| Black Agenda Report

by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Break the Silence or Support Self-Determination? In Syria, the Answer Should be Obvious
02 Nov 2016
by Danny Haiphong Syria is “the target of one of the greatest misinformation campaigns in recent history.” The author regrets that left analyst Eric Draitser has contributed to the confusion. Draitser criticizes leftists who firmly support the Syrian government. Danny Haiphong counters that “…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Green Party’s Margaret Flowers Challenges US Senate Debate in Maryland as Undemocratic
02 Nov 2016
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Adebayo The “revolving, rigged system” that purports to be American democracy was revealed in all its corporate vulgarity on a Baltimore university stage, last week. Two U.S. Senate candidates of the duopoly parties pretended to support the Green Party’s…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Russophobia: War Party Propaganda
02 Nov 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The world’s most reactionary regime, the head-chopping, terror-sponsoring Saudi Arabian kleptocracy, was awarded the chair of the UN Human Rights Council, while Russia has been kicked out. The travesty was engineered by the Superpower of Lies to…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Oscars?
02 Nov 2016
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner From cops good and bad to drone rangers, from wicked witches to lecherous buffoons, candidates and messages in this year's presidential race are scarcely distinguishable from some bad old movies.
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Hillary’s “Big Tent” is Obama’s “Grand Bargain” on Steroids
03 Nov 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Barack Obama tried to woo Republicans into a “Grand Bargain” that would have gutted Social Security. Bill Clinton let loose the banks. But Donald Trump’s destruction of the Republican Party will allow Hillary Clinton to “gather the whole of the ruling class under…
Yohannes Woldemariam
The Deteriorating Situation in Ethiopia
08 Nov 2016
by Yohannes Woldemariam The minority ethnic regime in Ethiopia now faces multiple rebellions. The regime’s foreign friends are part of the problem. “Faced with increased intrusion into their lands by so-called international investors, by displacement and by the breakdown of their social fabric,…
Timothy Shenk
When Slaveholders Controlled the Government—An Interview with Matthew Karp
08 Nov 2016
by Timothy Shenk In order to downgrade the centrality of slavery to the development of the United States and global capitalism, mainstream historians attempt to depict the slaveholding classes as provincial actors. However, the slave owners were the most powerful people in the country. “Southerners…
Leah Fried
In Chicago, Teachers and Black Lives Matter Activists Partner to Build a Bigger Movement
08 Nov 2016
When the Chicago Teachers Union goes on strike, it doesn’t walk alone; Movement 4 Black Lives organizations have their back. And, when young Black activists campaign against police terror, the teachers union is with them. When it comes to the school-to-prison pipeline, the teachers and Black Youth…
Bryan K. Bullock
Black American Anti-Imperialism: an Invisible Subject for the New York Times
08 Nov 2016
by Bryan K. Bullock To read the foreign policy pages of the New York Times is to enter a world of whiteness. “Whites are the only ones who are presumed to have an opinion on such issues that is worth mentioning.” Although Black America is the nation’s most anti-imperial constituency, foreign policy…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Margaret Flowers’ Retrospective on Running as a Green for the U.S. Senate
08 Nov 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo The major parties are more concerned with preserving their duopoly than with defeating each other. So-called “progressives” help preserve duopoly rule, failing “to understand that as long as they are complicit with the Democrats, they have no power.”…