| Black Agenda Report

Yvette Carnell
Black Blogger Revealed as Paid Corporate Hack
26 Aug 2014
by Yvette Carnell With the advent of the Internet, everyone can aspire to become a journalist. Some will use journalism to become shills for power, lobbyists for corporate interests.
Mark P. Fancher
The CIA is No Stranger to Africa – But We Wish It Was
26 Aug 2014
by Mark P. Fancher The CIA’s activities in Africa go and in hand with the huge U.S. military offensive on the continent. The agency “has maintained a continuing presence on the African continent into the 21st Century, engaging in various nefarious activities, including supporting foes of the…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Empire Reaps the Jihadist Whirlwind
26 Aug 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford For more than three decades, the U.S. has deployed Islamic fundamentalist surrogates to fight its imperial wars in Muslim lands. Now, the world’s most successful jihadists have turned on their former masters – and will soon go after the Gulf oil states. “The…
James Hudson and Jemima Pierre
Ebola, Cholera and the Epidemiology of Anti-Blackness – Or, Black Lives Don’t Matter
24 Sep 2014
by BAR editors and columnists Peter James Hudson and Jemima Pierre Mass Black death results from degrading diseases like cholera and ebola because the powerful white world believes Blacks deserve no better. “The response to cholera in Haiti and Ebola in West Africa has been strikingly similar”:…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: An Evening with Nicolas Maduro
24 Sep 2014
By BAR Editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley Venezuelan President Maduro, in the spirit of his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, visited the Bronx on his way to the United Nations General Assembly opening session. Maduro is eager to speak to Americans about “social struggle,” even as the U.S.…
Roger Hollander
Why the U.S. Government Assassinated Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
24 Sep 2014
Reviewed by Roger Hollander Roland Sheppard’s classic book on the killing of the two giants of the Black Freedom Movement of the Sixties has been reissued. Sheppard witnessed Malcolm’s assassination, and recognized the hit man later that day “walking freely” into an office in a Harlem police…
Ajamu Nangwaya
High Time to Build a Movement of Solidarity to End the UN’s Occupation of Haiti
24 Sep 2014
by Ajamu Nangwaya For ten years the people of Haiti have been subjected to foreign rule and denial of their most basic human rights. Solidarity with Haiti must be expressed in action. “We need to be nimble and swift in putting together initiatives demanding an immediate withdrawal of the UN’s army…
Wilmer J. Leon III
My Enemy’s Enemy Is Not My Friend
24 Sep 2014
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III The United States military doesn’t scare ISIS, which welcomes a showdown. Even Muslim foes of ISIS know that U.S. policy in the Middle East is “about carving up continents like pieces of meat, installing compliant dictators, and violently removing them when they no longer…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Democratic Party Should Lose its "Lesser Evil" Privileges
24 Sep 2014
by Danny Haiphong Desperate to keep control of the Senate, the Democrats are appealing to Blacks and others whose interests they have routinely betrayed. The political monopoly of the two business parties traps the non-rich classes in a dead end. “Workers and oppressed people must choose between…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Wise Country Cousin on the Congressional Black Caucus
24 Sep 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Dem Negroz par-tay livin’ hi on de hog— We’s han to mouf, shot down lak a dog!