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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…
Glen Ford with Patrice Johnson for CBC Monitor
CBC Monitor Report Card Ranks Terri Sewell Worst Black Member of Congress
24 Sep 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford, with Patrice Johnson for CBC Monitor Black Agenda Report is once again publishing the annual CBC Monitor Report Card. The former all-time worst Black Congressman, David Scott of Georgia, has passed the torch to a new generation of corporate-bought politicians,…
Cynthia McKinney
American Capitalism: A Disaster With no “Moral Center”
30 Sep 2015
by Cynthia McKinney Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney see capitalism through different lenses. Reich thinks the system used to have a “moral center.” McKinney says that’s nonsense: “Business as usual in the United States IS the perpetuation of…
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
My Name is Nobody: Religious Fanaticism is a Western Tradition
30 Sep 2015
by Dr. T.P. Wilkinson Europeans and white Americans like to believe that religious fanaticism is endemic to the non-white, non-Christian world, and that they are the guardians of secular civilization. In reality, the historical rise of the West is a saga of fanaticism. In modern times, it was…
Mark P. Fancher
Powerless Whites Want “In” On Chitlin’ Politics
30 Sep 2015
by Mark P. Fancher Why not a Donald Trump run for the White House? With corporations firmly in control of U.S. society, presidents don’t matter much. In recent decades, the job has been “eagerly accepted by: a Georgia peanut farmer; a politician known as “Slick Willie;” a retired actor who once co-…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Bernie and Trump Trap: Beyond the Dead-End of Imperial Politics
30 Sep 2015
by Danny Haiphong “Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are here to rescue the system with a dose of fear and hope.” Trump’s open-air racism instills fear in racial minorities and people who consider themselves “liberal" or “progressive.” Sanders gives them foolish hope that the Democratic Party can be…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Putin Trumps Obama at the U.N.
30 Sep 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley With Libya, Iraq and Syria in flames, the president of Russia confronted the world’s most dangerous man in the global hall of humanity. “I cannot help asking those who have caused the situation,” said Vladimir Putin, “do you realize now what you…