| Black Agenda Report

João Pedro Stedile
We Are All Venezuela
06 Sep 2017
“A military aggression would lead millions of workers of Latin America to mobilize in defense of Venezuela.” The Brazilian people are being bombarded day after day with lies and manipulations of the big media regarding the situation in Venezuela. Allegations range from its government being…
Yash Tandon
Reflections on South Africa: Whose Capital, Whose State?
06 Sep 2017
The polity, the state and the economy of South Africa are the captives of global empire. Two decades after the fall of apartheid, it's a new day. Main argument summarized
Michelle R. Matisons
Florida's Privatizing Education Disaster
06 Sep 2017
"More people seem to be waking up to the idea that failing schools are a mere symptom of broader racial engineering and class warfare agendas.”
Gwynn Guilford
House Flippers Not Poor Subprime Borrowers Caused the 2007-2008 Housing Crash
06 Sep 2017
The grim tale of America’s “subprime mortgage crisis” delivers one of those stinging moral slaps that Americans seem to favor in their histories. Poor people were reckless and stupid, banks got greedy. Layer in some Wall Street dark arts, and there you have it: a global financial crisis. Dark arts…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Hurricane Harvey and His Siblings…
06 Sep 2017
“We are family…” Harvey, Ike, Matthew, sisters Sandy, Rita, Katrina Sing four part harmony top of their lungs Watching rivers rise, waist-deep water climb above confederate flag license plates, climate-denier bumper stickers; Watching mocha broth Disappear pickup trucks and gun racks They’re…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Bill Clinton’s favorite African, Paul Kagame, Wins Re-election by 99%, Arrests Opponent
06 Sep 2017
“Kagame persecuted and silenced the only two women who dared stand up to him, and he didn’t stop a genocide; he started one.” How much longer can Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Benjamin Netanyahu, AIPAC, and associated Zionist organizations cover for Rwandan President Paul Kagame? How much longer can…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
On the Importance of Class Analysis: Lessons from Huey Newton
07 Sep 2017
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong Huey Newton and the Black Panther Party were about much more than guns. On the Importance of Class Analysis: Lessons from Huey Newton by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong “Theory and organization guided by a class analysis is the difference between becoming the…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Assad is Winning
07 Sep 2017
“Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton should be vilified for the rest of their lives for what they did in Libya and Syria.” The five-year long regime change effort in Syria may soon be over and the United States and its allies will be the losers. The Syrian Arab Army broke the siege of Deir Ezzor,…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Blaming Russia for America’s Racist Crimes
07 Sep 2017
“The Times reporters could not find anyone to add substance to the impression the story was designed to make: that the Russians had something to do with voting disruptions in North Carolina or anywhere else.”
Black Alliance For Peace
Afghanistan, North Korea and the War Against Black America: The Need for Black Left Unity
07 Sep 2017
“The black liberation movement, we must be clear about our friends and our interests but even clearer about who our enemies are and their interests.” “One of the mistakes that some political analysts make is to think that their enemies should be our enemies.” (Nelson Mandela in a response to…