Black Agenda Report
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Black Agenda Report 3 December 2018: Activists Demand Sanders Oppose Militarism; Pro-Cop Chicago Councillors to Face Challenge; Judge to Rule on Mumia Appeal
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
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Black Agenda Report 29 November 2018: Paper Ballots Adopted in PA, Bernie Sanders Plan May Split Democrats, Democrats Win Black People Lose
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
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Black Agenda Report 2 November 2018: Obama Occupied Africa, Russiagate is “The Big Lie,” Policing in Canada, Mumia on Empire
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
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Black Agenda Report 22 November 2018: House Dem Leaders Shun Medicare For All; RussiaGate is a Fool’s Game; The Amazon Robbery, #Protect Mueller is Liberal Fascism
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Democratic House Leaders Steer Clear of Medicare For All – Bruce A. Dixon, BAR managing editor Unlike Republicans who repealed Obamacare 54 times when they held only the House, Democrats have no spirit to fight, to create persuasive theater, unless it benefits their campaign investors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
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Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford: Gerald Horne on the New McCarthyism; You Can’t Trust Amazon: Liberation Muslim Theology
18 November 2018 — Black Agenda Report “New McCarthyism” Targets China-Invested Firms One result of the “mania of bipartisanship” that followed the midterm elections — “Democrats and Republicans joining hands” — is a campaign to target China, said Dr. Gerald Horne. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for November 15, 2018: Count Every Vote; Ruling Class War Games; Legacy of 1918; War Party Rules
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
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Black Agenda Report 9 November 2018: The Most Important Mid-Term Election of Our Lives? Not Really; Corporate Dems VS the Monster They Empowered; Black People Need Birthright Citizens
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
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Black Agenda Report 31 October 2018: How Stupid Does Stacey Abrams Think We Are? The Fake Resistance, and American Terror an Old Story
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
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Black Agenda Report 25 October 2018: Liberals Erase, Ignore Black Political Presence, The Migrant Caravan and US Policy, Rwandan Mercs Cold Ass Mofos
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
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Black Agenda Report for 18 October 2018: Facebook is NOT Your Friend; Womens’ March on the Pentagon; Jamal Khashoggi and U.S. Hypocrisy; Congo at the Abyss
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
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Congo in the Abyss By Ann Garrison
The aggression of Western governments has inflicted multiple holocausts on the Congolese people, Congolese historian Bénédicte Kumbi Ndjoko tells Ann Garrison. This week I spoke to Swiss Congolese historian and activist Bénédicte Kumbi Ndjoko about recent developments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who said, “In Congo, globalized capitalism creates permanent chaos.” Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report October 4, 2018: Amazon Concession to $15 per Hour Not Bernie’s Doing; Democratic Fascism vs the Trump Kind; Kavanaugh Farce
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
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Black Agenda Report Thursday September 27 2018: Maynard Jackson Netflix Movie Mangles Black History; We Don’t Need Cosby’s ‘Race Man’; World War Looms in Syria
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
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Black Agenda Report 20 September 2018: Who Benefits From Unity Behind Black Candidates; Bernie’s Got a Brand New Bag; African Heroes Leave Prison in Rwanda
20 September 2018 — Black Agenda Report Does Black Unity Behind Black Candidates Really Help Most Black People? – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Not really. The wall of black unity around Barack Obama freed him to embrace school privatiztion, to ignore foreclosures of hundreds of thousands of black families, to break promises… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 13 September 2018: Progressive Democrats Silent on Foreign Policy, 9/11 Legacy ofTwo Contending Fascisms, The Plot…
13 September 2018 — Black Agenda Report Two Thirds of Progressive Democrat Congressional Candidates Are Silent on Foreign Policy. Why? – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Of 31 candidates backed by Justice Democrats, Our Revolution and Brand New Congress, 21 have absolutely nothing to say about foreign policy. That can’t be right. Don’t… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for Thursday September 6, 2018: Re-Installing the Russians as the Enemy; John McCain. Trump Derangement & False Black Consciousness
6 September 2018 — Black Agenda Report Trump Protects Al Qaeda, “The Resistance” Applauds, Cursing “Russians” – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor The “Russians” had to be reinstalled as the “enemy” after Obama made his alliance with Islamist jihad. Trump has now signed on as Protector of the Idlib Caliphate. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for Thursday August 29, 2018: Mourning the Manufactured McCain, Blacks May Back Bernie in 2020, Prison Strike 2018
30 August 2018 — Black Agenda Report The Manufactured McCain: Lifting Up A Bloodstained Lying Venal Servant of Capitalist Empire – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor John McCain was a bloodstained bribe taking, lying, war criminal and politician who constructed a myth of himself as outsider and war hero. Lifting him up justifies… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 23 August 2018: Why the Blue Wave Missed Missouri, Longstanding Capitalist Lies, Truth or Dare with Brennan and Guliani
23 August 2018 — Black Agenda Report Why the Blue Wave Missed Missouri’s 1st CD – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Right wing political machines with the black church and nonprofit industrial complex at their core dominate Democratic politics in many black constituencies. That’s what stopped the blue wave. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 17 August 2018: Black Male Youth Feel Threatened; Opposing Warmongering is Defending US Workers; US Wages Economic War Against Venezuela
17 August 2018 — Black Agenda Report New Study Reveals Old Fact: Black Male Youth Feel Threatened – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Every study that measures the enhanced anxiety of Black tweens that find themselves on a strange corner, is an indictment of the white men at the top of the capitalist pyramid. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 9 August 2018
9 August 2018 — Black Agenda Report When the Resistance is Really the Assistance – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Democrats voted almost 2 to 1 to approve the Pentagon budget, including the Space Force. Half the House Progressive Caucus and Most of the Black Caucus endorsed it too. It’s official. The resistance… Continue reading