| Black Agenda Report

Elias Amare
21 Years and Counting: Eritrea’s Independent Path Towards Sustainable Development, Peace & Cooperation
03 Oct 2012
by Elias Amare Eritrea, a small African nation on the Red Sea that won its independence from Ethiopia in a 30-year war and was once praised by the West for its policies of self-reliance, is now demonized as a “rogue state.” Washington showers Ethiopia with billions in economic and…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Human Rights and Humanitarian Imperialism in Syria: A View From an African American Defender of Human Rights
03 Oct 2012
By Ajamu Baraka iiWho is killing whom in Syria and why? And to whom should we be listening ---- to our corporate media, State Department, and the same corps of “human rights activists” who applauded the Western invasion of Libya, and the dispatch of US special forces to Africa?
davidswanson
Nothing More Evil
03 Oct 2012
by David Swanson War is the worst thing that humans do, from which the evils of genocide and crimes against humanity flow. Yet, in our political culture, people convince themselves that supporting supposedly “lesser evils” is a glorious enterprise. In truth, “a Lesser Evilist today is…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The ICC: The Empire's Court
03 Oct 2012
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The International Criminal Court has turned into its opposite: an injudicious, selective enforcer of imperial policy, rather than a global standard of criminal law. The cast of defendants have all been African and outcasts from the U.S. imperial orbit…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Why This Black Man Is Watching the Debates, and Voting Green
04 Oct 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon I'll be watching the debates. Not on CNN or ABC, but online at Occupy the Debates or at Democracy Now or Free Speech TV, where the third party candidates and others have a chance to answer questions and comment in real time.
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: How Mass Incarceration Affects Everything Else
03 Oct 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Lizzie Phelan
Libyan City Under Siege by Militias
10 Oct 2012
The same militia that erased the Black town of Tawergha and has terrorized dark-skinned Libyans and African immigrants, is threatening to attack the city of Bani Walid, which has been under artillery siege and encirclement for over a week. The NATO-backed militias claim to be targeting “pro-Gaddafi…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Why Romney Beat Obama
10 Oct 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley It is true that Barack Obama didn’t have his act together when he went up against Mitt Romney, last week. In fact, he seemed to drop his Democratic act entirely, showing his true political self: a corporate politician who is in…
Solomon Comissiong
Obama's Destructive Foreign Policy and Black Disillusionment
10 Oct 2012
by Solomon Comissiong “It is painfully distressing to witness members of my community so willfully complicit with lethal war policies simply because they are coming from a brown skinned man,” writes the author. “African-Americans' honorable legacy of opposing Euro-America's imperialist…
Laurel Krause with Mickey Huff
Kent State: Was It about Civil Rights or Murdering Student Protesters?
10 Oct 2012
by Laurel Krause with Mickey Huff New evidence in the 1970 Kent State University massacre “is compelling, clearly showing how US covert intelligence took the lead in creating this massacre and in putting together the ensuing cover-up.” Contrary to the official version, a direct order…