| Black Agenda Report

Farooque Chowdhury
Libya: Hillary’s War, the Empire’s Mistake
20 Apr 2016
There is no question that Hillary Clinton was the main culprit in the destruction of Libya. However, it was the Empire’s war, not Hillary’s. She was simply the chief instigator in the Obama regime. One can also identify the Libya aggression as a part of Obama’s Africa War, which has claimed…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Was Libya a Mistake or a Planned Imperialist Catastrophe?
20 Apr 2016
The U.S.-led regime change in Libya failed to create a new regime, but did succeed in killing thousands of people and destroying the economy and infrastructure of Africa’s most prosperous society. “Imperialism’s Libya debacle ignited chaos throughout the region that it can no longer control.” Obama…
Linn Washington
Denying Discrimination: Clintonian Political Calculus and the Culture of Hooey
20 Apr 2016
by Linn Washington Jr. Bill Clinton has been talking B.S. – “hooey” – about race his entire career. At every political juncture, from his days as governor of Arkansas through his two terms as president and including his more recent “apologies” for his mass Black incarceration policies, “Slick…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Not Feeling the Bern
20 Apr 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Democratic Party liberals that have rallied around Bernie Sanders see awesome meaning and world-shaking significance in their champion’s most mundane actions and mealy-mouth statements. It’s easy to root for anyone that runs against Clinton…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Sandernista Journey: An Epic Confrontation with Corporate Power, or a Slow Fade
20 Apr 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Will Bernie Sanders’ supporters “collapse from demoralization, or resolve to confront the corporate beast with ferocity” in Philadelphia and beyond? The real battle of 2016 is about the duopoly, which tells Blacks there is “no contradiction in being in the same…
The Real News Network
Margaret Kimberley on "The Quadrennial Duopoly Sham" and the Black Vote
20 Apr 2016
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Breathe the Bern…
20 Apr 2016
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Our poet in residence muses upon the collective madness engendered by the quadrennial presidential election.
The Real News Network
Voting Rules and Big Unions Favored Clinton in New York Primary
20 Apr 2016
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Rwanda: Genocide Included Hutus Massacred by Kagame Forces
27 Apr 2016
by Ann Garrison The Rwandan Genocide is commemorated in Rwanda and at the United Nations as “the genocide against the Tutsi.” However, there is ample evidence that hundreds of thousands of Hutus, as well as Tutsis, died in the Rwandan massacres.
Peter Donatus
Ecocide in the Niger Delta
27 Apr 2016
by Peter Donatus The majority of refugees come from war and conflict zones, illegitimate states, areas of natural disasters and economically weak countries. In many cases, companies from the West destroy people’s livelihoods by acting ruthlessly. In Nigeria, the oil extraction and production…