time to Call It Something Else – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor While reparations for the descendants of slaves in the US is entirely morally justifiable, it’s an elusive goal. Untangling its psychological and moral baggage… Continue reading
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The words and deeds of social imperialists by Glen Ford
The best evidence of the profound weakness of the “left” in the United States is that it is necessary to credit Bernie Sanders with making “socialism” a benign term in national political discourse. The price of socialism’s admission to polite conversation here in the belly of the hegemonic capitalist beast is that it must always… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 21 February 2019: Bernie Tries To Steal the Rich Man’s Party; Kamala Harris: The Fix is In; Socialism is the Answer to Trumpism:
21 February 2019 — Black Agenda Report Bernie Tries to Steal the Rich Man’s Party – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor The plutocrats did not invest billions of dollars every election cycle in the Democratic Party to see it used as a tool of their disempowerment. Freedom Rider: Kamala Harris: The Fix is In –… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 14 February 2019: Pelosi Sabotages Medicare For All, Black Voters Used to Destroy Bernie Sanders, Confronting the US/EU/NATO Axis of Do…
14 February 2019 — Black Agenda Report Pelosi Sabotages Medicare for All, But Corporate Media Pretend Not to Notice – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor When the top Democrat secretly plots to subvert a proposal supported by the vast majority of her party, that’s supposed to be news — unless the corporate media decide otherwise.</p… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 7 February 2019: Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders, Trump and the State of Imperial Decline, HR 1 Sics the Homeland Security Dogs on the US Left
6 February 2019 — Black Agenda Report Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders, Trump and the State of Imperial Decline – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Bernie Sanders’ anticipated second run for the presidency is the 6-ton elephant in the Democratic boardroom. But the rich owners of the Party would rather lose to Trump again than win with… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 31 January 2019: The Racist Imperialist and Bipartisan War Against Venezuela: Ater the Congo Elections
31 January 2019 — Black Agenda Report The Racist, Imperialist War on Venezuela – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Donald Trump is simply exercising an imperial mandate handed down to him by Obama, who put “humanitarian” lipstick on the white supremacist pig of American exceptionalism. Freedom Rider: Trump, Democrats, and International Fascists Attack Venezuela… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 25 January 2019: Lessons From the LA Teachers Strike; Bernie Sanders vs Kamala the Jailer and Her Corporate Backers; Freedom…
25 January 2019 — Black Agenda Report Some Early Lessons From the Los Angeles Teacher Strike – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Los Angeles wasn’t West Virgina, or Oklahoma or Arizona. LA Teachers prepared months and years in advance and used deep organizing techniques to prepare their members and communities for the crisis Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 17 January 2019: Dems HR 1 Fakes the Funk on Voting Rights, Ethics and More; Self-Serving Black Journalists and the Corporate Duopoly
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 Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 10 January 2019: Raising the Bar on Green New Deal; Ocasio-Cortez, Socialism & Austerity; Phony Resistance Won’t Beat Trump
10 January 2019 — Black Agenda Report Raising the Bar on the Green New Deal – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor 20 million jobs. Medicare For All, and decent affordable housing. Free college tuition and student loan forgiveness. Zero emissions by 2030. That’s a Green New Deal Continue reading
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How the US Spent Billions to Change the Outcome of Elections Around the World: A Review By Danny Haiphong
The U.S. military state overthrows democratically-elected governments that it deems to be a threat to corporate interests. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 3 January 2019: Michelle Obama’s “Becoming”; Yes, White People Are Also Killed by Cops; Elizabeth Warren and the Trap…
3 January 2019 — Black Agenda Report Michelle Obama’s Memoir “Becoming” — Lots of Stories, Few Lessons – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor The first hundred pages are a warm and fuzzy memoir of growing up on the black south side of Chicago. The next 300 pages are less truthful and far less… Continue reading
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Bolton Threatens to Force Africa to Choose Between the US and China By Glen Ford
The Americans wager that they can exercise veto power over African political alignments by force of arms, through AFRICOM’s massive military infiltration of the region. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 