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Jeremy Malcolm
The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared
03 Nov 2015
By Jeremy Malcolm The TPP, or Trans-Pacific Partnership is a body of secret law so odious that the Obama administration seeks to enact it into law without its content made known to the public for 5 years afterward. The only way the public can know what it contains is for courageous whistleblowers…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The Obama Education Legacy Part 2: Obama Appoints Another Privatizing Stooge Secretary of Education
04 Nov 2015
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When president-elect Barack Obama announced Arne Duncan would be Secretary of Education in December 2008, Black Agenda Report called him an “underqualified stooge and privatizer.” The best thing we can say about his successor John King is that he's not…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Demand Nothing, Get Nothing: The Movement Needs to Say What It Wants
05 Nov 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The movement that emerged in Ferguson must define itself through the demands it makes of Power – “a truth that appears to have been widely forgotten in the two generations since Black America last experienced a mass movement.” “Black Lives Matter” is not a…
The Editors
Support the Making of American Nightmare -- Black Labor and Liberation -- Only 2 Days Left
06 Nov 2015
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Will the West Create Its Next Failed State in Burundi?
11 Nov 2015
by Ann Garrison In the current era, states do not “fail” – they are targeted and destroyed. The tiny central African nation of Burundi appears to be next on the West’s list. U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, a close ally of Hillary Clinton, is leading the destabilization…
Issa Shivji
Whither Africa in the Global South?: Lessons of Bandung and Pan-Africanism
11 Nov 2015
by Issa Shivji Africa’s comprador ruling classes and educated middle class are so compromised by imperialism that they are incapable of providing the revolutionary leadership required for the continent’s true liberation. The only possible alternative is that of the working people. They need an…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Self Determination: What It Is, What It Isn't
11 Nov 2015
by Danny Haiphong Malcolm X’s call for Black self-determination remains widely misunderstood in the United States, including among Black activists. Some even hold that Barack Obama’s election was an expression of Black self-determination. But self-determination is about people’s power, not voter…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The New York Times Covers Up American Role in Refugee Suffering
11 Nov 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Like its corporate media cousins, the New York Times uses the global refugee crisis to spread propaganda on behalf of the U.S. government, which created the crisis in the first place. The Times scrupulously omits the facts of U.S. complicity in…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Corporate Media is Never Your Friend
11 Nov 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford After bringing the University of Missouri to its knees, Black students wanted some privacy in a “black space,” away from the peering eyes and suspect motives of the media. Media does, however, have its privileges. When Black activists and their allies challenged…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
This Ain’t Your Grandfather’s Civil Rights Movement
12 Nov 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Shaun King and others like to compare today’s incipient movement to the civil rights era. But that’s a mistake. Today’s youth confront “a profoundly post-civil rights phenomenon”: the Mass Black Incarceration State, a national project that was created as a response…