| Black Agenda Report

by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
US Imperialism is at a Dead End, But Why?
21 Dec 2016
by Danny Haiphong Imperialism is stuck in a rut, and can’t get out. “Every time the imperialist system attempts to expand economically, the sheer impoverishment of the exploited classes ensures that such maneuvers will lead to a loss in the overall rate of profit.” War used to be the answer, but no…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Syria, Russia and American Desperation
21 Dec 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Legions of people will protest Donald Trump’s inauguration. The Democratic rank and file “are anxious about racism, immigration, Islamophobia, judicial appointees and voter suppression,” but their leaders have a different agenda. War Democrats…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Democratic and Republican Paths to Fascism
21 Dec 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The masks have come off, revealing the face of fascism among the Democrats. With War Fascism supreme in one party, and White Supremacist Fascism at the helm in the other (also warlike) party, it appears that “the winner of the 2016 election was the bipartisan,…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Grand Theft Electoral: Aborted Recount Effort Shows US Elections Are Broken, Recount-Proof and Audit-Proof
22 Dec 2016
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Before judges and state officials aborted it, the attempted recount initiated by Green Party candidate Jill Stein revealed and confirmed specific patterns of widespread interstate electoral tampering in the presidential election just past that zero in on black…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Oh, what a night…
21 Dec 2016
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Our poet shares a scene from a late nite NYC subway ride home from this years' holiday party of the National Writers Union.
The Real News Network
20 Killed In Protests Demanding Congo President Step Down and Respect Term Limits
22 Dec 2016
by the Real News Network
The Real News Network
Greg Palast on Why Clinton Didn't Push for Michigan Recount - Part 1 of 2
22 Dec 2016
by the Real News Network
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Greg Palast on Why Clinton Didn't Push for Michigan Recount - Part 2 of 2
22 Dec 2016
by the Real News Network
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
War Abroad, Equality at Home? Bernie Sanders and the Sandernistas
29 Dec 2016
by Ann Garrison Is there such a thing as a War Progressive? “Jeffrey St. Clair has tracked the sordid trail of every pro-war stance that Senator Sanders took and every pro-war vote he cast on the way to his failed crusade for equality at home and war abroad.” However, St. Clair has praise for…
Ron Jacobs
Democracy is Gone in the USA
29 Dec 2016
by Ron Jacobs The CIA’s Phoenix assassination program slaughtered 50,000 Vietnamese, and was considered a new benchmark in international state terror. Today, the U.S. conducts a globalized kind of Phoenix Program, using high- and low-tech methods of covert and overt mass murder. Douglas Valentine’…