24 December 2018 — Black Agenda Report BAP Welcomes Trump Exit from Syria  The Black Alliance for Peace sees the Trump administration’s announced withdrawal of US troops from Syria as “an attempt to realign itself with international law.” The US presence in Syria is “illegal,” said BAP lead organizer Ajamu Baraka. Trump should follow up the total… Continue reading

20 December 2018 — Black Agenda Report Bolton Threatens to Force Africa to Choose Between the US and China – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor 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

17 December 2018 — Black Agenda Report Mixed Bag at All-Boys Black Schools  Zayid Muhammad, of Newark Communities for Accountable Policing, was pleasantly surprised at the scope of a NJ Advanced Media report on police use of force in every city and town in the state. Muhammad didn’t expect an organization affiliated with the Star Ledgerto produce… Continue reading

13 December 2018 — Black Agenda Report Why We Can’t Have Nice Things — Like a Fighting Green Party  – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor A faction of the Green Party’s steering committee wants to dissolve committees it doesn’t like and silence internal discussion among Greens about the party’s many problems, and perhaps expel working… Continue reading

10 December 2018 — Black Agenda Report Israel Gets Its Way, Again  Marc Lamont Hill’s firing from CNN for defending the rights of Palestinians is another “step in the direction of no resistance to anything Israel says and does,” said Dr. Rose Brewer, at the Southern Human Rights Organizers Conference, in Atlanta. Efia Nwangaza, another organizer, said the… Continue reading

7 December 2018 — Black Agenda Report If There’s A Hell Below, That’s Where He’ll Go: The BAR Obituary on George H.W. Bush  – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor George H.W. Bush, the 41st US president was the son of a 20th centyury slavemaster, a blue-blooded war criminal, and possibly a CIA officer since… Continue reading

3 December 2018 — Black Agenda Report Activists Demand Sanders Take Stand Against Militarism  David Swanson, one of 100 activists and intellectuals that sent an open letter calling on Sen. Bernie Sanders to finally tackle the US war budget, said “It’s incoherent to have a public policy that ignores over 60 percent of federal discretionary spending”… Continue reading

29 November 2018 — Black Agenda Report Jill Stein Lawsuit Forces Adoption of Paper Ballots and Election Audits in Pennsylvania – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Faith based electronic voting is an elegant and simple way to steal elections. Thanks to a lawsuit by 2016 Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, it may… Continue reading

26 November 2018 — Black Agenda Report Obama Militarily Occupied Africa  “In the 8 years that Barack Obama was president, “AFRICOM went from 3 military bases to 84 bases” on the continent, said Paul Pumphrey, co-founder of Friends of Congo, speaking at a conference against US and NATO bases in Dublin, Ireland. Between 1996 and 2006, the… Continue reading

22 November 2018 — Black Agenda Report New Democratic House Leaders Steer Clear of Medicare For All  – Bruce A. Dixon, BAR managing editor Unlike Republicans who repealed Obamacare 54 times when they held only the House, Democrats have no spirit to fight, to create persuasive theater, unless it benefits their campaign investors Continue reading

15 November 2018 — Black Agenda Report Ruling Class War Games at the White House  – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor The White House press corps, like the corporate media in general, are foot soldiers in a wider conflict between sections of the ruling oligarchy: Trump versus anti-Trump. Continue reading

9 November 2018 — Black Agenda Report Was This Really The Most Important Mid-Term Election of Our Lives? Maybe Not. – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Every two years we hear it’s the most important election of our lifetimes. Some know better. Some tell us this because their careers depend on it. But… Continue reading

31 October 2018 — Black Agenda Report How Stupid Do Stacey Abrams, Lucy McBath and Most Other Progressive Democrat Congressional Candidates Think We Are?  – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Stacey Abrams wants to be governor today, president tomorrow, and thinks showing up unapologetically black like Condoleezza Rice and Loretta Lynch before is quite… Continue reading

25 October 2018 — Black Agenda Report The Great Un-Blackening: The Corporate Project to Erase Black People from Politics – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Corporate rule imposes a duopoly system in which one party is overtly white supremacist and the other party refuses to tackle racial oppression – but both pursue austerity and war. Continue reading

18 October 2018 — Black Agenda Report Facebook is Not Your Friend  – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Facebook has become The Great Censor, ready to pull the pages of dissenters that seek to “stir up political debate” in ways that threaten the legitimacy of corporate rule. Continue reading

4 October 2018 — Black Agenda Report Democratic Corporate Fascism vs the Trump Kind  – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Modern American corporate fascism is rooted in multinational corporate structures and wedded to a concept of racial and cultural “diversity” that (they hope) is compatible with corporate dictatorship. Continue reading

27 September 2018 — Black Agenda Report Maynard Jackson Netflix Movie Muddles Black Politics, Mangles Black History – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Sam Pollard’s Maynard Jackson documentary currently on Netflix is lazy black history denuded of black politics in the service of black elites. Continue reading