Black Agenda Report
-
Black Agenda Report for May 28, 2014: 1 Year After Closing 50 Chicago Schools, Boko Haram a Blessing, Targeting Black Children
28 May 2014 — Black Agenda Report One Year After Chicago Closes 50 Public Schools, Chicago Teachers Union Assesses the Lies and Lasting Damage A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon A couple years ago, we at Black Agenda Report wondered why the closings of 40 public schools over three… Continue reading
-
Black Agenda Report May 21, 2014: Michelle & Barack Shill 4 WalMart, Newark Voters Reject School Privatizatn, Asante Must Go
21 May 2014 — Black Agenda Report This Week in Black Agenda Report Always Low Wages, More Pollution: Why Barack & Michelle Obama Relentlessly Shill For Wal-Mart By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Democrats in labor unions and figures like former Labor Secretary Robert Reich and others were justly outraged at Barack Obama’s latest… Continue reading
-
Freedom Rider: America Brings Hell to Ukraine By Margaret Kimberley
Because of American intervention, Ukraine is embroiled in what can only be described as a civil war. For the past two weeks, the Ukrainians coupists supported by the United States and NATO have openly massacred their fellow citizens with the tacit approval of the White House and without exposure from the American corporate media. Continue reading
-
Black Agenda Report 14 May 2014: Nigerian Girls become US Tools, Molefi Asante: Rat, Call the FCC: US Brings Hell to Ukraine
14 May 2014 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Kidnapped Girls Become Tools of U.S. Imperial Policy in Africa by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The “humanitarian” U.S. military occupation of Africa has been very successful, thus far. “The Chibok abductions have served the same U.S. foreign policy purposes as Joseph… Continue reading
-
This week in Black Agenda Report 7 May 2014: Obama Won't Jail Bankers, Jackson 'Rising' Lesson, Nigeria's Kidnapped Girls
7 May 2014 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Jail the Bankers? Obama Has Been Their Staunchest Defender by BAR executive editor Glen Ford In the second half of his second term, Obama and his crew seek to rewrite the history of his administration. Attorney General Eric Holder now declares that… Continue reading
-
This week in Black Agenda Report 30 April 2014: Donald Sterling Owns NAACP, Bad Jobs Country, Lessons of Bundy & Sterling
30 April 2014 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Donald Sterling Thinks He Owns Basketball Players, But He Really DOES Own the NAACP A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Billionaire racists will be billionaire racists. Not much we can do about that. But the fact… Continue reading
-
Black Agenda Report for April 23, 2014: Supreme Court: White Majority Rules, Obama's Empty Drug Clemencies, American Democracy
23 April 2014 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Supreme Court: White Majorities Über Alles by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “Black folks have no rights that white majorities are bound to respect.” That’s the message from the U.S. Supreme Court, which declared diversity programs an option that white majorities can… Continue reading
-
Black Agenda Report for April 16, 2014: Black Success Stories Holding Us Back, Black Parents, NYPD Victims, Civil Rights Orgs Conceal Donors
16 April 2014 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Are Black “Success Stories” Really Holding Us Back? By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Is it time to critically interrogate the black “success stories” of pro atheletes and near-billionaires? Should we be identifying with the Junior Bridgemans and Magic Johnsons or… Continue reading
-
Examining the Existence of Fascism in the United States By Danny Haiphong
Is the U.S. a fascist society? It’s a classic fit – a country where “the relationship between the state and corporation becomes indiscernible,” militarism is the highest value, and demonization of the Other is the organizing principle of the ruling circles and state. Continue reading
-
Black Agenda Report April 9, 2014: Al Sharpton/King Rat / CNN Chicagoland a Big Lie / Charter School Corruption
9 April 2014 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report CNN’s Chicagoland: An 8 Part Miniseries Campaign Commercial For Rahm Emanuel and Urban Neoliberalism by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon CNN’s Chicagoland “documentary” is an 8 part wet kiss for Rahm Emanuel & neoliberalism by the same crew that made Brick City,… Continue reading
