| Black Agenda Report

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Russiagate and the Surveillance Duopoly
07 Feb 2018
“FISA set up a rubber stamp kangaroo court with only a handful of warrants being rejected in the forty year history of this law.” Republican and Democratic Party dueling over Russiagate provides us with a teachable moment. It should teach us to disrespect and discredit the law enforcement system as…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
The FISA Memo Is Not a Big Nothing-Burger; It’s a Whopper with Fries
07 Feb 2018
“The FBI knew full well that the DNC and the Clinton campaign had paid Steele to produce the dossier, but they did not reveal that to the FISC.” Why is the corporate press calling the Nunes FISA memo nothing or just another big nothing-burger? Seems more like a Whopper or a Big Mac with fries.…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
NYT Joins Campaign to Purge the Term, “White Monopoly Capital” in South Africa
08 Feb 2018
“The Times fingered a British p.r. outfit as the culprit that popularized the belief that ‘white monopoly capital’ must be overthrown to complete the unfinished South African revolution.”
Keith “Comrade Malik” Washington
Criminalizing “Panther Love” and the New Wave COINTELPRO Tactics in Texas Prisons
14 Feb 2018
“I represent a new generation of freedom fighters who have learned from the mistakes of our fallen ancestors.”
Illinois Deaths in Custody Project
Making Visible the Lives and Deaths of People in Custody
14 Feb 2018
“Poor people should not be confined in a death machine.” “Those who commit the murders write the reports.” — Ida B. Wells, Lynch Law In All Its Phases, 1893
Kenneth Surin
Extreme Poverty in the US Is a Political Choice of the Powerful
14 Feb 2018
“Americans can expect to live shorter and sicker lives, compared to people living in any other wealthy democracies.” “The American Dream is rapidly becoming the American illusion.”
Marshall Auerback
Amazon Is a 21st-Century Digital Chain Gang
14 Feb 2018
“Local governments offer subsidies, miss out on tax revenue, starve their citizens of vital social services, and fatten the profits of these modern-day robber barons.”
CJ Hopkins
The War on Dissent
14 Feb 2018
The ruling class is sending us a message,“You’re either with us or against us.”
Aziz Rana
Black Liberation Means Rejection of National Security (State) Citizenship
14 Feb 2018
“Oppressed communities have to articulate their own independent foreign policy grounded above all in the interests of other marginalized groups.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
If the Democrats Were Decent
14 Feb 2018
“Trump is certainly ‘authoritarian,’ but what could be more authoritarian than Hillary Clinton ordering the execution of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, then cackling, ‘We came, we saw, he died’”?