Black Agenda Report
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500 Years of Nakbas By Glen Ford
The great nakba, or “catastrophe,”began in 1492, when Christopher Columbus proclaimed the lands of the “Indies” for Spain. Within half a century of his voyage, 95 percent of the inhabitants of the America’s had been killed by European-borne diseases, war, famine and enslavement: 100 million dead, or one out of every five human beings on… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 10 May 2018: Limitations of the Poor Peoples Campaign, Trump's Economic War on the Planet, Trump & Israeli Collusion
10 May 2018 — Black Agenda Report Barber Sermon on Militarism Reveals Philosophical & Political Limitations of the Poor Peoples Campaign – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor The PPC is the voice of the Institutional Church in the US. It pinpoints immoral policies and people as root causes of war, empire, militarism and… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 3 May 2018: Blacks Should Have Denounced Cosby Long Ago, Thank the Clown President, How to Recall Lynchings
2 May 2018 — Black Agenda Report Bill Cosby Should Have Been Denounced by Black America Long Ago – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Bill Cosby‘s crimes against women have finally caught up to him, but he was never made to pay a political price for his rants against the Black poor and women… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 25 April 2018: Dems Prepare to Pimp the Left in 2018 and 2020, RussiaGate Shows Democrats' Warmongering Colors, Windrush and Britain’s Crimes Against Black People
25 April 2018 — Black Agenda Report Democrats Prepare to Pimp the Left in 2018 and 2020 – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Democrats allow their left activists out of the hole every 2 or 4 years to campaign for justice at home and peace abroad. Democrats are a party of capital and… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 18 April 2018: White Lies, Black Disbelief, Fading Empire; Syria & Press Propaganda; US International Crimes
18 April 2018 — Black Agenda Report White Lies and Black Disbelief in a Fading Empire – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor If killing “your own people” is the worst kind of crime, then it is the U.S., not Syria, whose murderous instincts must be restrained by the peoples of the world. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 11 April 2018
11 April 2018 — Black Agenda Report Deep State Restrained Obama. Will It Restrain Trump? Time to Abandon Mere Hope For Action – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Hope is longing for a future condition over which we have no agency. The planet’s fate and ours is in our hands alone, to organize… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 5 April 2018
5 April 2018 — Black Agenda Report MLK Anniversary, Another Gaza Massacre Ignored by the Black Political Class – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Our black political class observed the 50th anniversary of MLK’s martyrdom this week, but ignored the Gaza Land Day massacre perpetrated by apartheid Israel with full bipartisan US support.… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 29 March 2018
29 March 2018 — Black Agenda Report 2018 Gun Debate A Narrow Opportunity For Democrats, A Wide One For the Left – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Democrats want a gun debate on narrow and limited ground avoiding the settler-slavemaster-colonial origin of the 2nd Amendment, and the ubiquity of armed white patriarchal US… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 22 March 2018
22 March 2018 — Black Agenda Report Liberal Ire at Trump and Cambridge Analytica is Misdirected From Billionaires Who Own Your Data – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Why should our online human interacions be the private property of billionaires? Wrong question. Liberals would rather you rage at Trump for doing what both… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 15 March 2018
15 March 2018 — Black Agenda Report Going Down With the Bad Ship U.S.A. – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor The decline of U.S. empire is upon us, along with the politics of decline: nasty, stupid, petty and racist. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 8 March 2018
8 March 2018 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: Black Panther Movie: A Black Face in a High Place – Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist Fans of Black Panther call critics “haters” who don’t know how to have fun, but “the lack of political education amongst ourselves is the bigger issue here.” Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 28 February 2018
28 February 2018 — Black Agenda Report The Great, Bloody Black Dispersal from the Cities – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor With alarming speed, and at great human cost, Blacks are being exiled from the central cities of America. Black urban removal is the national policy of both corporate parties. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 22 February 2018
22 February 2018 — Black Agenda Report Get Me Outa Wakanda! – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor The only Wakandans who matter are royalty, the women take orders from men, the king & his rival work with CIA. Despite the pretty faces Black Panther is enemy propaganda from Disney/Marvel studios whose other movies… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 14 February 2018
14 February 2018 — Black Agenda Report Bandit Baltimore Cops and the Black Misleadership Class by Glen Ford , BAR executive editor If any city is in dire need of Black community control of police, it’s Baltimore — but first you’ve got to fight the Black Misleadership Class. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 8 February 2018
8 February 2018 — Black Agenda Report NYT Joins Campaign to Purge the Term, “White Monopoly Capital” in South Africa Glen Ford , BAR executive editor The leadership of the African National Congress is attempting to stamp out language that offends its patrons in the international corporate classes. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 1 February 2018
1 February 2018 — Black Agenda Report Looking Down That Deep Hole: Parasitic Intersectionality and Toxic Afro-Pessimism, Part 2 – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Last week we declared intersectionality a deep hole, afro-pessimism a shovel, and suggested we stop digging. This week we take a longer look down that hole, and explain… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 18 January 2018
18 January 2018 — Black Agenda Report US Supreme Court About to Issue A 21st Century Dred Scott Decision – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Workers, the US Supreme Court is expected to rule soon, have no collective rights an employer is bound to respect, and no collective activity can be protected by… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 11 January 2018
11 January 2018 — Black Agenda Report Weaponized Words: Are the Black Misleadership Class Race Traitors or Just Following Their Own Class Interests? Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor If they are race traitors, we need to look for “real” black leaders. If they are following their own class interest we need to raise… Continue reading
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3 January 2018 Black Agenda Report
3 January 2018 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: Who Killed Erica Garner – Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist Eric Garner could not get justice for her father, but she succeed in exposing Barack Obama’s naked cynicism and hypocrisy… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 21 December 2017
21 December 2017 — Black Agenda Report The Black Political Class and Network Neutrality – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor For a quarter century now, telecoms and other corporate interests have pretty much owned the cohort of civil rights organizations and elected officials we call the black political class, which is why they’ve… Continue reading