-
Ukraine and 21st Century Neo-Fascism: Left-Wing Support for Imperialism and White Supremacy By Ajamu Baraka
The U.S.-European “Left’s” tepid – and even supportive – response to NATO’s destabilization of Ukraine reveals the deep workings of white supremacy on the “western” mind. We face the specter of a “left-right convergence” to save the global imperial project. How else to explain widespread “leftist” acceptance of racist doctrines like “humanitarian intervention” and “responsibility… Continue reading
-
Black Agenda Report April 2, 2014: Beware Obama's Imperialism, US Special Forces to Africa
2 April 2014 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report U.S. Deploys More Special Forces in Search of Kony, Africa’s Stand-in for Osama bin Laden by executive editor Glen Ford The latest deployment of U.S. Special Forces aircraft to central Africa is an escalation of an effective U.S. occupation of the continent,… Continue reading
-
Black Agenda Report March 26, 2014: Obama: Putin-Baiter and Preventive Detainer, Aggression Rewarded, Rwanda's Secret to Success
26 March 2014 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Obama: Putin-Baiter and Preventive Detainer by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama has thrown international law into history’s dustbin, torn up the U.S. Bill of Rights, and is mapping millions for possible future detention. “One court order + one suspect number… Continue reading
-
U.S. Prepares to Gas Russia Into Submission By Glen Ford
The U.S., now number one in oil and gas, is preparing to destroy Russia’s economy. “Washington will move to crush, or at least seriously disrupt, Russia under its ‘sanctions as war by other means’ machine, by targeting its energy exports, while simultaneously boosting the foreign markets for U.S. natural gas.” Continue reading
-
Black Agenda Report March 20, 2014: GA Prisoners Allege Abuse, US Gases Russia, Kwadir Felton and Cory Booker
20 March 2014 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Striking GA Prisoners Name Names, Allege Sexual Abuse, Ongoing Threats, Maltreatment by Staff by BAR managing editor Bruce A. DixonNot quite a month ago, I wrote that we at Black Agenda Report had received word of a new self-organized hunger strike among… Continue reading
-
Black Agenda Report for March 12, 2014: Reinstate Dr. Anthony Monteiro – Propaganda – Promises – Obama Does Something Right
12 March 2014 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Reinistate Dr. Anthony Monteiro, and Reinvent U.S. Higher Education by BAR executive editor Glen Ford It’s not so easy to fire a professor of African American Studies who has forged strong ties with the surround Black community. Philadelphia’s Temple University is finding… Continue reading
-
Black Agenda Report for March 6, 2014: At Russia's Gate, "Journalists" Follow Obama, Chokwe Lumumba & Jackson Rising
6 March 2014 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Hillary and Other Assorted Barbarians at Russia’s Gate by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The United States is more than just an ally to fascists in Ukraine and everywhere else; the American South provided an historical model for fascism. “The fascist order… Continue reading
-
Obama’s War Against Civilization By Glen Ford
The U.S. is in a frenzy of regime-changing aggression, aimed at destabilizing or destroying sovereign states. Obama’s signature is written in blood around the world, as he pursues “full spectrum, no-holds-barred, war-without-boundaries against all potential resistance to U.S. imperial rule, anywhere on the planet.” Continue reading
-
Obama’s War Against Civilization By Glen Ford
The U.S. is in a frenzy of regime-changing aggression, aimed at destabilizing or destroying sovereign states. Obama’s signature is written in blood around the world, as he pursues “full spectrum, no-holds-barred, war-without-boundaries against all potential resistance to U.S. imperial rule, anywhere on the planet.” Continue reading
-
Black Agenda Report for February 19, 2014: Detroit's Agony: A People's Plan / Obama: More Mass Incarceration / White Men and Guns
19 February 2014 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Detroit’s Agony Shows Why Black America Needs A People’s Plan for the Cities by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Detroit, the Black Metropolis, is being disassembled. Having stolen local democracy, corporate planners now trip over themselves to create the grid for a… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 