| Black Agenda Report

by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Eyewitness to America’s Betrayal of Mandela’s South Africa: The Gore-Mbeki Commission – Part II
18 Dec 2013
by BAR editor and columnist Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The author learned first hand how the U.S. collaborated with white Afrikaners in Nelson Mandela’s new government to accept unwanted private sector programs. A Black administration was in place, but the Freedom Charter was a dead letter. “Mandela…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Sold Singers
17 Dec 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner BABY, PLEASE GO VOTE The battle is no longer in the streets BABY, PLEASE GO VOTE Now, we fightin’ for those leather seats
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Social Work – An Institution of the Western Capitalist Empire
17 Dec 2013
by Danny Haiphong Most social workers want to do good in the world, but wind up managing the mess created by the ruling classes. “Social workers are hired by the state and/or ‘non-profit’ private enterprises to stabilize capitalist exploitation.”
Solomon Comissiong
Blood on their Hands, Blood in their Mouths: Corporate Media Collaborators in Mass Murder
17 Dec 2013
by Solomon Comissiong The ideological spectrum of U.S. corporate media is so narrow, the light of truth seldom penetrates. All are “politically right of center, however, some, like Fox ‘News,’ blatantly promote themselves as further right than the rest.” Their collective criminality presents a…
Sean Posey
From 'Old Detroit' to Delta City: RoboCop's Dystopia in Detroit
18 Dec 2013
by Sean Posey In the future as depicted in the RoboCop movies, Detroit’s people struggle against the tyranny of corporate rule. That future is about to arrive, way ahead of schedule, as wealthy predators scheme to build a new city in Detroit’s downtown and waterfront, a “free market utopia, ideal…
Mark P. Fancher
Expected Budget Cuts Won’t Cure the Deadly AFRICOM Disease
18 Dec 2013
by Mark P. Fancher The U.S. Africa Command, AFRICOM, becomes more entrenched on the continent by the day. American drones bases dot the landscape and U.S. troops interact constantly with their African counterparts. Africa has collaborated in its own occupation. “There has been increasing…
Netfa Freeman
An Interview with René González, of the Cuban 5
18 Dec 2013
by Netfa Freeman René González is the only member of the Cuban Five to be released from prison since their arrest in 1998. His verdict on the U.S. criminal justice system: “The judges are stupid dogs. That’s what they are, most of them. They don’t have any sense of justice at all. And when a…
David Sheen
Race, Religion and Rounding Up Africans in Israel
18 Dec 2013
by David Sheen Israel has launched a wholesale roundup of African immigrants, whom members of the ruling parties call a “cancer” on the Jewish state. To circumvent court rulings against imprisonment without trial, the government has packed the refugees into a detention center in the desert. The aim…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The Obama Legacy, Part 1 of Many: Why Secret Trade Negotiations? Because TPP & TAFTA are NAFTA on Crack & Evil Steroids
19 Dec 2013
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Thanks to WikiLeaks, a chapter of the secret agreement being negotiated by the White House has been made public. It will enshrine corporate profits as sacred rights, above the ability of local governments to make health, safety, wage, and “buy-local”…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Nelson Mandela’s Long Death
19 Dec 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford As Nelson Mandela lay for nine months near death, the world got an education on his legacy – including the scope of the deal that he and his African National Congress comrades cut to abandon the Freedom Charter. Blacks got the vote, and little else, while whites…