| Black Agenda Report

Matt Stoller
Obama's Second Term Agenda: Cutting Social Security, Medicare and/or Medicaid
01 Aug 2012
by Matt Stoller Across the country, activists are shaking their heads and repeating to themselves the usual justifications. The Supreme Court, the Lesser Evil, he's not a white racist. They prepare to re-elect a president who has done practically nothing to further progressive agendas, and all…
Michael Hudson
Michael Hudson on Fictictious Capital, Interviewed by Max Keiser
01 Aug 2012
by Michael Hudson When crooked bankers make loans against non-existent assets there are two names for the practice. One is "investment banking". The other is the f-word, "fraud".
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Romney and the “Culture” of White Supremacy
01 Aug 2012
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “For the Mormon American multimillionaire, human destiny and divine will are revealed in macroeconomic data.” But Mitt Romney’s assertion that Palestinian underdevelopment is proof of Israeli cultural superiority is no more racist than the usual…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Michael Eric Dyson and Barack Obama
01 Aug 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The presidential election cycle is underway, which means that Michael Eric Dyson is pledging his undying love for Barack Obama. Apparently, the president’s handlers have favored Dyson with “access” – a quality that is worth far more…
Kevin Alexander Gray
Blacks and Obama: Unconditional, Unrequited Love?
07 Sep 2011
by Kevin Alexander Gray The jilted lover is the last to know. Although African Americans cling desperately to the hope that Barack Obama is, in his heart of hearts, on their side, “it is clear whom he is actually beholden to: Wall Street, corporations, the dirty energy industries, the Pentagon…
Paul Street
Romney, Obama, and the Darwinism That Substitutes Culture for Genes
08 Aug 2012
by Paul Street Mitt Romney’s ideas on cultural superiority are “as American as apple pie.” The First Black President plays on the white culture team, too. “Obama has repeatedly played Booker T. Washingtonian haranguer of impoverished blacks for failing to think and act right and…
Kiilu Nyasha
The Revision and Origin of Black August
08 Aug 2012
by Kiilu Nyasha The commemoration of Black August is inseparable from the lives and struggles of revolutionary freedom fighters: “George and Jonathan Jackson, James McClain, William Christmas, Khatari Gaulden, and sole survivor of the August 7, 1970 Courthouse Slave Rebellion, Ruchell…
Solomon Comissiong
A Few Things Americans Can Learn from Cuba
08 Aug 2012
by Solomon Comissiong Americans could learn a lot if they would just look and listen to the world around them, a place where lots of peoples and nations are smarter, kinder and happier than we are. Cuba is making great progress towards its goal to become a “medical superpower,” while…
Dr. Boyce Watkins
President Obama: “I Am Not the President of Black America”
08 Aug 2012
by Dr. Boyce Watkins President Obama has made it clear once again that his role as president, as he sees it, renders him useless to Black people – although other groups find him quite helpful. “If the respect shown to black Americans does not match that which is shown to the gay…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Solidarity with Africa, or Obama? You Can't Have Both
08 Aug 2012
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford A new organization will attempt to mobilize African American solidarity with the peoples of North Africa and the Middle East. But that would mean confronting the First Black President. “The unprovoked war on Libya, where U.S.-backed racists massacred…