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Yash Tandon
WTO is a War Machine
23 Sep 2015
by Yash Tandon The World Trade Organization, controlled by a new empire that still disfavors the Global South, broadens the gap between influential and developing nations. With a neocolonial system implicitly in place, if small and middle-sized countries do not 'follow the rules' as dictated by the…
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
What NEW World Order?
23 Sep 2015
by Dr. T.P. Wilkinson The current world older is nothing new. It is more than a half millennium old, having begun in 1492 when western Europeans began their conquest and enslavement of the rest of the planet. The order that white people created “has been nothing but a collective death sentence for…
Thomas C. Mountain
Eritrea: Where Muslims and Christians Live in Peace
23 Sep 2015
by Thomas C. Mountain Western media claim that religious hatreds have wracked the Middle East and Africa from time immemorial. But lethal fractures are not intrinsic to these societies, nor are they inevitable. The multi-ethno-religious – yet proudly secular – nation of Eritrea, is proof.
Pascal Robert
Black Eugenics: How the Black Mis-leadership Class of the Early 20th Century Supported Sterilization of the Black Poor
23 Sep 2015
by Pascal Robert Throughout African American history, members of the Black elite have blamed the Black poor for “bringing down the race,” thus giving aid and comfort to white racists. “Calls by Negro reformers to improve the quality of the race often imbibed eugenic language.”
Paul Street
What Color is Your T-Shirt? Race, Class, Empire, and White Democrats in a Liberal Campus Town
23 Sep 2015
by Paul Street Bernie Sanders is beloved among the “white middle class campus town progressive Democrats” in places like Iowa City, Iowa, who live quite different lives than the largely Sudanese and Congolese workers at the county’s major factory. “Both Sudan and the Congo are countries in which…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
a place…
23 Sep 2015
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner I know a place where there’s more law in muzzles of Glocks and Tasers than in Supreme Court decisions; a place where gunmen, triggermen turn traffic tickets into death sentences
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Ahmed Mohamed and Abdulrahman al-Awlaki
23 Sep 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The president that expanded U.S. wars throughout the Muslim world thinks he can make himself appear Muslim-friendly by inviting a kid to the White House. President Obama “makes a mockery of principles such as the right to trial when his agenda…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
The Obama Two-Step on Syria
23 Sep 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka President Obama is disavowing his failed strategy to train “moderate” rebels to fight ISIS, claiming the Republicans made him do it. Under Washington’s plan for regime change in Syria, radical jihadists would be used as the ‘boots on the ground’ for the U.S…
The Real News Network
Clinton Calls U.S. Policy in Syria a "Failure"
23 Sep 2015
by The Real News Network In a rare instance, Black Agenda Report's Glen ford actually agrees with Hillary Clinton that US Syria policy is "a failure." But it's the same strategy the US has pursued in the region the last 3 decades, under Republicans and Democrats alike. by The Real News Network…
Glen Ford with Patrice Johnson for CBC Monitor
Congressional Black Caucus Report Card for 2015, the 114th Congress
24 Sep 2015
by Glen Ford with Patrice Johnson for CBC Monitor It's been several years since the Black Agenda Report team issued what used to be our annual report card on the Congressional Black Caucus, the cream of our glittering and prosperous black political class. We apologize, and promise you that…