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Bill Quigley
Zimbabwe and the Question of Imperialism: A Discussion
02 Jul 2008
Democracy Now! The Americans and British rage against Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe, who ran solo, uncontested, in Friday's elections. Two Black intellectuals of the Left, professors Gerald Horne and Horace Campbell, debate the current crisis in Zimbabwe. Prof. Horne: "Why is it that Zimbabwe…
Alvin Wyman Walker
In Memoriam: "Another Pyrrhic Victory for White Supremacy"
02 Jul 2008
by the late Dr. Alvin Wyman Walker The Black Agenda Report team's great friend and associate editor Dr. Alvin Wyman Walker died on April 28 of this year, leaving us without his deep insights into both psychology and politics. His unique take on the pathology of U.S. racism and imperialism and the…
Stephen Zunes
African Dictatorships and Double-Standards
09 Jul 2008
by Stephen Zunes President George Bush singles out Zimbabwean Robert Mugabe as if he is the most dictatorial national leader on the planet. But in fact, the U.S. has good relations with "Swaziland, Congo, Cameroun, Togo, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Rwanda, Gabon, Egypt, and Tunisia," none of which hold…
John Maxwell
None Dare Call It Genocide
02 Jul 2008
by John Maxwell The depth of American culpability for Haiti's misery is immeasurable. At every stage in the first Black republic's history, the U.S. has attempted to snuff out not just the spirit of the people, but the people themselves. In the current era of occupation by American surrogates,…
Horace G. Campbell
The U.S. Attempts to Tighten Its Grip on Africa
20 Feb 2008
by Horace Campbell George Bush's foray into Africa revealed both U.S. intentions to militarize the continent and the limits of American coercive power in the current global environment. Bush scaled down his visit to five "safe" countries where his millions of dollars in "aid" would be warmly…
Fidel Castro Ruz
Castro on Obama’s Miami Speech: The Empire’s Hypocritical Politics
28 May 2008
by Fidel Castro The former Cuban leader compliments Barack Obama as "doubtless, from the social and human points of view, the most progressive candidate to the U.S. presidency." However, that's not really saying much, given the field of candidates, as Castro makes plain. Obama says he will…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: No Justice for Muslims
18 Apr 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The U.S. government has been become so brash, so cynical in its entrapments and pure persecutions of Muslims, it is beyond embarrassment. The shameless cannot be shamed. Khalifa al-Kalili tried to hold a press conference to…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Trayvon Killing Reveals Unreconstructed White Nationalism on the March
18 Apr 2012
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “’Shoot the Blacks’ is a winning political platform.” That’s the message brought home to African Americans by the Trayvon Martin murder and George Zimmerman’s Stand Your Ground defense. Far from a post-racial society, the U.S. is, in many ways,…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
No Fear, Chapter 4. The Gore-Mbeki Commission: The Sound That Freedom Makes
18 Apr 2012
by Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The author witnesses sudden death in South Africa, where Blacks had been condemned to social death since the arrival of the Dutch, centuries ago.
Alton H. Maddox Jr.
Letter to Florida Judge: No Bond For Zimmerman
18 Apr 2012
by Alton H. Maddox, Jr. George Zimmerman has been undercharged and is a flight risk who should be denied bail, says a former human rights and criminal defense lawyer. Bail would also fly in the face of the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. “It would be unthinkable for a…