| Black Agenda Report

by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
NATO and the Dangerous Escalation of US imperialism
18 Nov 2015
by Danny Haiphong If World War III comes, NATO will likely be the source of the conflagration. “The parasitic rulers of the imperial system have calculated that a march to war with Russia and China is a necessary precondition to US dominance.” NATO has become imperialism’s global…
Jemima Pierre
Zionism, Anti-Blackness, and the Struggle for Palestine: Jemima Pierre on the Boycott
18 Nov 2015
by Jemima Pierre The lynching of an African at an Israeli bus station, last month, was no isolated incident. The Eritrean immigrant was shot, kicked and beaten to death “just because of his skin color.” Last year, an “Israeli man stabbed an eighteen-month-old Eritrean girl in the head with…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Following the Underground Railroad: A Black Man Seeks Asylum in Canada
18 Nov 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Ever since the founding of the United States, many Black people have clung tightly to their claim to citizenship in the racist Republic. However, Kyle Canty, a Black man from Oregon, is seeking asylum from U.S. white supremacist violence in…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Solidarity and the International League of Peoples Struggles
18 Nov 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley It’s the age-old question: since the rich are so few, how do they oppress the rest of us, the many? One answer is that the masses are disorganized. “The purveyors of violence and theft depend upon a lack of solidarity and common ground…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
“Black Lives Matter” Groups Hoping for a Big Payday
19 Nov 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford This week, the billionaires that fund the Democratic Party and its satellite organizations will decide which of the “Black Lives Matter” groups will get paid to lead the Black “movement.” The #BlackLivesMatter network and Campaign Zero are eminently qualified for…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
The Paris Attacks and the White Lives Matter Movement
18 Nov 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka The white world views French victims of ISIS as more valuable – more human – than the thousands of Arabs, Kurds and Africans murdered in terror attacks, or the billions of people exploited, enslaved and exterminated by Europeans over the past five centuries…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Weaponized Condolences of a Warfare State
18 Nov 2015
By BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Terror attacks against French civilians have become the excuse du jour for the US surveillance state, for ramping up drone murders of other civilians, and military boots on the ground everywhere from Syria to south Philly.
The Real News Network
Paris Terror Attacks Are French Chickens Coming Home to Roost, Predictable Blowback of France's Recent and Historic Murderous Misadventures Around the World
18 Nov 2015
by the Real News Network 1--break--> Glen Ford explains that terror attacks against French civilians are chickens come home to roost, the predictable blowback of centuries of French imperial war and colonial oppression, and of recent French participation as junior partner in the US fomented…
Norman Richmond
The Sports of Empire
24 Nov 2015
by Norman (Otis) Richmond Sports has traveled the world on the fortunes of empire – and the misfortunes of the conquered. “’Thanks’ to imperialism, Africans in the Western Hemisphere were involved in baseball, cricket and football/soccer.”
Kester Kenn Klomegah
Russia: Attempting a Bridge to Africa
24 Nov 2015
by Kester Kenn Klomegah While Russia's interest in sub-Saharan Africa is nothing new, Russian authorities have realized that it’s time to move back primarily to reclaim its economic footprints and to find old Soviet-era allies, but that step comes with new challenges especially from other foreign…