| Black Agenda Report

David Love
Israel Gives African Migrants A Choice: Accept Deportation or Indefinite Imprisonment
29 Nov 2017
“Israel will pay Rwanda $5,000 for each African migrant it accepts, and $3,500 to each African who leaves. The Israeli government will even cover the airfare.”
Yash Tandon
Robert Mugabe: A Political Epitaph
29 Nov 2017
“He transformed the lives of the ordinary people by bringing education, health, water, sanitation and housing to millions of rural people.” An epitaph If the following reads like an epitaph, this indeed is what it is. The end of Robert Mugabe’s political life at the age of 93 is like an end of his…
Andre Damon
Net Neutrality and the Drive to Censor the Internet
29 Nov 2017
“These giant monopolies will be able to block access to entire websites.” The Trump administration’s move to end net neutrality marks a milestone in the offensive by the US government and major corporations to put an end to the free and open internet, paving the way for widespread government…
Vijay Prashad
Puerto Rico: Ruined Infrastructure and a Refugee Crisis
29 Nov 2017
“The plans for the rebuilding of Puerto Rico are similar to what was done in New Orleans after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.”
David Bacon
NAFTA, The Cross-Border Disaster
29 Nov 2017
“NAFTA strengthened the ability of U.S. employers to force workers to accept lower wages and benefits.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Crossing the Electronic Prison Firewall
29 Nov 2017
“Does the larger public consider how extremely, cruelly isolated US prisoners are in the age of digital communication?”
Netfa Freeman
Clearing the Smoke and Mirrors Around Zimbabwe
29 Nov 2017
“The West, led by Britain and the U.S., have been engaged in a regime policy against the Southern African nation for the last 18 years.” Reasons for examining what is happening in Zimbabwe are many but few to none can be found in accounts by major news media or from liberal progressive pundits.…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Thank CNN for the Slave Auctions in Libya
29 Nov 2017
“Zero context is given as to why the slave auctions exist in the first place.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Contradictions of White Supremacy
29 Nov 2017
“Very few white Americans stray far from this country’s racist origins.”
Kali Akuno
Casting Light: Reflections on the Struggle to Implement the Jackson-Kush Plan, Part 1: A Response to Comrade Bruce Dixon
29 Nov 2017
“Our agenda includes topics whose importance and acuteness are beyond doubt and in which one concern is predominant: The Struggle. We note, however, that one type of struggle we regard as fundamental is not explicitly mentioned in this agenda, although we are sure that it was present in the minds…