Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

Corporate Media and Fake Leftists are the Real Traitors to Press Freedoms
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
29 Apr 2019
🖨️ Print Article

Asked why purported “progressives” insist on expressing their personal dislike for Julian Assange, noted author Maximillian Forte, a professor of anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, said some are angry because they blame Wikileaks’ publication of embarrassing emails for Hillary Clinton’s presidential defeat. Others simply call Assange a “traitor,” said Maximillian. “I suppose they don’t know that he’s not actually an American citizen.”

Wikileaks

Related Podcasts

Defending Julian Assange
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Defending Julian Assange
20 May 2022
Free All Political Prisoners Including Julian Assange
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Free All Political Prisoners Including Julian Assange
18 February 2020
Julian Assange must be set free, like all the other political prisoners of US Empire,” said BAR executive editor Glen Ford.

More Stories


  • Editors, The Black Agenda Review
    INTERVIEW: “I was deported because I fought colour bar” Claudia Jones, 1956
    08 Jul 2026
    “I was deported from the U.S.A, because as a Negro woman Communist of West Indian descent, I was a thorn in their side…”
  • Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
    The Kagame Regime Must Not Be Allowed to Seize the Archives of the ICTR
    08 Jul 2026
    The records of the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda should not be surrendered to the Rwandan regime led by President Paul Kagame.
  • Navid Zarrinnal
    The Iranian Revolution and African Solidarity
    08 Jul 2026
    Iran's 1979 revolution was a victory for national sovereignty which also forged solidarity with African people.
  • Hanna Eid
    Sovereignty and Strategic Depth
    08 Jul 2026
    The U.S. and Israel treat negotiations as a weapon to destabilize and disarm the region, but Iran and Hezbollah have shown that real sovereignty requires connecting every front in a unified anti-…
  • Abayomi Azikiwe
    Detroit People’s Tribunal Takes Mask off ICE
    08 Jul 2026
    Activists gathered from various areas of Michigan to report on the excesses and brutality of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and local police, which…
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us